Live data from Hacker News

World

aem1k.com

101–102 of 102 posts

Re: World

#101
post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever seen! ... and the top comment is typical negative nitpicking! Why HN? Why?! There must be a better way!

and why do you call this art. I think that's misusing the term. it's a data visualization.

More semantic nitpicking, should be obvious by now it's epidemic here.

Re: World

#102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever seen! ... and the top comment is typical negative nitpicking! Why HN? Why?! There must be a better way!

Why do we keep calling it "typical negative nitpicking"? How about calling it "feedback"? Or maybe even "the most useful type of feedback"? We're encouraged here to post things that add value. But that pretty much implies either criticism or going off-topic ("hey, I've seen something similar here:", etc.). There is no practical value in "positive" comments, no matter how elaborately you can write "I liked it". Yes, i…

Truly valuable "feedback" would be a discussion of the actual code used to create this. That's a far cry from the easy, low-hanging fruit of "it's spinning the wrong way". Totally missing the forest for the trees.
Post reply on HN