> <grouch>An announcement that the announcement is next week is of interest to hackers without being even remotely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.</grounch>
I expect so much better from you, sir raganwald.
This is a reply to you but it's addressed to HN's growing number of pedantic, obnoxious content police at large. At the time of this posting, 38 people disagree with your assessment. You've got the flag tool to register your opinion.
What is contributed to the discussion by griping about content the community obviously believes is worthy of the front page? Who benefits from this?
From a completely practical perspective, this particular post is useful because it suggests very strongly that the Retina display rumors are true. For those who are building content for iOS, the head-start on getting iPad Retina graphics ready is likely much appreciated. (It certainly is by me.)
For those who are building content for iOS, the head-start on getting iPad Retina graphics ready is likely much appreciated. (It certainly is by me.)
That was precisely what I was looking for. As you can see from my comment, after grouching, I got down to business and appealed for something interesting in the way of commentary.
As a general rule, if you can read it in the general media, it doesn’t belong here. If you can read the post in the general media but the comments here have a unique perspective, that’s a worthy exception. If you can read it in the general media and the comments here are indistinguishable from comments everywhere else, I would absolutely flag the post.
My comment was intended to inspire us to avoid the trap of rehashing the same things that have already whizzed through the blogosphere and twitterverse 42 times in quick succession.
Indeed, although I was referring to the announcement of the announcement.
Is there anything wrong with a little speculation beforehand? While not exactly 'science' this kind of discussion does allow us to test our prediction skills, debate our understanding of our industry, exchange ideas on related topics and come up with interesting (and sometimes inspiring) insight about where our industry is going.
After all, the iPad 3 has the potential to effect (in both positive and negative ways) every startup associated to HN.
I expect so much better from you, sir raganwald.
This is a reply to you but it's addressed to HN's growing number of pedantic, obnoxious content police at large. At the time of this posting, 38 people disagree with your assessment. You've got the flag tool to register your opinion.
What is contributed to the discussion by griping about content the community obviously believes is worthy of the front page? Who benefits from this?
From a completely practical perspective, this particular post is useful because it suggests very strongly that the Retina display rumors are true. For those who are building content for iOS, the head-start on getting iPad Retina graphics ready is likely much appreciated. (It certainly is by me.)