Seriously? She's posting on her personal blog (that's what her substack is). Up front she says that one of the two kinds of people she's writing for are those who are interested in her personally.
> she needn't use
There are a lot of things that people needn't do, like absurdly talk about "attack vectors".
I might have been a bit harsh in how I phrased it, however if it's just a personal blog post, it does not belong on HN. I don't think most people here are interested in strangers' personal lives.
If it was her who posted it, she should've made it more clear that this is a 'personal journey' post. If it was someone else without her permission, then that should've not done so.
If you look at most of the discussion that emerged around it, it's about the relative technical merits of various compiler frameworks and techniques, and getting a job working with compilers, which I think most people expected to read about.
There's so much wrong with this ... no it wasn't her who posted it, and no one needs her permission to do so. (And how do you know that they didn't get it?) And if it didn't belong on HN then it would have been flagged and killed. It wasn't because it isn't just about her personal life--it has useful and appropriate content for readers of HN. again, up front she says that there are two kinds of people she's writing for. (Even then, the "personal journey" aspects of the article are largely relevant for HN readers interested in being compiler engineers.)
And do you really have no sense of how utterly absurd
> she needn't use the title of 'Becoming a Compiler Engineer' as an attack vector
is? Her title is perfectly reasonable and beyond any rational sensible intellectually honest good faith criticism.
First you chew me out for pointing out that this isn't a very good resource for compiler stuff as its more of an autobiographical post.
Then you turn around and claim that this was a technical article after all. And no, the advice of 'you have to be among the three dozen people that get accepted to MIT to do math' is an unnecessarily elitist piece advice, that's not even necessary, as I (and a lot of others) pointed out there are a ton of good books and resources you can just get started with.
I know HN disallows editorializing, but the title reads like it'll be an useful resource on compilers. The writer obviously chose that title in context of her personal blog, where it makes sense, but I maintain that a strangers life update is not interesting to the rest of us, and if I were the writer, I wouldn't be too happy if someone decided to direct a ton of eyeballs to my personal post.
I'd implore you to look around in the thread, most people had different expectations and complained about the same thing I did. Still the post was useful, since an interesting conversation happened around the topic of compilers.
And I'd like you to realize, that you are just one person sharing his personal opinion, not some arbiter of moral goodness, please stop attacking me, and I feel bad for having to defend myself.
> First you chew me out for pointing out that this isn't a very good resource for compiler stuff as its more of an autobiographical post.
I never did any such thing. I didn't even bother to read past that false claim as I expect the rest to be similarly false and dishonest, and won't respond to anything else from that source.
Seriously? She's posting on her personal blog (that's what her substack is). Up front she says that one of the two kinds of people she's writing for are those who are interested in her personally.
> she needn't use
There are a lot of things that people needn't do, like absurdly talk about "attack vectors".