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I also read the good titles I missed during the week in the newsletter on Saturday morning.
I keep up to date about new technologies and directions, I think that helps me adding context to my managerial decisions.
My favorite use of HN is simply to get informed discussions on the pros and cons and alternatives to specific technologies I'm kicking the tires on.
For example, if I'm looking for a good VPS host that is cheap with great support I'll pick a random one off a Google search and then restrict it to HN discussions. Bingo, a plethora of alternatives from people with some experience with them.
Since my SHOW HN submission, though, I cannot complain at all :)
Also the 'best of/top links' is great for finding what has been popular (although it maybe too late to add your comment at this point):
Reddit, twitter, and youtube fill a similar space for me.
On the whole, they're net positive I'd say. I'm more informed about a wider range of topics and opinions than ever before.
If I want to chat with fun people, I use reddit.
I'm pretty new here. Less than two months. I've stopped using Facebook so I was looking for some other news outlets that I could use. Now I'm using Twitter, LinkedIn and HN. HN is taking much less of mine time than Facebook. I think that this is due to lack of visual distractions.
I would recommend reddit for real humans, but stay away from the front page. It's awful.
It keeps me informed but it definitely has a few negative qualities. - I seem to spend too much time on it. Obsessively checking it. Reading the comments. I recognize the behavior from when I was frequenting Slashdot back in the day. It definitely has some addictive qualities and I need to force myself to stop reading it so often. - The debate is a lot less fun than Slashdot used to be. I kind of miss the silliness.…
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