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This can be used to justify basically any missing feature though. Not incorrectly, per se - the site clearly works well enough in the exact state it is today -

by comex 12y ago

This can be used to justify basically any missing feature though. Not incorrectly, per se - the site clearly works well enough in the exact state it is today - but it would be unfortunate if random papercuts (that could probably be fixed pretty easily) stayed around forever because fixing them was a "cost of doing business".

tosh 12y ago
I just upvoted comex but since the arrows are so small I'm afraid I actually downvoted comex :(
tptacek 12y ago
Sure. I guess the subtext here is: this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix. It would be better to eliminate karma altogether.
- krapp 12y ago
  >this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix. If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
  - nobody20150517 12y ago
    Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
    - tptacek 12y ago
      There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.
  - tptacek 12y ago
    That would be tricky, because YC has business processes (applications, IIRC) that run through the same code.
    - krapp 12y ago
      Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets. Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.

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This can be used to justify basically any missing feature though. Not incorrectly, per se - the site clearly works well enough in the exact state it is today -

by comex 12y ago

tosh 12y ago
I just upvoted comex but since the arrows are so small I'm afraid I actually downvoted comex :(
tptacek 12y ago
Sure. I guess the subtext here is: this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix. It would be better to eliminate karma altogether.
- krapp 12y ago
  >this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix. If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
  - nobody20150517 12y ago
    Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
    - tptacek 12y ago
      There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.
  - tptacek 12y ago
    That would be tricky, because YC has business processes (applications, IIRC) that run through the same code.
    - krapp 12y ago
      Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets. Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.