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Amid all that crap you find genuinely good posters like the academic-in-industry guy who knows all about Agda, Haskell and category/type-theory, or the old lispers with books to their names.
This is true. One of my very first posts on Hacker News was something critical of Randal Schwartz, who actually replied and managed to start a nice little flame war with me.
What strikes me about /r/programming is even though you have hipster Macfag Steve Jobs-wannabe ``Ruby hackers'', they actually prove themselves to be competent programmers who actually build things that others actually want to use. The only thing that has come out of
/prog/ is
/prog/scrape, which is actually inferior to my own CLI
/prog/ browser. I've tried sharing my code here, but everybody seems to be struggling with their CS101 SEPPLES homework too much to understand any real, working code.
Not to say there aren't smart people on
/prog/. There are. I just have a certain level of respect for people who actually get things done.