How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:13:41PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
[...]
> > > > number 1 on hn
> > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348
> > > 
> > > OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end
> > > of it!
> > 
> > It seems I'm not supposed to:
> > 
> > "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
> > 
> > What a strange site.
> 
> The site is intentionally designed in a way that discourages
> discussion.  They prefer to have comments several paragraphs long that
> appear to someone with no knowledge of the matter to inject insights
> into the conversation. In practice most of the comments are uninformed
> BS and attempts to put others down but it is what it is.

Thank you for confirming that I wasn't just being an outdated freak in
the loonie bin.  This is exactly my evaluation of HN (and several other
similar sites), and why I find these newfangled social-media
thingamajigs a huge waste of my time, and not worth the bother to sign
up for.


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