It's the only place I ever manage to have substantive discussions of medical science. Given my diagnosis, this positively contributes to my failure to be dead yet.
I hope you continue to fail at dying.
Ask HN: What’s Your ROI in Browsing Hacker News?
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#13Immeasurable. I don't do any social media, or networking. HN lets me know what's hot, and I can filter whether or not I need it myself. HN brought me Golang, and I wouldn't have found it so early otherwise.
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#14I've directly found two jobs through HN, so already that's a massive benefit for me. Aside from that, I feel it's given me a much better grasp of both the breadth and depth of the tech industry.
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#15Since you are asking for the 'Return On Invest', I think there are two sides to this medal. I didn't have any large returns, but I like the content that comes up, so I try to limit the resources I invest.
I observed that giving my brain new(s) information in the morning makes it harder to concentrate later the same day. So I try to avoid visiting HN in the morning and wait until the afternoon.
To improve the noise to signal ratio, I also added a little widget to my new-tab-page showing me the current top 3 news of the 'best' list. That way I don't have to constantly monitor the site and don't miss the big stories either ;-)
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#16A random article on hacker news completely changed how I job search. This has led to several jobs I don't think I would have found otherwise.
The article was not about job search, it was a post reviewing a tech talk about technology that as you say may have been "too technical" for me at the time
This is not to say that I use hacker news for job search
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#17A random article on hacker news completely changed how I job search. This has led to several jobs I don't think I would have found otherwise. The article was not about job search, it was a post reviewing a tech talk about technology that as you say may have been "too technical" for me at the time This is not to say that I use hacker news for job search
Which article was it?
Re: Ask HN: What’s Your ROI in Browsing Hacker News?
#18Immeasurable. I don't do any social media, or networking. HN lets me know what's hot, and I can filter whether or not I need it myself. HN brought me Golang, and I wouldn't have found it so early otherwise.
My first thought was hn has negative roi for me as it is a time sink. But, like you, I first learned about Go here. A couple of folks at work and I introduced it to our org some maybe seven years ago. The org became a Go shop. I vastly prefer coding in Go compared to AnyEvent Perl or Twisted Python. So, hn has had a very big impact on me; immeasurable.
Re: Ask HN: What’s Your ROI in Browsing Hacker News?
#19A random article on hacker news completely changed how I job search. This has led to several jobs I don't think I would have found otherwise. The article was not about job search, it was a post reviewing a tech talk about technology that as you say may have been "too technical" for me at the time This is not to say that I use hacker news for job search
Which article was it?
It was on a talk about HalVM that was given at Microsoft Research. Had nothing to do with jobs
It changed how I find companies to work with