I knew what this was going to be before I clicked it. This gets posted way too often any time a new thing is proposed. If the sentiment were universally true, we'd get very few new standards.

New ideas get proposed all the time, many of them fail and some are successful. We are better off for that. Don't discourage people from participating in the marketplace of new ideas. It's snarky and not constructive.

Actually I was summarizing his article. The situation he describes in pubsub for Websockets is exactly this.

Thats not a summary, any more than "action movie" is a summary of Iron Man.

That comic cleverly names a common technical motivation. But it doesn't summarize the work because it removes all the interesting & relevant technical details.

Its also really done at this point. That link has been posted 733 times in HN comments[1]. It was funny the first time, but its time to let it die.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The way you wrote this sounds like you disagree with my sentiment because I misunderstood your original intent with linking the xkcd, but I understood that you felt that the comic was an apt description.

God this is tiresome. There are so many good xkcd comic strips that could be posted with more nuance and applicability to the subject matter. But almost everytime a link to xkcd is posted, it is to #927.

It's utterly inane. Anyone who frequents HN will have seen it linked before and will know not to bother to link to it again. So why do it?

I wish the moderators would ban this incredibly annoying comic, which gets posted any time anybody posts anything that might improve any situation, even if it's not standardization-related.

That’s kind of how HN is - snarky and dismissive. At least I did it summarizing the actual post. I support actual attempts at improvements. And I don’t eee much issue with websockets implementations.

I myself have posted links to stuff I worked hard on for years … not just proposing but implementing and testing for years … and it just gets silently downvoted with an occasional comment about how YouTube sucks or something

Downvoted. Youtube sucks.