"sadly, HN is starting to get a few knee-jerk Apple haters /sigh"
I'll have you know I've always been a knee-jerk Apple hater, and I've been here for years.
I'll have you know I've always been a knee-jerk Apple hater, and I've been here for years.
Knee-jerk hate might be a beneficial strategy if you're trying to survive in Darfur, but we safe people should try to minimize it for the benefit of our own minds. We learn and grow by studying things, especially the things that rub us the wrong way. The other benefits of arbitrary hate like feeling you belong to an in-group seem out of place on HN, a site mostly devoted to curiosity (from what I've seen).
I'm not saying you should or shouldn't feel or act a certain way, but for all of our sakes lets keep it mental and not bring that sort of thing into the public light here where it might be perceived as community endorsement of that point of view.
But, that I shouldn't say it at Hacker News?
I'm disappointed. First, I'm disappointed that you've suggested that my comment, whether a joke or sincere (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader as to whether I intended the former or the latter), is unacceptable speech. Second, I'm disappointed that 12 other HN readers agree with you.
I now have to conclude that, as others are talking about, HN is losing the culture it once had, and that saddens me.
HN discourages "+1" type comments, anything that doesn't add to the conversation. I suspect your quote was trying to be funny. If so, it really falls into that same category of adding nothing at which point you have to ask: who exactly is losing the spirit of HN was/is all about?
Yes. He was obviously joking, and I smiled. It was funny.