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Please let's not do Wolfram Derangement Syndrome in HN threads—if not for Wolfram, at least for ourselves. This was already a cliché a decade ago.

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Understood.

BTW - as always - thank you for keeping HN threads focused and useful.


Appreciated!


no idea why this was downvoted, except possibly by people who don't know about wolfram


It's honestly just a boring comment. Yes we all know Wolfram is self-indulgent and overly long-winded, nothing new there, no need to belabor the obvious.

The question is whether there's anything of value to be gleaned from his novella-length blog posts. If you think not, then just downvote or flag article submission.

But if you actually read the whole thing and found specific things of value, and want to summarize them here, then by all means I hope you're upvoted a million times.


> The question is whether there's anything of value to be gleaned from his novella-length blog posts. If you think not, then just downvote or flag article submission.

Flagging, I've always felt, is sort of heavy-handed for "I disagree with". I use it for spam and the like.

There is no "downvote" feature, for article submissions. Which is why it is disappointing when low quality reads like this makes it to the front page.


For starters, it was snarky, a shallow dismissal, a personal attack, unsubstantive, and an internet trope.

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Here's why I would've downvoted it: This seems to be an article on his personal blog. Seems kind of weird and not useful to make a snarky comment about someone for talking about themselves on their own personal site, when that's often exactly what personal blogs are intended to be for.


100%

Also, don't mention the Rulians.




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