Re:Ask HN: Your startup programming language?
by revorad on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @06:59AM
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Strongly agree. There are a lot of fluff posts made which could easily be avoided if people just bothered to search first. Please let's try to improve the signal-to-noise ratio here, not make it worse.
I know people are lazy to use Google for a custom search. So I put together a google custom search engine which searches HN and a bunch of other programming-related sites - http://laughingcomputer.com.
It's certainly an interesting question, but it does poke a pain I have. Have you tried searching for information before posting?
I'd guess not, because really recently there was a poll asking exactly this question. User "koski" (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=koski) has already linked to it, but here it is again.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083
And this comment is directed just at you, but at everyone who submits questions without first searching.
Why? Unless you're asking for specific advice about a specific situation that's unique to you, there's a really good chance that the question has already been asked and already been answered.
Why not search first? http://searchyc.com/