2. Essay is posted on hn.
3. Essay quickly becomes #1 with 100 points.
4. 200 comments. Debate ensues.
5. The "pg aftermarket" blogs their rebuttals.
6. Many pg aftermarket blogs get posted to hn.
7. Many more comments. Much more debate.
8. 3 days later, someone says, "Enough already about ..." That post gets downmodded to -10.
9. 1 month later, go to Step 1 (I hope).
I certainly hope this cycle continues, because there have been more comments that I felt were insightful in under 24 hours on this essay cycle than in most weeks on HN.
Sometimes I wonder if pg planned it this way all along.
Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? This is it.
I guess it's a natural reaction in an age when too many people plug too much bad content. All I can say is, read the wikipedia article about him, read his essays, then make up your mind.
Yep. And then a few years later, when I re-read that same book, I realized that it just wasn't as good as I'd thought it was at that stage of my life. It was actually kinda trite. The blank starers were right all along. I only thought it was great because I was young and I was being exposed to new ideas that I already kinda agreed with for the first time.
Any of that sound familiar?
And now I just wanna travel back in time and slap my thirteen-year-old self for listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon over and over. It's not that great an album, younger-me!
And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager.
lol!
I wore out 3 vinyl versions of it.
Then, I hated it when it was on CD.
Then, it was the first thing that ever went onto my ipod. I've come full circle.
Nothing else brings back more memories for me, good and bad, older and recent.
And nothing is better now for "mellow" hacking.
Sorry, I couldn't resist...