murdock is kil :(

apology for poor english

when were you when debian murdock dies?

i sat at home installing ubantoo when per ring

'ian is kill'

'no'

I was revising the latest version of FrozenChess
then found a thread on r/programming about it
Its seems, he wanted for his death to serve as signal US police is fucked up and his tweets are about bringing
it to mainstream consciousness of US public which is blind
to police brutality:it hard to justify police actions when it targets everyone not just minorities(i.e. he decided to martyr for a cause so we could remember this forever).
Whatever "SJW" views he had its a clear and obvious problem in
America he just brought to spotlight, just like the Aaron Swartz suicide controversy about paywalls and copyright.
P.S. /prog/ seems to be lacking in quality discussion this year.

>>12
The audience is the same.
The size of posts is all about typing effort, not quality.
Copypasta,in-jokes and memes are just a poor form of comedy.
Theres nothing serious about it, its more like r/linuxmemes instead of r/linux. And since the dominant content of /prog/ is terrible humor, which is almost everywhere it doesn't matter which thread you post on.
Moderation doesn't solve it, its all about the user culture:
reddit communities have related subreddits which contain
off-topic content or memes, just like any decent forum.
If there was /progmemes/ /progcode/ /progroleplay/ and /proghumor/ the userbase would focus on more specific content
categories. Instead /prog/ is cultural soup of different
groups with different interests, which alienates minority interest group from actively participating due being drowned
by meme/copypasta fanatics and political activists.
This creates a tense atmosphere where real discussion devolves into lowest denominator trash-talk. Quality or signal-to-noise drops with size and diversity of groups.
Stackoverflow deals with this by extreme moderation, while its
fairly easy to recategorize and move popular content where it
belongs. Seems to me /lounge/ serves more of generic chat, and
doesn't have much appeal to regulars of /prog/, so asking them to move to /lounge/ would be useless, since the content they produce deals with /prog/ issues and culture.