Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community?
by fallingfrog on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:06PM
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People use the word community in such false ways. I've heard phrases like "the pancake eating community" and so on. People who eat pancakes aren't a community. Your community consists of the people who will let you stay at their house if yours floods. Or the people who will come and get you if your car breaks down. That's a community.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community?
by zerostar07 on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:01AM
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> if yours floods
Increasingly in the west local communities are weakened, and these tasks are taken up by government services. That's why online communities thrive: they allow people who are dispersed all over the place to coordinate.
Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community?
by some_account on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:18AM
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Those are called friends.