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by unalone 17y ago
Why bother with comments? All they do is add noise. I like Tumblr's approach with their Likes and Reblogs: It adds a trackable story to each of your posts. I'm a Tumblr theme designer. Would it be whoring to point you to one of my creations
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by unalone 17y ago
Tumblr is the most polished blogging platform out there. It also has built-in audience controls, meaning if you write good things, news will spread. Posterous has an excellent feature set, but it's uglier than balls. Bad typography, bad col
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by unalone 17y ago
That's a good way of putting it. For all his flaws, Card is an actual writer. Many of his contemporaries never were. Of course, there's legitimate literate science fiction out there that's among the best literature of the century. Frank Her
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by unalone 17y ago
King's one of the great 80s writers. He's not at his peak anymore, but when he started he was one of the best. Ender's Game can be read as a genocide apologist novel. I don't totally buy that, but it does espouse a universe in which smart
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by unalone 17y ago
You need to get into more sci-fi and more literature. Ender's Game is just intro-level. It's got a plethora of problems, too: The more you read it, the more you realize what a deeply sick worldview it and its author have. I can still read s
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by unalone 17y ago
Of course it hasn't. The problem is that science fiction split into two factions. The people who thought sci-fi was about the pulp stories went on to write pulp stories. The people who understood the real idea behind science fiction became
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by unalone 17y ago
I fail to see how it's theistic. I'm an atheist myself, and in the opening segment it criticizes people who worship an actual God.
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by unalone 17y ago
UPDATE: It was flagged to death by users, not moderators. Them's the breaks.
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by unalone 17y ago
A moderator killed it. If you turn on 'showdead' in your profile, it's still there, it's just not displaying. Possibly it's the title, because Hacker News has a no-religious-stories clause, but the article itself isn't remotely religious.
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by unalone 17y ago
I wrote the article (noticed it was posted here because my site suddenly started getting loads of hits); by the time I saw it it was deleted. I don't want to say if it was appropriate for HN or not, but can a moderator at least explain why
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by unalone 17y ago
Blabber adds a negative subtext. Not all extended conversation is blabber, even if much of it is.
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by unalone 17y ago
The title had me worried it was going to be a melodramatic open-source screed. I was pleasantly surprised. And I agree entirely with the point. By opening our lives, we're providing people with access to information they never had widescale
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by unalone 17y ago
Hey, it's Langer! I didn't know you were an HNer. What's the difference between your theoretical CMS and a WYSIWYG HTML editor? Something like Weebly or Google Sites? I'd think they already cover the "custom HTML" tactic pretty well. Beyond
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by unalone 17y ago
In this case, content is material that I the consumer am interested in. I'm potentially interested in writing. I'm less interested in design. I don't read blogs to look at the design, I read blogs to read blogs. So if you're capable of crea
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by unalone 17y ago
Hyphenation improves readability tremendously. It's a time-honored practice whose results have been proven repeatedly.
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by unalone 17y ago
I guess it depends on location. I'm lucky: In Philadelphia AT&T gets reception in places Verizon doesn't, so I can place calls on the subway. But the Northeast is an AT&T hotspot; I've never had the opportunity to take this phone an
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by unalone 17y ago
Substitute Things for The Hit List and I agree. I actually don't use anything. I find it's easier to follow your instinct and do what you want rather than sort out your life. Then, whatever you've been doing that's not productive, you for
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by unalone 17y ago
> Why would that shock you ? It's true and there isn't a day that I don't learn something new about English. I also am quite dependent on my spell checker to keep me on the straight and narrow. And I can't seem to decide on English or A
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by unalone 17y ago
What can I say? I must read differently than the people here. When I read it it flows naturally; this has been in circulation long enough that I see lots of other people're okay with the style also. Perhaps it's that I don't skim when I rea
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm fine with being criticized — best way to learn to do better. I just resented the suggestions that I didn't know what I was doing. If I deliberately fuck up, I'll take my punches, but the comments implying I somehow accidentally used "sh
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by unalone 17y ago
Fair enough. I'm not enough of a prick to think that my opinion overrides everybody else's. I don't think I was going to write another super-swear piece, but now I certainly won't. Oh, well. It's one piece. I can handle people not liking it
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by unalone 17y ago
This wasn't a good Hacker News article. It wasn't written to be. I've actually got one in the works now that I was going to submit here this week; this was geared towards my usual reader constituency of artsier types. That comment here was
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by unalone 17y ago
Isn't that exactly what I said? I wrote originally with stuff and decided it didn't work. I pared it down and switched the word and it worked. > If you use "is", "good", "stuff", or "things" more often than once per paragraph, you are
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by unalone 17y ago
That's cute, coming from somebody so edgy he quotes Banksy in his profile.
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by unalone 17y ago
It was used once for every sixteen words. That means it was used less than once a sentence. If I was unintentionally saturating the essay, I'd agree with you that my style needs some fixing, but it was a deliberate choice and it wasn't over
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by unalone 17y ago
I get what you're saying. I'm disappointed if that's all you got out of it.
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by unalone 17y ago
When I originally wrote the article, I was using the word stuff — but stuff is such a boring word. It's got a lag to it. Ditto other options, like things and work and product . Shit , on the other hand, is a very pointed, quick
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by unalone 17y ago
Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification.
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by unalone 17y ago
If you're going to criticize what I write, please criticize it rather than just snarking.
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