MoronInAHurry

Rachel's posts would be so much more useful if she would just say what she meant, instead of twisting everything into knots to find a way to say it backwards so she can be sarcastic and condescending while doing it.

I'm sure there's some useful information in here, but it's not worth digging through the patronization to find it.

Cloudflare's business lost them over $100 million last year alone. The way they operate right now is not a viable business, and we have no idea what they will change when they need to become one.

No, that's not how a left join works.

You really shouldn't act so condescending when you clearly don't even have a solid understanding of the basics yourself. That's a perfectly reasonable query that would run in less than a millisecond on a large database as long as it's been indexed correctly. There's nothing sloppy about it at all.

What exactly makes that "one of the worst-performing SQL queries you've ever seen"?

It has two left joins on foreign/primary keys, and 4 trivially-indexed where conditions. That's all it has, and none of that is even slightly complex.

Why is a single tweet that doesn't say anything of substance getting upvoted? What value are people getting out of this?

And now the HN mods have flagged this comment as off-topic, which causes it to be collapsed by default for all viewers of this thread. Everyone needs to specifically click the [+X] on it to even be able to read it.

Regardless of that, it seems like you're upset because of some mistaken expectations of what HN is for. It's not trying to be a "general purpose" site where you should expect to be able to discuss any and all topics. It has a pretty narrow focus, and users tend to aggressively flag posts about anything without a clear connection to the set of subjects that they feel "belong" here.

You shouldn't try to treat HN as a place where you'll be able to find general news about the world or discuss anything in particular, no matter how important you feel it is. It's a good site for its particular niche, but you're going to end up with a myopic view if you aren't also using other sites too.

Please stop with this kind of garbage content on HN.

If you want to read random people bitching on Twitter, just use Twitter.

If this site starts getting any traction, you're going to get destroyed by lawyers and copyright infringement claims, so I hope you're prepared for that. outline.com does basically the same thing, but they've had to exclude most of the major sites from working through it now.

Outline even seems to make it difficult to find any way to identify/contact them, but it only took me a couple of minutes to find the identity and location (inside the US = easy target) of who's behind Trim. Seriously, talk to an IP lawyer before you continue trying to promote this. You can't just copy other people's writing onto your own site.

What's the point of making an accusation like this without naming the users?