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This kind of negativity is why this community is worse than it used to be.

I don't get the negativity in this thread. Bill Gates is trying to solve hard problems and people here are complaining.

I'm quite amazed at the negativity and derision on this thread. We are hackers.

I'm surprised at the negativity here. There is nothing conclusive about this test and from what I've seen it does a pretty good job.

The amount of negativity in this thread is depressing. I think a lot of people either didn't read the article or just skimmed it.

Lots of negativity and one-uppery in these comments. I just wanted to say great job, keep up the good work.

There's a lot of negativity around this idea, and mostly for good reason. But if you peel away the "let's build the Enterprise!"

There's so much negativity in this thread, wasn't the whole idea that these guys had plans and an architecture to scale up to the order of a terra-flop by 2014, and 20 by 2022? And look!

There is also a quite a bit of violence and a lot of negativity to be had, both to each other, and to the community that they're visiting. I see the street kids as guests in our extended home.

I'm surprised any of us can hold up under the withering torrent of negativity that is any serious programming job. I actually don't mean this as a complaint, either.

Do you default to negativity for anything related to what is possible? I'm living a different life that almost everyone I know.

I'm sorry for the negativity, but it pisses me off when grand ideas and accomplishments are dismissed so offhandedly. Getting to Mars is not nearly "nothing", even compared to _anything_ that humans have ever done.

There is an incredible amount of negativity in this thread. They said all the landscapes are procedurally generated.

He was saying that there is too much negativity for him to find the site enjoyable and that he thinks the change in attitude is for the worse. That said, I also think that you're off the mark when you say the OP is not ready for having a personal project on display.

You need to break the pattern of thought that leads you to fixate on your regrets, shortcomings and other negativity. With all of this taking up space in your mind, you'll have a hard time finding the attention or energy for the many exciting options open to you.

But rather than drown in negativity, let me just say that whoever this is - thank you for throwing your ideas out there. Assuming this isn't just a resume-building exercise, get in touch with the MediaWiki developers.

I'm really starting to get tired of the cynical and snarky negativity on HN. Whoever thinks this is part of some grand plan to force Dart down our throats clearly has no clue whatsoever about how Google works. Standard disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer and these opinions are my own and don't reflect those of my employer.

I don't get your negativity here. The fact that a major green tech company working with government support is able to shift financing over to the private market is, indeed, a remarkable feat and is absolutely something they have a right to crow about.

I'm incredibly surprised by the negativity of the comments here. Taking a medium, in this case a piano midi track, and pushing it far beyond its limits, while still resulting in something resembling music, is just about as close to hacking as you can get.

I've been working on a project myself, something I'm passionate about and looking forward to my own "Show HN" thread, but this trend of negativity really makes me hesitate. I think this is a really cool project, and I commend ianstormtaylor for pushing the envelope and advancing the state of the web.

But there's something about the negativity and criticism here that grates on me more than on other sites. I think people here tend to assume that being an engineer/programmer means that not only must they treat their code with utmost logic and rationality, but that they should look at life in the same manner - that to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage.

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A somewhat related note is that America's culture of sex-negativity, shame and general hysteria around nudity is a required prerequisite for this type of bullying and abuse. Look at the following paragraph: > Jill became hysterical, repeating, "Oh, my God. No. Oh, my God. No." This is, obviously, the reaction of someone who fears repercussions from others.

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