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.
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!