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Comment by ilaksh | Hacker News Reader

"How I fixed a bug in Atom that affected almost no one, and then spent quite a lot of time writing an article about it, then wrote a title that attempted to give me more credit than I deserved"

.. which is his main pass time if you see his other posts, rather than spending his effort on fixing bugs that actually affect a lot of people. I am sorry but I don't really appreciate it and have trouble getting over the misrepresentation in the title of the blog posts.

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Sure the title is a bit sensationalist, but there was a legitimate issue to fix and he did fix it.

Plus, it is a good write up that explains the problem, solution, and the steps taken well.

It would be a shame to see others put off from fixing bugs, and posting commentary on the solution, in open source software for fear of being put down.

Others should be put off from taking more credit than due in the title of their posts and from taking on bugs that aren't important just for that purpose.

No, nobody should be put off taking on any bug. I hugely appreciate the fact that different people are up for different challenges and, therefore, with enough people, bugs should be fixable. Your ethos appears to be 'some bugs are just boring and not important enough; never bother fixing them'.

Wow, talk about "haters gonna hate". This dude went into great detail about debugging the issue, which is very interesting. Your negativity isn't really welcome here.

Its interesting, but you missed my point.

Not to be too critical without reason, but I think you meant http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pastime.

Also, I think you're being rather rude.

Nobody forces you to read whatever the OP posts, much less dig up the history to see if you agree with how he chooses to spend his time or not.

> I am sorry but I don't really appreciate it

Well I do, and I found the article fascinating, so I'm glad your opinion isn't the only one that matters on Hacker News.

I've never written any Go and I don't use Atom. I also found the article quite interesting. Do we really need a comment on every HN post asking why this is written or created or upvoted?

Whether or not the core of your criticism is legitimate, I have a certain distaste for this kind of negativity and I don't feel that it adds to the quality of discussion on this site.

If you had restrained your point to the misrepresentative title then you might have built consensus. Instead you lead with a creditworthiness argument, which was your weaker and more sensational point.

This affects anyone who chains multiple function calls.

yea but if its a slowdown when you press the fricken enter key it obviously affects some. its not like atom has < 100 users, it has thousands.

pretty good fix.

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