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It figures a top voted comment on Hacker News is that Linus is wrong and we should all hold hands and sing camp songs. There are tons of useful discussions tha
by professee 13y ago
It figures a top voted comment on Hacker News is that Linus is wrong and we should all hold hands and sing camp songs.
There are tons of useful discussions that simply don't happen on HN because anybody with an actual strong opinion gets helbanned. For instance Google's Go language is lauded here because of fake politeness, but almost universally dismissed elsewhere.
This discussion has already achieved its real goal: to put "Linus Torvalds" and "Sarah" in the same sentence; this is the bullshit politics Linus talks about.
- camus 13y ago> For instance Google's Go language is lauded here because of fake politeness, that's called "political correctness". I thought HN was about "disruption"... And yes , here you cant critize GO or suffer the consequences ;)
- lnanek2 13y agoHaha, agreed. I see two "dead" comments above you invisible to most people that are actually very valuable and pointing out that Finland where Linus started is not like America in regards to PC and honesty. I think HN is lessened by banning people who just have different or brutally honest opinions. They should save banning for spammers/trolls/people intentionally disrupting the discussion or lying, etc., but I see people ghosted all the time who are not that.
- Karn 13y agoCorrect on all counts. People need to realise that smart people tend to have short tempers because they've encountered the same idiocy many, many times; the first few times they may have explained patiently but after a while it begins to get wearisome. People with precious, precious feelings should stay away. "The entire principle is wrong: it's like insisting that adults live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - Heinlein