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Like I said, this is anecdotal evidence and I'm wondering if there's a more general pattern that others have noticed.

rsynnott 3y ago
I mean, I’m not sure it’s even anecdotal evidence, any more than it would be anecdotal evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.
- behnamoh 3y ago
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  - dermesser 3y ago
    Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.
    - behnamoh 3y ago
      The post is literally a "Ask HN" question. There was no claim.
      - ksaj 3y ago
        I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?" Are Americans more closely in touch with the tech industry? I don't know what this is based on, but I'd like to see the metric compared to other countries, such as Japan. I can't tell, because the grammar is sufficiently vague, if your claim is that American software is better, or that Americans are more in touch with the tech industry, but it surely seems like one or the other.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    I mean, quite frankly I don’t care whether you can or not. That was hardly the point; I was trying to show what a bizarre leap the initial claim was. Based on your process, I would now like to claim this as anecdotal evidence that people whose experience of programming, in years, is a non-prime number are bad at arguing on internet forums.
chimpoftheages 3y ago
The EPFL and ETH are the two main technical schools in Switzerland which has a population of 9 million. Going by population stats this puts Switzerland next to New Jersey. The pattern I've noticed is that all software in the US failed after Bell collapsed and the collective unconscious moved software innovation to Europe.

I mean, I’m not sure it’s even anecdotal evidence, any more than it would be anecdotal evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.

behnamoh 3y ago
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- dermesser 3y ago
  Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.
  - behnamoh 3y ago
    The post is literally a "Ask HN" question. There was no claim.
    - ksaj 3y ago
      I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?" Are Americans more closely in touch with the tech industry? I don't know what this is based on, but I'd like to see the metric compared to other countries, such as Japan. I can't tell, because the grammar is sufficiently vague, if your claim is that American software is better, or that Americans are more in touch with the tech industry, but it surely seems like one or the other.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  I mean, quite frankly I don’t care whether you can or not. That was hardly the point; I was trying to show what a bizarre leap the initial claim was. Based on your process, I would now like to claim this as anecdotal evidence that people whose experience of programming, in years, is a non-prime number are bad at arguing on internet forums.

chimpoftheages 3y ago

The EPFL and ETH are the two main technical schools in Switzerland which has a population of 9 million. Going by population stats this puts Switzerland next to New Jersey. The pattern I've noticed is that all software in the US failed after Bell collapsed and the collective unconscious moved software innovation to Europe.