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Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

dchest 2y ago
Yes.
cowsaymoo 2y ago
When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different
- halfmatthalfcat 2y ago
  We need our safe space.
- echoangle 2y ago
  Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.
- latexr 2y ago
  It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines: > What to Submit > (…) > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well? Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=trump%20attempted%20assassination&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- j45 2y ago
  There do seem to be posts. I’m not sure of the activity level of HN at the time it occurred. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
- throwaway3306a 2y ago
  That's why I come here instead of other places.
- orwin 2y ago
  I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.
- xigoi 2y ago
  I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.
latexr 2y ago
Don’t 7 year olds deserve to learn how to improve too? The comment doesn’t appear to be done aggressively or in bad faith, so what’s the issue? Presumably it will be the parent who’ll read the comment, and they can pass it on or not depending on what they think the kid would prefer and/or would let them grow. Ironically, I find the most HN comments of all to be the ones who complain about something being too HN. Which is not to say your comment wasn’t humorous, but let’s not be too quick to cast stones.
- jnsie 2y ago
  Unsolicited critique is almost always unwelcome critique, in my experience. Especially where someone else's 7 year old is concerned.
  - latexr 2y ago
    Respectfully, if you see the comment as critique, that’s on you. It could just as easily be described as “unsolicited advice” or “unsolicited tips”. The communicator does have responsibility on how their message comes across, thought not all of it. It’s on the receiver to also make an effort to understand what was meant and not take unnecessary offence. The comment reads pretty much neutral, apart from a post scriptum which is explicitly about the author’s preference. It’s up to you to inject the writer’s feelings as either “this code sucks, here’s how you do it” or “congratulations on making something cool, here are a few suggestions”. My experience is that life is much better if you take the latter approach. Default to empathy. Consider listening to “This is Water” from David From Wallace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY
    - jnsie 2y ago
      Let's agree to disagree. I most certainly didn't take offense. I just disagreed (and continue to disagree) with the (your) comment that I responded to. I'm sure the parent of the 7 year old in question was aware of the shortcomings of the code. The fact that a (presumed) grown-up read the post/thread and their reaction was to provide a code review is odd to me and more than a little hackernews-ish which the poster you responded to poked fun at and which you seemed to take exception to.
KwanEsq 2y ago
Without n-gate around anymore there's literally no one who can

Yes.

When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

halfmatthalfcat 2y ago
We need our safe space.
echoangle 2y ago
Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.
latexr 2y ago
It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines: > What to Submit > (…) > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well? Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=trump%20attempted%20assassination&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
j45 2y ago
There do seem to be posts. I’m not sure of the activity level of HN at the time it occurred. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
throwaway3306a 2y ago
That's why I come here instead of other places.
orwin 2y ago
I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.
xigoi 2y ago
I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.

latexr 2y ago

Don’t 7 year olds deserve to learn how to improve too? The comment doesn’t appear to be done aggressively or in bad faith, so what’s the issue? Presumably it will be the parent who’ll read the comment, and they can pass it on or not depending on what they think the kid would prefer and/or would let them grow. Ironically, I find the most HN comments of all to be the ones who complain about something being too HN. Which is not to say your comment wasn’t humorous, but let’s not be too quick to cast stones.

jnsie 2y ago
Unsolicited critique is almost always unwelcome critique, in my experience. Especially where someone else's 7 year old is concerned.
- latexr 2y ago
  Respectfully, if you see the comment as critique, that’s on you. It could just as easily be described as “unsolicited advice” or “unsolicited tips”. The communicator does have responsibility on how their message comes across, thought not all of it. It’s on the receiver to also make an effort to understand what was meant and not take unnecessary offence. The comment reads pretty much neutral, apart from a post scriptum which is explicitly about the author’s preference. It’s up to you to inject the writer’s feelings as either “this code sucks, here’s how you do it” or “congratulations on making something cool, here are a few suggestions”. My experience is that life is much better if you take the latter approach. Default to empathy. Consider listening to “This is Water” from David From Wallace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY
  - jnsie 2y ago
    Let's agree to disagree. I most certainly didn't take offense. I just disagreed (and continue to disagree) with the (your) comment that I responded to. I'm sure the parent of the 7 year old in question was aware of the shortcomings of the code. The fact that a (presumed) grown-up read the post/thread and their reaction was to provide a code review is odd to me and more than a little hackernews-ish which the poster you responded to poked fun at and which you seemed to take exception to.

KwanEsq 2y ago

Without n-gate around anymore there's literally no one who can