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This comment thread is a little funny because every single HN thread outside of this one rants super aggressively about webpages that don't show any content bef
by AgentME 4y ago
This comment thread is a little funny because every single HN thread outside of this one rants super aggressively about webpages that don't show any content before JS loads, but this thread has managed to collect the opposite group together for once because React's docs have updated to stop actively recommending tools that force that problem to happen.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI noticed that too. It’s a humble reminder to us that Hacker News isn’t one entity. It’s many people with different opinions, taking turns deciding when they want to be heard.
- tzs 4y agoI'd like to see a browser extension or something similar for HN that would let one add tags to user names, and display those tags next to user names on comments and submissions. I often see someone take a pro-X position in some discussion and have a vague recollection that I've seen them take an anti-X position in some other discussion but it would be too much work to go digging through their comment history to check that. For example, people who argue we need to ban cars in cities and suburbs because they are dangerous for kids playing in the street but who argue against every proposal to protect kids from online dangers saying that it should entirely be the parent's responsibility to control where their kids go. Or people whose strong criticisms of most police procedure go completely out the window when the discussion involves some kind of crime that they personally have been a victim of and there they argue for more surveillance and easier warrant requirements. My guess is that a lot of cases it is just good old fashioned self-centered thinking. But some probably have some good justification for the seeming contradiction which could lead to some interesting and insightful discussion.
- doubled112 4y agoIt would be fun to see if some people change over time from one to the other, or flip flop back and forth. I’m sure there are some of my opinions do both. Some topics are complicated.
- arthurcolle 4y agoYeah there was something like this for reddit. Maybe part of Reddit Enhancement Suite? Probably would be relatively easy to port that functionality for HN, or other sites with users.
- exodontist 4y agoAidea: a chatgpt query builder that you feed a snapshot of your online discourse, the surrounding contexts and it tries to find things like hypocrisy/ class/culture blindness, in how you communicate.. or think.
- spiralx 4y agoIt's not as good as the RES user tagger but it does work: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbfgdemibfcpcfkpicfgkiojbdkn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...
- spiralx 4y agoThere's hn-friends which is pretty basic but allows you to add plain text tags. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbfgdemibfcpcfkpicfgkiojbdkn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...
- edgyquant 4y agoIt can be true that SPAs are overused and that people think of react as an SPA framework.
- timcobb 4y agoThis is the most interesting observation here
- hamilyon2 4y agoThis is not unusual for HN. I noticed that the bashing and praising Unix come in similar proportions. If the publication criticises Unix, it's comment section lokks like Unix fans have the loudest voice. The other day, commenting on other publication, virtues of Unix have been forgotten, and the comment thread praises some alternative.
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- notfed 4y agoIt's almost as if the community has a diversity of opinions.
- seydor 4y agomy observation is that the community (here) has converging opinions, but the groupthink changes over time. At some point it seemed SPA was all the rage, now there is a reactionary wave
- never_inline 4y agoBut only few comments contain nuance that I come to this site to read.