Maybe we can ask pg to add it in page footer? There has to be some official affiliation for it to gain momentum for any more than the front-page life of this post.
I'm sure there are lots of people like me who are not interested about startups at all but come here for the "hacking" part of hacker news. I do realize that hacker news once used to be called startup news and is run by a startup incubator, but to me this is just a great place for technical articles and discussions.
yeah, i thought "NLTK is lame" was hilarious. it's that kind of biting, subversive sarcasm that we need more of. maybe it could be made into a light night show. cult following - attract the thought leaders with a wry edge. that kind of thing.
oh come on. the person you were chatting to (working hard to raise the level of conversation) even called you (or whoever used the expression) out on it, asking why it was "lame" (their quotes, in the reply).
I don't have the chat history handy, but I replied to the effect of: "If I need a POS tagger, I will get a specialized POS tagger." Someone else chimed in and criticized NLTK (noting that it seemed rudimentary).
Then discussion moved on, and I don't think I was asked any followup questions.
I don't think the pace was any different than other IRC channels, where sometimes people get bored of an interesting topic quickly, before it's really been explored.
I'm happy to discuss my criticisms of NLTK. I'll be giving a talk at PyData in NYC in about two weeks and I'll be discussing my choices in more depth.
