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'Hackaday' - https://hackaday.com/
'Slashdot' - https://slashdot.org/
'Stackoverflow' - https://stackoverflow.com/
Also, haven't used it for a while, but IRC is still going. #math on freenode is apparently still fairly good, according to a few people I know.
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I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).
what's your email?
I am going to get banned for this, but 4chan's /g/ is unironically a nice place
No, it's not. It's a terrible place full of extremely dumb and sad (but technologically curious) kids. But it can be hilarious. Yesterday, there was an HN post and a /g/ thread about Intel's new CPU, and the discussion was so parallel -- the same noises of neuroticism and pessimism, but in HN delivered in pedantic paragraphs and on /g/ distilled in crude, biting brevity. For that reason, I linked the thread and got d…
lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.
Although it began that way, that's 100% inaccurate today. Most threads have low noise with high civility. The biggest, meta debates are about whether politics should be included or about a politically-incorrect topic/comment. The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out. Which they do here and there with debate…
Reddit : /r/programming Twitter : to follow some personalities in the field I'm currently interested in Telegram : I like the devs network, mainly the Linux group chat of this network
twitter I have curated it to the point where I almost never see anything political and there is a lot of really good content. It's all computer vision, computer graphics, demoscene, black/grey hat and startupy type stuff.
Aside for stupid memes, every now and then there is a story that temporarily cures my impostor syndrome / helps my everyday struggle seem like a fun day at the beach compared to crap some (fellow 3rd world) developers have to go through to make a living.
'The Well' - https://www.well.com/ 'Hackaday' - https://hackaday.com/ 'Slashdot' - https://slashdot.org/ 'Stackoverflow' - https://stackoverflow.com/ Also, haven't used it for a while, but IRC is still going. #math on freenode is apparently still fairly good, according to a few people I know.