Ask HN: How to keep up?

#1

Post by AbdulBahajaj » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 10:34 PM UTC

How to keep up with the frontier of technology, programming methodologies, etc.. Is there like a Techcrunch for that?

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#2

Post by boniface316 » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 10:52 PM UTC

Meetup...I think thats the only way.

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#3

Post by tpiha » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 11:05 PM UTC

boniface316 wrote: post #2

Meetup...I think thats the only way.

I don't really go to meetups and I consider myself pretty up to date.

I believe a person can keep up with the technology just by reading on the Internet, maybe by being a member of some expert groups on Facebook / LinkedIn (and reading the content).

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#4

Post by AbdulBahajaj » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 11:57 PM UTC

tpiha wrote: post #3

boniface316 wrote: post #2

Meetup...I think thats the only way.

I don't really go to meetups and I consider myself pretty up to date. I believe a person can keep up with the technology just by reading on the Internet, maybe by being a member of some expert groups on Facebook / LinkedIn (and reading the content).

How to find them or do you have links?

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#5

Post by JeffreyKaine » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 12:02 AM UTC

Just spending your time here will get you pretty far. HN is kind of the techcrunch for that.

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#6

Post by tpiha » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 2:51 AM UTC

AbdulBahajaj wrote: post #4

tpiha wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really go to meetups and I consider myself pretty up to date. I believe a person can keep up with the technology just by reading on the Internet, maybe by being a member of some expert groups on Facebook / LinkedIn (and reading the content).

How to find them or do you have links?

I don't think my links would help you, most of those are Croatian (local) communities. I'm a member of some developers groups, system administrator groups and few of them for every programming language I use.

That, plus Hacker News and maybe something like TechChrunch and you should be covered nicely.

Reddit is probably a good place to get informed too, but I don't use it personally.

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#7

Post by izolate » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 10:35 AM UTC

You want it spoonfed to you, but to really keep up you must learn to seek information out. There is no shortage of brilliant people in our industry pumping out insightful article after article. Start googling.

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#8

Post by brudgers » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 1:27 PM UTC

At best a person might keep up with a sliver or two of the frontier and chase a few more. But the idea of being on a par with people Norvig and Moore and Cunningham and... all at the same time? Nobody can.

Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#9

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 08, 2015, 4:19 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How to keep up?

#10

Post by rrrrrraul » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 2:32 AM UTC

Follow blogs / forums / prominent devs on Twitter for the tech you use /are interested in, at least that's what I do. And HN =)