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I really hate this fad of posting every single blog post of popular programmers (Redditors would call it karma-whoring). Once upon a time, Marco may felt one wa

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• erikpukinskis 14y ago
  Can someone tell me how his change in opinion concern anyone else ? It's not his change of opinion which is newsworthy, it's his useful visualization of recent commits to TextMate. It's newsworthy because many of us are programmers, and there was rampant speculation that the open-sourcing meant that it was being abandoned. Every few months, there's another round of grumbles about some poster or another, and how they get upvotes just because they're "popular", but I don't buy it. Why would people vote up their favorite sources? It doesn't make any sense. What's more likely is that there are a bunch of people who are interested in the same stuff as Marco, and they just upvote everything that they like. Occam's Razor, people.
  • jyap 14y ago
    The problem is that certain Hacker News users are submitting stories from blogger X. No matter how relevant/irrelevant the story is to Hacker News. There is no curation. There is just a race to 1st submit to gain karma. For Marco.org submissions: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=marco.org&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=mar... Here's another example of Daring Fireball submissions. You may see a trend in the users performing the submitting: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=daringfireball.net&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=dar...