hacker news comment is probably the most reliable source of info i have regarding tech thoses days.
Not because the majority of comments are useful or right, but because in between all this regular interner noise you sometimes have the unique opportunity to speak with the creators of the tech itself, or by researchers working on the issue. Now to be honest, most of the time when an issue is complex the most useful comment is often a link to a series of lessons on the subject (which is great).
I actually agree that hackernews has a better feed of aggregated content, and I that there are brilliant people lurking in the comments.
But that's the main content, and about 5% of the comments.
From the article:
"This pattern is consuming — instead of creating. Consuming — without questioning. Consuming and hiding behind an authority.
I saw developers taking other people's solutions for granted. Not thinking twice about the approach, not bothering about analyzing it."
It's normal and within acceptable limits, but if you want to find a circle jerk devoid of critical reasoning--a celebration of consumption over creation--it is very much alive here.
And that's fine, really, so long as we never stop being aware of it.
I would like to second this. For the past 4-5 years I have lurking this site and /r/programming in parallel. And while both communities definitely have their common accepted opinions, the good technical discussions seem to always be here instead of /r/programming
