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Exactly what am I looking at here? I think if you want attention to your HN-posts you should put a bit more effort into it than simply linking to a git repo.
by Nilzor 13y ago
Exactly what am I looking at here? I think if you want attention to your HN-posts you should put a bit more effort into it than simply linking to a git repo.
- pwg 13y agoOne of github's UI flubs, in my opinion, is that the main repo page puts the code file name listing at the top, and the "README" at the bottom, so with any substantial repository, one has to scroll down "below-the-fold" before one gets to the description part of the page. A reasonable (somewhat) interface for contributors. A very lacking UI for promoting the value of the code base to non-contributors.
- spellboots 13y agoOr you can just append #readme: https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs#readme https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs#readme
- coldtea 13y agoI thought hackers were supposed to be curious and not giving up after the smallest possible annoyance.
- clebio 13y agoContext is nice to have, though.
- npsimons 13y ago"Attention is scarce. Information is not. Do the math." - Nina Paley Just because something makes it to the frontpage of HN doesn't automatically make it worthy of further investigation. Granted, one shouldn't just fling things aside because they have no immediately apparent utility, but just from the difference in the submitted headline and the first line of the linked to page, this smells a bit of coder-drama.
- justncase80 13y agoAgreed. I looked at it for a while but don't get it. It just looks like a bunch of code snippets to examples of languages. Not super valuable.