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Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#12BG: BA but also does data modeling and some scripting, overall non-technical.
The need to pursue a more technical career path brought me here. I'm 15-18 years away from a planned semi-retirement and my financial is good so far, so I don't care about "Fuck you" money and the business part of HN bores me. What is really intresting to me are topics that go deep into a programming topic e.g. compiler design.
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#13I really wish more people from "non-computer related" technical fields would contribute more here. It doesn't matter what; i see HN as a "curiosity-feeding" platform. Also it doesn't have to be the "Hard" Sciences; "Soft" sciences like Social Behaviour, Psychological insight etc. would also be welcomed. The domain knowledge coupled to solving problems in those domains (with/without aid of Computing) is what i would really like to read/understand more.
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#14BG: BA but also does data modeling and some scripting, overall non-technical. The need to pursue a more technical career path brought me here. I'm 15-18 years away from a planned semi-retirement and my financial is good so far, so I don't care about "Fuck you" money and the business part of HN bores me. What is really intresting to me are topics that go deep into a programming topic e.g. compiler design.
What is BG: BA?
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But the most interesting thing to me is the cognitive dissonance, ego, obstinacy, and single-mindedness of the discussions. Can you illustrate your points of complaint with examples, please? > It’s just as funny to me as browsing /r/SubredditDrama or any other hobby forum. I think no community should take themselves too seriously. People are people at the end of the day. :) IMHO: Stack Overflow was (and perhaps sti…
With the greatest of respect, a response of "illustrate your points of complaint [about us] with examples" is kind of case in point. You phrased it very politely and I promise I'm assuming good intent, but it is kind of funny. I don't think anyone needs convincing that there's plenty of egotism and single-mindedness here. Personally I would point to, very broadly, any discussion at all on finance or multilateralism.…
> The top comments on HN tend to have a very poor understanding of what the EU even is, how it works, what value it provides, and what it can and (especially) can't or shouldn't do. ... similarly, there isn't a huge amount of sophisticated discussion around banking and finance
Are these subjects you're particularly knowledgeable about? I find also for certain subjects I know a lot more about than most subjects (e.g. for me, music, philosophy, chess) each time I read a page of HN comments on the subject I swear it will be the last. The page is filled with misinformation, people who know nothing about the subject miscorrecting others, people just guessing aloud at length etc. I didn't want to be that guy who brings up the Gell-Mann amnesia effect yet again, having seen it mentioned on here so many times in the last few days! – but I then wonder if discussions that are opaque to me, because I know nothing about the subject, are as low-quality as those where I can judge the quality. Mostly I just trust they are far better. I'm sure on tech-related subjects the quality is higher.. But maybe every page seems woefully bad, to an expert in that subject, I don't know.
I have the feeling this comment has been written thousands of times before on HN.
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#16I really wish more people from "non-computer related" technical fields would contribute more here. It doesn't matter what; i see HN as a "curiosity-feeding" platform. Also it doesn't have to be the "Hard" Sciences; "Soft" sciences like Social Behaviour, Psychological insight etc. would also be welcomed. The domain knowledge coupled to solving problems in those domains (with/without aid of Computing) is what i would r…
> "Soft" sciences ... would also be welcomed
Thats a hard pass from me :D.
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#17BG: BA but also does data modeling and some scripting, overall non-technical. The need to pursue a more technical career path brought me here. I'm 15-18 years away from a planned semi-retirement and my financial is good so far, so I don't care about "Fuck you" money and the business part of HN bores me. What is really intresting to me are topics that go deep into a programming topic e.g. compiler design.
What is BG: BA?
Sorry I meant my background is business analysis
Re: Ask HN: Non-technical people – what brings you to HN?
#18I really wish more people from "non-computer related" technical fields would contribute more here. It doesn't matter what; i see HN as a "curiosity-feeding" platform. Also it doesn't have to be the "Hard" Sciences; "Soft" sciences like Social Behaviour, Psychological insight etc. would also be welcomed. The domain knowledge coupled to solving problems in those domains (with/without aid of Computing) is what i would r…
> "Soft" sciences ... would also be welcomed Thats a hard pass from me :D.
I know complex adaptive systems are hard to understand, but you should really try.