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>> Being contrarian for the sake of it is not good form. > Why would you say that? Because it's true. > Is it good form to post that someone is being contrar

>> Being contrarian for the sake of it is not good form. > Why would you say that? Because it's true. > Is it good form to post that someone is being contrarian for the sake of it? It's orthogonal to good form - it's preserving the value of HN, which is meant for intellectual curiosity and not knee-jerk emotional reactions, like your comment. > OP’s comment looks like constructive criticism with plenty of good points. You must have missed the very first line in their comment where they said: > Lots of praise for Pi in this thread, so I'll offer up a diverging opinion. ...which is literally admitting to being reflexively contrarian. Additionally, their criticisms were extremely shallow and/or misleading, and I addressed every one. > So what? Nobody is inconvenienced by a 3.5s startup time of an application meant to run for hours or days. That's a trivial complaint akin to arguing about the color of paint on a bikeshed. > Don’t be silly, JS is a joke. I was going to check Pi out, but now that I know it’s based on a shitty stack, I’m staying the fuck away from it. I don’t have the RAM to spare. You're just operating based on emotion and not a state of reason or intellectual curiosity. And I highly doubt that you "were going to check Pi out" - this wording follows the pattern of fabricating falsehoods out rage due to an opinion expressed that you didn't like. >> If these are your complaints, then this is one of the strongest endorsements of Pi that I've ever seen. I think I'm bookmarking this comment. >> good form Did you forget to make a point here?

throwuxiytayq 2mo ago
> Nobody is inconvenienced by a 3.5s startup time of an application meant to run for hours or days. For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain. > which is literally admitting to being reflexively contrarian. They’re very clearly stating that they’re expressing their opinion because it is underrepresented. > Did you forget to make a point here? No.
- throw10920 2mo ago
  > For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain. That's a personal preference thing. You're not really being inconvenienced. > They’re very clearly stating that they’re expressing their opinion because it is underrepresented. That's literally the dictionary definition of being contrarian: "A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrari... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian I suggest consulting the dictionary before using terms you're not familiar with. > No. If you're going to copy-paste random pieces of text without making a point, you probably shouldn't be on HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity and debate, not Reddit-esque expressions of randomness conflated wuth humor.
  - throwuxiytayq 2mo ago
    > you probably shouldn't be on HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity and debate, not Reddit-esque expressions of randomness conflated wuth humor. Thank you for this beautiful insight. Just to clarify, you consider yourself an intellectually curious, HN-worthy individual?

throwuxiytayq 2mo ago

> Nobody is inconvenienced by a 3.5s startup time of an application meant to run for hours or days. For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain. > which is literally admitting to being reflexively contrarian. They’re very clearly stating that they’re expressing their opinion because it is underrepresented. > Did you forget to make a point here? No.

throw10920 2mo ago
> For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain. That's a personal preference thing. You're not really being inconvenienced. > They’re very clearly stating that they’re expressing their opinion because it is underrepresented. That's literally the dictionary definition of being contrarian: "A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrari... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian I suggest consulting the dictionary before using terms you're not familiar with. > No. If you're going to copy-paste random pieces of text without making a point, you probably shouldn't be on HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity and debate, not Reddit-esque expressions of randomness conflated wuth humor.
- throwuxiytayq 2mo ago
  > you probably shouldn't be on HN. HN is for intellectual curiosity and debate, not Reddit-esque expressions of randomness conflated wuth humor. Thank you for this beautiful insight. Just to clarify, you consider yourself an intellectually curious, HN-worthy individual?