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I totally agree. One of the reasons I like HN: high signal to noise ratio.

by mclovinit 11y ago

mserdarsanli 11y ago
HN is also mostly crap
- hodwik 11y ago
  When you're first getting started in tech I think HN seems much more serious than it is. Once you're a bit more experienced you realize it's a bunch of hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies, and completely ignoring everything else as "old". That being said, I think it's highly entertaining.
  - lolidaisuki 11y ago
    > hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies Are you telling me that a new CSS framework that will save you two lines in your CSS files is insignificant? Or a new <insert the current language that is hip>-style language in <insert a number between 1 and 100> lines of JS! Surely these are the greatest inventions of our time.
    - hodwik 11y ago
      Right. Meanwhile forward-looking tech like gaze detection, word vectors, LPWAN, FPGAs, and so on, are lucky to get a couple posts a month.
      - dang 11y ago
        Why don't you post some?
        hodwik 11y ago
        Ain't nobody got time for that.
        dang 11y ago
        Since you have time to make this place worse by posting snarky comments about how beneath you it is, you should also have time to make it better.
      - mclovinit 11y ago
        I have been active in high tech for many moons and like to look at this place as just another alternative feed for a old man ;) I would much rather HN than other sources, but my time is limited like many. So I just hop on occassionally and learn (or teach) something new. Once in a while a post resonates with me, but when it doesn't that doesn't mean it's just noise. It can mean I have much to learn.
lolidaisuki 11y ago
> HN: high signal to noise ratio The signal on HN has started to decline tho. Things used to be better. It's kind of inevitable for online communities tho.
- mclovinit 11y ago
  I haven't been on for that long, but I am starting to see examples of what you mean. I tend to weed out what doesn't apply to me which I think many do.

I totally agree. One of the reasons I like HN: high signal to noise ratio.

mserdarsanli 11y ago

HN is also mostly crap

hodwik 11y ago
When you're first getting started in tech I think HN seems much more serious than it is. Once you're a bit more experienced you realize it's a bunch of hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies, and completely ignoring everything else as "old". That being said, I think it's highly entertaining.
- lolidaisuki 11y ago
  > hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies Are you telling me that a new CSS framework that will save you two lines in your CSS files is insignificant? Or a new <insert the current language that is hip>-style language in <insert a number between 1 and 100> lines of JS! Surely these are the greatest inventions of our time.
  - hodwik 11y ago
    Right. Meanwhile forward-looking tech like gaze detection, word vectors, LPWAN, FPGAs, and so on, are lucky to get a couple posts a month.
    - dang 11y ago
      Why don't you post some?
      - hodwik 11y ago
        Ain't nobody got time for that.
        dang 11y ago
        Since you have time to make this place worse by posting snarky comments about how beneath you it is, you should also have time to make it better.
    - mclovinit 11y ago
      I have been active in high tech for many moons and like to look at this place as just another alternative feed for a old man ;) I would much rather HN than other sources, but my time is limited like many. So I just hop on occassionally and learn (or teach) something new. Once in a while a post resonates with me, but when it doesn't that doesn't mean it's just noise. It can mean I have much to learn.

lolidaisuki 11y ago

> HN: high signal to noise ratio The signal on HN has started to decline tho. Things used to be better. It's kind of inevitable for online communities tho.

mclovinit 11y ago
I haven't been on for that long, but I am starting to see examples of what you mean. I tend to weed out what doesn't apply to me which I think many do.