tomhow

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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   My opening comment politely asked you to “use less inflammatory language”. My characterizations have been of your conduct not your self. If you had anything of substance to say you wouldn’t keep fixating on where I live. As I’ve said, if yo
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   And from others we keep hearing that HN is too anti-AI. Of course neither is completely true. HN is a big community representing a spectrum of views. Few people are zealots in either direction. Most have moderate views that recognize the pr
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   Please don't sneer at groups/categories of people like this. Even if it was true (obviously it isn't; many in the software industry have been laid off in recent years), it's still unkind and inflammatory. https:/&#
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   Please don't post like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. Personal attacks are never ok here. You could easily respond by engaging with the substance of their comment rather than ad hominem. https://news.ycombinator.com&
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   This is an unhinged ad hominem attack and none of it changes whether the original comment breached the guidelines. Idealizing killing of people is never okay on HN and we've been consistent about that for as long as I can remember. Eve
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   by tomhow 2mo ago

   We're talking about it all the time :) My comment above doesn't contradict the email. I didn't say we're not wanting/planning to do anything about it, just that there's more to it than plugging in Pangram . If
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   by tomhow 3mo ago

   It's one thing for us to detect and autokill generated comments on our own site; it's our site and we can set the rules and run software on our own servers to process the comments and handle things in the way we and the community
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   by tomhow 3mo ago

   Previously... How to think about software quality (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39490543 - Feb 2024 (66 comments)
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    We've re-upped that thread and moved relevant comments to it, thanks!
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Please don’t make assumptions about where I’m a citizen, voter or resident. Even if you're right it’s irrelevant. The guidelines require us to converse curiously, to be kind, and to avoid ideological battle and flamebait. To write “A j
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Seen here once or twice before... :) Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697007 - July 2025 (102 comments) Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) - https:&#x2
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Please don't sneer at imaginary commenters on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Could you please stop posting ragey comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. It's not okay to assert that anyone “deserves a bullet in
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Charging? It likely adds a lot of cost and complexity to add mag-charging if you’re not Apple or Samsung. Does Garmin even have it yet? (Edit: only on a small number of models at the premium end of their range.) So it’s an important differe
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    We've banned this account. Please stop spamming HN with promotional links. It's a waste of everyone's time.
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    We removed "Garmin" from the title and used some representative language from the site.
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    > lots of people on this forum should feel more shame for what they do If we allow ourselves to feel virtuous by shaming others for things we unilaterally decree as being pernicious, we're on the fast track to hell. For most people
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Previously: Delayed Gratification – The Slow Journalism Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32222831 - July 2022 (16 comments) Delayed Gratification: A Slow Journalism Magazine - https://news.ycom
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    I appreciate you've been here since 2009 and are still contributing. Both of us moderators have been here a similar duration. If you want HN to be better, can you please do what others do, and use the flag feature (it alerts us to bad
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    It's not assuming bad faith to point out that a comment is not in the spirit we're hoping for on HN and to politely ask the commenter to try to do better in future. It is assuming bad faith to assert that an industry leader is
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Sure, it's now been flagged off the front page, which is fine. These lines in the guidelines are all directly or directionally relevant to this kind of comment. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously... Comments should ge
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    I really don't know what you're trying to say. If you look at the comment feeds of dang and me (or sctb or pg before that), you'll be hard-up finding a single day in the past 15+ years where there haven't been several co
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Please don’t post generic dismissals on HN. We're here for thoughtful conversation. If you want to say something, try to say something that isn’t the same negative take that first comes to anyone’s mind if they want to say something ne
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Please don't post sneering dismissals on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Thanks for that audio link. We've added it to the header of this thread, though you'd be welcome to submit it as its own post, perhaps in a few months (to allow time for it to feel fresh again once this thread has vacated the comm
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    We've banned this account for attacking fellow community members (not just here, in other recent comments too), and ignoring repeated appeals from us to observe the guidelines. We detached this comment from https://news.ycom
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    I'm a moderator here, and defrost is right. It's not cool to berate or “shame” people on HN. The very first phrase in the "In Comments" section of the guidelines is "Be Kind". We can critique issues and trends
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    by tomhow 3mo ago

    Previously: Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080505 - Jan 2018 (17 comments)