From: Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:23:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F3DF916E-31F1-4902-AC9A-94544F9262F6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120818135611.GB3662@intma.in>
On Aug 18, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:55:15AM -0700, Nick LaForge wrote:
>> Oh yeah, already a comment about the GUI 'sucking'! A bit more
>> fortitude is in order, right?
>
> The thing you have to remember about "hacker news" is that nothing
> posted there is news and none of the people who frequent it are hackers.
>
> "Web Developer with an Unwarranted Sense of Self-Importance" just
> doesn't roll off the tongue quite as readily as "hacker," just like
> "link-dump and self promotion" doesn't have the same ring as "news."
>
>
That's why I go on there. It's so entertaining reading so many dick-size competitions in one place. I do have to say though, there are some occasional gems regarding golang on there (which I find *really* surprising).
--
Veety
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-18 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-18 3:57 Matthew Veety
2012-08-18 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-08-18 8:55 ` Nick LaForge
2012-08-18 13:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-08-18 14:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
[not found] ` <CAEAzY3-RhKsEEGcCkFQaJ09gfO2zND_qxFoybsThKVQ+iDKg-w@mail.gmail.c>
2012-08-18 14:37 ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-18 17:23 ` Matthew Veety [this message]
2012-08-20 8:48 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-08-20 9:22 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-08-20 9:23 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-08-20 10:37 ` hiro
2012-08-20 12:25 ` Jack Norton
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