Comment by pg
18 years ago
Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.
This place was starting to look like λchan, thanks for putting the cork back on it.
Can that request to skim the fluffy links be permanent, please? :)
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I'm in total agreement. In the effort to become boring, Hacker News just became more interesting than it has been in the last couple weeks (silly links to Erlang Shen aside).
I come here for this sort of stuff, or for thoughts on business, not to hear what computer nerds think about macroeconomics, politics, and flirting. If I wanted that stuff, I know Reddit's address.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't like the example used.
I found the twittershouldhireme blog a good lesson: KNOW your audience. That girl was surely noticed by Twitter execs and she did something simple that no one else in her position thought to do.
Erlang posts also belong here and politics usually does not, but don't pick on the twittershouldhireme girl. She's fantastic.
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holy shit, i stepped away for like 30 minutes and the entire front page is Erlang. I just submitted the Innards of Erlang article as a response to PG's post/an inside lol for the community (the article is a decent primer though). Almost the entire front page is a bit much guys...
I chuckled when your story came up, and then I laughed out loud when, like you, I came back 20 minutes later and the entire front page is Erlang stories.
Many Lolz.
In the next few years we'll begin saying, "You remember when pg told us to submit Erlang stories?" "Oh yeah, good times."
Or in a few years it could be - remember when HN was not only about Erlang?
Boring is fine. All Erlang, all the time is a problem
As of 22:12 European time, it's the first page and the second page. Olé!
:) What's European time? I imagine we (you and me) share Central European Time (CET) but ET?
I've been driven to the new page for the first time.
Ooooh, HackerNews meme. You realize how tempting it is to submit this to TechCrunch, etc., don't you?! TC Linkbait Headline: "Elitist Hacker News shuns the rest of us by pretending to be about Erlang! Oh, and somehow this relates to Twitter!1!!!1!!"
I don't think it's memeworthy. Too much of a "you had to be there" thing.
I just can't think of a situation where it would be funny to say "quick everybody lets talk about Erlang."
Quick everybody lets talk about Erlang!
I checked the frontpage and had to look at the calendar: for a brief while I thought "Wow, March really flew by. Is it April already?"
Btw, I think you just got yourself an idea for April fools: accept only links about Java or Visual Basic.
Even better: esoteric languages. Maybe someone will write the first ever HTTP server in brainfuck?
No way, man, write yourself a web framework: http://nanoweb.si.kz/manual/mod_bsp.html
Hey, this was my first belly laugh at work in quite a while. The downside is that I will now have to skim every boring title to make sure I havent missed a gem.
I too suffered from this... both the laugh and then the concern of missing something good.
pg the Problem isn't that fluffier stories are up its that people are hungry for more of everything. I read Hacker News, Reddit, and even Digg in that order mostly every day and if there was another site that provided interesting stories and or decent comments I'd add it. It is the pursuit of information that's driving me mad.
You could probably do what Stephen Colbert does and direct everyone to vote for you in various contests around the net. The Paul Graham wing of the International Space Station perhaps?
Seeing that many Erlang links is truly entertaining - a true phenomenon
I have missed this side of HN. Feels like christmas.
HN should have esoteric/alternative articles like that at all times.
I've been laughing so hard at the extreme geekiness of these articles, for some reason the video on youtube was of the funniest things I've seen in a long time :D
What were the mainstream publications that mentioned HN?
It'd be interesting to see the stats on how much it affects the site's traffic!
i call collusion. somewhere there some back channel irc rolling...
Browsing from blackberry I thought I was on the wrong page. Lulz
i love hacker news
phew :D so glad you commented this. I think some people were taking it too literally..... there is a limit ;)
pg, I have wanted to read about your thoughts on the Ruby programming language for a long time now, I have simply not wanted to impose or be a nuisance by clamoring for an essay . . . that would be absolutely great I think, I have gathered a few quotes from you about Ruby, and they are all positive (it is one of the reasons I developed an interest in the language) and I would love to read more: positive, negative, and neutral.
Thank you pg.