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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by tbuddy on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:06PM

    by tbuddy (932) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:06PM (#3700)

    I started reading slashdot in 1999 when it was much more active and I really can't envision soylent becoming something like slashdot at its greatest points nor slashdot at its present. Linux has come a long was from when I first got into it (which was by no means early) trying to get X to launch on some abysmal Creative Labs card and buying US Robotics Modems to replace my WinModem to get online with it to something that is generally fit for consumption. Similarly coding has come a decent way from the old abysmal 10 kilobuck Borland IDEs to average Joes writing rails apps and calling themselves software engineers.
     
    At the end of the day I think slashdot has always been about the articles regardless of how many times someone complains about the timothy's, kdawson's, or whatever editor someone wants to hate on. As long as the comments keep coming it is all good, for soylent or slashdot.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by smurd on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:36PM

    by smurd (1406) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:36PM (#3736)
    My story is probably similar, I've been reading since around '99, 00-ish but only commenting when it's in my field of expertise.
    There are plenty of tech news sites out there, but the . was the only one where some of the comments were written by someone with actual expertise in the field, and wasn't afraid to actually give out the math.
    That is rare, almost unheard of.
    I don't know what kind of market there is for that but I'm one of them.
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by mtrycz on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:02PM

      by mtrycz (60) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:02PM (#3768)

      There were not-set-in-stone plans to add math capabilities to the comments, something similar to latex. There's a js library for that, but can't remember the name.

      Hope you'll find this good news.

      • (Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 21 2014, @02:41AM

        by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Friday February 21 2014, @02:41AM (#4132)

        MathJax [mathjax.org]

        AIUI, MathJax has one rendering engine and several parsers, including ones for MathML and LaTeX. Not sure how it would be integrated, so not all notations might be available (I think the lameness filter may be an issue for MathML), but I heard LaTeX specifically mentioned. I suspect most of us are at least as comfortable with LaTeX notation as MathML, and it's way less typing. (MathML might be useful for pasting in from other sources, though.)