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It's strange that you would even ask. HN comments are notoriously critical and the standard for good content shifts extremely quickly around here. Why should Fl
by sosodev 3y ago
It's strange that you would even ask. HN comments are notoriously critical and the standard for good content shifts extremely quickly around here. Why should Fly.io get a pass when nobody else does?
- tptacek 3y agoI guess I'm saying everybody should get a pass? I sort of don't even know what a "pass" means here. We should be judging every post here on its merits, and not holding them up to a weird, inchoate standard that both impedes us from writing straightforward useful posts, and also makes us reconsider the implications of posting deep dive technical stuff.
- sosodev 3y agoI see what you're saying. It just seems odd to say that fly.io is considering posting less because HN users are expecting too much or too critical. Surely HN isn't the only source of traffic to your blogs, right? I love fly.io and appreciate the content but that doesn't sit right with me.
- tptacek 3y agoIt's just an incoherent and unfair criticism. It's not Sam's job to write a deep dive on sqlite internals (that's Ben's job!). Sam's a Rails person, he writes about Rails stuff, as a search for [sam ruby rails] will indicate. I just worry about us writing less stuff because people assume there's going to be some stunt driving sequence or shootout or CGI or whatever, and not everything people write here is like that. Minute later (I may be getting pushed into responding adversarially here just by message board dynamics. Sorry. Like I said up front: it's a weird thing to write! But what am I going to do, filter my thoughts before writing them on HN?)