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I've always felt that the real good people don't have time for these secretive communities, they'd rather be doing shit so you'll always have the middle ground
by citricsquid 16y ago
I've always felt that the real good people don't have time for these secretive communities, they'd rather be doing shit so you'll always have the middle ground between mediocre and amazing. I'm sure the "best" (with regards to what they do) hackernews members rarely (if ever) comment because they're too busy being the best, you don't get to the top by talking about it.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThis is sometimes true, sometimes not. I know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work. By the same token, if you check out /leaders, lots of people at the top _are_ killing it. There are obviously tons of successful people that aren't on HN, but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven.
- citricsquid 16y ago> but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven. but I didn't even say that, you just pulled that quote out of thin air. Of course posting here doesn't make you unsuccessful, but if you are successful you're less likely to be posting here. I at no point claimed the former...
- steveklabnik 16y agoSorry, I didn't mean to imply that you said that directly, just using quotes for grouping... maybe single quotes? Or just re-working the sentence?
- krainboltgreene 16y agobut if you are successful you're less likely to be posting here Anything to back that up?
- petercooper 16y agoI know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work. This is also true of GitHub. But both GitHub and Dribbble are places where you show off evidence of your work. HN is more a talking shop.