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Feels like it does mean the designer did not do a good job since I'm sure much of the YC crowd is more or less the core audience for Stack Overflow.

by tel 18y ago

jrockway 18y ago
Are you sure about that? I haven't asked a programming question (in public) for a number of years. I am too lazy to sit and wait for someone to tell me how to solve my problem when I could discover the solution on my own. I assume that most people here are like that. (Otherwise they would be on Reddit instead ;)
- michaelneale 18y ago
  you mean impatient - not lazy?
  - jrockway 18y ago
    No, I meant lazy. Sitting around doing nothing would require a lot of mental effort and work. Thinking about programming would be relaxing and enjoyable.
    - michaelneale 18y ago
      That's a good point. I feel the same way, I just assumed everyone else enjoyed sitting around and doing nothing and there was something wrong for me. Glad I am not unusual. I have a lot of non-programming tasks lately, yet I find myself finding a small problem to hack around as "procrastination".
- tel 18y ago
  True, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar. Except, perhaps, aesthetically. Maybe I'm wrong here too, but a failed visual design for HN readers is probably a failed design for the average web-forum-programmer, too.
- d0mine 18y ago
  You could ask question and answer it yourself. It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own programming question, but pretend you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question. </quote> http://stackoverflow.com/faq http://stackoverflow.com/faq If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question.
  - jrockway 18y ago
    If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question. I share my knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers at the 10 or so conferences I go to a year, and on my ad-free blog.

Feels like it does mean the designer did not do a good job since I'm sure much of the YC crowd is more or less the core audience for Stack Overflow.

by tel 18y ago

Feels like it does mean the designer did not do a good job since I'm sure much of the YC crowd is more or less the core audience for Stack Overflow.

jrockway 18y ago

Are you sure about that? I haven't asked a programming question (in public) for a number of years. I am too lazy to sit and wait for someone to tell me how to solve my problem when I could discover the solution on my own. I assume that most people here are like that. (Otherwise they would be on Reddit instead ;)

michaelneale 18y ago
you mean impatient - not lazy?
- jrockway 18y ago
  No, I meant lazy. Sitting around doing nothing would require a lot of mental effort and work. Thinking about programming would be relaxing and enjoyable.
  - michaelneale 18y ago
    That's a good point. I feel the same way, I just assumed everyone else enjoyed sitting around and doing nothing and there was something wrong for me. Glad I am not unusual. I have a lot of non-programming tasks lately, yet I find myself finding a small problem to hack around as "procrastination".
tel 18y ago
True, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar. Except, perhaps, aesthetically. Maybe I'm wrong here too, but a failed visual design for HN readers is probably a failed design for the average web-forum-programmer, too.
d0mine 18y ago
You could ask question and answer it yourself. It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own programming question, but pretend you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question. </quote> http://stackoverflow.com/faq http://stackoverflow.com/faq If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question.
- jrockway 18y ago
  If (if) you don't want to share you knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers then that's another question. I share my knowledge for the benefit of fellow programmers at the 10 or so conferences I go to a year, and on my ad-free blog.