- your comment was a very valid question but rather quip-like, offhanded, seemed off etc etc. I mean something like that…
- Tarsnap is an hn darling
If I have to pick one I think it’s the latter :)
He’s brought far more value to the community than that, of course.
If I want to store my 100GB of data now, and I want to have it stored for a year, I want to pay for that year's worth of storage of 100GB of data now and not worry about any money or account problems for that bit of data.
Which is probably okay if you want to pivot from a geek-ish service to one that geeks don't use, of course. Does the owner want that?
Oh dear. It’s an HN thing. I have had brushes with it only once or twice across various accounts across years but it’s very much an HN thing.
Whenever you see an utterly useless quip (or sometimes even name calling or offensive words) being heavily upvoted you should know that some alpha HNer has arrived on the scene :)
But to be honest I have never seen author Tarsnap engage in such privileged gentlemanly d-baggery. He is quite cool, as they say it.
Anyway I just ignore it and move on. But again OP could have worded the question better. I mean no matter how good or bad you want to feel about it — it’s just a vc run anon forum and just another forum.
