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This submission reminded me why I love HN: On Reddit, there would have been a flowchart (at best) if I followed the link. Here, there's an engineering solution,

• tcard 16y ago
  http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gyook/how_would_you_programmatically_parse_a_sentence/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gyook/how_would... Actually, a fair part of the links about programming are just the same both here and on Reddit.
  • nyellin 16y ago
    I don't think so, considering that the 1st comment thread on Reddit is a series of "that's what she said" jokes. Edit: All the same, I'll try giving /r/programming a chance. As a whole, Reddit looks less civil than HN, but maybe I haven't been fair. People tend to criticize subjects that they don't know about or have never experienced 1st hand, and I'm guilty of that here.
    • SkyMarshal 16y ago
      Try /r/coding and /r/compsci as well.
      • redthrowaway 16y ago
        Also grab r/python, r/ruby, r/java, r/cplusplus, r/lisp, r/haskell, r/php, etc to suit your fancy.
        • adam-_- 16y ago
          r/perl ;)
        • gtani 16y ago
          r/machinelearning, r/types r/reviewmycode, r/datasets, r/statistics
    • wzdd 16y ago
      On a programming topic, on HN, maybe 20% of the comments are interesting, or at least informative. On a programming topic, on Reddit, maybe 2% of the comments are interesting or informative, but there are 10 times as many comments, the interesting ones are voted to near the top (not necessarily right up there), and some of the interesting Reddit comments don't have an analogue on HN.
      • GoodIntentions 16y ago
        /agree SNR on reddit mebbe 5%, slashdot %1 here, I don't know 50%? I see some less than useful posts (like this one), but almost no outright trolling/patently wrong posts. HN makes my daily read list, even if it is a quick glance. Great community.
    • ubernostrum 16y ago
      I don't think so, considering that the 1st comment thread on Reddit is a series of "that's what she said" jokes. Well, the thing is that people on reddit know better than to take themselves too seriously, and as a result you get plenty of amusing things mixed in to the comments. For HN, on the other hand, commenting is Serious Business(TM), not to be wasted on such frivolities. Some people like the HN approach. Personally I prefer to have a little fun every now and again.
• brown9-2 16y ago
  I don't get it - why is a great answer posted on Quota to this question a testament to HN?
  • Groxx 16y ago
    Their argment is that HN's community links to and upvotes something useful. Reddit's community links to and upvotes something funny but otherwise worthless. Not claiming it's accurate - I'm not a Redditer. Just clarifying.
• jlees 16y ago
  It'd be pretty easy to build, especially if you use something like Python and NLTK. You could then extend to a "your mom" bot too. I'd actually be intrigued at how simple the algorithm could be and still be mostly on the mark, rather than how much NLP you could squeeze in...
• jamesaguilar 16y ago
  It was on Reddit before it was here.
• Jun8 16y ago
  I think the main difference between HN and Reddit is not the quality of the links (in the stories they share they have similar links and most of them come to HN later than Reddit) but the ensuing discussion. In fact most of the time I don't even click on the link on HN (for topics I already know about) but go directly to the discussion. I also tend to save the HN discussion page to my Delicious, not just the link, because of the value of the discussion. That being said, I don't think the discussion on Reddit is worthless at all. Yes, there's quite a bit of joking, which is good to read at 4pm when you are stuck at a bug. But this particular topic is an excellent example of the value of the Reddit discussion: reading through the jokes, etc. provides interesting thoughts about implementing the TWSS bot. So, the two discussions are complementary. For particular stories, I head over to proggit and see what the Redditers have commented.
• quandrum 16y ago
  Be careful. This was the exact comment I would see on reddit a year or two ago. (replacing HN with reddit and reddit with Digg)