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I am the author, and this is not one of my posts. It's something I wrote and put in my dumping ground. That's kind of like a trash can on OS X. I never posted i
by raganwald 17y ago
I am the author, and this is not one of my posts. It's something I wrote and put in my dumping ground. That's kind of like a trash can on OS X. I never posted it here and it never showed up in the RSS feed.
As the read me for the folder says... If you're just snooping around, have fun. Nothing in this folder is meant to be a permanent addition, it's just a handy place for me to dump stuff that doesn't have a home yet.
http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/dumping_ground#readme http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/dumping_g...
It reflects how I felt at the time but it doesn't reflect what I wanted to post, so I left it unpublished. I didn't try very hard to hide it or anything. But it is an "unauthorizd" post and should not be construed as overt advice to anyone.
p.s. Even though this is an unauthorized post, I am upmodding anyone who criticizes it. They are my feelings, so it's perfectly valid to disagree publicly.
- tjogin 17y agoWhat was the point of putting it online if you didn't mean for anyone to read it?
- unalone 17y agoStorage? Ease of access? There're a lot of advantages the Internet brings you even when you're not trying to whore for attention.
- raganwald 17y agoI think you misunderstand. I'm fine with people reading my unfinished, half-baked ideas, but that is not the same thing as publishing them or claiming they are finished. I have a directory structure on my hard drive. The "dumping ground" is like a folder of drafts. Have a look, there's all kinds of unfinished and half-baked ideas in there. I publish it to git I have no problem with people reading it. It's just as if you came by my house and looked at my pond while I was building it. It isn't a secret that I was working on it. However, allowing people to read my half-baked stuff is not the same thing as publishing them. Whoever posted this actively went there and linked to it. This is very different from when I actively publish a post in my RSS feed, or tweet it, or whatever. The point being, is this my opinion? Yes. Do I have a problem with you reading my opinion? No. Am I forcing my opinion on other people by publishing it? Also no. FWIW, my opinion is that HN was clogged with posts about iPhone development, and that I didn't want to meta-clog it with posts about posts. So I wrote this to get the idea off my chest and left it alone. Besides, I was too busy writing code to polish those few paragraphs up and turn them into an essay!
- Hexstream 17y agoI think you should make it way more obvious than this is "unpublished". Even after reading you saying it here, looking back at the page it took me several seconds to notice "homoiconic / dumping_ground / nobody_cares.md", which is the only clue that this isn't meant for general circulation. You can't expect thousands of potential visitors automagically guessing the context of a post.
- _pius 17y agohey raganwald, I hope it doesn't bother you that I submitted this. I thought it was relevant and fun to read; sorry if posting it here caused any trouble.
- raganwald 17y agoNo trouble at all. I'm glad it has provoked some constructive discussion. I only wanted to mention the situation for the benefit of those saying that my post was an example of the kind of rant it was ranting against :-)
- redcap 17y agoAlthough there probably is a lot to be learned about just what Apple et. al. are doing in terms of fucking developers around with their app stores/etc, I do think that the attitude of "shut up and code" is also quite valid. Hopefully people are just reading the articles on Hacker News to have a break between work, but if they're not your article does suggest what they could be doing - shutting up and producing something.