The opportunity to develop perspective and taste when it comes to programming languages, libraries, and paradigms. I read "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?" for the first time because it gets posted to HN every couple of months (the mods should automate it at this point.) I've seen a steady drip of interesting discussions about and debates among proponents of lisps and statically typed functional languages -- and at the same time I witnessed the fall of Rails and the rise of one hot Javascript framework after another. If it weren't for HN, I'd still be blaming myself for not doing OO right, instead of coming to understand that OO is metaphor rather than science.
Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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#382I extensively use HN to do http://www.netmba.com/strategy/swot/
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#3831,5 years ago, i was suicidal ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051611 ). 1 week after posting this. I got a visit from the police. Apparently, someone gave them the ip and it took them a week to locate me. They wanted to take me to the hospital to check if i had mental problems. Of course they couldn't force me to go. I assured them that i would fix my problems and make a therapy. It was a wakeup call for me.…
Great to see you here again and particularly great to hear these news! I was already relieved to see your HN submission in May and now I see that was the time when the first public contributions after your AskHN appeared on the GH profile you used here (What I didn't see is that you already used reddit again only some 3 weeks later) The reason I contacted the police was that I wanted to delegate taking care of this t…
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#384HN has made me a much better writer. So thank you all for that!
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#385A job. Applied to a position posted at the who’s Hiring and will be starting soon.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
You only got ~60 upvotes? Interesting, I always thought the number of upvotes for a Show HN post correlates to its future success.
Dropbox had about 60 if I remember right (109 now) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 .
it's a weird metric.
Obviously a TOTALLY different league, but I have a small text editor plugin that got < 10 upvotes, and how has 500,000 installs. don't think I ever posted.it anywhere else.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
lobster.rs[0] is pretty good for tech (specifially software development) topics. [0]: https://lobste.rs/
My first impression:
"Deldo is a sex toy control and teledildonics mode for Emacs"
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#388Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…
I love Webflow! It perfectly fills a niche between Weebly / Wix and raw HTML / CSS / JS.
It's for the technically savvy who want to build websites quickly but for whom Weebly / Wix are just too inflexible.
You guys did such a nice job executing on the UI/UX of Webflow. It feels very quick and offers lots of choices without overwhelming me. That's such a rare quality these days.
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#389HN has given me hopes and dreams about 10 years. I have not yet created any unicorn company. But I have quit my job and started doing software development as a freelancer.
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#390Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…
I love Webflow! It perfectly fills a niche between Weebly / Wix and raw HTML / CSS / JS. It's for the technically savvy who want to build websites quickly but for whom Weebly / Wix are just too inflexible. You guys did such a nice job executing on the UI/UX of Webflow. It feels very quick and offers lots of choices without overwhelming me. That's such a rare quality these days.
As somebody trying to figure out what Webflow was. This description makes a lot of sense to me.