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How did this rude and in poor taste comment make it to the top of the thread? Peteris is a solid HN contributor with 216 submissions to date, many of which foc
by thaumaturgy 14y ago
How did this rude and in poor taste comment make it to the top of the thread?
Peteris is a solid HN contributor with 216 submissions to date, many of which focus on math or programming or shell tricks, which puts him head and shoulders above those that submit the daily sewage from techcrunch.com (or those, like me and you, that don't submit at all).
Here's a quick sample of some of his top HN submissions:
1. Announcing his business, making virtual machines accessible over the web (and open-sourcing the code behind it): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534973 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534973
2. An introduction to pipe viewer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462244 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462244
3. Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200900 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200900
4. Low-level bit hacks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811104 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811104
5. Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050151 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050151
6. How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2808314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2808314
7. How to steal a botnet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072225 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072225
etc.
And, his submissions often provoke even greater discussion in comment threads, even when they contain a mistake (as in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684515 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684515).
Peteris is legit (and a really nice guy besides). No matter how much you know, it's likely that he's written about something you don't know. He has earned enough respect from the HN community that he deserves to have corrections to his articles submitted gracefully and with tact, not with accusations of incompetence.