alt Hacker NewsGwtar seems like a good solution to a problem nobody seemed to want to fix. However, this website is... something else. It's full of inflated self impprtantance, overly bountiful prose, and feels like someone never learned to put in the time to write a shorter essay. Even the about page contains a description of the about page.
I don't know if anyone else gets "unemployed megalomaniacal lunatic" vibes, but I sure do.
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isr • yesterday at 10:33 PM
Wow, thats one hell of a reaction to someone's blog post introducing their new project.
Its almost as if someone charged you $$ for the privilege of reading it, and you now feel scammed, or something?
Perhaps you can request a refund. Would that help?
fluidcruft • yesterday at 6:41 PM
What's up with the non-stop knee-jerk bullshit ad hom on HN lately?
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gwern is a legendary blogger (although blogger feels underselling it… “publisher”?) and has earned the right to self-aggrandize about solving a problem he has a vested interest in. Maybe he’s a megalomaniac and/or unemployed and/or writing too many words but after contributing so much, he has earned it.