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!
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The article I'm subtweeting did NOT make this mistake, and was up-front about this limitation. But that article caused internet fights, and the commenters in THOSE made that mistake. (the other big mistake people made was "commenting without reading the essay.")
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What % of commenters do you think read posts before commenting? From reading comments threads that are mis-titled, where everyone is commenting on something unrelated to the actual post, I think it's under 1%. I wouldn't be shocked if it's under 0.1%, but I suspect it's over.
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Hmm, when I read the HN comments on her post (just as a convenient one), I find that most comments are responding to the general idea, but far more than 1% suggest they read it. I'm put more blame on reading comprehension/lack of clear thinking more than lack of reading.
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Often, people reference a specific line or phrase in a comment that shows they still didn't understand.
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When a post is mis-titled, if you read it at the beginning, I think there's usually a pretty long time period where there are no on topic comments. Someone will (usually) eventually note that no one is reading the post, which seems to stop that, so if you look at it afterwards...
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...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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Have you seen this before? https://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-read-anymore … Sadly they got rid of the comments section so it loses a bit of its oomph
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Comments don't seem to be available at http://archive.org because they were dynamic? That's unfortunate.https://web.archive.org/web/20140918230543/https://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-read-anymore …
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Replying to @danluu @hillelogram
A selection of facebook comments:https://kotaku.com/a-reminder-that-not-everyone-reads-before-commenting-1557812641 …
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