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This is a one-day thing (or so I would hope), but I hope the overall effect would be to drag HN back towards its roots - as an interesting place for technology discussion in all its forms.
. . . or maybe the effect will be to make people whose level of interest in Erlang is somewhere on this side of sane stop coming to Hacker News, and go back to the programming subreddit.
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.
The first time was pg's idea to get rid of the traffic spike that was killing the server and the content. This time... it doesnt seem quite as vindicated reasoning. You know: this could be a meme.... beware ppl :D
If, as you say, we start whipping out Erlang articles on a monthly basis, it just turns into noise.
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. . . or maybe the effect will be to make people whose level of interest in Erlang is somewhere on this side of sane stop coming to Hacker News, and go back to the programming subreddit.
But ah, I escaped from reddit, that's like checking back into the asylum if I go back...
God, I hope this blows over by the time I get back from my RPG session tonight.