Normally I just ignore the articles that don't interest me - I assume they're for someone else. But I'm beginning to find these blog-war posts tiresome. There is no new information, no novel insight. Just he said, she said. Is this really the kind of content the HN community is looking for?
I agree wholeheartedly. I come here for information, and noise like this stuff dilutes HN's value just as surely as any non-hacker content like political articles, "8 Beautiful Pictures of Slugs", or "VB 101".
PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?
Hacker News is democratic. Things that get voted up do well. Things that are not voted up don't make the front page. By banning stuff, you'd be censoring the people on HN who think that certain sites and links are worth reading. You're as much saying that you don't like other HN readers' opinions than the links they post.
Considering this story is at 147 votes and counting, there are quite a few people who clearly thought it was worth checking out. Stop trying to silence their opinions.
Sometimes I think nerds aren't very intelligent at all. They're just technology fetishists with a large vocabulary who've learned to ape some of intelligent people's behavior.
+1 for banning DF links, because the comments here when a link to DF is posted are really depressingly stupid, and they make me suspicious of the quality of thinking behind everything else that's said on HN. Little else makes the fundamental defectiveness of the nerd mentality as clear as the reactions to John Gruber's writing.
This is like being in a room full of Rob Malda. The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
To be fair, that wasn't dissimilar to the response of a lot of people here regarding the iPad - quite a few of whom have gone on to say they were "wrong" after actually using one.
The first iPod really did suck. Its sales were slow for ages and it didn't take off seriously until the color ones hit.
Gruber has been that way recently. My impression is that he realizes Apple are being dicks lately and feels like he has to crank up the volume on his apologia to compensate for the additional ill will generated, and it's made him more combative.
