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I generally consume reddit. I participate on HN.
Very well put. I'm the same way. I have "reddit enhancement suite" installed, and "view images" on /r/pics is something I check out every day. The sfwporn subreddits are really beautiful too. This was a thing I made a couple of years ago: http://thingist.com/labs/ipad.shtml (I was trying to think of something to do with an old iPad)
Yes, for two reasons: news gathering and interesting programming stuff. The programming sections (Python, Scala etc.) are basically Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff which I couldn't care less about. And there's lots of subreddits which contain links that are of specific interest from different countries and specific interesting c…
The absolute best email I ever got, and one I will treasure is from a guy who read something I'd written on Reddit's LGBT section, clicked through and saw that I also am a programmer and big old nerdy nerd and was encouraged to come out to his parents. He told me that all the advice he'd seen online didn't speak to him precisely because it didn't come from people who were like him.
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> Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff An interesting thing about Hacker News is that here you can read and talk to people who have become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and made millions of dollars.
Yeah, but I don't care about entrepreneurship or becoming an entrepreneur or about Silicon Valley. I'm a programmer not a businessman. More than that: I like being a programmer and don't want to be an entrepreneur. Compilers lie to me less regularly than humans do. See http://tommorris.org/posts/2491