The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life
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#2this is about fret war, the randomly generated music thing, we've seen it before
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#3"But, that’s the price you pay for being a public persona with fans."
Srsly? Public Persona? with fans...? Who? Maybe that bit was meant tongue in cheek. I really hope so.
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#4this is about fret war, the randomly generated music thing, we've seen it before
Somehow I knew that would be the one comment
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#5> ack didn’t pick it up because that’s a text file. DAMN!
`ack -a` is your friend, Zed. No snark intended, that's all I have to say.
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#6"But, that’s the price you pay for being a public persona with fans." Srsly? Public Persona? with fans...? Who? Maybe that bit was meant tongue in cheek. I really hope so.
From the numbers, we can conclude that Zed is at least somewhat awesome:
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#7This article comes off as rather offensive to me, it must be the language and constant ego bashing of nerds, but one thing that doesn't make sense is when Zed Shaw said he put his ego aside as he obviously didn't and was angry that his about page had fed these random music comments and is obviously upset that people took his about page seriously.
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#8My favorite bash aliases:
alias aack="ack --all"
alias rack="ack --ruby --follow"
alias fack="ack --actionscript --follow"
alias jack="ack --js"
alias pack="ack --python"
(mentioned because aack would have prevented his searching problem)
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#9This article comes off as rather offensive to me, it must be the language and constant ego bashing of nerds , but one thing that doesn't make sense is when Zed Shaw said he put his ego aside as he obviously didn't and was angry that his about page had fed these random music comments and is obviously upset that people took his about page seriously.
He said he put his ego aside in regards to redesigning his webapp to appeal to a wider audience, rather than what he wanted.
It doesn't seem terribly egotistical to want to correct people who are spreading an inaccurate representation of his product.
Re: The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life
#10This article comes off as rather offensive to me, it must be the language and constant ego bashing of nerds , but one thing that doesn't make sense is when Zed Shaw said he put his ego aside as he obviously didn't and was angry that his about page had fed these random music comments and is obviously upset that people took his about page seriously.
He said he put his ego aside in regards to redesigning his webapp to appeal to a wider audience, rather than what he wanted. It doesn't seem terribly egotistical to want to correct people who are spreading an inaccurate representation of his product.
It does when he is angry at people for stating information in the about page and he expects those people to know his about page is wrong.
He may actually be sincere in his thank you but the whole article made his tone snobbish in my mind so I didn't take it as real.