> there's a horrible horrible groupthink that goes on here. An obsession with the latest fad... ...Buzzwords over basic utility...
As far as I can see, HN is populated by desperate prisoners (of the 9-to-5 cube farm variety) driven mad by fantasies of escape (through earning "fuck-you money".) In that light, I find it somewhat easier to forgive the universal obsession with get-rich-quick nonsense.
> Back when I was writing demoscene code
If we can bring the Age of Cruft to an end, these days could come back.
> These days people struggle to handle a few thousand users of a text based website on a quad core system with gigabytes of ram.
> Although the S/N here is often quite poor, it is at least an order of magnitude better than other places I know about
I'm still looking for the secret pure thinking-people haven which surely lurks somewhere on the net. I might eventually take a crack at building it myself.
As far as I can see, HN is populated by desperate prisoners (of the 9-to-5 cube farm variety) driven mad by fantasies of escape (through earning "fuck-you money".) In that light, I find it somewhat easier to forgive the universal obsession with get-rich-quick nonsense.
> Back when I was writing demoscene code
If we can bring the Age of Cruft to an end, these days could come back.
> These days people struggle to handle a few thousand users of a text based website on a quad core system with gigabytes of ram.
http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=19
> Although the S/N here is often quite poor, it is at least an order of magnitude better than other places I know about
I'm still looking for the secret pure thinking-people haven which surely lurks somewhere on the net. I might eventually take a crack at building it myself.