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Off topic - somehow I’ve never heard of the register.com. Looks interesting, is it worth reading?
by zn44 6y ago
Off topic - somehow I’ve never heard of the register.com. Looks interesting, is it worth reading?
- gruturo 6y agoYes. It has a rather unique style, as you'll soon find out, and sometimes its own lingo, mimicking UK tabloids, but it's quite worth reading. Their motto used to be "Biting the hand that feeds IT"
- andreareina 6y agoStill says that in the copyright footer.
- capableweb 6y agoDepends on what you're out after. The Register is basically Buzzfeed of technology news, not unlike TechCrunch. Many articles are "outrage" articles and most articles are driven by emotion, not facts. Although there are some gems in there, not gonna lie. I tend to not read The Register directly, but I'm not actively avoiding it either. It's just a lot of noise, so having HN be the filter (and recommendations from friends) seems to leave me with more quality articles. Thanks HN :)
- noir_lord 6y agoThey are often first with the news, they tend to be quite satirical, they play on it, they've been around forever. They have the BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell) series which is always worth a read.
- hyperdimension 6y agoThey certainly have their, uh, own style; you usually will either like it or not. They generally try to tend to stay at least a little factual, though. ;)
- mprovost 6y agoThey used to be more influential in the tech scene - in typical British tabloid fashion they nicknamed Intel's Itanium chip the "Itanic" which stuck and seemed to be how everyone ended up referring to that disaster. They! still! do! great! Yahoo! headlines! too!