When talking about static types you can't just take the union of all the best features in all type systems. Like if one gives you A but not B and another B but not A, you can't say static typing gives you A and B. You're going to write your code in just one of them!
...it will seem as if a decent fraction of people read the post, but I think it only looks like that because people who didn't read the post get discouraged from commenting by the comment calling out the people who didn't read the post
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In general, I don't keep a record of this, but I happen to have an email written about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14915332 … when I tracked this. For a while, zero commenters had read anything. At 32 comments, 2 had read the abstract but it's clear that no one had read the actual paper...
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...since the comments couldn't possibly make sense if someone had read the paper. Maybe this is an unusual example because it's a paper, but I don't think that it's *all* that different when the link is a blog post and not a paper?
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I agree that were it not for call-outs, it would be worse. I just think it's a rare HN post where fewer than 1% of actual comments are readers.
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I was about to collect the comments on that post and sort them (probably read/unclear if they read/didn't read), then realized that if I posted the list, I'd be publicly insulting a lot of people...
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