Oh, gah, submissions from assertTrue( ) are showing up on HN's home page again. I've just read the short blog post kindly submitted here by the blog post author

Oh, gah, submissions from assertTrue( ) are showing up on HN's home page again. I've just read the short blog post kindly submitted here by the blog post author, and I don't see any added value from it that wouldn't come from any other review of the book that the blog author recommends. I am not worried about Amazon (but I don't use Amazon cloud services at all). Previous comments about this blog and its editorial practices from other HN readers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196734 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196734 by another participant on an earlier article from the same blog: > > It appears you've made some sort of resolution to publish and promote a blog entry per day in 2013. 40 entries in 41 days this year vs. 46 in all of 2012. You should reconsider - whatever your reasons were, I doubt they included a desire to develop a reputation for presenting topics that were sensationalized and thinly researched [1] produced with a pace that ensures discredited theories dont get reviewed. [1] http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/drug-companies-stop-hiding-your-data.html%E3%80%80 http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/drug-companies-stop-h... > Wow, nice spot and they have all been submitted to HN. I have never seen anyone's submission history be so hell bent on self promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog That was followed up by another set of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240084 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240084 > I'm beginning to flag these posts. I agree.