You are completely distorting my point. It's like if I said I love chocolate, you'll say "OMG the things you should really love is your family blabla."
Indeed. You can love chocolate and your family. Just like you can view facebook, mint AND curing cancer as "real problems".
An outsider who accidentally finds HN will probably think this is a community of slightly emotional retarded, detached, autistic nerds living in a complete fantasy world where the problems are server outages
I'd hope so. This is not a save-the-world forum. It's Hacker News. We do think more about server problems than cancer when we are on here. It does not mean we consider server problems to be a bigger problem than cancer.
My original post was about relative use of Mint vs. Facebook. You're making it facebook vs. cancer. A more appropriate argument would be facebook/mint vs. cancer which is a completely valid debate(except I'll probably end up agreeing with you wholeheartedly)--just not for this thread.
There's nothing wrong in discussing highly technical problems just as long as one keeps in minds that there are bigger problems outside one's small bubble.
So, Facebook is to chocolate what curing cancer is to one's family. That's an interesting view. I get your original point, and I still believe a more careful choice of words would have been more appropriate...
An outsider who accidentally finds HN will probably think this is a community of slightly emotional retarded, detached, autistic nerds living in a complete fantasy world where the problems are server outages and the discussions circle around social media and childish Python Vs. Ruby drivel. I am a hardware guy and sometimes I think HN'ers have lost their sense of reality. Imagine what a more normal person would think...
I'm hoping a more normal person would simply not be interested in most of the topics that appear here. Another term for normal is that mythical average person, who by definition of average does not share your well beyond average and deep interest in subject X.
Having taken a brief look at your submission, I find them great, and hope no outsiders are voting them down because they are too technical.
Indeed. You can love chocolate and your family. Just like you can view facebook, mint AND curing cancer as "real problems".