Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by tbatterii on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @02:17PM
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content wise, HN and r/programming seem to have the same headlines from day to day.(at least the ones that aren't about valley/startup/funding/managerish bs)
HN is unique in that it tends to be more civil than r/programming(and there's more valley/startup/funding/managerish bs). IMO
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by RegEx on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:40PM
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HN is not more civil. Perhaps less likely to be distracted, but not nicer (if that's what you mean by civil)
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by tbatterii on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:51PM
(#4994150)
likely less distracted, and more civil (in my experience anyway). but it varies by subreddit/topic I guess.
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by RegEx on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @10:41PM
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Choose a random article in the top 10 of HN at any given time, and there's a very high chance that the top upvoted comment is either FUD or overly critical. I feel like there is a lot more ego here than in /r/programming.
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by saraid216 on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:20PM
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Believe it or not, some of us aren't on Reddit.
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by nekojima on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:42PM
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Are these r/ references to Reddit? I had thought it was yet another new quirky unneeded programming language I had intentionally avoided to learn.
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by joshAg on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:27PM
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yes. reddit.com is a community site made up of sub-communities called subreddits. Subreddits have a path of /r/<community name>.
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by tbatterii on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:18PM
(#4994021)
obviously
Re:Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring
by pretoriusB on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @10:39PM
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>I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that.
It's been over a month since I've seen an interesting CS/Programming post on HN.
Check the current front page for an example.
> instead of learning
I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that. I usually get at least one good take-away for every four articles or comment threads - an extremely high ratio compared to any other web resource I know about. And for the craft we're in, learning and reasoning is doing.