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by ersi 6186 days ago
That doesn't sound very social. Aren't most programming/math/science also "time-wasting", so to speak?
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jrockway 6185 days ago
People want to read about programming. Right now, there are three options:

* News.YC, which rarely has articles about programming anymore (perhaps one or two a day).

* Programming Reddit, whose commentators think every article is a jab at The One True Idea, which they seem to think is PHP.

* Lambda the Ultimate, which only covers a small area of programming; language design and implementation

I want a site like LtU but with a broader appeal.

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scott_s 6185 days ago
On the front page right now, there are eight programming submissions, and nine web development submissions.

(There is overlap with the programming and web development, but something like usability guidelines fits in web development but not programming. By my definition, anyway.)

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jules 6185 days ago
> * Lambda the Ultimate, which only covers a small area of programming; language design and implementation

Implementation (!= Programming Language Theory) is off topic for LTU, unfortunately.

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Andys 6185 days ago
I came to news.yc because I wanted to read about startups. There are very few % of articles about startups now.

(I am sticking around because of the general interest articles which is what I used to visit reddit for before it became too popular)

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