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What 4chan thinks of HN

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Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#62
post #48

Uncanny how "Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenResty" fits so well in that list.

That's because it was an actual submission :P

Yeah I know. Only goes to prove that this particular satire has way more truth to it than appears at first glance.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#68

On Javascript: No, it's awful. But it's the only client side scripting language out there, and Web guys love to pretend they're just as skilled as systems guys. They take concepts that systems programmers discovered 30 years ago, put a fancy name on it and do it worse. Funny, but that's exactly what people were saying about Java programmers in the 90's. Now, the Java ecosystem is full of useful libraries and well opt…

Doesn't make Java any less of a bad language.
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