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Wow. I'm shocked at the disgusting responses I'm reading here. No wonder people get terrible anxiety about releasing their hard work for feedback. Hacker News s
by pvnick 13y ago
Wow. I'm shocked at the disgusting responses I'm reading here. No wonder people get terrible anxiety about releasing their hard work for feedback. Hacker News seems to be a den of vipers, waiting to strike at the tiniest opportunity to nitpick. And then folks have the gall to bicker and argue over whether the project even has fundamental merit, on the very thread that the author tries to show the "community" what he/she has made. I've been working on a project myself, something I'm passionate about and looking forward to my own "Show HN" thread, but this trend of negativity really makes me hesitate.
I think this is a really cool project, and I commend ianstormtaylor for pushing the envelope and advancing the state of the web. Good job!
edit: I understand criticism has its place in Show HN. But for God's sake, I had to scroll _all the way to the bottom_ to find some kind words of encouragement. You folks should really read some Dale Carnegie
- EasierLikeThis 13y agoI can't decide if people are overly competitive and frightened with the increase in the developer population, or if we're just bitter and cynical towards anything we can't put our name on.
- __--__ 13y agoYou know those meetings where three or four guys go back and forth trying to prove who's the smartest guy in the room? HN is that on a larger scale. I can't help but think this tendency of ours can't be hacked into something more productive, but I have no solution as of yet. :)
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoI don't think it's that really. It is hipster to snark and dislike things and hipster is in apparently. That being said, some things should be disliked, this not being one of them.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> Hacker News seems to be a den of vipers, waiting to strike at the tiniest opportunity to nitpick. When presented with a sensible, practical and actually innovative idea, I've found the responses to be fairly favorable. With small things that have been done over and over again (worse or better), I think you can expect some comparisons and questions.
- heretoo 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926247 For people who didn't grow up [with it].
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoI know it's really not good. I actually find this project interesting. I think the fundamental idea has a lot of merit, the individual details can be worked on.
- davedx 13y agoYeah, I find it very disappointing, and it's not just on Show HN threads either. The community here is still pretty intelligent, but I feel like it's become almost unbearably negative in the past year or so. I know people always say things like that about communities, but I really feel it on HN. Not so on Reddit, where people can still be positive and happy (small and large subreddits). There is a place for criticism, even non-constructive. But HN sometimes is an echo chamber of only criticism and negativity.
- hderms 13y agoWhy do programmers, in particular, seem to lose respect for others so quickly? Is it that ours is such a technical field that people often value 'straight-talking' at the expense of politeness (see: Linus)? Is it that software is so difficult to do properly that almost everyone becomes embittered on some level? It's such a weird phenomena when you have things like open source which are fundamentally positive, cooperative forces in spirit. The same class of people who want to give their work away for free are the same people who bitterly attack others for doing that very thing.
- EasierLikeThis 13y agoWe're only hurting ourselves and our community. I'm really disappointed that this is the case. Maybe it's time for a sociological analysis of our tech population.