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Hacker News is starting to feel like programming.reddit.com a year ago. Now, Reddit is getting more and more like Digg a year before that. Digg certainly looks

by jng 16y ago

Hacker News is starting to feel like programming.reddit.com a year ago. Now, Reddit is getting more and more like Digg a year before that. Digg certainly looks like Youtube comments one year before. Now, Youtube, that surely is now just like Myspace some time before. And Myspace now is somewhere close to what the AOL forums used to be. But AOL - don't look at the AOL forums! they now look as bad as Usenet did when everyone joined there, before they were Google groups, before they were called DejaVu, when all the newbies had just spoiled all the good old newsgroups. We should all return to Usenet. There's nobody there, and we could build a cozy place with no trolls and newbies, and share really interesting stuff and discuss it intelligently. But I'm sure the dumbfucks will follow us around, from here to the end of time.

elblanco 16y ago
It'd be an interesting day when forum degeneration can be solved via circular migration around ring of sites vs. Linear migration like today. "everybody barrel shift!"
- philwelch 16y ago
  That's the current approach to antibiotic drug resistance, actually. Antibiotic resistant drugs are supposedly treated with antibiotics that are too old for those drugs to retain a resistance to.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    Let's hope pathogens don't figure out how to do heap allocation. That would be a lot of trouble. After all it wouldn't take too much extra storage for them to collect 'data' on enough antibiotics that we'd lose the race.
slater 16y ago
"We should all return to Usenet. There's nobody there" ... except for spammers.
10ren 16y ago
Youtube is improving. They have votes now. I've seen a few insightful comments there (it depends on what kind of video you're looking at, of course - you being the crucial word here.)
- daychilde 16y ago
  A million monkeys banging on typewriters occasionally produce insightful comments by sheer random chance. They still produce more insightful comments than Youtube commenters.

by jng 16y ago

elblanco 16y ago

It'd be an interesting day when forum degeneration can be solved via circular migration around ring of sites vs. Linear migration like today. "everybody barrel shift!"

philwelch 16y ago
That's the current approach to antibiotic drug resistance, actually. Antibiotic resistant drugs are supposedly treated with antibiotics that are too old for those drugs to retain a resistance to.
- jacquesm 16y ago
  Let's hope pathogens don't figure out how to do heap allocation. That would be a lot of trouble. After all it wouldn't take too much extra storage for them to collect 'data' on enough antibiotics that we'd lose the race.

slater 16y ago

"We should all return to Usenet. There's nobody there" ... except for spammers.

10ren 16y ago

Youtube is improving. They have votes now. I've seen a few insightful comments there (it depends on what kind of video you're looking at, of course - you being the crucial word here.)

daychilde 16y ago
A million monkeys banging on typewriters occasionally produce insightful comments by sheer random chance. They still produce more insightful comments than Youtube commenters.