Ed this was the ugliest post I've seen on HN -- that I was extremely happy to upvote.
Really guys. Enough with the drama. Get a therapist, join a yoga club. Anything but the continuous gossipy spam that keeps flooding the boards. We're out here struggling day-to-day: take your spectacle/drama-of-the-week onto Oprah or Dr. Phil or something. But please not here.
You know, the 1-of drama posts are fine: "My cofounder left me for IBM". I can handle those every now and then. But this shit has gotten into a business where hackers just waste their time speculating on it. It's like soap operas for hackers. What a tremendous waste of time and productivity such postings create.
I don't know if I can handle that kind of drama though. Personal issues with Jason Calcanis? Big deal. But I can think of nothing more dramatic than to choose IBM over a hacker. If we allow that, next thing we know we'll start seeing "C++ is better than Lisp" posts. Now that's a hacker soap opera.
Really guys. Enough with the drama. Get a therapist, join a yoga club. Anything but the continuous gossipy spam that keeps flooding the boards. We're out here struggling day-to-day: take your spectacle/drama-of-the-week onto Oprah or Dr. Phil or something. But please not here.
You know, the 1-of drama posts are fine: "My cofounder left me for IBM". I can handle those every now and then. But this shit has gotten into a business where hackers just waste their time speculating on it. It's like soap operas for hackers. What a tremendous waste of time and productivity such postings create.