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The best comment. For the rest which concentrate on technical/project issues: http://xkcd.com/309/ http://xkcd.com/309/

Udo 14y ago
> For the rest which concentrate on technical/project issues: [insert random XKCD] Isn't that the actual objective of this thread? Directing people to some loosely-but-not-really related XKCD comic adds nothing to the discussion. Neither does "the best comment" about marriage counseling for that matter, but I can see how that would be controversial. Making unsolicited life-coachy suggestions to people whom you know nothing about isn't as noble as it looks at first glance. The project's developer didn't ask us to give him tips on how to improve his life, he said he was looking to hand off the project. The situation would be different if there was an intra-community Ask HN from the developer, but we're talking about a blog post where this reason was given merely to illustrate why he can't work on the project anymore.
- sp4rki 14y ago
  I actually believe the comic has a lot to do with situations pertaining to marriage - or any relationship whatsoever even if the poster didn't think much of it. I think that was kind of the point of the original root comment and the supporting response by the parent, and seems perfectly valid to me comic notwithstanding. On your second point, there's an enormous difference between saying "I can't continue with the project, someone else want's it?" and "I can't continue, because of A, B, C...Z, someone wants?". When you add the personal touch to a question it's inevitable that someone is going to answer with a personal experience. The same rhetoric you use can easily apply on the inverse case. Making unsolicited comments about you marriage life to a crowd of technologists/geeks/whatever should not be noble (whatever this means in this context anyways) either then. If the project developer didn't want advice about his married life, he should have kept his marriage troubles out of the spotlight. In any case, there's one important distinction to make: Giving such marriage advice is worth it if at least one person that needs it reads it. The original poster probably didn't give marriage advice because of the odd chance the developer will read it; I mean lets be realistic here, the poster/blog-author is not the developer with marriage troubles, so there's no reason to believe the developer will read this. He most certainly did because maybe someone here in HN could be going through a phase in his/her marriage/relationship that could use the couples therapy, and publicly acknowledging the benefit it had for him can have an positive impact on someone that actually needs that advice and is browsing Hacker News instead of attending to his significant other.
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- brudgers 14y ago
  >"isn't as noble as it looks at first glance" I wrote to entertain. Myself first, HN second. My post works because it's honest. And because I edited it. I've been trying to improve my writing. I've been consciously picking subjects I'm interested in. The subject of my post is very interesting, from a personal standpoint - what with it being me. I've been trying to improve my writing. What I wrote was consciously tailored to the post and the emotional state of HN in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Right now, the community is taking calls for help more seriously. I've been trying to improve my writing. Noble? I don't care. I'm trying to improve my writing. That means being honest and writing for myself.

Udo 14y ago

> For the rest which concentrate on technical/project issues: [insert random XKCD] Isn't that the actual objective of this thread? Directing people to some loosely-but-not-really related XKCD comic adds nothing to the discussion. Neither does "the best comment" about marriage counseling for that matter, but I can see how that would be controversial. Making unsolicited life-coachy suggestions to people whom you know nothing about isn't as noble as it looks at first glance. The project's developer didn't ask us to give him tips on how to improve his life, he said he was looking to hand off the project. The situation would be different if there was an intra-community Ask HN from the developer, but we're talking about a blog post where this reason was given merely to illustrate why he can't work on the project anymore.

sp4rki 14y ago
I actually believe the comic has a lot to do with situations pertaining to marriage - or any relationship whatsoever even if the poster didn't think much of it. I think that was kind of the point of the original root comment and the supporting response by the parent, and seems perfectly valid to me comic notwithstanding. On your second point, there's an enormous difference between saying "I can't continue with the project, someone else want's it?" and "I can't continue, because of A, B, C...Z, someone wants?". When you add the personal touch to a question it's inevitable that someone is going to answer with a personal experience. The same rhetoric you use can easily apply on the inverse case. Making unsolicited comments about you marriage life to a crowd of technologists/geeks/whatever should not be noble (whatever this means in this context anyways) either then. If the project developer didn't want advice about his married life, he should have kept his marriage troubles out of the spotlight. In any case, there's one important distinction to make: Giving such marriage advice is worth it if at least one person that needs it reads it. The original poster probably didn't give marriage advice because of the odd chance the developer will read it; I mean lets be realistic here, the poster/blog-author is not the developer with marriage troubles, so there's no reason to believe the developer will read this. He most certainly did because maybe someone here in HN could be going through a phase in his/her marriage/relationship that could use the couples therapy, and publicly acknowledging the benefit it had for him can have an positive impact on someone that actually needs that advice and is browsing Hacker News instead of attending to his significant other.
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brudgers 14y ago
>"isn't as noble as it looks at first glance" I wrote to entertain. Myself first, HN second. My post works because it's honest. And because I edited it. I've been trying to improve my writing. I've been consciously picking subjects I'm interested in. The subject of my post is very interesting, from a personal standpoint - what with it being me. I've been trying to improve my writing. What I wrote was consciously tailored to the post and the emotional state of HN in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Right now, the community is taking calls for help more seriously. I've been trying to improve my writing. Noble? I don't care. I'm trying to improve my writing. That means being honest and writing for myself.