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I don't think one person would make a case study. Whatever his reason is, it would be a very specific personal reason. A case study of this will be just be like
by humblepie 14y ago
I don't think one person would make a case study. Whatever his reason is, it would be a very specific personal reason. A case study of this will be just be like profiling a patient in a lab.
- niels_olson 14y ago> I don't think one person would make a case study Actually, that is the definition of a case study.
- niels_olson 14y ago32 points?! I have far better comments with way less karma. This, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358718 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358718
- Macha 14y agoEven HN isn't immune to the problems of a karma system, whereby long detailed comments get tl;dr, and karma is as much affected by visibility as quality. A quick throwaway reply to something that ends up at the top of a post on the front page can easily gain as much karma as a long detailed reply at a later date.
- humblepie 14y agoOf course we're talking about case study in terms of a group of developers with their own dynamics, not the mind of a single person.
- niels_olson 14y agoI get what you're saying, but thejerz's words are pretty specific to Allen and his project.
- unreal37 14y agoSorry, your comment made me laugh. Yes, one example does indeed make a case study. It may not be scientific proof of a theory however.