The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life(zedshaw.com) |
The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life(zedshaw.com) |
alias aack="ack --all"
alias rack="ack --ruby --follow"
alias fack="ack --actionscript --follow"
alias jack="ack --js"
alias pack="ack --python"
(mentioned because aack would have prevented his searching problem)
I'm tired of beta. I can't get up the energy investment required to check and re-check web applications other than a few I've already internally flagged as important. Am I alone?
When I miss-label Fret War it's unintentional. I'm just being rationally lazy to save some juice for other things.
It doesn't seem terribly egotistical to want to correct people who are spreading an inaccurate representation of his product.
He may actually be sincere in his thank you but the whole article made his tone snobbish in my mind so I didn't take it as real.
I had just been thinking about some of the themes in the article. Yesterday's thread about how Emacs is now using Bazaar for source control illustrates this well: people believe that Bazaar is a fork of arch (this hasn't been true for a couple years). He's absolutely right that it's hard to get our demographic to update our opinions.
He might be pointing out the fact that those kind of people are stuck on the "random music" idea he used initially and not giving him valuable feedback on his evolving idea. But I'm just guessing.
`ack -a` is your friend, Zed. No snark intended, that's all I have to say.
Srsly? Public Persona? with fans...? Who? Maybe that bit was meant tongue in cheek. I really hope so.
http://fretwar.com/static/data/player/1/round/40/submission/
Clay Shirky updated that with "In the future everyone will be famous to 15 people."
It is obviously more complex than that, but Zed Shaw probably has a nationwide Q rating higher than your local newsreader for your local broadcast television channel.
So, for some values of 'famous', yes.
"the value of a natural feedback system is greater than any promotional value I would get out of submitting things myself."
"...an excellent positive result of the HN barometer"
"I think of HN as a barometer of what people think."
"Thank you Hacker News"
On the whole, the post is about how Hacker News enabled him to get a read on community sentiment about Fret Wars. This is absolutely a positive thing. He's not blaming HN for continuing to think the site is about randomly generated music, he's blaming himself, and praising HN for helping him discover his mistake.
Now if I was a guitar player, I might be offended... :)