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Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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Looks nice! Might be worth clarifying in your bio or comment that you founded it too.

Or also that this is a paid service that's priced at several hundred dollars (billed annually! if you're cool enough to be "selected"!).

I don't think there's anything wrong in general with charging people for something you provide. I support that part.

I just think it's good to be clear about your relationship with the thing you're advertising.

Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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Or also that this is a paid service that's priced at several hundred dollars (billed annually! if you're cool enough to be "selected"!).

I don't think there's anything wrong in general with charging people for something you provide. I support that part. I just think it's good to be clear about your relationship with the thing you're advertising.

It's the combination of two things: saying that some solution is "so fucking worth" as if you're evaluating it impartially, and then also failing to mention that it costs a surprising amount of money.

The opposite would have been to say "I think I can solve this for you for $50 a month."

Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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It's Taiwan. Still the lowest COVID rate and from early on. Still one of the last democracies that aren't corrupted.

Yeah, my question was why . What is so different about it?

The constant threat of imminent destruction bringing people together?

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Except all statistics show that people who die from covid are the ones that were not vaccinated or were vaccinated but had a lot of other health problems. If you are healthy and are vaccinated you may get sick but you have many, many times lower chance of being hospitalised.

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Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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My mom lives in a red state (SC) and works at a hospital... they're going to have to call in the National Guard because of all of the covid cases. If you get in a car crash, good luck getting into the emergency room.

Same is happening in blue states like Rhode Island…..we have to move on and live with the virus, and red states knew that way before blue states. Don’t look at the case counts media is using to scare you, but rather hospitalizations and deaths

> ”we have to move on and live with the virus”

Thanks, this is the crux of my point really. There will never be ‘no Covid’ from here on out. We will never be able to eradicate it. The sooner we’ll all accept this the better. We will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.

Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs) so fucking worth

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Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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Finding the right Slacks and Discords will definitely help form more intimate relationships, but I've also been gaining a huge amount of value during the pandemic from the software engineering community on Twitter.

It took me a _long_ time to find the "real" software engineering community on twitter. If you just follow the topic, 98% of the "software engineering" tweets are garbage like > 10 reasons why JavaScript is the next BIG language that all developers should learn!!!1! just engagement spam. BUT, once you follow a good dev account you tend to find others.

Can you recommend some good dev accounts to bootstrap the discovery process?

Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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I found lunchclub.com useful for this.

I looked into this... I saw some folks claiming it's flooded with Amway and other MLM pushers. Have you experienced this?

I mostly talked to data-scientists in Europe and made interesting connections. I usually check people's LinkedIn, twitter, etc before agreeing to meet. So no, I haven't seen any MLM, but maybe I'm more strict in my filtering than others.

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I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs) so fucking worth

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Hey, the admins are being biased in my thread. They allowed a user to hijack the thread accusing me of being a liar. The thread has lost all of the original context and chocked the thread.

They've also been extremely biased in the number of supportive comments they've deleted as well as allowing comments that are personal attacks and name calling in violation of HackerNews rules claiming "fairness."

Please support me in asking them to remove the entire thread if they can't apply the rules equally. hn@ycombinator.com

In addition to the bias of allowing Alex to go by his legal name to avoid being identified after providing extensive documentation of Alex being his preferred name.

Re: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

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I use Founders Cafe for this. Everyday, I co-work with founders from Stanford/Harvard/YC in person (in PALO ALTO!) and also virtually too (everyday they have cowork seshs) so fucking worth

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Please don't cross into personal attack.

eatonphil has made the same point in a much better way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29817006.

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