Ask HN: Please stop.
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I'm a geek, but I don't know a line of code to save my life. Does this make me a non-hacker? The wrong kind of poster? I lurk here because the threads, especially anything YC/VC/Start-up, are really informative and genuinely useful. The Erlang thing is a yawn, even though I have no idea what it's about. I'm with the OP, sure it was funny, but maybe time to move on.
I find that I can visit this site daily and find a good six or seven things worth reading ... all done without salacious headlines.
I don't think the bar is set at coder, programmer or developer. I don't run, nor do I desire to run a start-up, but I read plenty about them here because the quality of submissions generally means I'm going to enjoy the post. And the items that fall into the "non-startup, non-development" category are often very interesting...even the ones I disagree with philosophically are often good reads.
I wonder what makes a hacker, exactly?
I don't think the bar is set at coder, programmer or developer. I don't run, nor do I desire to run a start-up, but I read plenty about them here because the quality of submissions generally means I'm going to enjoy the post. And the items that fall into the "non-startup, non-development" category are often very interesting...even the ones I disagree with philosophically are often good reads.
I wonder what makes a hacker, exactly?
There area a number of schools of thought on that :)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.html
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
( I like the first one.)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.html
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
( I like the first one.)
Seriously, though, if it's true that the origination of this protest is a few fluff pieces, can we agree that a handful of fluff pieces is better than two pages of ... whatever you want to call this?
I enjoy Hacker News because individuals that participate in the site act more like a community of geeks, not a mob.
Forgetting the community: contributing fluff to combat fluff on a resource you love is sort of like getting into a fist fight with yourself. In the end, you've lost.