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How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by ry0ohki »

kkowalczyk wrote: post #51

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error and I worry people will learn the wrong lesson here. The OP's story is: 1. learned to program iOS (hard, completely under OP's control) 2. wrote and published iOS app (hard, under OP's control) 3. the app failed so wrote a blog post about his experience (easy although often neglected by programmers, under OP's control) 4. HN picked up the story which led to interview (total…

At least the irony of him noting the discourse had turned negative is not lost on you...

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by raganwald »

zio99 wrote: post #25
patio11 wrote: post #16

As long as we're on the love boat: I've met at least three good friends here. Y'all have collectively pushed my career in a quite different direction than it was probably on when I started. I think I'd probably have ended up quitting ye olde day job and putting the BCC phase of my life in the "That was fun and I learned a lot, but time to get serious, what is next?" bucket. Then I would have done what everyone other…

It would be interesting then to do a Hacker News meetup, at least in Toronto, and we can reminisce on the recent HN front page articles. How great would that be? Thanks for the inspiration patio11. +1. Any one here from Toronto?

Nope, nobody from Toronto.

(Written at Coxwell & Queen) ;-)

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by crgt »

knz wrote: post #11
ecaron wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another good take-away, though not directly mentioned in the post, is befriend HN users both in the real world and online.

Following this advice... If any other Minneapolis/St Paul based HN users are lurking out there and are interested in meeting up (or know of any similar events) then please reply here or email.

I'm in Mpls and would love to meet up.

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

zacharycohn wrote: post #56
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #18

OP: I'm curious to know whether we've ever crossed paths. It looks like we're about the same age (assuming the age you listed on some game website I just found is accurate). I was born and raised in Minneapolis, graduated from the U of MN with a Computer Science degree in 2003, and pulled up stakes to move to Seattle as soon as I could. If you were ever in debate, speech, or quiz bowl in high school between 1997 and…

You should come by the Hacker News Seattle meetup sometime. :) ( http://www.meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattleMeetup/ )

I keep meaning to…thanks the reminder :)

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by btilly »

patio11 wrote: post #16

As long as we're on the love boat: I've met at least three good friends here. Y'all have collectively pushed my career in a quite different direction than it was probably on when I started. I think I'd probably have ended up quitting ye olde day job and putting the BCC phase of my life in the "That was fun and I learned a lot, but time to get serious, what is next?" bucket. Then I would have done what everyone other…

Funny how that works. There are no shortage of people who would like to talk to you. Heck, if you're ever in the Los Angeles area, drop me a line. I'm btilly@gmail.com.

For me the best moment was when I met pg at SXSW in 2010, said my name, and he knew who I was. I've been reading his stuff since before Hacker News existed, so that was a thrill.

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Post by hv23 »

btilly wrote: post #68
patio11 wrote: post #16

As long as we're on the love boat: I've met at least three good friends here. Y'all have collectively pushed my career in a quite different direction than it was probably on when I started. I think I'd probably have ended up quitting ye olde day job and putting the BCC phase of my life in the "That was fun and I learned a lot, but time to get serious, what is next?" bucket. Then I would have done what everyone other…

Funny how that works. There are no shortage of people who would like to talk to you. Heck, if you're ever in the Los Angeles area, drop me a line. I'm btilly@gmail.com. For me the best moment was when I met pg at SXSW in 2010, said my name, and he knew who I was. I've been reading his stuff since before Hacker News existed, so that was a thrill.

Grubwithus is hosting a dinner/meetup later this month in LA for HN'ers to get together offline- you should come! https://www.grubwithus.com/meals/hacker-news-956e459396fe

(disclosure: I work @ GWU)

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by re_todd »

_feda_ wrote: post #19

I guess what I love so much about HN is the generally high amount of content that is relevant to me, which seems to be hard to find elsewhere on the vast expanses of the internet. I can read articles from HN all night, but it doesn't feel like a waste of time. 99% of the time I'll have learned quite a lot by the end of the night.

Agreed about the relevant content. I have no interest in joining a startup, but I spend more time on HN than any other site. Discussions on CSS, Rails, cryptography and dozens of other interesting subjects are always interesting and keep me learning something new.
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