I've kept the faith for so long. But I'm having a bad week. So someone please, please tell me that HN isn't turning into Reddit and that this completely irrelevant submission is just a bad dream, like the Star Wars prequels.
I wonder if this is a reaction to my comment that better credentialing and education was needed in the programming industry. It is needed, from the standpoint that lots of shoddy work gets done. I don't think there's a reason why this couldn't be done by the private sector, though.
I can deal with a handful of random stories but if some jackass starts posting stuff like: "Karl Rove eats deep fat fried Iraqi baby flesh" or "Bush pulled off 9/11 to win a $1 wager with Hitler who is secretly hiding in Argentina" than I'll be leaving HN just like I left reddit.
