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I up-voted his comment because I personally found it interesting, but most people wouldn't. Their eyes would gloss over and they would move on, probably back t

by tankbot 13y ago

I up-voted his comment because I personally found it interesting, but most people wouldn't. Their eyes would gloss over and they would move on, probably back to celebrity gossip or some other shallow pursuit. It's important to be self-aware enough to realize this, especially when attempting to teach others. Waxing pedantic and nit-picky alienates the audience and only hurts the subject and those who would learn it. It was not my intention to be personally disrespectful, I probably should have worded my comment less casually.

adamdavis 13y ago
You say you found his comment interesting, but at the same time you called him out as being boring? On the note of being self aware. While I would agree that many people would find the content of that comment 'boring'. In the context of the hackernews audience, and as a response to the parent post, I would be surprised if many people had their eyes gloss over and moved back to celebrity gossip.
gruseom 13y ago
I have that experience rather often myself. It takes a conscious effort to pay enough attention to how one is saying something.
jerf 13y ago
"I up-voted his comment because I personally found it interesting, but most people wouldn't." This is Hacker News, where arguments about whether or not promises or callbacks are better in Node can run off the right side of the page. Sometime the participants are even still making cogent points at that point, though I'll admit that's probably an exception rather than the rule. Still, this isn't a site for people who are going to go back to "celebrity gossip"... or at least as I assumed you intended it, as in gossip about Brad Pitt et al, rather than, say, Snowden gossip. Still. Ahem. I keep seeming to get sidetracked here. The point I'm trying to make is, yes, we can indeed pay attention to this sort of thing. Except when we can't, and we just pick it apart mindlessly. Sorry, sorry, went off topic again there. Most certainly, we like this sort of thing here. Probably to a fault.
- munificent 13y ago
  > arguments about whether or not promises or callbacks are better in Node can run off the right side of the page. Just like the callback-based code does! Hey-ooo! ...I'll see myself out.

by tankbot 13y ago

adamdavis 13y ago

You say you found his comment interesting, but at the same time you called him out as being boring? On the note of being self aware. While I would agree that many people would find the content of that comment 'boring'. In the context of the hackernews audience, and as a response to the parent post, I would be surprised if many people had their eyes gloss over and moved back to celebrity gossip.

gruseom 13y ago

I have that experience rather often myself. It takes a conscious effort to pay enough attention to how one is saying something.

jerf 13y ago

"I up-voted his comment because I personally found it interesting, but most people wouldn't." This is Hacker News, where arguments about whether or not promises or callbacks are better in Node can run off the right side of the page. Sometime the participants are even still making cogent points at that point, though I'll admit that's probably an exception rather than the rule. Still, this isn't a site for people who are going to go back to "celebrity gossip"... or at least as I assumed you intended it, as in gossip about Brad Pitt et al, rather than, say, Snowden gossip. Still. Ahem. I keep seeming to get sidetracked here. The point I'm trying to make is, yes, we can indeed pay attention to this sort of thing. Except when we can't, and we just pick it apart mindlessly. Sorry, sorry, went off topic again there. Most certainly, we like this sort of thing here. Probably to a fault.

munificent 13y ago
> arguments about whether or not promises or callbacks are better in Node can run off the right side of the page. Just like the callback-based code does! Hey-ooo! ...I'll see myself out.