I'm an educator; specifically a high-school teacher teaching plain old "Computer Science I". But Hacker News has helped me (and, in turn, my students) to be mo

I'm an educator; specifically a high-school teacher teaching plain old "Computer Science I". But Hacker News has helped me (and, in turn, my students) to be more self-aware, and encouraged me to work harder and take more risks than I'm naturally inclined to. Edit: Oh, and I write small software tools to improve my teaching/grading workflow, but I did that even before Slashdot got started.