For clojure I frequently check
http://planet.clojure.in/ and especially https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clojure
I suppose there is something similar for most languages
Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#42Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
As keybase is an invite only alpha system right now this flagged in my mind as a decently disguised advert. Seems interesting but can you really require someone to have a profile on an invite only system?
Anything that can prove that you are a adequate for lobste.rs community and not a troll will do. Keybase offers a quick way to identify someone. I know it's not perfect, but my time is limited. However, feel free to drop an email and that I'll see what I can do. ps. I'm not affiliated with 'keybase' in any way.
Fair enough, like I say it just flagged up being as keybase is in invite-only alpha. My mistake!
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#44I've been wondering about this as well. I mean, there's lots of interesting stuff here on HN, but the deeply technical stuff is far and inbetween. And due to the way topics very quickly drop of the first two pages it's hard to discuss more technical stuff.
More often than not I find there was an interesting discussion on some entry, but all the discussion ended 8 hours ago, and nobody will read it now.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hello, If you are interested in lobste.rs invitations send me an email with your "keybase profile" and at least 1 public network identification that will let me know that you're not a self-destructive troll and I'll be happy to help you. UPDATE: Since I received a lot more emails than I thought and it's time consuming, my offer stands for another 24 hours. regards
Could you kindly send me an invitation? I'm on Twitter as @enedil1
I was going to offer an invitation, but I don't know you, and I cannot get enough information about you to ascertain that you are not going to be an unpleasant fellow.
How about this: tell me what you think about women in science and technology. That is an important question to me.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#46How about creating your own? :) http://postatic.com Disclaimer - I run this site - shameless plug, I know.
This is cool.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#47Slashdot.org is a bit quieter, but better moderated and in general a higher level of knowledge.
Slashdot is different. It has (had?) much more variety in subjects and people often write more articulated comments.
Ten or more years ago it was a great site, then I noticed a gradual and general decline. Nowadays I follow it just sometimes.
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#48I'd love to find the hardware version of this, with content relevant to mechanical/electrical engineers.
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#49Lots of HN articles are not about the web, we have lots of science and technical items. I'm not sure what you mean by "professional", I think many if not most people on here do software development for a living. It sounds like most of what you're looking for may already be here. Upvote articles that interest you and comment on them, that should help shift the focus in the direction you want.
I guess what I meant by "professional" was more people with a formal education in computer science and some years of practical experience. It is just my impression that this is not so much the case here at HN. This being said, I do not mean to be disrespectful towards someone who "only" has practical training (they may be older so that when they studied there was no formal computer-specific education). edit: nice typ…
To get to the top in forums that use voting (HN, reddit etc) articles have to get upvotes - and as each user only has one upvote to give, to get lots of upvotes an article needs to appeal to a lot of people and get upvotes from them.
That means articles need broad appeal. If you write a great article, but readers have to already know about , only a small fraction of readers will upvote it. If you go into fewer technical details but include more introductory content, and focus on topics that have broader appeal, you'll get more upvotes.
You also don't want the article to be too long - most forums rank, in some way, on votes-against-time and some readers don't have time to read a lengthy article. If the user doesn't get back to the forum they don't upvote, and if they decide to save the article and read it later, it's off the front page before they read it and upvote.
Forums like HN and Reddit rarely link to arXiv papers because it's just the nature of the system.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
#50Lots of HN articles are not about the web, we have lots of science and technical items. I'm not sure what you mean by "professional", I think many if not most people on here do software development for a living. It sounds like most of what you're looking for may already be here. Upvote articles that interest you and comment on them, that should help shift the focus in the direction you want.
I guess what I meant by "professional" was more people with a formal education in computer science and some years of practical experience. It is just my impression that this is not so much the case here at HN. This being said, I do not mean to be disrespectful towards someone who "only" has practical training (they may be older so that when they studied there was no formal computer-specific education). edit: nice typ…
What kind of "formal" CS topics do you mean?
NB I get the impression that there are a fair number of people on here with CS education at all levels...
Edit: At this moment the top article is "A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability" - which seems pretty CS to me...