What the fuck is this? Every minor update has to get shit-posted on HN?
EDIT: Why the hate? Go contribute something worthwhile to Node instead of wasting your time in this post.
EDIT: Why the hate? Go contribute something worthwhile to Node instead of wasting your time in this post.
Please calm down sir or madam.
I don't hate Node.js(I kinda make a living off of it), I hate trivial updates making the front page.
At the time of this comment there have been 74 upvotes. 74 people who thought it was worthy of making the front page.
If you don't want to see it, move onto the next item on the page. Getting upset because others like stuff you don't is bad for your sanity and health.
Right now, 67 people in the world think it's interesting enough to upvote the article. That's 0.00000096% of everyone on Earth. Getting to the front page isn't really a mark of importance. Sometimes a democratic system gets it 'wrong', in the sense that it returns a result you don't agree with.
Fair enough. And I'd like to know why they voted for this trivial update. "it got upvoted because it got upvoted" is not an answer.
Also, it's not about what I think - HN has guidelines for submissions. I quote[0]:
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I fail to see how a trivial update on a programming language would "gratify one's intellectual curiosity". Please educate me.
I actually like your comparison: this post is comparable to major German newspapers reporting that the British queen had a cold. I could not have come up with a better analogy.
If you see anything remarkable in the latest nodejs update that makes it worth being on HN - point it out to me please! Maybe I have been missing something.
By the way, votes on HN are not equal and not the only mechanism to get on the front page.
I'm amazed. People in this thread jump in to defend the upvoting of this post and there's not even one single argument on why it is an interesting article to begin with.
> So, I'm not allowed to say that ...
Okay, uhm, can you point me out where I didn't allow you anything?
Since it is so hard for you to understand. So according to your argumentation, Trump got voted and people should not discuss on why that happened, because the voting system is taking care of the "why" part? You are not making any sense.