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Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by leetbulb »

non-entity wrote: post #9
neon_me wrote: post #3

mostly (and still) on the un-encrypted IRC :D

Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing. No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a ques…

Some channels are just like that. If you have a question, usually you just ask and wait a while until someone gets around to answer it or have a conversation with you about it.

Checking my IRC client since yesterday, there's at least 500 new messages in almost all channels I've joined. Some more popular channels like #linux have constant conversations going.

Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

espeed wrote: post #10

True hackers can see the underlying structure of things others don't see. True hackers have the ability to solve problems others don't see. Real hackers are somewhere learning to see and helping others connect what's true so they can see too.

So, Slack?

Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by todd3834 »

I think I’m one of those people you are talking about. I don’t hang out in a secret place. I hang out here, subreddits for languages I’m interested in, many Slack groups for things I’m interested in, iMessage/SMS with current and previous co workers whom are enjoyable to talk to. I also hang out with my family and read a ton of programming books. If you find a secret place with more of these people I would love to know.

Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by demygale »

non-entity wrote: post #9
neon_me wrote: post #3

mostly (and still) on the un-encrypted IRC :D

Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing. No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a ques…

This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead.

I used to keep a few channels open at work all day long in 2007. #j2me, #java, #c. The conversation was active with no more than a few minutes of silence at a time. People would say good morning at the start of the day, goodbye at the end, they would talk about their weekend. It was like a virtual break room where you could ask tech questions (except #c was hostile to questions, those guys were weird) and make friendships.

It’s not just less active now. It’s dead every time I look.

Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by leetbulb »

demygale wrote: post #16
non-entity wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing. No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a ques…

This is my experience on irc today as well. It’s dead. I used to keep a few channels open at work all day long in 2007. #j2me, #java, #c. The conversation was active with no more than a few minutes of silence at a time. People would say good morning at the start of the day, goodbye at the end, they would talk about their weekend. It was like a virtual break room where you could ask tech questions (except #c was hosti…

This is just over the past couple days: https://i.imgur.com/WUFiL18.png

I wouldn't call it dead at all.

Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by [deleted] »

non-entity wrote: post #9
neon_me wrote: post #3

mostly (and still) on the un-encrypted IRC :D

Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing. No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a ques…

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Re: Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

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Post by justinclift »

non-entity wrote: post #9
neon_me wrote: post #3

mostly (and still) on the un-encrypted IRC :D

Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing. No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a ques…

That's fairly typical when you join an IRC channel where most people are in a substantially different timezone to you.

If you're in a channel at the same time as other people, it's fairly common for it to be active. Assuming interesting things to talk about. ;)

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