Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now that in the past?

Re:Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now tha... by mark-t on Monday August 11, 2008 @11:31PM (#273660)

I think the bar for a non-programming, non-startup article to count as "interesting to hackers" is a lot higher. Really interesting science articles just aren't written as often as somebody blogs something useless about how great closures are.

Your English is fine, by the way. I wouldn't have known you weren't a native speaker if you hadn't said so.

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Re:Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now tha... by hhm on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @12:33AM (#273702)

About the bar, I think that while it's certainly higher for science than for programming articles, it has dropped a lot for programming & startups so I don't understand why people is so incredibly picky with science (even for good articles) but an order of magnitude more tolerant with other subjects.

Oh, and thank you for your comment about my English :)

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Re:Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now tha... by hhm on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @12:34AM (#273704)

Well, that's exactly why I mentioned not being a native speaker... I do that kind of mistake (and less subtle ones too), and I don't want you to think that I'm just ignorant or something.

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Re:Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now tha... by pchivers on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @12:44AM (#273713)

Believe it or not, mistakenly substituting the word "less" when the correct word would be "fewer" is a mistake that a lot of native English speakers make.

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Re:Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now tha... by hhm on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @09:43AM (#273979)

Good to know... and now I'll try to be careful with that too.

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