HN Culture Critique
This cluster revolves around criticisms of Hacker News commenters' snarky, elitist, and holier-than-thou attitudes toward programming posts, particularly debates on passionate 'hacker' culture versus professional software development as a 'day job'.
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If you program but don’t post about it on HN, are you really programming?
Why is this down voted?> If only more software engineers started out their projects with this mindset, the world would be a very different place.Apparently this is a horrible thing to say?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825Here's the actual article: http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucksAnd here are some previous submissions of this story:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
This analysis seems to be based on a shallow reading of the content.Much of the post is a background into the author's experience learning programming to create uniquely featured plugins, intermixed with complaints about the tech ecosystem they're walled-gardened in, followed by a product announcement for Séanceur.This seems exactly like the posts HN is all about
Apparently he tweeted this yesterday: "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."ironically he wrote "you" on twitter, and you wrote "u" on hn.
Whatever happened to passionate programmers?
i really didn't like the arrogant tone and the misleading content of this article. the author discourages curious people and potential talents with uncertain future self replicating apps that will replace programmers (anyway, aren't this apps made of code as well?) and shows his huge-complicated-6M-lines-of-code to cut enthusiasm once for all, forgetting to describe a process that take years and involves loads of people to end up with so much code in a complex application.if you wa
All the fun will be sucked out of software development one mildly offended HNer at a time.
Why would you come to _Hacker_ News, of all places, and expect sympathy for the "[coding is just] a day job to pay the bills" mindset? Virtually none of the amazing hacks that get posted here on HN come from people who view computers like that.
I think the implication was that this site was supposed to entertain "hacker culture" rather than "software development culture". I've also noticed a general trend from "Hacker News" to "Software Developer News", and sometimes joke about petitioning to rename the site.Treating a computer as nothing more than a tool to get a job done is perfectly valid, but other people see general-purpose computing as a medium of self-expression and something that