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Hate to post a comment just to be negative, but, I seriously can't believe this has appeared on the front page of a site like HN. "Welcome to"?. LFS is so old

Hate to post a comment just to be negative, but, I seriously can't believe this has appeared on the front page of a site like HN. "Welcome to"?. LFS is so old that I would assume any self proclaimed geek/hacker would've already been aware of it. It has existed for over ten years.

nitrogen 14y ago
At the rate people are being born, coming of age, going to school, etc., there's always someone who's new to something (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/).
iaskwhy 14y ago
It's just the title of the page, it's not saying it's new, just welcoming you to it.
TeMPOraL 14y ago
> It has existed for over ten years. So? I haven't heard of it before, and I doubt if many of my friends have either. Programming landscape is very big now and everyone has a finite amount of time for exploring it. I could use your argument to whine about how so many self proclaimed geeks/hackers don't know about Lisp and keep reinventing wheels all the time.
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- valisystem 14y ago
  The "Welcome to" is still left without explanation.
  - natep 14y ago
    It's the title of the site
- qznc 14y ago
  You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :) http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
dchest 14y ago
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DanBC 14y ago
I gently agree. Linux from Scratch has had several mentions on HN before though.
ta12121 14y ago
There's a tendency here (and yes, reddit) of people submitting, and others upvoting, a random well known thing that happens to be significant in the real world, but with zero actual novelty. The Stallman interview from the 80s that was posted recently comes to mind.
sophacles 14y ago
A simple truth of this site is that most of the people here are young. This means, more or less axiomatically, that they haven't seen all, done all, and been jaded by it. This means that stuff will be reposted. It means that old stuff will be presented as new. Sometimes it will even be upvoted to the front page. This is not a bug. It is how we have a continuity of community. The new folks need to be brought up to speed. It isn't bad. I am curious if you realize you dont have to read an article that you have seen before, or about at topic you don't like, or whatever. It is ok. We won't ever know. If we find out, we won't judge you poorly.

nitrogen 14y ago

At the rate people are being born, coming of age, going to school, etc., there's always someone who's new to something (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/).

iaskwhy 14y ago

It's just the title of the page, it's not saying it's new, just welcoming you to it.

TeMPOraL 14y ago

> It has existed for over ten years. So? I haven't heard of it before, and I doubt if many of my friends have either. Programming landscape is very big now and everyone has a finite amount of time for exploring it. I could use your argument to whine about how so many self proclaimed geeks/hackers don't know about Lisp and keep reinventing wheels all the time.

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valisystem 14y ago
The "Welcome to" is still left without explanation.
- natep 14y ago
  It's the title of the site
qznc 14y ago
You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :) http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/

dchest 14y ago

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

DanBC 14y ago

I gently agree. Linux from Scratch has had several mentions on HN before though.

ta12121 14y ago

There's a tendency here (and yes, reddit) of people submitting, and others upvoting, a random well known thing that happens to be significant in the real world, but with zero actual novelty. The Stallman interview from the 80s that was posted recently comes to mind.

sophacles 14y ago

A simple truth of this site is that most of the people here are young. This means, more or less axiomatically, that they haven't seen all, done all, and been jaded by it. This means that stuff will be reposted. It means that old stuff will be presented as new. Sometimes it will even be upvoted to the front page. This is not a bug. It is how we have a continuity of community. The new folks need to be brought up to speed. It isn't bad. I am curious if you realize you dont have to read an article that you have seen before, or about at topic you don't like, or whatever. It is ok. We won't ever know. If we find out, we won't judge you poorly.