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1) Pick a popular language

2) Figure out something controversial to say about it and a justification for that

3) Write it up and post it to reddit, HN, &c

4) Enjoy the hits

EDIT: Which is enabled by this - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037649

Pretty much this. Instead of reading about how awesome C is, I would much rather read a concrete example of a problem which you were facing and how you used C to solve it. Get to learn something in the process.

Very true, but I do end up learning a lot from the HN discussions. I'm a C guy myself, but I try not to be biased. I always tell new programmers to try and not favor any language, as they all have their uses.

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