This community is full of privileged cunts who pretend to make the world a better place all while circle jerking each other
Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN is an echo chamber, to some extent. For example, try making valid criticisms against Go or JavaScript and you will be downvoted without explanation. I think HN would be better if it required an explanation in order to downvote something. At least then it would be clear to everyone reading whether the negativity was legitimate or not.
Many members find language wars boring. Most are already aware of strengths and weaknesses of various languages. People have language preferences (I know I do), and those vary from person to person. What’s more important is what you’re accomplishing. If you bring up criticism when it’s not the topic of conversation (for example, complaining about the use of JS on a Show HN), people may downvote because it’s off-topic…
To clarify, I'm not talking about language wars. I'm talking about legitimate constructive criticism on threads about specific languages. My degree is in writing, and I cannot stress enough the importance of criticism in achieving one's highest quality work. Therefore, it seems to me, we would serve ourselves better by considering constructive criticism with an open mind, and working to make our languages better, than to up and down vote based on preferences and emotion. A downvote offered simply because someone said something about one's favorite language is no more intellectual or objective than a commenter who writes, " sucks!" Both should be scorned.
As you say, we all have our favorite languages (all of which have flaws). Mine are currently Elixir and Elm. However, neither of those are perfect and those imperfections can sometimes hinder me. Since, for me, the point of HN is knowledge, it is unhelpful when a critical comment is downvoted, even though it contains good information that would help me in choosing the best language for my project, based entirely on team-sport emotions.
I'm sorry this got long; however, I also wanted to clarify, from my side, your point about the mention of language in an Ask HN post. I did not criticize any language. I was answering someone else's question, and simply used the criticism of popular languages as an example. Yes, you could argue that their question itself was off-topic, but since the point of HN, at least for me, is knowledge, I did what I could to answer it. I'm not remotely concerned about karma points, as you can probably tell from the age of my account vs. my low karma score. I'm on "the spectrum" and tend to rub people the wrong way all the time. I'm used to it and I don't expect to be treated any differently here. My only criticism is that many of the downvotes are emotional and unhelpful, and HN should do what it can to eliminate worthless downvotes the same way it tries to eliminate worthless comments.
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#443The good comments are all downvoted and flagged because you and your privileged pussy friends here
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#444Impostor syndrome. jk Without HN, it's impossible to quantity how much tech/dev news I'd have missed out on. Plus, the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.
> Plus, the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.
+1 This is the main reason for me to visit hacker news often.
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#4451,5 years ago, i was suicidal ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051611 ). 1 week after posting this. I got a visit from the police. Apparently, someone gave them the ip and it took them a week to locate me. They wanted to take me to the hospital to check if i had mental problems. Of course they couldn't force me to go. I assured them that i would fix my problems and make a therapy. It was a wakeup call for me.…
I actually find this very unsettling as I was about to post a last ditch "advice or help" post with lots of potentially identifiable details required to relate the story (and would have had to ID myself to anyone helping anyway) and don't feel safe doing so now, because the police being called to my home would result in more problems for me and potentially total loss of agency. Even if I could avoid being taken in ag…
It suprised me too.
It sounds like he really benefited from the police tracking down his IP. He did say he was suicidal?
The cultural differences on this site do suprise me somedays. There are times when I hear something, and think they couldn't be talking about living in the USA. It usually something like social services/police really helping people.
I don't think this would ever happen in the USA.
Why--because authorities don't care, or most people realize any knock on the door by police might make life more difficult for the seemingly distraught person. This attidute towards authorities must change, and we--the citizens, are not the ones whom need to be retrained, and refocused. It the poeople in authority. They should be required to help, instead of being Revenue Collectors, and ruining people's lives over being over zealous ego maniacs.
Maybe German police aren't the paramilitary monsters we call our protectors?
Sorry folks--I've been harassed by cops my entire life. They have pulled me over for no reason, and I have paid rediculious fees/fines.
I have seen them abuse their power in so many instances, I just don't see the good. They make most situations much worse. (Yes--I used some harsh language. And yes, I know the cop you know is different. I don't want to debate.)
I glad the call for help turned out well for him though.
I will not share as much as I do though.
Tracking down my IP, by someone who cares, was the last thing on my mind. It reminded me to hide my IP again.
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#446Dang, I hope you get raped and no one is there to help you in life.
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#447Fuck off your privileged cunt. I hope you get raped bitch
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#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
Throttling doesn't kick in until 50GB now (T-mobile One).
Hey that’s not bad. I’m on a grandfathered plan that saves me a few bucks a month, but I keep thinking about switching.
I believe you also get a Netflix subscription included, which saves you an additional $10/month if you're already out of pocket for said subscription. Check it out! Happy T-mobile customer for 18 years.
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#449New questions to answer, daily.
Technically, a job, too.
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#450This is going to get buried, but HN has given me a place where I feel at home. It's community has just the right mixture of pragmatic empiricists, tasteful dreamers, and unabashed nerds. Thanks y'all!