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So in other words you are saying that people here will vote up any story about Go regardless of merit; seeing "Go" in the title makes it interesting to them. W

So in other words you are saying that people here will vote up any story about Go regardless of merit; seeing "Go" in the title makes it interesting to them. What is it about this story of a point release with five inconsequential bug fixes that is at all interesting?

Intermernet 13y ago
You may as well ask what's interesting about the latest IOS point release, what's interesting about the latest nginx release, what's interesting about the latest Haskell / Erlang / Dart / Oberon / Clojure release. As I said previously, people are interested in different things. I don't see the point in expending emotion and energy getting angry about the fact that a couple of lines of text on an ephemeral web-site weren't the couple of lines of text you would have preferred to see... Do you get equally offended when the HTTP spec is discussed on HN? Or when you hear of new Kickstarter campaign on HN? or hundreds of other sub-topics which people happen to be interested in. My reason for checking out the release notes was to see if there were any security issues that may have effected my code, and to see if there were any updates on new features etc. And no, I didn't up-vote the story at all, I just read it.
- bsdetector 13y ago
  >> You may as well ask what's interesting about the latest IOS point release, what's interesting about the latest nginx release, what's interesting about the latest Haskell / Erlang / Dart / Oberon / Clojure release. Yes, exactly so! You should ask that question. That's the question I'm asking, and not getting an answer to. The latest iOS release fixed a massive security flaw in TLS/SSL. This Go release? According to the guy who released it, contains minor bug fixes they had been sitting on for 3 months and decided to make a point release just because it had been a while. A total non-story. >> I don't see the point in expending emotion and energy getting angry The name I chose is "bsdetector" and you're asking me why I would get upset at bullshit such as this Go story.

Intermernet 13y ago

You may as well ask what's interesting about the latest IOS point release, what's interesting about the latest nginx release, what's interesting about the latest Haskell / Erlang / Dart / Oberon / Clojure release. As I said previously, people are interested in different things. I don't see the point in expending emotion and energy getting angry about the fact that a couple of lines of text on an ephemeral web-site weren't the couple of lines of text you would have preferred to see... Do you get equally offended when the HTTP spec is discussed on HN? Or when you hear of new Kickstarter campaign on HN? or hundreds of other sub-topics which people happen to be interested in. My reason for checking out the release notes was to see if there were any security issues that may have effected my code, and to see if there were any updates on new features etc. And no, I didn't up-vote the story at all, I just read it.

bsdetector 13y ago
>> You may as well ask what's interesting about the latest IOS point release, what's interesting about the latest nginx release, what's interesting about the latest Haskell / Erlang / Dart / Oberon / Clojure release. Yes, exactly so! You should ask that question. That's the question I'm asking, and not getting an answer to. The latest iOS release fixed a massive security flaw in TLS/SSL. This Go release? According to the guy who released it, contains minor bug fixes they had been sitting on for 3 months and decided to make a point release just because it had been a while. A total non-story. >> I don't see the point in expending emotion and energy getting angry The name I chose is "bsdetector" and you're asking me why I would get upset at bullshit such as this Go story.