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Am I the only one who doesn't like receiving direct orders from article titles?
by TelmoMenezes 14y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't like receiving direct orders from article titles?
- ubermammal 14y agoYou aren't, but it's a mistaken thing to dislike: there's no value to rephrasing it as "I believe you should [do X]" or "I am arguing that you should [do X]" because that's necessarily always true anyway, i.e. no article can ever be anything other than what the author believes and argues for. So 'softening' the language would be inefficient - it would use more words while adding nothing of substance.
- shurcooL 14y agoWould it help if he prefixed it with "In this article, I argue for why I believe that you should"?
- mattdeboard 14y agoYes. Assuming guru voice just makes you sound like a blowhard.
- Goranek 14y agoYes! :)
- shurcooL 14y agoPersonally, I just assume that implicitly.
- ansgri 14y ago"A way to stop reinventing REST API clients."
- Goopplesoft 14y agoI was thinking about this yesterday, but its seems like HN likes that kinda thing. Lots of frontpage article are direct orders from blogs with who knows what credibility.
- TallboyOne 14y agoI was just thinking that, I hate article titles that are phrased exactly as a command and it's merely a blog post that wants to change an entire body of thought that's well founded.
- edanm 14y agoWriting using authoritative language is very common, and widely considered a best practice. I highly recommend you simply accept it as what it is: the way some people communicate, especially online. It's not worth your time/attention/care to think about this.
- raverbashing 14y agoYes, you're right But it still looks like they pulled some rules out of nowhere and are enforcing them.
- pifflesnort 14y agoWriting 'authoritatively' is used as a pop-culture substitute for reasoned argument. I find that it's a good litmus test for determining who I should ignore.
- njy 14y agoTry reading that with the voice of Morgan Freeman. Now THAT is something you would likely do :)
- onlyup 14y agoIt irritates me too.
- jasonkostempski 14y agoI read it as (I'd like to show you something that may help you) "Stop writing REST API clients". Imagine trying to visually scan HN article titles having to filter through useless pleasantries like that.
- steve918 14y agoI take all direct orders as suggestions. Sometimes this gets me into trouble; The same way it does my 2 year old. Most of the time though, it's the way to go.
- INTPenis 14y agoNo, I got quite mad when I read the whole promotional article for his new node.js program without seeing a single argument against REST APIs.
- readme 14y agoThat's because the article does not argue against REST APIs. It argues against coding wrappers for them and instead proposes a solution that allows you to define API specific behavior in JSON and use one library to rule them all.