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Am I the only one who feels that problem they're trying to solve does not exist? Perhaps I read too many books or perhaps my googling skills are bad ass, but fi
by tx 18y ago
Am I the only one who feels that problem they're trying to solve does not exist? Perhaps I read too many books or perhaps my googling skills are bad ass, but finding information on programming issues is not hard and nothing, and I mean it, beats IRC: simple to use, two-way, ad-free, HTML/JavaScript-free, text-only instant and real-time solution to all your problems.
Yet they want to build a giant sink of answers for technical problems. That sink already exists, it's called Internet: post an answer to any question on millions of message boards, google groups ans sites like news.yc. Internet has has an awesome search facility built-in - people will find what you said.
Search for this on google: "The author of this, David Beazley" and you'll get news.yc page with someone's comment containing those words only 4 (!) hours ago (from this moment as I'm writing this).
Why another site? Sure, they have the blogging powers to hype the hell out of their project, but come on...
- AndyKelley 18y agoI think they're going for something a little more definitive. Most of the answers you find online are adequate, but these answers are supposed to be authoritative. If all goes as planned, it would certainly be a benefit to the internet you keep searching on Google, and I think if you're completely honest, you'll remember a few times when you had a really specific problem and you just couldn't find a good enough answer searching Google.