That's interesting that you notice Phoronix discussions to be more reasoned. You are probably right -- I haven't read many Phoronix discussions -- but I do find LWN discussions to be well-informed. I tend to think of the LWN posters as being programmers and the Phoronix posters as being users. (With no disrespect intended, of course.)
I stopped reading slashdot long ago (I started reading slashdot when it was new -- a regularly updated news source targeted at geeks! It was just another miracle of that thrilling year.) but I have always been pleased at how the level of discourse on LWN.net has never descended to slashdottiness.
Hm... Actually I left this reply written but unposted overnight, and while I was away from my computer it occurred to me that you might find the Phoronix posters to be more "reasonable" because they are saying things that agree more with your prejudices. That's completely natural of course, but it is the kind of thing that you want to be wary of if you are trying to learn about previously unknown markets -- you don't want your filters to be too good at excluding "unreasonable" customers from your view of the world.
Regards,
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
P.S. I hope that you looked at those two LWN discussions that I referenced. You replied saying that LWN rarely focussed on GPU issues, and you are right, but those two discussions from last week did focus on GPU issues.
I stopped reading slashdot long ago (I started reading slashdot when it was new -- a regularly updated news source targeted at geeks! It was just another miracle of that thrilling year.) but I have always been pleased at how the level of discourse on LWN.net has never descended to slashdottiness.
Hm... Actually I left this reply written but unposted overnight, and while I was away from my computer it occurred to me that you might find the Phoronix posters to be more "reasonable" because they are saying things that agree more with your prejudices. That's completely natural of course, but it is the kind of thing that you want to be wary of if you are trying to learn about previously unknown markets -- you don't want your filters to be too good at excluding "unreasonable" customers from your view of the world.
Regards,
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
P.S. I hope that you looked at those two LWN discussions that I referenced. You replied saying that LWN rarely focussed on GPU issues, and you are right, but those two discussions from last week did focus on GPU issues.
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