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Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music. The analogy only works if, like me, you
by hughprime 17y ago
Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music.
The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
- hvs 17y agoIt appears to be working, too.
- icey 17y agoIt's kind of dumb since all it takes to get the _why stuff off the front page is for people to upvote other submissions that are arguably more relevant (and current).
- ErrantX 17y agoand flag the _why stuff
- hvs 17y agoWhich I started doing when it got out of control, but I'm apparently in the minority. I don't really care one way or the other, I just don't read what I'm not interested in.
- gloob 17y agoFront page is a positive feedback loop. People upvote the stories they see.
- apotheon 17y ago. . . if, by "working", you mean "replacing one form of noise with another, much louder form that will probably outlast the likely lifespan of the original form".