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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by chrisper »

opportune wrote: post #154
arkis22 wrote: post #14

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

I'd say Quora is rather good as well.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sizzle »

garry wrote: post #79

I found out about Y Combinator through HN in 2007. The big thing I learned from PG's essays and the links on HN were that I could start a company myself, and that there were lots of smart people like me who had done it and were going to do it. It gave me the confidence to quit and start working on something. The next year I applied and got in with my startup Posterous. We built that to a Top 250 Quantcast site, and T…

This is inspiring thanks for sharing

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by _jcwu »

arkis22 wrote: post #14

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 remember when I first joined that I really liked how people who disagree here do not downvote but rather challenge you through a comment. It was a nice change from reddit...

But times have changed and people love to downvote here these days.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by Walkman »

It changed my life. I found edw519's free ebook and after reading it, I jumped out of bed and learned Python. He wrote that you don't need a university degree to be a programmer. I believed that and I will be a senior developer soon. Never been happier in my entire life, really!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by nadiav1 »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #182
nadiav1 wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@anoncoward111 Thank you for your comment, we always appreciate feedback. If you reached back for further feedback, kindly keep in mind, in this instance, we work with the BDR Hiring team, before proceeding, as we have an exceptionally strong pipeline of candidates for this role and it takes a little longer than usual to reach back. @sytse comment below is spot on in terms of how we measure during each interview. You…

No worries! I appreciate you writing to me and do not wish to cause any trouble or problems in the system. I think my comment is moreso reflective of the problems that persist in hiring today- massive candidate pipelines, subjective differences in candidates, ambitious growth targets vs a need to stay lean. I wish GitLab and all startups the best in the future. I don't know where I fit into the startup world anymore,…

Great reply, thank you!!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by meesterdude »

arkis22 wrote: post #14

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.

> HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse.

I might agree with the first point, but the latter two have a checkered past, and would indeed be two points of improvement I think we as a community would do well to focus more on.

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