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I don't mind the region wise fragmentation personally. I cannot be global - I can't keep track of every single world hacker-related event and, if it is forced o
by ScottWhigham 16y ago
I don't mind the region wise fragmentation personally. I cannot be global - I can't keep track of every single world hacker-related event and, if it is forced on me, I will reject it (whether consciously or subconsciously).
I have the largest interest in my community and I mean "community" in both the sense of the hacker community, but also my regional community: Texas, United States, North America, Western Hemisphere, Europe, Australia, and then "The Rest of the World" in that order. If "The Rest of the World" begins to dominate the stories or even if Australia, for example, starts dominating the stories then I will head to somewhere where more of my interests are shown.
And I think that's just basic human nature. We can only read so many headlines, articles, posts in a day and it makes sense that we self-filter to select the sites that show us things that are the most interesting to us.
- MrMan 16y agoI have no regional community. I live in a certain place, but my servers are not here, my collaborators are not here, my customers are not here. What is "here?"
- ScottWhigham 16y agoI don't buy that. You do have a regional community. You may choose not to participate in it or may not wish to but you do have a regional community. I would venture to guess that you are fairly young to make that comment as well and also have no children. Once you have a spouse, children, parents who need support of one kind or another, your idea of "community" becomes centered much more in the real world than in this virtual world.
- MrMan 16y agoI meant community in business, work. I am middle-aged, with children. I do not make money from the community in which I live, I make it globally. It is an accident, not a matter of choice initially. I choose to keep it that way because I find it liberating. My work environment is spread between clients, algorithms, infrastructure, all global. My network of family is thankfully centered around my physical home, and my network of friends is global. Sry to go on at length, but I found your comment provocative and I wanted to paint a clear picture.