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Re: GUI Architectures

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This seems to be a recurring phenomenon on HN. Why is the timestamp given so much importance?

The N in HN is supposed to mean "News". Imagine a news paper that reprints issues from six years ago.

The problem in the software industry isn't a lack of best practices, it's a lack of practitioners fully aware of the best practices. News isn't so much a function of when something happened as when someone heard about it first.

Re: GUI Architectures

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2006. But a great article nevertheless.

This seems to be a recurring phenomenon on HN. Why is the timestamp given so much importance?

It's a violation of the implicit convention of the site, not because it's old, but because the year is not in the title. Without that, it's easy to not notice, losing valuable context.

Re: GUI Architectures

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to be a recurring phenomenon on HN. Why is the timestamp given so much importance?

The N in HN is supposed to mean "News". Imagine a news paper that reprints issues from six years ago.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

The age of an article has no bearing on how interesting a good hacker would find it.

Re: GUI Architectures

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What is the real cost of getting this "wrong"? For example: Backbone.js is following the MVP pattern, more specifically the passive view variant. The catch is that Backbone.js calls Presenters Views and Views Templates.

Should we be encouraging "correctness" here or is it ok that every new MV* framework reinterprets these patterns?

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