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Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech

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Re: Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech

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Post by crntaylor »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #10
adjwilli wrote: post #8

I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.

I just added the names that were put forward in the original Ask HN post. I've added Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer to the poll options.

I can understand that you were excited to be the one to create the poll, but I think you did a very poor job of it.

By the time you added the most recent names to the poll (22 minutes after creating it) at least one name already had 100+ votes.

You've also inexplicably put Narendra Modi on there (misspelled) even though he's not in tech.

Re: Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech

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Post by yapcguy »

adjwilli wrote: post #8

I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.

Hmm, so Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer "made lots of news"... is that why they should be included?

One is a corporate hack who had a book ghost-written, the other is a corporate hack who once dated Larry Page and landed a nice 5 year gig at Yahoo.

They have done nothing for technology. Nothing. They should not be included just because they're in the filter bubble of internet gossip.

If you want to vote for someone, on merit, who happens to be female, try Limor Fried of Adafruit.

Re: Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech

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Post by stackcollision »

adjwilli wrote: post #8

I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.

I think putting Snowden on here is cheating, especially among this crowd. Yes, what he did was extremely important. Yes what he did had a tech impact, but the majority of the impact was societal, IMHO. I voted for him on Time, but here I have to vote for Musk.

Re: Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech

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Post by ximeng »

crntaylor wrote: post #11
RyanMcGreal wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just added the names that were put forward in the original Ask HN post. I've added Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer to the poll options.

I can understand that you were excited to be the one to create the poll, but I think you did a very poor job of it. By the time you added the most recent names to the poll (22 minutes after creating it) at least one name already had 100+ votes. You've also inexplicably put Narendra Modi on there (misspelled) even though he's not in tech.

It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being important.

Adding additional names because somebody else asked for it is hardly a major issue, it's just the nature of HN polls - there's no time to do a nomination phase then voting because if you don't act straight away, you're not going to get on the front page and nobody will vote.

(Although this seems to have been flagged off anyway...)

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