- ThrowawayR2To be fair, that does seem be a very common usage pattern for them, to the point where they're even becoming a nuisance to open source projects; e.g. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45330378
- If anybody who disagrees with your assessment is "in denial (sic)", why should people bother responding to your question seriously?
- CoD has less players than Team Fortress 2 currently, according to Valve's charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed . And TF2 has ancient graphics.
- > "C makes you a bad programmer. Real men code in assembler."
So, who is it that supposedly said that? Not K&R (obviously). Not Niklaus Wirth. Not Stroustrup. Not even Dijkstra (Algol 60) and he loved writing acerbic remarks about how much the average developer sucked. I don't recall Ken Thompson, Fred Brooks (OS/360), Cutler, or any other OS architect having said anything like that either. Who in that era that has any kind of credibility said that?
The "Real Men Don't Use Pascal" essay was a humorous shitpost that didn't reflect any kind of prevailing opinion.
- > "...many people did..."
I'm trying to think of any examples of someone who said that "a generation ago" at all? I assume that they were some sort of fringe crackpot.
- Previously submitted 6 times in the past 9 days, this time under a new account.
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- How do you get more exposure for your open-source project? (github.com/chrilleweb) 10 points by chrilleweb 8 days ago | 4 comments
- CLI tool that scans your codebase for environment variable issues (npmjs.com) 1 point by chrilleweb 4 days ago | 9 comments
- Speaking only for my particular circumstances, the company is the vehicle that I use to do it for myself since it provides specialized facilities and equipment I wouldn't have access to as an individual or a founder. That I get paid for it is merely icing on the cake.
- If Valve sold the Steam Machine for any significant cost less than the Dell / HP / Lenovo equivalent, HNers would snap them up by the truckload to repurpose as home or work machines with guaranteed Linux compatibility.
- > "Here's a successful formula, but takes some time."
Have you looked at the very first sentence of the OP's submission? Their investors are not going to wait around for any of that. The OP all but outright says they want a "lever" that they can use repeatedly that pops a marketing submission to the HN front page as a gauge of interest to satisfy investors and secure funding. That isn't reliably possible even for longtime HN users with a solid posting history and high karma (and thank heavens for that or HN would be a very different place).
- People trying that usually use freshly created accounts or accounts that have zero / low activity except to promote their service. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I could point to a couple of examples right now.
- > "When working on my projects and talking to investors, I often hear: 'Just post it on Hacker News or Reddit and show that people love it.'" ... "If so, what are the real levers, and what do people consistently misunderstand?"
There are no "levers". People come to HN to discuss nerdy topics and those that have come to HN to help make those discussions more informed and interesting are welcome. Anyone who comes to HN to create buzz, drive site traffic, do SEO, or market something, whether it be a product or themselves, can expect an extremely frosty reception, particularly since the rate of spam submissions is high lately. And we are certainly not here to be a gauge of interest to any investors.
The one semi-exception is Show HN, which is intended to showcase something interesting that users can play with. There are separate specific guidelines for Show HN submissions (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and tips from the site moderators (https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=22336638). Do note that among the tips is the following "Drop any language that sounds like marketing or sales. On HN, that is an instant turnoff. Use factual, direct language. Personal stories and technical details are great." If you have questions about the guidelines or tips, the site moderators can be reached through the email on the contact page linked at the bottom of the page.
- The AI hucksters promise us that these tools are getting exponentially better (lol) so the catch up should be exponentially reduced.
- It would nice if there were a way to downvote submissions to indicate they're of low quality that's separate from flagging. Flagging is rather heavy handed in that it can cause a submission to become [dead] since it seems to be mostly intended for marking submissions that break the guidelines.
- If you don't require an e-ink display, the least effort route might be the MS Surface Go 3 tablet running Windows or Linux (https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installa...).
The Remarkable 2 has an e-ink display but is rather underpowered as an e-reader. It does have an SDK for building apps: https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation/sdk
- People said that comic books and pulp novels were morally harmful and caused juvenile delinquency, which is indeed nonsense. However that has nothing to do with the quality and depth of the writing so your post is irrelevant.