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Happy New Year HN!
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#112Happy New Year everyone!
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing people want to talk about is the day job!
The Bay Area in the early 2000's and even into the early 2000-teens was NOT like this. You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and the people at the table next to you might chime in with a solution! When you get enough passionate people and pack them into one location things get interesting for them (networking, friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of people see tech as a path to a payche…
There's still good stuff going on at local meet ups. I have experienced it myself.
Honest truth is there were always folks without passion in tech.
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#114Happy new year everyone, been lurking in this site since 2009? I think, so hope everyone has a wonderful year!
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing people want to talk about is the day job!
The Bay Area in the early 2000's and even into the early 2000-teens was NOT like this. You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and the people at the table next to you might chime in with a solution! When you get enough passionate people and pack them into one location things get interesting for them (networking, friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of people see tech as a path to a payche…
That's because it's not a good vision for the future, it's literally either building shit that everyone knows doesn't matter or plugging away at pointless automation on overcomplicated piles of steaming crap. Or the next fad.
People have lost the vision and do not understand the soul of the machine is to improve our state of existence not enslave us further.
Fuck 'em. I'm taking the money and doing what makes me feel good (wine, floozies and travel).
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#116This is the place where I consistently leave in a better mood than I arrived. Thank you everyone for showing me I don’t have to be an asshole to get my point across!
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#117I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that feels like home, even if I'm usually just lurking around and overhearing conversations. Thanks everyone for sharing!
I had a solid email thread with friends from college going for these types of conversations for about 10 years after graduation, but with kids and moving around that all ended.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Bay Area in the early 2000's and even into the early 2000-teens was NOT like this. You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and the people at the table next to you might chime in with a solution! When you get enough passionate people and pack them into one location things get interesting for them (networking, friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of people see tech as a path to a payche…
There's still good stuff going on at local meet ups. I have experienced it myself. Honest truth is there were always folks without passion in tech.
Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a drinking problem, which is perfect :)
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#120Happy new year everyone! Everyone who posts and comments here has inspired me in so many ways.
Books, programming tricks, views on life, interesting blog posts, and all that without any distractions.
hn.algolia.com and news.ycombinator.com are my go to, everyday.