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posted by martyb on Sunday May 18 2014, @07:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the print-does-not-mean-the-opposite-of-cursive dept.

I have loved the /. community for its articles and cynicism since the early 2000's, and now my favorite community is you soylentils. But let's say I want to read these full stories in print. What magazines or journals are out there? I'd like to see something with stories within the scope of SoylentNews or Vice's Motherboard, but with a more critical (as in deep-thinking, not just the pessimism and ideological fighting) exploration of today's issues.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday May 19 2014, @05:43PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 19 2014, @05:43PM (#45304) Journal

    Did he? To an extent it's mind candy. It depends on the area of specialization. The point I was making was that it's NOT a technology journal, more popular science. It never tells you how to do anything, or compares products. At most it tells you, in popular terms, what some extreme specialists have done using really difficult and expensive tools...leaving out most of the technical details. If you want to understand a ribosome, you can sometimes get more details than you would find in a high school textbook. It shows fancy pictures from the work of astronomers. But it doesn't interpret them well enough that another astronomer could use them. Etc.

    Please note: This is not to slam the Scientific American. It fills an important niche. But it's not a technical magazine. I don't know of anything even on the level of Byte these days. Even DDJ has become less technical, despite source code being a lot more available.

    It is an unfortunate truth that magazines tend to expand in the direction of a larger audience. This means that specialized magazines tend to become less specialist. (An exception may be magazines published by professional societies, but even those have this tendency. They don't want to repeat themselves, even though many of their subscribers don't have the older issues. Just TRY to find a magazine article on, say, B+Tree optimization these days. You *may* find it via a web search, but you won't find it via a magazine article. Once you could have.)

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