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Epic karma cashgrab is epic. I don't think this article really has a lot of relevance, the ESR style of hacker doesn't have all that much in common with this c
by richo 14y ago
Epic karma cashgrab is epic.
I don't think this article really has a lot of relevance, the ESR style of hacker doesn't have all that much in common with this community tbh, and those that do gravitate in that direction have probably already seen this.
Or I'm just a grumpy ass at christmas. Could go either way.
- unimpressive 14y agoYou just added "karma cashgrab" to my lexicon. I think that the HN crowd has more of a Silicon Valley business flavor to it. (As one might expect from a site sponsored by YC.) At the same time, the "Open source/Free Software/Unix Hacker" has a lot of overlap. My issue with this article isn't its subject matter, but that it's written by ESR. (Though in ESR's defense, I think it was through reading one of his articles or blog posts that I discovered the PG essays.)
- tjr 14y agoDid you read the first paragraph? If I were in ESR's position as described, I probably would have written something like this too.
- anthonyb 14y agoWhy save it just for christmas? ;) ESR telling people how to be hackers is pretty galling when you consider what a massive pile of bugs it is/was. For my money, getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/) is far better value.