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I've used to program professionally when i was younger (still do as a hobby) and use HN to keep up to date on tech topics. Been working for an investment firm u

I've used to program professionally when i was younger (still do as a hobby) and use HN to keep up to date on tech topics. Been working for an investment firm until recently and it helps tremendously to understand underlying tech trends. HN can be skimmed quite quickly and the comments are usually insightful (although very biased). Also curiosity; e.g. trying to understand how people can retroactively justify using that disgusting mess that is the Javascript syntax & ecosystem. Graduated here from slashdot and digg back in the day as i became interested in startups. Additionally; where else to potentially find that mythical rockstar developer with aligned interests as the now useless 'idea guy'. Sometimes makes me feel like a gold-digger hanging out in a banker-bar though...

mi100hael 10y ago
> e.g. trying to understand how people can retroactively justify using that disgusting mess that is the Javascript syntax & ecosystem. Plenty of us engineers are here for the same reason...
- OJFord 10y ago
  It seems most justify it by hiding the disgusting mess behind that horrible (but 'pretty') cursive (though I think monospace) font that seems suddenly so popular.
jordanlev 10y ago
> trying to understand how people can retroactively justify using that disgusting mess that is the Javascript syntax & ecosystem. Not your main point, but it's very simple: if you're building a web app (or interactivity on a web page), you don't have a choice as it's the only thing that runs on browsers. (Or did you mean "why wouldn't people use a better language that compiles down to javascript"? To which I'd reply: it's one more layer of abstraction, and depending on the scale of your project it might not be worth adding that extra layer.)