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Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
by plutr 13y ago
Why is this old stuff from 2008 being posted and upvoted?
- cag_ii 13y agoIf just as relevant today as it was then, why shouldn't it be?
- plutr 13y agoBecause the point of a news site is to deliver information that is both new and interesting to the reader. If something is from 5 years ago, it is drastically more likely that the reader either knows it already or is not interested, as opposed to things that are, say, less than a month old. Especially if that information was reposted constantly, as that logic would allow.
- mwfunk 13y agoIf it's getting upvoted, then by definition it's interesting to people. It's not new but it's still relevant, and having a discussion about it on HN 5 years later is certainly new, which was probably the intent.
- scott_s 13y agoThen we must conclude that "Hacker News" is not strictly a "news" site.
- Jtsummers 13y agoAlong with being a news site this is also a discussion site. If the article is new to the reader or leads to discussion that interests the reader, then they're free to upvote it. When it's not, they can ignore it (or flag it if it truly doesn't belong). It's really that simple. When links get posted that have no relevance to you, just move on. Post links that are relevant to your interests or wait for someone else to do it for you.
- mpyne 13y agoIt's as right now as it was 5 years ago, and has a lot of corrolary with other customer-facing, resource-constrained software maintenance environments that you might see from a YC participant. And I say this as a Linux user who doesn't use PulseAudio...
- klodolph 13y agoAs a user who avoided Pulse for years, I feel your pain. But since I started writing audio apps for Linux, I realized that the Pulse Audio API is the least broken way to do audio on Linux. It is very comparable to Core Audio and DirectSound in terms of the most relevant features. ALSA should just give hardware access but instead it is bloated with plugins and tries to do everything. There's really no excuse for not doing mixing and sample rate conversion in userspace (not all hardware can do it) and an audio server just makes more sense than plugins for client applications.
- tomrod 13y agoI don't mean to threadjack. I'm curious what apps you've put out. I'm a sound neophyte, occasionally play with Audacity, but interested in doing more advanced stuff. I just wanted to point out that I'd love to see any technical blogs/howtos you may have put together, or any top notch stuff you may have come across. Thanks! /threadjack
- jebblue 13y ago>> And I say this as a Linux user who doesn't use PulseAudio... PulseAudio works great in Linux? We can switch easily between a headset mic, web cam mic, builtin mic, etc. I think this is still problematic on Windows.
- felipebueno 13y agoBecause it's still relevant and, I guess, that's why you are being downvoted.
- jebblue 13y agoUbuntu has won the Desktop and Server Linux wars so the article is no longer valid. RedHat doesn't even care about Desktop Linux or consumers using Linux.
- marshray 13y agoIf there is such a thing as "The Linux Desktop and Server Wars" I'd rather say that Android and hypervisor virtualization have won them. Which is to say I think it's more about whether or not we were asking the right questions back then. And are we now?
- jebblue 13y agoAre you running Android on your Desktop? No. So, no, Android is a great phone OS. It and the whole crappy touch experience have not and will not replace a Desktop.
- marshray 13y agoEven if you don't count phone and tablet mobile devices, I know more people running Android or ChromeOS for their desktop than I do any traditional desktop Linux distro.
- Shorel 13y agoDesktop, yes. Happy user here. But server ? That's still Red Hat's game, at least until Canonical becomes profitable.
- thomasjames 13y agoCause Greg K-H posted it on Google+ today...
- emillon 13y agoIt's a classic piece that gets cited in mailing lists often these days (I actually saw it in debian-devel).
- quarterto 13y agoPeople are upvoting it. Therefore it is relevant.