The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life

My favorite bash aliases:<p>alias aack="ack --all"<p>alias rack="ack --ruby --follow"<p>alias fack="ack --actionscript --follow"<p>alias jack="ack --js"<p>alias pack="ack --python"<p>(mentioned because aack would have prevented his searching problem)

Wow, it seems like Zed just discovered branding. A brand is established by owning a word/concept in the consumer's minds. In Fret Wars' case, it was randomly generated music. It doesn't matter if this is now no longer the case in reality, it's still the established brand.

The whole snap judgement based on passed impressions brings to mind something I've been suspecting for a while now.<p>I'm tired of <i>beta</i>. I can't get up the energy investment required to check and re-check web applications other than a few I've already internally flagged as important. Am I alone?<p>When I miss-label Fret War it's unintentional. I'm just being rationally lazy to save some juice for other things.

This article comes off as rather offensive to me, it must be the language and constant ego bashing of <i>nerds</i>, but one thing that doesn't make sense is when Zed Shaw said he put his ego aside as he obviously didn't and was angry that his about page had fed these random music comments and is obviously upset that people took his about page seriously.

this is about fret war, the randomly generated music thing, we've seen it before

&#62; ack didn’t pick it up because that’s a text file. DAMN!<p>`ack -a` is your friend, Zed. No snark intended, that's all I have to say.

The barometer of Hacker News knowledge half-life is how well it tracks the state of a Zed Shaw side project.

If you're a public persona, and stuff like your personal posts about moving to San Francisco get re-posted, then the reposting of your work is probably not a very accurate barometer of your work's individual merits. Instead it's simply a measure of your overal notability.

"But, that’s the price you pay for being a public persona with fans."<p>Srsly? Public Persona? with fans...? Who? Maybe that bit was meant tongue in cheek. I really hope so.

Zed playing/singing:<p><a href="http://fretwar.com/static/data/player/1/round/40/submission/" rel="nofollow">http://fretwar.com/static/data/player/1/round/40/submission/</a>