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I think the bar for a non-programming, non-startup article to count as "interesting to hackers" is a lot higher. Really interesting science articles just aren't

by mark-t 18y ago

I think the bar for a non-programming, non-startup article to count as "interesting to hackers" is a lot higher. Really interesting science articles just aren't written as often as somebody blogs something useless about how great closures are. Your English is fine, by the way. I wouldn't have known you weren't a native speaker if you hadn't said so.

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- hhm 18y ago
  Well, that's exactly why I mentioned not being a native speaker... I do that kind of mistake (and less subtle ones too), and I don't want you to think that I'm just ignorant or something.
  - pchivers 18y ago
    Believe it or not, mistakenly substituting the word "less" when the correct word would be "fewer" is a mistake that a lot of native English speakers make.
    - hhm 18y ago
      Good to know... and now I'll try to be careful with that too.
hhm 18y ago
About the bar, I think that while it's certainly higher for science than for programming articles, it has dropped a lot for programming & startups so I don't understand why people is so incredibly picky with science (even for good articles) but an order of magnitude more tolerant with other subjects. Oh, and thank you for your comment about my English :)