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Comment by gkya | Hacker News Reader

It's not of your business whether I read it or not. This is my opinion on the prose style, addressed to the author, and secondarily to other bloggers here.

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As someone that been on HN for 9 years, pushing back on these kinds of comments is my business. This is my opinion on the value of you coming to Hacker News to complain about the author's writing style, and secondarily aimed at other commenters here. Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion. Clearly lots of other people like it, this has been the #1 piece on HN for hours. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to read it or asking for your opinion.

In the mean time comments like yours dissuade other people from putting themselves out there. I'll get 100 positive responses on something I write or say at a conference, but the 1 hater always sticks out more. If that means fewer people write publicly it makes us all worse off.

I really wish I could flag responses to my comments because what you do is a personal attack on me and this will go by because my top level comment is at the end of the thread.

But there are real issues with the style of trashing on old tech for being old, which this post is full of. Emacs is being criticized for making what amount to practical technical decisions. This is a relevant point in the current tech climate of rewriting the last framework "because 2013 is so old".

Didn't sound like the author was trashing on emacs for being old, to me. It sounded loving, if anything. I was practically jealous of his intimate relationship with his editor by the end of it.

He did make changes to the codebase, so it's a lot more than the idle whining you typically see. That is one thing I will give him.

> As someone that been on HN for 9 years

This kind of pissing contest does nobody any good, while we're on the topic of adding value to HN

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