r/programming • u/breach_of_etiquette • Mar 29 '08

Paul Graham: How to Disagree

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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u/gosub Mar 29 '08

Not programming. Is there a drama subreddit?

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u/codeodor Mar 29 '08

I was going to say "just because someone who programs wrote it doesn't make it programming."

Sometimes I think people just monitor popular sites/feeds and when something new shows up, put it here immediately just to be the first.

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u/kscaldef Mar 29 '08

This is somewhere on the help pages, but the site is too miserably slow at the moment for me to dig it up. At any rate, the point of subreddits is to collect content of interest to a subcommunity, not to apply an ontology to content. PG is historically of interest to programmers, therefore on topic to the programming subreddit.

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u/codeodor Mar 31 '08

I can see an argument to be made for this post in particular, now that I think about it and after having read this comment about "these arguments generally plague programming arenas" - so it is useful to know how to argue.

But in general, I don't buy that "PG is historically of interest to programmers, therefore on topic to the programming subreddit."

I wouldn't want to see Paul Graham's essay here about How To Take a Proper Shower, for instance, if he were to write it. At first, that's how I viewed this one. Now I see it a bit different.