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Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#342An experience of a community that is respectful, mature and is one of the few places on the internet where I read the comments, and don't feel ashamed of humanity afterwards.
It's also linked me to all kinds of interesting tech I would otherwise have missed, which in turn, indirectly, helped me get a new job last year. I probably never would have bothered learning Vue.js if there wasn't such a buzz around it on here, and I got a job out of it.
Lastly, HN has made me nervous of using the word 'electron' in a sentence
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#343HN is a watering hole for well intentioned smart people. I have learned a lot from the community and try to give back.
Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that I can have good arguments with That's the really special part. There's plenty of places to find people that have a differing opinion, but HN does the best job I've encountered of fostering good, substantive discussion. It doesn't always work, but it works here more often and on more subjects than anywhere else I've found. That "more subjects" part is important too, since unlike a smaller more focused forum, yo…
I think this happens mostly because the site looks so boring on the outside to anyone but tech professionals and hobbyists and proper nerds. This discourages the majority of people who would otherwise bring immaturity to HN. Thankfully it's not yet had its Eternal September [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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#345I learned about Bitcoin here when it was just a whitepaper, but didn't recognize the opportunity then. A year ago, another user mentioned Monero so I looked into and discovered it's more "bitcoin" than Bitcoin and bought what I could. I'm not a millionaire, but it sure has helped me financially, so I'm really appreciative that I took advantage of that opportunity. EDIT: and for something a little more intrinsic: Ever…
My experience as well - Bitcoin was still in single digits when HN made me stumble over it. Many ycombinator applications and projects later I launched a Bitcoin related company and couldn't be happier. The first HN discussion I saw was the one where someone had asked how he could store data and make sure it's still readable 40 years later... the answers where so smart, funny, detailed and out of this world it got me hooked. Thanks HN &a community.
Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#346A sense of dispair: still no idea which web framework to choose.
I know this is tongue and cheek but if anyone out there really feels this, there's two good directions to go: 1) Choose _any_ of your candidate frameworks and gogogo. 2) Choose something like golang and learn to bring-your-own-framework. Either way you'll come out _far_ ahead of where you'd be if you'd spent your time just evaluating.
Now I'm going to write a web framework in Go called "gogogo" just to really confuse future readers of your reply.
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#3471,5 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.…
What a story! Though I am not depressed, I find myself extremely frustrated with a performance-obsessed society at the moment. I go to one of the most prestigious schools in my country. That should feel like an accomplishment, but I am now surrounded by people "better" than me. It's inspiring, but it also demolishes your ego, from time to time. Last night I had a dream of becoming true friends with a colleague that i…
Seems like me.
I am studying in Tokyo, Japan. The pressure is so high as I am surrounded by highly-intelligent and hard-working people around me. The machine learning research for Master's degree here is somewhat equivalent to PhD level in my home country (I am from Southeast Asia)
Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#348TL;DR — It's my daily dose. I come here for the variety of content and the discussions. I very much admire how some people here write and put forth their thoughts (the thoughts themselves are so valuable). I also like how this forum of probably hundreds of thousands of users is polite and maintained that way (wish I could do that elsewhere), and would love to pick the brains of the moderators sometime.
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a. Several years ago, I used to follow a handful of tech sites on a daily basis. When I discovered HN, I still used it to go straight to the articles/headlines that interested me, never looking at the discussions here. Later, I switched to looking at the discussions, and now the discussions are where I start at everyday, and it's only after checking out the discussion that I decide whether to visit the linked site or not.
b. I don't follow all the discussions here, and I do wonder how, with HN's primitive interface, people keep up with nested comments and replies. So I don't look at nested comments below two levels or so, and instead use the comment collapse button ([-]), which for some reason appears only on desktop browsers, to collapse comments and check the high level ones (this also means sometimes missing valuable comments that may be in the replies).
c. I also end up wasting a lot of time because of HN (yeah, I know about the profile options) and the links posted here.
d. On the negative side, there are some topics that I do avoid discussing here because even the most liberal minded/rational people have some limits (please don't ask me about this).
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#349Nearly 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…
From the thousands of links we click on HN, Webflow is actually one of the few I can remember without even visiting the website again ;-)
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#350On HN I saw this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156478 (you can see my comment on it too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157074)
Through that I contacted the author, we became friends, hung out at the IOI, and eventually he referred me to Shopify, where I've worked for the last 4.5 years. Because of that I also lived in Canada for 3.5 years. Quite a ride.