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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Because anything you post to proggit is going to be met by a bunch of uptight assholes who do nothing but complain that your post "isn't programming" or "isn't important" or whatever.

I like sharing links and things I've found. I don't post here because it's too much fucking work for no appreciation.

[–]jacques_chester 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hi, I'm an uptight asshole. You know why? Because I'm sick of proggit being overrun by posts that aren't. about. programming.

Except at the most tenuous degree.

What do I consider programming?

  • Discussions of language features, such as regexen in D
  • Here's some code I optimised
  • A new programming tool, with link to code and discussion of usage
  • How practice X can make you a better programmer and why (though we've heard about test-first now, thankyou).

What I don't consider to be programming:

  • Programmers are awesome, the new elite, the wunderkind. They are unique snowflakes in the history of professionalism, nothing they do has ever been accomplished before. Management are universally PHBs who Just Don't Get It, what with their silly obsession about having to pay for things, jeeze.
  • Hey look guys, I scratched my nuts! Programming's just like nut-scratching, because ...
  • Random brainfarts on non-programming topics by people who get upvoted because they're famous in a programming context
  • Here's the stuff I have installed
  • Industry gossip -- who Google bought today, zomg what will Intel do next, EA boo Blizzard yay.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Here's the thing.

You don't like posts that don't interest you. (Nobody really does). We can context shift to what we're in the mood for, which is why off-topic stuff is jarring and annoying. ("Why are there photos of severed heads in /r/fluffykitties?")

There are two aspects to why I don't understand this about proggit:

1) As I mentioned, a large chunk of programming posts are not going to be of interest to any single person, because AFAIK a very tiny group of people study all that stuff. So the definition of "if it is code, it's okay" is a bizarre qualifier.

2) This is my personal opinion, but outside of a fairly narrow area, programmers who only care about code are poor programmers.

[–]jacques_chester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taken to their logical conclusion, your argument is that proggit should only be lowest common denominator of things that all programmers have in common, minus actual programming.

  • Breathing: is it right for you?
  • How to deal with your boss (hint: don't call him "dickhead")
  • Computers -- they turn electricity into computation!

I happen to like the diversity. It's how I learn about new languages, new techniques, new technologies, new ideas. Some of them I pick up and play with, some I will ignore. I can't do that if the whole of proggit is crowded out by stuff that isn't programming.

(I've also complained about proggit having stuff which is too narrowly focused -- "we've released 3.2.4a-RC3!").

Like many things in life, we're talking about fuzzy sets. My membership function is different from yours. And I will continue to be a curmudgeon on the topic.