• Tyreup [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Yep. The real tragedy is that it's 100x better than reddit or most other places for purely technical programming discussion.

      To the point that whenever I see an interesting post on r/programming with like 4 comments that are all inane bullshit, I know that I can go over to HN and read a few pages of pretty well informed feedback on the contents of the link.

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        It's also a good place to subject yourself to the grossness of large swaths of tech culture. Nowhere else can you find the creator of the D language repeatedly claiming that oppression doesn't exist and that nobody who isn't disabled us a victim of anything.

        A good way to remind yourself what opinions the technical "greats" are frequently harboring.

        • Tyreup [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Thing is I literally don't care about the opinions of the creator of the D language. Or any other commenter there. On anything that's not programming related.

  • skeletorsass [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Cursed orange website which defend Apple business decision and do not care about right to repair or other corporate overreach into hacker world.

    I have fought with their user many times. I also am terrified posting there because I must read over my post and have correct gramar or they will attack me. The thing I like most about here over reddit or there is that I do not need to worry.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The commenters there just love to be contrarian shitheads with zero self awareness that their entire industry lives and dies by a bunch of billionaires funding absolutely any half-assed idea in the hopes that they can beat Treasury bond interest rates, and that one successful startup that gets sold off to the bagholders retail investors recoups the losses of thousands of completely fucking stupid startups like Juicero.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      They think they produce value which will be ever lasting. They don't see how for the vast majority of them the wages already fell hard and the trend isn't minimizing. When the major player do start to pay less for the so called "talent" they will be just minimum wage workers, too.

      • footfaults [none/use name]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The major companies have already been controlling wages, for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

        The problem is everyone in Silicon Valley thinks they're smarter than everyone else.