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I feel for you. I have felt the same way. Not so long ago, someone resubmitted an old essay of mine about coffee machines and open source. In that essay, I cal
by raganwald 15y ago
I feel for you. I have felt the same way. Not so long ago, someone resubmitted an old essay of mine about coffee machines and open source.
In that essay, I called myself a small-s socialist.
What do you suppose was the top comment on the HN discussion? A long diatribe about someone’s pet subject, Libertarianism, which generated more than half of the ensuing comments.
It seems that on Hacker News, one man’s signal is another man’s noise.
- davesims 15y agoWell said, thanks raganwald! Being a writer myself, I'm sensitive (probably overly) to the amount of work that goes into a piece like that. The fact that Annie made herself learn Ruby and get deep enough into the specifics of Matz, _why, dhh and the whole Ruby mythology I think needs to be encouraged. Not a lot of writers take that amount of care and time to understand their subject the way she did. It was good journalism.