Might get better results by making reference to science and glorifying Dawkins the savior as the reason for the season. The free thinkers are trained to gather around and financially support anything with Dawkins' name in it.
This effect is not an accident. It is the result of organized back-patting that happens all the time on the Internet
I originally titled this post "I Accidentally All Our Data", but my girlfriend convinced me to change it. I also considered "Delete ALL the Data", but I went for the meme-free title.
The fact that our current systems for giving semantic classifications to web content are insufficient does not mean that giving web content semantic meaning is a pointless idea.
It's like going back to the early 1980s and blogging about how computer graphics suck so you shouldn't be wasting your time looking into them.
I disagree and don't think that's the point of the article. The analogy you gave is a little hinky, too.
The main point here is that too much time is wasted on simple issues. While energy is heaved into whether or not <time> is a better tag than <data>, a lot of actual work and design could have been done.
I work in a front-end only dev shop, and while we might have a few hour-long discussions on markup scattered around the year, there aren't enough elements in the spec to keep us busy for a day. The article is just exaggerating the "issue".
No one will upvote anything anymore. They'll move their cursors to the up arrow and pause for a moment.
What if this is the one? What if this link is the buried landmine that will explode and destroy my perfect Hacker News karma score. I can see the headlines now: "Respected Hacker News User Clicks on Obvious Flamebait" Think of the scandal.
And then they'll move their mouse cursor away, pining for a HN where they can express their opinions about articles without worrying about what the group will think.
I support open source on a pragmatic level as a way for people to share code so that they no longer have to "re-invent the wheel". Because of this I feel like it's petty and counter-productive for the FSF to refuse to share their "free" software with people because of the way that those people want to use the software. Truly free software should be released to the public without limitations on how and where it should be used.
To clarify: I know that my preferred model ignores the scummy/greedy tendencies of people to leech off work that others have done. However, I'd like for people to think of open source software as a gift given with no strings attached.
This effect is not an accident. It is the result of organized back-patting that happens all the time on the Internet