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.
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.
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.
It is a bad place that is, unfortunately, a decent tech news / neat GitHub project aggregator.
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.
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.
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.
That's a healthy attitude!