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Yes it's the old "fixing the signal to noise ratio by adding lots of noise" gambit.
Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music. The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
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Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music. The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
It appears to be working, too.
This is old news. Why is it being posted, save for the couple of Erlang submissions at the top?
I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
"Oh no, people are submitting the same old Erlang articles, the current focus/glorybaiting must be getting annoying!"
Perhaps a different topic is appropriate this time. I wasn't here when we did Erlang the first time, but I'm assuming that those who were are now tired of it. I think (though I may be wrong) that I'd be more interested in seeing some clever brainf and other esolang entries.
This time... it doesnt seem quite as vindicated reasoning.
You know: this could be a meme.... beware ppl :D
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It appears to be working, too.
It's kind of dumb since all it takes to get the _why stuff off the front page is for people to upvote other submissions that are arguably more relevant (and current).
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I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
I just hope that it doesn't become a weird meme, where submitting an Erlang article is the equivalent of expressing disapproval of the current trend in headlines. "Oh no, people are submitting the same old Erlang articles, the current focus/glorybaiting must be getting annoying!"
see what you started ejohn.org?
Perhaps a different topic is appropriate this time. I wasn't here when we did Erlang the first time, but I'm assuming that those who were are now tired of it. I think (though I may be wrong) that I'd be more interested in seeing some clever brainf and other esolang entries.
I personally just want to see a return to more technical topics and less human-interest pieces - if I wanted those I'd turn on the 6 o'clock news. I love reading random stuff on languages/tools I don't even use - it expands my breadth and is always fun. I've never written Erlang, but now I may give it a shot. This is what HN is great for, let's keep it that way.
This was cute the first time, but now it's kind of inane.