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You're being too kind on the HN crowd. We're usually extremely pessimistic for no good reason and useless at predicting things. It seems like we just love to ha
by Kiro 4y ago
You're being too kind on the HN crowd. We're usually extremely pessimistic for no good reason and useless at predicting things. It seems like we just love to hate on stuff.
- vintermann 4y agoIf you think that you should see what Slashdot is like these days, lol.
- acdha 4y agoPeople here love hot takes, especially if it stakes out a contrarian position as the smart one. Criticizing the big players is just too easy to do that with since it doesn’t require you to build an alternative and is often right in some aspect so you can get validation.
- kreas 4y agoI would say this about most developers not just HN. It took years for me to break that mindset.
- qgin 4y agoIt's definitely not considered high status here to be positive about anything