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37 pointsdmcgregor11 comments

Alternatively https://github.com/popular/watched

Yeah, there's not much more in the article than here. And I wonder what browser they were using for those screenshots - the bar graphs are empty!

hey groxx, author here. I was using Chrome 14 for the screenshots. I noticed myself that the bar graphs were completely empty this morning after I had taken my screenshots. There might have been a temporary issue with Github

Given the rate these terrible articles from Bostinnovation are getting upvoted, I think something is suspect.

hey sandosky, author here. I write engineer-focused content (http://bostinnovation.com/author/kevin-mccarthy/), so it doesn't come as a surprise to me when some of my pieces make their way to hacker news. 'terrible' is a subjective matter, no?

In the context of another site, that article may be fine. In the context of this site, that article is terrible.

There is a mismatch in the target audience. There is an assumption the reader has not heard of projects and services common to Hacker News readers, such as Github itself.

You also just promoted yourself in the response.

Agreed, the content of this article is not best-suited for Hacker news.

You couldn't be more wrong about my 'self-promotion.' I simply reference my profile's URL to prove a point. Unsure how you could have possibly read into that otherwise.

It looks self promotional because saying you're the author would have sufficed.

If you can't recognize how this lacks tact, nothing I can say will help.

disagree. Saying I was the author AND I wrote programming articles was important to display my history of writing 'hacker news'. I can't see how you think it was self-promotion knowing this.

Speaking of self-promotion, did you really take 6 different shirts to a headshot shoot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandofsky/page5/)? And you call yourself a Boston-man! Haha, good luck to you in the future.

I believe you have problems if your response to criticism is to Google the critic and try to come up with personal information.

A typical headshot session lasts a few hours, involves several outfits, and results in several hundred photos which you progressively narrow down. I used that Flickr set to solicit feedback on potential picks.

I didn't link to that anywhere in my profile, or on my personal site. Your behavior is childish, bordering on creepy.

You should consider how this makes you look. I don't think people would take you seriously after reading this.

Ahh, the old 'creepy' defense. Nicely played.

You criticism of self-promotion couldn't have been further off, which pissed me off something fierce. I guess I forgot the oldest mantra in the book, however: 'haters gonna hate.'

Issue resolved and forgotten. Be well :)

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