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> that has no bearing on programming whatsoever I have no objection to the rest of your comment, but I do wonder about the part I quoted. Hacker News isn't jus
by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> that has no bearing on programming whatsoever
I have no objection to the rest of your comment, but I do wonder about the part I quoted. Hacker News isn't just, or even primarily, about programming, and articles shouldn't be judged based on their direct relationship with that field.
From the HN Guidelines[1]:
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - linked at the bottom of every HN page.
- georgieporgie 14y agoHN is primarily about programming because the majority of its users are programmers. The majority of hackers are programmers. The majority of hacks are program-related. Lately, there's been way, way too much content that's horribly recycled, unfounded punditry and speculation, and a variety of very loosely business-related articles, like this one, that are terribly written. I'm perfectly content to use "programming related" as a first tier filter for content. Edit: also, the piece itself was about management. What management, if not management of programmers, is relevant on HN? I would give allowance if it were an insightful piece on being a technical person managing creative or business types in a startup environment, but it wasn't.