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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm talking about what the HN policy has always been. This is a factual question, and it's not as you describe it. What's interesting is how the opposite gets repeated far more often, usually in an authoritative tone, as if t
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by gruseom 13y ago
Sorkin is deeply conventional. He will almost certainly replicate the pre-existing myth, in an edgy way and with glib zingers.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's a good point. But let me ask you: do you think HN actually has this problem, i.e. of ideas being suppressed because people disagree? If so, I'd be curious to see examples. Most of the downvoted stuff I see has some other re
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've yet to see a proposed redesign of HN that doesn't spoil the two best things about it: its focus on content and its information density. To me that suggests that its current design may be a sort of local optimum. That the site
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by gruseom 13y ago
Of course there's a way to fix it: send an email, as the guidelines say. Your comments have evidently not been disabled!
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks for making that! I'm not shocked. :)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Why wouldn't your comments get endorsed and be seen as much as anyone else's? Have you perhaps misunderstood the karma restriction to mean that people with less karma will have their comments be less visible? That's not the i
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by gruseom 13y ago
Does that graph include comments under "submissions", or only stories? I bet the latter. There are only so many conceivably-appropriate-for-HN stories out there, and many of the rest get taken out as spam. If the number of comment
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by gruseom 13y ago
Someone who is expressing an unpopular opinion honestly, as opposed to just baiting or venting, can take care not to be disrespectful or accidentally provocative. I don't see why such comments wouldn't get endorsed.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Sorry for being unclear. What I mean is that downvoting something because you disagree with it has always been legitimate on HN. I'm too lazy to dig up the many links where this was discussed, but the point is that if upvoting is a leg
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by gruseom 13y ago
Currently, the downvote button is only supposed to be used for unproductive comments - drivel, and the like. Of course, people use it to show their disagreement (even though that's not how it's meant to be used). No, that's
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by gruseom 13y ago
Downvoting has always been used for disagreement on HN. It's a stubborn myth that that's somehow wrong or against the rules.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Is this the biggest change ever made to HN? The last major change I can think of was not showing comment scores, and this is at least an order of magnitude bigger.
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by gruseom 13y ago
As I understand the idea, endorsing a comment doesn't mean you agree with it. It just means you think it deserves to be in the thread. That should leave room for unpopular views as long as they're respectfully expressed.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Fake, according to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Conspiracy .
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It seems we disagree less than I thought, and I've deleted my mistaken impression from the root comment. I may have asked you this before, but do you know of any finding in the research literature that you
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by gruseom 13y ago
I have the book and have read several (though not all) of the papers. I didn't see anything worth exempting from what I wrote above. The state of the field is just very weak. Even the good researchers, like Lutz Prechelt, aren't p
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by gruseom 13y ago
Exactly. The market value of rigorous research on software development isn't high enough for anyone to pay for it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Edit: What I said there was rooted in earlier discussions and not the current article. Sorry; my confusion. But I'll leave the explanation of what I meant anyway. You place so much emphasis on dismantling the 10x claim (writing an enti
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by gruseom 13y ago
I deleted my comment. Sorry for denting the thread.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Can anyone name a finding of software engineering research that isn't folklore? I've looked many times. The field is strikingly weak. It is typified by tiny sample sizes, subjective analysis, and zero replication. [Edit: deleted m
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by gruseom 13y ago
You're assuming that it's an efficient market. But irrational ideas can make a market inefficient. This presumably gets sorted out in the long run, but that takes time. In software, one source of irrational ideas has been the mana
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by gruseom 13y ago
A classic example is Boswell's first encounter with Johnson in 1763: "Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had hear
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by gruseom 13y ago
There's a lot of randomness. Don't take it personally.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Learn another language, gain another soul.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Don't the coroutines still have to explicitly yield? In other words, not quite written as if the code was blocking?
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by gruseom 13y ago
With the crucial difference that in Erlang, the thing that dies is extremely fine-grained, while in Node it's the entire server. In other words, this is far from the Erlang way of doing things.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Programming is writing.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Ok, if you're sure your argument doesn't apply to high-level languages in general, I'll take your word for it. In that case I'm not following it very well. I don't think there's any "statistical significan
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is really an argument against higher-level languages in general. A complex program written in a lower-level language will certainly be more explicit, and because of that many individual lines will be easier to read. "INC EAX"

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