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I'm not sure most people on HN will have "Never Heard Of" D. It has 10,000 downloads a month!

by yarper 12y ago

mynegation 12y ago
This is the article title on Wired. It may well be true for the typical reader of Wired.
VLM 12y ago
Wired's target audience is not in tech. There are other analogies in the mass (and not so mass) media. Wired articles don't really belong on HN as a class, although individual topics can be relevant if sometimes inaccurately reported or late news. A podcasting example is "this week in tech" is for people outside tech to glance inside. Its moderately entertaining and nicely produced although I'd worry about my personal abilities if I ever learned anything from it, because its not aimed at a tech audience. Podcasts for people in tech to listen to are things like "Software engineering radio" although they sometimes run off the TPS report deep end of fads, or "functional geekery", or the former Relevance, now Cognitech, interview show. "FLOSS weekly", another interview podcast show, is kind of in between the two worlds, which is pretty unusual and interesting. Edited to add some magazine examples. PC magazine is not for people inside tech to read, its for people outside tech wondering whats going on to hear a little gossip. The former sysadmin magazine (out of print for like a decade now?) was for people inside tech to read. The dear departed Perl Journal was for people inside tech. The print version of Linux Journal a decade or so ago was unusually more or less on the border. For noobs, magazines were kind of like internet websites printed out and mailed to you. Different from newspapers in that you only got one a month and they were somewhat more polished and edited and generally on nicer paper. My kids are young enough to not really understand newspapers or magazines so I've actually had discussions along these lines trying to explain. They're a little fuzzy about broadcast distribution vs streaming too, broadcast is like a stream but you have no personal pause or commercial skip button, this confuses the heck out of them.
cruise02 12y ago
And about 1400 questions on Stack Overflow, dating back to 2008. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d?page=1&sort=newest&pagesize=50 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d?page=1&sort=newe... Completely unheard of! ;)

I'm not sure most people on HN will have "Never Heard Of" D. It has 10,000 downloads a month!

by yarper 12y ago

I'm not sure most people on HN will have "Never Heard Of" D. It has 10,000 downloads a month!

mynegation 12y ago

This is the article title on Wired. It may well be true for the typical reader of Wired.

VLM 12y ago

Wired's target audience is not in tech. There are other analogies in the mass (and not so mass) media. Wired articles don't really belong on HN as a class, although individual topics can be relevant if sometimes inaccurately reported or late news. A podcasting example is "this week in tech" is for people outside tech to glance inside. Its moderately entertaining and nicely produced although I'd worry about my personal abilities if I ever learned anything from it, because its not aimed at a tech audience. Podcasts for people in tech to listen to are things like "Software engineering radio" although they sometimes run off the TPS report deep end of fads, or "functional geekery", or the former Relevance, now Cognitech, interview show. "FLOSS weekly", another interview podcast show, is kind of in between the two worlds, which is pretty unusual and interesting. Edited to add some magazine examples. PC magazine is not for people inside tech to read, its for people outside tech wondering whats going on to hear a little gossip. The former sysadmin magazine (out of print for like a decade now?) was for people inside tech to read. The dear departed Perl Journal was for people inside tech. The print version of Linux Journal a decade or so ago was unusually more or less on the border. For noobs, magazines were kind of like internet websites printed out and mailed to you. Different from newspapers in that you only got one a month and they were somewhat more polished and edited and generally on nicer paper. My kids are young enough to not really understand newspapers or magazines so I've actually had discussions along these lines trying to explain. They're a little fuzzy about broadcast distribution vs streaming too, broadcast is like a stream but you have no personal pause or commercial skip button, this confuses the heck out of them.

cruise02 12y ago

And about 1400 questions on Stack Overflow, dating back to 2008. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d?page=1&sort=newest&pagesize=50 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d?page=1&sort=newe... Completely unheard of! ;)