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Comment by deepsun | Hacker News Reader

When did it become normal to waste readers' attention on technical articles:

"In the corner of the student union building there is a coffee shop, and in the corner of the coffee shop are two students. Liz taps away at the keyboard of the battered hand-me-down MacBook her brother gave her when she moved away to college. To her left on the bench seat, Tim scrawls equations on a coil-bound notebook. Between them is a half-empty cup of room temperature coffee that Liz sporadically sips from to stay awake.

Across the room, the barista looks up from his phone to glance around the shop. ..."

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It was the weekend, and I had fun writing it. Nobody is forcing you to read it. But I'm certain that if I wrote it in the style you wanted me to write it in (which is how I write most of the things I write!), you never would have seen it :)

FWIW I had fun reading it :)

How dare you have fun.

I very much enjoyed it. Do you have another in the works?

Thanks! I don’t currently, but I tend to turn them around pretty quickly when I get an idea (this one was just an idea until the day before I published).

Of course, just as nobody is forcing you to read my complaints :)

> you never would have seen it

On the contrary -- I clicked it only because of the title. But I stopped reading after the first paragraph, so I still don't know what does it mean to listen on a port, exactly because of the style, too bad for me. :)

But I strongly support your right to write any style you want, I'm avid supporter of authors' "right to burn".

Exactly. After first sentence I immediatelly switched into "scan mode". I was'nt able to find the answer for the question in the title. I was even not able to identify a section where the answer could be burried in.

Read it, or don't. It's unfair to the author to complain because your "scan mode" is inadequate.

"'No', our main character Tim, a computer science major from Ontario, the capital of Ottawa, Canada, mystifiedly said, shrugging his broad, well-toned shoulders."

If he was a good writer, maybe he could have made it work. But this reads like a "write what you did yesterday" assignment handed in by a 12 year old. If even.

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