The Hacker News Habit
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The Hacker News Habit
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#2Interesting idea, and I think I suffer from the same thing. I just save stories to Pocket and read them later, I'm not sure if this email based delivery has many advantages over that?
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#3It is a tremendous time sink, but I generally enjoy it. I don't spend a lot of time shooting up on Facebook, Instagram, etc. so I think on balance I'm largely okay.
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#4I definitely have this.
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#5> To note, I did use coroutines, which as of Kotlin 1.1 is still an experimental feature.
Mostly unrelated to the post at large, but coming up in 1.3 they are no longer experimental: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/07/see-whats-coming-i...
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#6Shouldn't this be prefaced with "Show HN"?
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#7There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money.
More often, I'll come across a problem and remember something that I've read that's applicable well enough to at least find it later when I need it.
I consider my time on HN and similar outlets at least partially "professional development."
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#8I scrolled some paragraphs without reading and read "Unfocused Reading is a Terrible Thing to Do". Oops.
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#9Impressive that you went "Android first" even though you were already familiar with iOS development! Kudos for that.
I often click to read the HN comments first, because they are often full of insight and interesting links. (This is also why I read HN from a custom #newsyc channel in our work Slack that posts links once they hit 20 points: it allows time for initial comments to accumulate, and Slack helpfully keeps track of "new" posts.)
Simply bookmarking the article itself to read later would not be as useful to me personally, but I bet there are lots of people who would find your approach helpful.
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#10If you're already familiar with iOS, you might enjoy using Kotlin Native. KotlinConf has a demo app for iOS written in Kotlin Native: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app