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Interesting that he reads Slashdot, and not one of the more modern news sites. Also, ugh eugh Papyrus in the site header, argh.
by sbierwagen 16y ago
Interesting that he reads Slashdot, and not one of the more modern news sites.
Also, ugh eugh Papyrus in the site header, argh.
- petercooper 16y agoHe only says "places like slashdot". Though in my experience there are plenty of smart geeks and "hackers" who haven't even heard of sites like HN or Reddit. It always surprises me, but sites like HN certainly seem to primarily attract the progressive "eye on the ball" types who are into trying out new sites. The traffic to some of the older, staid, more conservative sites indicates there's still a hardcore of people enjoying them.
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- _delirium 16y agoSlashdot has a much bigger population of "normal" developers and engineers, I think, especially from big corporate places that aren't Google, and areas of engineering that aren't software engineering. That's sometimes useful in the comments area; there's plenty of junk, but there are also sometimes good comments from people who work at places like IBM/HP/Boeing/Motorola/Exxon, which is less common here. I think there's probably also more scientists of the non-computer variety.
- Tichy 16y agoPapyrus is the font? What is so bad about it, it seems fitting for a fantasy context? Which one would be better? (I'm obviously not a designer).