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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

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http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.

Most of the subreddits dedicated to a specific language or technology are nice, although it usually takes at least 1,000 subscribers to reach a critical mass, with the sweet spot between 10,000 and 100,000 subscribers. If you are doing front-end web development, for example, /r/webdev, /r/javascript, and /r/html5 are pretty good places to keep on top of interesting projects and exchange ideas.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

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http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.

That's an alternative, but not a particularly good one, IMO. The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being due to their knowledge of ARM opcodes and their interaction with GCC or whatever else the subject is. The biggest r…

I'm finding I have to check HN around 10-15 times a day, lest I miss some of the more interesting submissions.

I really enjoying a lot of the ShowHN, Startup news, and discussions around programming languages/libraries.

I primarily come to HN to learn. This seems to be the place that many clever people congregate to share opinions and ideas. I really just like to listen to what they have to say to each other.

However, it seems that a lot of the good submissions drop off the front page after just a few hours. The ones that tend to stick around seem to be more "political" than anything else. I guess it's easier to voice an opinion on an outrage-article as you don't need any real expertise.

I do wish we could just get back to talking mostly about development/tech stuff. There is so much to learn in this industry and HN is one of the few places where it all comes together.

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