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I understand your jest, but it got me thinking... I think I finally connect with reason why some people here defend the community so fiercely; It is so that ti

I understand your jest, but it got me thinking... I think I finally connect with reason why some people here defend the community so fiercely; It is so that time spent on HN is spent learning something useful. I have probably wasted lots of time here, yes, but I have also learned so darn much! I just need to leave a few hours of the day open to actually implement what I've learned... which I do, thankfully. If you stop finding HN useful, or you start coming here just to burn time or be entertained or to avoid work, and you really don't put any of the things you learn here to use... then, yes, its probably time to say byebye.

dkersten 16y ago
I understand your jest I was only partially joking... I actually DO spend more time than I should on HN! You are right though - I do learn a lot from HN, but at the same time, I often browse just for the sake of it, or to procrastinate. So it goes both ways really. If you stop finding HN useful, or you start coming here just to burn time or be entertained or to avoid work Exactly. and you really don't put any of the things you learn here to use I hope that I do put the things I learn to good use! There is a lot of really useful information floating around here, I'd hate to spend all this time reading it without applying it. Most of the startup related information has yet to be applied, but I hope to soon. The programming related information does get good use though.
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