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I'm a passive reader here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their knowledge and wisdom and help me to learn new things on a daily basis.
The comments here are almost always more informative than the link itself.
I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist. Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my startup or pet project and be taken seriously. Long live Hacker News…
I wanted to make gentle fun of this then realized I feel exactly the same way
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Also, this Proclamation issued by Governor Wilbur Cross on Nov. 12, 1936 "Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not…
Is it just me, or were people much better at writing these in the past?
This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now not-so-wild west. Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off. As more and more young'uns join and jaded vete…
It's definitely taken a different path than the one it was on c.2010 where any entrepreneur was effectively worshipped. I'm not sure if it's better or worse. The site rarely brings me joy. If it disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't miss it, but I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
And yet here we are.
Differing perspectives: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22the%20orange%20site%22
This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
It can definitely be an echo chamber, the mods tend to flag/ [dead]/ bury posts and comments for no reason and turning on [dead] visibility is basically just 4chan, however I have received the most legitimate use from this site as people on it tend to be experienced and knowledgable
This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now not-so-wild west. Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off. As more and more young'uns join and jaded vete…
This is great. Can you give a citation?
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HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now not-so-wild west. Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off. As more and more young'uns join and jaded vete…
> "Conflict is essential to human life..." This is great. Can you give a citation?
> Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.