Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by electroly on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:24PM (#31100165)

IMO it goes beyond Ask HN. If you make a post and you know people are going to make a particular reply, it doesn't matter if you preemptively address that reply right in your post; you're going to get that reply anyway. People skim, they don't read, and they don't think deeply about posts. They're just pattern matching on a couple words and slamming out a reply. The reply is practically locked and loaded before you even made the post.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by conductr on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:08PM (#31101497)

Agree. Also I feel like most ask hn are just questions and that’s it. No need to sift through the asker’s specifications on how they’d like everyone to answer. So I feel like when an asker expects that, it’s not likely to be respected by all. It’s just a quirk of hn.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by warrenm on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:51PM (#31101289)

A better Ask HN title would've been "of these 4 Linux-based laptops, what are your experiences"

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by sokoloff on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:54PM (#31101322)

The current title gets way more eyeballs and engagement. I say that only one-quarter jokingly.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by warrenm on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:40PM (#31112685)

sadly ... you're probably right :|

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by 300bps on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:47PM (#31101241)

People are in such a hurry to talk, they don’t listen.

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