tomstuart

At the risk of straying into forbidden metacommentary: look, I understand (and also feel) the temptation to have a go at Stephen Wolfram every time he posts something wacky, but… he’s just a guy with a fun hobby, isn’t he? Sure it’s all a bit eccentric and self-indulgent, but so are most hobbies, and in contrast to basically every other rich tech man he isn’t actually hurting anyone. Live and let live I reckon.

Among a strong field, this is the single most depressing comment I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Several grim components but it’s the “I don’t understand why” which seals the deal.

The game’s difficult to understand so it’s too punitive to not offer even a single practice/example puzzle to use for learning. One puzzle a day is nice once you’ve got the hang of it, but it’s discouraging to “waste” today’s puzzle on learning the rules and not be able to try for real until tomorrow.

Congratulations on the new adventure, Steve, and good luck!

Do you want another person (or yourself in the future) to be able to read your commits, in order, to get a clear account of what changed & why? If so, you should fix up those commits to address mistakes. If not, it doesn’t matter.

Yes, it is.