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There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone di
by atwebb 13y ago
There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone discuss. Maybe it would've been better in a AskHN but at least here we get a list to reference (and for people to get angry at what's missing, people love getting angry). Also, it gives a view of what this specific community in this specific thread feels and adds to the context when reading other threads.
- simias 13y agoI don't think it usually creates interesting discussion. Just a billion of comments with no replies along the line of "XXX is great!" "YYY sucks!". Everybody talks and nobody listens. It's just pointless popularity contest.
- debacle 13y agoYou have no idea what you're talking about. XXX is terrible. The new release of YYY has solved a lot of the problems that most people complain about.
- Erwin 13y agoNone of the ideas in YYY are new. It's a mundane and vulgar rehash of things we already had in the ZZZ in 80s but done badly. OK, so the world's largest sites run YYY -- that's pure luck, not science. Or the fault corporate HR drones that don't know better asking for YYY skills. Or a massive conspiracy. Or maybe programmers just are dumber now than 10 years ago. How can YYY even be taken seriously when not supporting homobubonic retroviral proto-smurfs? In fact, I've just written a nice tutorial on smurfs in ZZZ and how smurfs are just like smurfs -- once you are past that, writing a complex application like a "20 questions" game should not be a problem. Don't get me started on dynamic versus static smurfing!
- tripzilch 13y agoYou forgot to say "I don't get why anyone is surprised by..", to get the full HN bingo card.
- iliiilliilil 13y agoDid you even read the last thread? What you said did not happen then and it isn't happening now. You're the only person posting pointless comments in the whole thread.
- bolder88 13y agoPolls like this are the equivalent of asking a builder if he likes wood, metal, concrete, plywood, slate, etc. Or if he likes a saw more than a hammer. Which only a complete moron would do.
- Abscissa 13y agoThat's only a valid comparison if you're really big into polyglot programming AND believe that all languages are great in their own special way.