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> spam, pandering, submission strategies, power users and all the other bullshit that comes with that territory. that's actually what bothers me more about cur
by zalew 14y ago
> spam, pandering, submission strategies, power users and all the other bullshit that comes with that territory.
that's actually what bothers me more about current HN state than the 'harsh comments' everybody complains about.
and one another thing: I remember when the frontpage was full of business and tech advice from experienced people who shared valuable knowledge hard to obtain on my own. now I wonder how many more git and fabric tutorials do we need, or why should I care what every blogger on the planet thinks of twitter.
- wisty 14y agoDude, I'm happy when I see a git / fabric tutorials. I'm always looking for new tips. Looking at the current front page, the lonely VIM tutorial is literally the only thing a programmer is going to find useful right now. Oh, there's also a PCA overview using mostly Excel (two lines of actual code - from matplotlib.mlab import PCA; pca = PCA(x)), something about a new editor called "Lighttable" and a few sciency things, but mostly the submissions wouldn't even be worthy of Slashdot.
- zalew 14y agowhen it comes to technical knowledge on HN, I'm happy when I see a talk f.ex. how huge companies solve tech problems, or conference talks around specific technologies, because it's knowledge very hard or sometimes even impossible to acquire on my own - no matter how hard I would try, I won't have a clue how facebook handles massive deployments or how twitter scales unless somebody from the company publishes it and the community shares it. there is a vast ammount of technical advice/news to share, but toolset tutorials are one google search away, you don't need hn support for that, rtfm.
- cstejerean 14y agoYou don't need HN to find out how Facebook handles massive deployments either. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+facebook+handles+massive+deployments https://www.google.com/search?q=how+facebook+handles+massive...
- polshaw 14y agoAnd that every blog post must be followed by 'Why blog post A is wrong' and then 'why blog post A and B are both wrong'.
- zalew 14y agoyeah, blogger ping-pong.
- ericdykstra 14y agoI'm surprised there isn't 3 "Can't design? Learn programming." posts on the first page right now.
- benologist 14y agoI don't think they're different issues. I think there's a bunch of people who want to be spoon fed arstechnica/torrentfreak/extremetech/etc just like they were on digg and reddit who cannot even pretend to be impressed by weekend projects or early stage startups. That's why I like the idea of going after the users and sites that are better suited to other social news sites - the crossover in stories and topics between HN and http://www.reddit.com/r/technology http://www.reddit.com/r/technology is significant when it should be incidental.