> We all know...

HN isn't as homogeneous as you think. By this measuring stick, half of the posts on the front page can be put into question every day.

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that_guy_iain 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Let's be serious, most people are regulars and this has been on the front page multiple times like constantly. And it was upvoted 4 times on new to get to the front page rapidly. It's not something new that we're all "Oh that's cool".

We also know there are tons of sock accounts.

And no half of the posts on front page can't be put in that since they aren't constantly reposted like this.

So, while there are a few people who will have learnt about this for the first time. Most of you know what it is and somehow feel like this is your chance to go look I'm smarter than Iain. And I think you've failed again.

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nottorp 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you know the joke with "I'll repeat the joke to you until you understand it?".

That's why some things get reposted and upvoted. In hope of getting someone else to understand them.

By the way, do you complain about sock accounts when yet another "Here is this problem, and by the way we sell a product that claims to solve it" gets upvoted?

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that_guy_iain 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> Do you know the joke with "I'll repeat the joke to you until you understand it?".

Nope. That's not a joke. That's not funny.

> That's why some things get reposted and upvoted. In hope of getting someone else to understand them.

No, they get reposted and upvoted by sock accounts in hope that someone will finally be interested in a 30 year old programming language.

> By the way, do you complain about sock accounts when yet another "Here is this problem, and by the way we sell a product that claims to solve it" gets upvoted?

What does content marketing have to do with sock accounts?

I'm honestly not sure what point you thought was getting made. Do you honestly think people don't understand D? It's been looked at repeatedly and still nothing cool is built in it.

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nottorp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> What does content marketing have to do with sock accounts?

If you accuse interesting subjects of being pushed by sock accounts, why wouldn't content marketing, which has even more interest in getting to the front page, be pushed by sock accounts?

	▲	that_guy_iain 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting subjects? A 30(?) year old programming language that has been on here repeatedly is not an interesting subject. New programming languages are. Cool things written in obscure languages is also interesting. The content marketing that is pushed by sock accounts is wank and generally drops pretty quickly and called out like this. But you just complain about content marketing because you're one of those people who think you should make money but no one else.

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its_magic 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're harsh but that's OK. There is a lot of truth in what you're saying. I really wish people would quit downvoting everything they disagree with. HN would be 100x better if both the downvote and flag buttons were removed.

To me, a C guy, the focus on garbage collection is a turn-off. I'm aware that D can work without it, but it's unclear how much of the standard library etc works fine with no garbage collection. That hasn't been explained, that I saw at least.

The biggest problem however is the bootstrapping requirement, which is annoyingly difficult or too involved. (See explanation in my other post.)

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that_guy_iain 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure how I'm being harsh. It's literally a somewhat well known programming language being reposted for the 100th time or something silly like that. I'm literally just pointing out the truth and it's almost certainly the main poster downvoting things.

	▲	its_magic 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm literally just pointing out the truth Problem identified. That's not popular here.