Every one of these threads, here and on Reddit, ends up packed with accounts demanding "proof" of vulnerability or saying it's a silly conspiracy to say that the typical Tor install provides very weak protection.
Please reduce the number of people with downvote power. Far too many people abuse them now. The site has become very hostile and it's caused entire communities to move away from HN, e.g. to producthunt. This trend will only continue if the hostility isn't improved.
The rise in the Accelerator trend has created a ton of badly behaving accelerators around the world.
Many insisting that they need to apply their own "local flavor" of business dealings, instead of directly applying the American models, in order to make it work in their country. Turns out that this usually means acting in extractive ways instead of value-adding ways. No care for their reputation and actively seeking out entrepreneurs that they can extract the most from.
Too bad that there's really no purely founder-oriented resource out there. Every major community online is really slanted towards the benefit of investors, or freelancers, which have different needs than startup founders. I started to make one a while ago, whenever I'm not so broke I'll someday launch it.
To be clear, the system I'm suggesting is about show, not tell. It requires no emotions:
1. First person drafts a solution. 2. Another person doesn't like it so he drafts an alternative solution. 3. The other developers then look at the two solutions and further build upon the solution that they like better. 4. Repeat. Kind of like a proof of work chain system, now that I think about it.
I don't see how adding in emotions, whether whining or praising, are an improve upon this system at all, but thanks for your explanation.
Who do you really think gets more done: The people who show up to whine and criticize, or the people who hold back the whining to silently go and make their own improved solution instead?
Consider that people who wine, seem to outnumber the people who do by at least 1000 to 1, and you'll have my answer for who I believe to be contributing more to getting things done.
Independent developer consultants, as a demographic, significantly skews towards a larger-than-average number of people who were never surrounded by a good professional office culture. Many never learned the benefits or skills of writing in ways that won't be interpreted as mean. In fact, many pride themselves in trying to be the opposite of a professional behaving office person. Toxic culture, loves to point out the tiniest flaws in everyone else's work and don't care or realize that doing so is hurting others.
Case in point, Hacker News was a much happier place that was more receptive to positively responding to people sharing their work, back when it was Startup News. Inviting in all kinds of hackers, ended up bringing in the worst of the worst segment of the demographic.
I love doing developer consulting, I know many awesome consultants who behave great, but the average behavior of the demographic as a whole is is really bad.