I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac
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I wholeheartedly disagree. Every day I read a blog post about some nefarious aspect of an api/platform/company that I had never considered.
For example, I'm glad people are exposing the inequalities of the app store. Without true stories from the inside, all we'd have to rely on are the media fluff pieces of "I rolled out of bed, hacked this little app, and became an insta-millionaire"
Secondly, telling people to shut up and stop complaining is a very odd thing to do, not only because the very act of doing so is contradictory, but also because instead of everybody else shutting up, how about just stop reading? Isn't that so much easier, for everybody involved?
please carry on telling us why you are/arent using the language / platform / tools you do/dont.
While I upmodded your comment, I disagree with this. There are a lot of problems with using social media as a metric for anything. For one thing, it suffers from information cascades. The presence of articles on a subject encourages others to write articles on the same subject and there is teh appearance of a snowball effect. But there may be absolutely no change in what people are doing, just a change in what people are discussing.
The (sys.maxint+1)th "me too" variation of it? Not so much.
As the read me for the folder says... If you're just snooping around, have fun. Nothing in this folder is meant to be a permanent addition, it's just a handy place for me to dump stuff that doesn't have a home yet.
http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/dumping_g...
It reflects how I felt at the time but it doesn't reflect what I wanted to post, so I left it unpublished. I didn't try very hard to hide it or anything. But it is an "unauthorizd" post and should not be construed as overt advice to anyone.
p.s. Even though this is an unauthorized post, I am upmodding anyone who criticizes it. They are my feelings, so it's perfectly valid to disagree publicly.
Hopefully people are just reading the articles on Hacker News to have a break between work, but if they're not your article does suggest what they could be doing - shutting up and producing something.
I have a directory structure on my hard drive. The "dumping ground" is like a folder of drafts. Have a look, there's all kinds of unfinished and half-baked ideas in there. I publish it to git
I have no problem with people reading it. It's just as if you came by my house and looked at my pond while I was building it. It isn't a secret that I was working on it.
However, allowing people to read my half-baked stuff is not the same thing as publishing them. Whoever posted this actively went there and linked to it. This is very different from when I actively publish a post in my RSS feed, or tweet it, or whatever.
The point being, is this my opinion? Yes. Do I have a problem with you reading my opinion? No. Am I forcing my opinion on other people by publishing it? Also no.
FWIW, my opinion is that HN was clogged with posts about iPhone development, and that I didn't want to meta-clog it with posts about posts. So I wrote this to get the idea off my chest and left it alone.
Besides, I was too busy writing code to polish those few paragraphs up and turn them into an essay!
You can't expect thousands of potential visitors automagically guessing the context of a post.
"I don't care that you don't care why I don't write software for $HOTPLATFORM"
infact, his very post is the kinda of throwaway that he seems to rail against.