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274 points npalli | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 12:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mellosouls ◴[29 Mar 25 15:00 UTC] No.43516079[source]▶
In lieu of explanation I'm guessing the flagging is knee-jerk anti-PG stuff.

Disappointing response.

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sidcool ◴[29 Mar 25 15:47 UTC] No.43516409[source]▶
Why are people anti-PG?
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1. dredmorbius ◴[01 Apr 25 22:30 UTC] No.43551984[source]▶
Idlewords has devoted an entire essay to the topic, "Dabblers And Blowhards" (2005). As a callout quote, and one immediately preceding a long list of specific issues with pg in his own essay Maciej Cegłowski is critiquing:

It's no surprise, then, that a computer programmer would want to bask in some of the peripheral coolness that comes with painting, especially when he has an axe to grind about his own work being 'mere engineering'. Yet while this might be charming or quirky in the abstract, it gets seriously annoying when real facts start getting butchered...

<https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm>

From a flagged subthread here, several prior criticisms on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515252

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526888

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527106

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515723

(From: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529517>.)