I love n-gate, and part of the amusement is the mix of a bit of truth
and being over-the-top harsh.
HN has some merit, and I might also be seeing some positive shift in HN
zeitgeist within the last couple months (or maybe I'm just getting
desensitized to the worst, and perceptually biased to see the best :).
The main reason I first recommended some Racketeers try HN was to bridge
to people interested in doing startups, like Paul Graham started with YC
(back when he was encouraging people to interrupt college to do a
startup). I currently suspect that a successful startup using Racket
get to launch ("Rocket") is the most likely way that we'll now have
credible commercial adoption now (the kind in which job posts ask for
Racket experience). For whatever reason, we haven't seen startups out
of Racket-using universities write success stories about how Racket
helped them launch, so I looked to places like HN to reach the
startup-inclined directly.
(Racket History: When PG first started summer(?) funding startups, a few
of us PLTers/Racketeers applied as a team, and I figured we had a
chance, given how PG was also singing the praises of Lisp for startups,
and we were accomplished in Lisps. We didn't even get a response, I was
miffed for years, and it's only recently that time healed the wounds of
betrayal, and I was willing to try HN. :)
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