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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#151

Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time. As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.

> Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time.

Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned?

> As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.

As an intelligent person, one would think you might learn how to adapt your methods of expression.

I also know of occasions where people actually asked for advice on what they are doing wrong and got genuinely helpful responses. Perhaps you could consider that.

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Edit: To the people/person who downvoted - I don't care. I like HN, and I find the comments mostly valuable and the discussion mostly civil. After spending a lot of time on many forums over several decades I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly because of the strong moderation. If people are being shadow-banned here then there will be a reason underneath. They can complain as much as they like, but it's likely that if they don't change then the shadow-banning will continue. If they want to participate, and want not to be shadow-banned, then they need to change their behaviour, and seeking advice is often helpful.

So I stand by what I said, and in replying to the tone of the comment by Cytronex, I stand by how I've said it.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#152
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We did that. Thanks for using GitLab!

I interviewed with Gitlab for a business development position. I enjoyed writing the pre-screen essay questions, but received no feedback. The recruiter yawned through the interview and then provided no feedback as to why I was denied. Perhaps this is par for the course in sales, but what I've learned from HN is that the value of my expected income from poker and stock gambling is higher than from interviewing with s…

Thanks for your comment. We get over 1000 applications a month and we want to make sure everyone has a good experience. I'm sorry to hear yours wasn't. I've asked the peopleops function to comment. We monitor what score people that applied give us, it has improved from a low 3 to a 4.3 out of 5 in January.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#153
Through HN (and PG's) essays:

- Insight to plan 1 year sabbatical (financially and technically)

- Shipped a 3D game from ground up in that sabbatical, learn 3D graphics was the objective of that

- Got a scientific developer job as a result of that game, part of which was to contribute to OSS Libraries

- Now working as a freelance 3D graphics engineer

- Introduced me to Lisp which I have used ever since to learn hard topics

- Wrote a 3D asset kit for iOS, which is open source.

NONE of the above would have been possible at all without HN (and PG's) essays. Thanks a million!!!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#154
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I've been through a lot of web communities. HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse. The simple reason is that we like to be here! In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, your understanding of the world around you is drastically deepened by various points of view. I don't expect to find a better village anytime soon.

I'm very curious as to whether there are any other communities on the web that are as generally "high quality" as HN (bonus points if those communities are tech-focused or tech-adjacent). Anybody got any links?

To date HN has the highest (consistent) quality of any online community I've encountered

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#155
By studying posts, I inferred that a majority of AI research was conducted on Nvidia cards, due to software infrastructure, network effects, and switching costs. This stiffened my resolve to hold on to NVDA.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#157
I like HN because despite the liberal bias (IMO) responses to my conservative views are often decently thought out. Of course I get the down-votes too, but it helps me maintain my martyr complex. Best of both worlds.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#158
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For me the coolest thing about HN is the breadth of experts here for any (even niche) tech field. This allows for in depth understanding of new products (when someone who actually worked on the team making it is here) or calling out conspiracy theories about why some company shut down some product (because they have inside knowledge and can actually explain the reasoning). I can't count how many times I've read 'I wo…

A few of my favourites: Low level optimization - nkurz BeeOnRope dragontamer Programming Languages - pcwalton jordwalke chrisseaton Other people who work on well-known things that comment frequently: jblow (The Witness, Braid) phire (The Dolphin Emulator) pizlonator (Webkit/JSC) I made a web app just so I could subscribe and read all their comments via RSS: http://hnblogs.thume.ca/

I would add Radim (Gensim, Data Science)

I was pretty excited when he responded to my comment one time

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#160

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Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)

You wouldn't even need to mine it - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Sorry, I meant analyze. I actually am writing a blog post right now on this (this thread was very inspiring). Should be up in a day or two at https://applecrazy.github.io/blog
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