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A thought: I think you're doing it wrong if you think of yourself as an "X" programmer. Because those X's will come and go over the years.
But those X's do exist, if only temporarily. At any given time, you probably are an X programmer, and a community around X is useful to you. People may drop in and out, but it's still a (potentially) valuable resource.
Indubitably!
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I think it's a simple matter of focus. One could extend your logic and say 'Why don't you get your tech news from NY Times instead of Hacker News, since they have a tech section in their website ?'
True, but making a NY Times-like website for tech news wouldn't work either. HN works for techies because its clean and simple, and the karma/upvote mechanism keep the content relevant. So there is a difference from NY Times. My question then remains, what is different?
what's with JavaScript community to make everything end in "js"? You don't see Ruby guys ending every one of their product names in "rb" or Python guys in "py".
This would have saved a lot of programming effort.
+1 for the effort. But there is already a project like that which you could have used for this purpose if your purpose was not to build something like HN but build something like HN for only JS: https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope This would have saved a lot of programming effort.
And FWIW, Telescope may preserve the functionality of HN, but I like the design a lot less (though the Echo design could use some work).
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I hope it stays ugly and keeps people who care about this away. Will improve the quality of the contributions I think.
I'm sorry, what? You want front end designers (a major use-case for JavScript) to be disgusted enough to stay away?