Corporate marketing (11 NetBeans mentions and none of Eclipse? Riiight), not that interesting, not new, not especially hacker-ish.
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I'm a student,and I found it interesting so I submitted it. I wasn't trying to push any corporate agenda. For the record, I do prefer Eclipse over NetBeans... .
I didn't think it was that bad; most of it could have come from The Pragmatic Programmer. Certainly, nearly everyone mentioned netbeans, but it was usually in the context of a generic point such "learn to use your tools really well; for example in netbeans...".
Sun marketing materials always seem to go to painful lengths to avoid mentioning Eclipse so perhaps I'm overly sensitive to it.
Anecdata: I use Eclipse. Most professional Java devs I know use that or IntelliJ IDEA. NetBeans is nowhere.
I did think that a cut-n-paste of the earlier articles was insufficiently interesting for HN though.
"hacker-ish"
Now that is a hard to define word.