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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by tannhaeuser on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:32AM (#30919508)
I agree. I've got nothing against nix, but it frankly sucks that the top comment isn't about asdf which I had hoped to learn about. There should be special "-1 offtopic" comment flagging because it's a frequent phenomenon.
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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by ris on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:42PM (#30924741)
> the top comment isn't about asdf which I had hoped to learn about

Oh I think you're using HN wrong. To learn about the subject you can read the actual article that's linked to. No guarantees about the comments section.

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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by SkyMarshal on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:35PM (#30922152)
As a fan of Nix and NixOS, I agree with this assessment. Too often people hijack threads about a topic to discuss something related but totally different and off-topic. It's kind of annoying, even when I'm a fan of the off-topic thing.

I've never heard of asdf and popped in here to read about it, people's experiences with it, etc. If I want to read about Nix/OS I'll find a thread on that, or go to /r/nixos, etc.

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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by ravi-delia on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:31PM (#30922967)
I mean, just minimize the comment? I like seeing discussion on many related aspects of an article, it's cool seeing how things compare.
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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by leaflets2 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:29PM (#30925914)
> Too often people hijack threads about a topic to discuss something related but totally different and off-topic

And what are you doing :-)

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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by SkyMarshal on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:38PM (#30934368)
Hijacking the hijacking of the thread ;p
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Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf by whimsicalism on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:13PM (#30926353)
I feel like what you are critiquing is explicitly something HN encourages.
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