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I mean sure, I can probably find Lazarus if searching for a Delphi IDE. But please explain: what's the advantage? They save a couple of bytes in storage for the
by Timon3 1y ago
I mean sure, I can probably find Lazarus if searching for a Delphi IDE. But please explain: what's the advantage? They save a couple of bytes in storage for the forum post, and besides that, what do you get apart from a sense of elitism due to those outside of the ecosystem not getting much from the announcement post? I don't see anything besides gatekeeping.
Fewer people will know the project in the context it's meant to be used. That seems strictly negative. What's the positive?
- nurettin 1y agoI thought the upside was pretty obvious, but perhaps there is such an age and culture gap that it has to be said out loud: I'm all for people exercising (and thus, strengthening) their research and patience skills. And complaining about how not every post on HN is a pretty landing page pitching a product is a spit in the face of that. Some communities don't attract people like this and rightly so. I grew up in a RTFM & RTFS culture (and it was awesome!), so perhaps we might never reconcile our differences.
- Timon3 1y agoIn that case, why not hide the information behind even more pages & links? That surely must be even better for making people exercise those strengths!
- nurettin 1y agoYep that's what I've been crowing about all along. Glad we finally agree!
- Timon3 1y agoI just wrote a response to this comment, but it's not here. Good luck finding it! Looking forward to your reply.
- nurettin 1y agoHmm yes, I will have to trust my well developed strengths to find deliberately hidden information. Well communicated, that is exactly what I wrote and meant. You know, with this exchange of ideas we probably inspired a lot of ten year olds about: searching the other things like that thing you just saw, and clicking more than once.