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Ask HN: Deep technical forum community to follow

3 points by siscia 12y ago

Hi HN, I believe that most of the programmer, when they where learning, used to hang out in some online community where they asked the most basic question about code, loops, etc... Of course such communities start to get boring after you have learn your skill and when there are already other skillfull programmers to lead the younger. Now that we are grew up, what communities are worth following ? I am looking for some project/language agnostic community where to discuss deep and wide topics about code... Any ideas ? (Other than HN, of course...)

drakmail 12y ago
reddit?
- siscia 12y ago
  Which subreddit ? r/programming is a clone of HN and honestly not pretty deep...
  - S4M 12y ago
    r/<my_programming_language> r/MachineLearning r/NeuralNetwork r/kernel I am pretty sure you can find a subreddit for every topic you can think of. The real question is whether that topic is going to be active or not.
a3n 12y ago
That used to be Usenet, which you can still read either via Google Groups, or one of many other paid providers. For example, comp.lang.* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%22comp.lang.*%22 https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%22comp.lang.*%22 Usenet: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usenet&t=lm&ia=about https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usenet&t=lm&ia=about The nice thing about Usenet (or "news" as we used to say) is that, like email, it's a protocol and so it's not controlled by a single hyper corp (except to the extent that you let Google do exactly that). Usenet used to be an expected service at universities, ISPs and a few corporations. But you can easily get your feet wet via Google Groups, and you can also easily pay a commercial provider for access.
izolate 12y ago
IRC freenode #$YOUR_LANGUAGE_OR_TOOL_HERE But that's pretty niche. About a generalized chat, I agree with you. I wish there was a Slack channel used exclusively and extensively by hackers in my city (London). Maybe you could start one?

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Ask HN: Deep technical forum community to follow

3 points by siscia 12y ago

drakmail 12y ago
reddit?
- siscia 12y ago
  Which subreddit ? r/programming is a clone of HN and honestly not pretty deep...
  - S4M 12y ago
    r/<my_programming_language> r/MachineLearning r/NeuralNetwork r/kernel I am pretty sure you can find a subreddit for every topic you can think of. The real question is whether that topic is going to be active or not.
a3n 12y ago
That used to be Usenet, which you can still read either via Google Groups, or one of many other paid providers. For example, comp.lang.* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%22comp.lang.*%22 https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%22comp.lang.*%22 Usenet: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usenet&t=lm&ia=about https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usenet&t=lm&ia=about The nice thing about Usenet (or "news" as we used to say) is that, like email, it's a protocol and so it's not controlled by a single hyper corp (except to the extent that you let Google do exactly that). Usenet used to be an expected service at universities, ISPs and a few corporations. But you can easily get your feet wet via Google Groups, and you can also easily pay a commercial provider for access.
izolate 12y ago
IRC freenode #$YOUR_LANGUAGE_OR_TOOL_HERE But that's pretty niche. About a generalized chat, I agree with you. I wish there was a Slack channel used exclusively and extensively by hackers in my city (London). Maybe you could start one?