What.. version 1.8 and now there is Date support? Shouldn't this kind of stuff be aournd at version 0.01 when we are talking about data stores? You know, the only non-easily swappable piece of our tech stack?
It's really comments like this that make me scared to death of posting a project to HN these days (so I don't). Seems to be so common now.
It's getting quite common for me to just skip reading the user comments after reading the article. This was never the case before; the comments were -almost always- better than the article.
As a sidenote, I cannot even recall when I actually read the user comments on Slashdot. On the occasion where something pops up in the RSS feed; read TFA and move on to happier things that actually make me feel good. :)
I guess I'm not saying anything new. I really wish I had a solution other than asking -you- to please imagine sitting at the receiving end: You get excited to see your project on HN, you click through to comments, and the first thing that was said was ... that.
PS. You can call me a chicken for being "afraid" of these things.
Sometimes people get angry and irritated at stuff. That's ok. The tone is uncalled for, but irritated/angry comments often have legitimate gripes. Rethink should have had dates earlier, we just couldn't get it done.
I agree that people should try and be more kind with their tone, but I wanted to try and encourage you not to be afraid of criticism. People have good memory for good work and no memory for bad work. So if you post an atrocious project here, the absolute worst thing that might happen is that some people will write some negative comments and forget about you ten minutes later. It seems like a worst-case scenario most people can live with :)
It should have been, but date support is way, way trickier than it appears. Check this out if you want to learn more -- https://gist.github.com/coffeemug/6168031. It's bad that dates didn't get in earlier, but it would have been worse if we rushed a bad implementation. Sometimes one needs to pick the least of two evils.
romland|12 years ago
It's getting quite common for me to just skip reading the user comments after reading the article. This was never the case before; the comments were -almost always- better than the article.
As a sidenote, I cannot even recall when I actually read the user comments on Slashdot. On the occasion where something pops up in the RSS feed; read TFA and move on to happier things that actually make me feel good. :)
I guess I'm not saying anything new. I really wish I had a solution other than asking -you- to please imagine sitting at the receiving end: You get excited to see your project on HN, you click through to comments, and the first thing that was said was ... that.
PS. You can call me a chicken for being "afraid" of these things.
coffeemug|12 years ago
I agree that people should try and be more kind with their tone, but I wanted to try and encourage you not to be afraid of criticism. People have good memory for good work and no memory for bad work. So if you post an atrocious project here, the absolute worst thing that might happen is that some people will write some negative comments and forget about you ten minutes later. It seems like a worst-case scenario most people can live with :)
coffeemug|12 years ago