I'm a long-time member of ProgrammingForums, but they're too slow to respond for my tastes. These days, for C++ help, I just linger around cplusplus.com
>>1
Proggit, /fart/ and none else. Sorry. Hacker News is full of pompous idiots who know nothing but Java and one of {Python, Ruby}, who perennially have "learn Lisp" on their bucket list of self-improvement to start the day with success or some such.
Slashdot is full of sysadmins and ``Software Engineers''.
Stack Overflow is full of Java and .Net ENTERPRISE PROGRAMMERS who have "learn Ruby" on their list, but at least there's other people who can answer your non-shit questions. But of course, you can only post questions in the first place. And by Dijkstra's beard is the front page of Stack Exchange's horrendous.
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Anonymous2012-03-10 12:37
0chan.ru/c/ is out little beautiful board, full of covariant functors, anaphoric macroses, pandoric hooks, catamorphisms, paramorphisms (and a/a about category theory) and discusses about usefullness/useless of math. Warning. If you are ЖИД keep out please.
>>9
Alright, I bypassed their silly xenophobia with a proxy and it was all written in, predictably, barbarian Slavic markings. There were excellent threads, though. Very little spam, even on long threads, despite even summon Symta being cast.
>>11
The difference being that on Proggit you can actually find people who know their shit. There are actual academics, advanced students and educated professionals who can make good contributions to a thread in there, such as I'd rather not name them.
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Anonymous2012-03-10 13:26
>>12 silly xenophobia
It's not silly xenophobia it's silly antispam and antiddos.
Hacker News - The ``hacker'' part is a joke. It's more like startup/yuppie/web-designer news. Actual hacker news gets ignored and hacker humor gets downvoted. Most of the headlines are linkbait and read like articles in Cosmo. It's so bad that articles named ``10 Ways To Do X'' must be renamed to ``How To Do X''. Most of the submissions are just are blog posts addressing whatever topic is dominating the front page in hopes of getting lots of hits. The community is shit.
Slashdot - Much better community, but the hackers there are mostly aging cubicle code-monkeys. The news there is not necessarily technically, just things that autists find interesting: Star Wars, astronomy, dinosaurs, etc. A lot of interesting stuff never makes it past the Firehose, but who-gives-a-shit discovery on Mars makes the front page.
/r/programming - I've never lurked there, but apparently Hacker News was built in response to proggit, so assume it's just Hackers News with less humorless anal Steve Jobs wannabes. Whenever I've seen it, it has most of the same stories are Hacker News with the exact same headlines, so I usually just close the tab. /prog/ - Pure shit. Most of the people here can't code. The ones who can are dead end programmers: they don't have the creativity to make cool shit so they learn toy languages as a hobby. This leads to a lot of stupid language wars. Show off something you coded and the first thing they'll do is check to see if it's coded in Ocaml. If not, prepare your anus for autistic rage.
>>15
But your description makes it clear that you only found out about prague a month or two ago, so you couldn't possibly judge it accurately!
And all of you seem to forget there is a ton of overlap between those places.
>>15 Show off something you coded and the first thing they'll do is check to see if it's coded in Ocaml. If not, prepare your anus for autistic rage.
Hey now, as one of the two (three?!?!) would-be OCaml programmers on this board, I can say we arehave to be humble about other languages. No matter how much we may like it, we're would-bes because its community lacks critical mass to provide us with the libraries we need for our field of interest. Well, I don't know about that maybe-third guy, process of elimination makes him the Sußman, and he's probably just trolling.