> How in the world in this day and age of nearly infinite resources to learn ANYTHING on the internet is this a question that gets voted up to the top of HN?
I'd guess it is because Sturgeon's Law[1] applies to most things on the internet. In fact there is so much crap when it specifically comes to instructional material on the internet that it reaches a point where we find that Sturgeon's Law was only a linear approximation to crappiness that is only valid with the relatively limited crap levels they were capable of producing 60 years ago when Sturgeon's Law was formulated.
The internet is capable of achieving crap harmonics, and we find that something like 90% of the stuff that doesn't seem to be crap is actually crap too.
The HN answers to this question are going to have a much lower crap level which will keep them well within the linear region of the Law. Many here recognize that having someplace that answers this question with only a 90% crap level is good and so upvote it.
I'd guess it is because Sturgeon's Law[1] applies to most things on the internet. In fact there is so much crap when it specifically comes to instructional material on the internet that it reaches a point where we find that Sturgeon's Law was only a linear approximation to crappiness that is only valid with the relatively limited crap levels they were capable of producing 60 years ago when Sturgeon's Law was formulated.
The internet is capable of achieving crap harmonics, and we find that something like 90% of the stuff that doesn't seem to be crap is actually crap too.
The HN answers to this question are going to have a much lower crap level which will keep them well within the linear region of the Law. Many here recognize that having someplace that answers this question with only a 90% crap level is good and so upvote it.
[1] 90% of everything is crap