[a-l-c-o]

In what way is this a hacker piece of news ? What's next ? "This cat completes Record Backflip" ?

Please refrain, Thx

[toppy]

You can find an explanation here

https://blog.codinghorror.com/software-projects-as-rock-clim...

http://adaptivepatchwork.com/2011/01/10/why-programmers-love...

http://breckyunits.com/what-can-a-programmer-learn-from-rock...

[a-l-c-o]

Thank You toppy.

Your second link mentioning problem solving is interesting. But overall I think the comparison is a little stretched.

[JadeNB]

> In what way is this a hacker piece of news ?

As always when someone asks such questions (including when I asked one a week or so ago), the answer is that this is a site for news of interest to hackers, not necessarily news about hacking. If you want to judge whether this is of interest to hackers, then just look at the lively activity of the rest of the thread; it compares quite favourably to even some quieter front-page discussions.

[a-l-c-o]

You are right, this is not Hacking News. And I regret my vehemence.

Still, the livelyhood of the thread is not much of a factor in my opinion.

Though rock-climbing is in itself interesting (maybe more than average to devs) it has no direct link to being a hacker/dev.

It borders on 'lifestyle' kind of content.

[JadeNB]

> You are right, this is not Hacking News. And I regret my vehemence.

Such civility is always welcome. Thank you!

> Still, the livelyhood of the thread is not much of a factor in my opinion.

> Though rock-climbing is in itself interesting (maybe more than average to devs) it has no direct link to being a hacker/dev.

Isn't this in contradiction with your first paragraph, though? This site is specifically and explicitly about things that are of interest to hackers, not things that are directly linked to being a hacker or developer; and it seems that the best way to gauge what is of interest to hackers is to get together a community of them, such as we have here, and see in which discussions they participate.