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Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?
by ithrow 6y ago
Just curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?
- esaym 6y agoWas going to ask this too lol
- MivLives 6y agoSpeculation: - Could be they have a hobby of computers - Could be they are still in school Not everyone who cares about tech news is working in the tech field.
- ithrow 6y agoHN is way more geeky/nerdy than your regular tech news, hence my curiosity.
- Loughla 6y agoNot really, it's just slower moving. For every 1 real geek tech post, there are two or three days of regular news things. I came here based on the slower, more thoughtful discussion. I'm in higher ed, not even close to tech.
- kickout 6y agoNot in tech either, but I like reading and casually following the scene. Kinda funny watching the language flame-wars every so often
- minimidge 6y agoObviously, Haskell is the superior option here. Anything else is a travesty.
- danielovichdk 6y agoYou're WRONG. :D :D
- beckingz 6y agoClojure! Or was it PHP?
- saalweachter 6y agoYou're close, it's Lisphp, the Lisp built on top of PHP.
- siberianbear 6y agoThat's an interesting response. It seems to me that the flame level on this site is quite low in response to somewhere like Reddit. People argue here, of course, but usually it's in an informational sort of way and rarely devolves into "yer momma is soooo fat...." kind of discourse.
- thisisbrians 6y agoYeah, you're right. Civil disagreement is allowed here on HN; anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.
- erikbye 6y agoHow do you find HN compares to Slashdot?
- kickout 6y agoDon't read slashdot (never seen it TBH)
- coupdejarnac 6y agoDiscussion on hn is higher quality. I'm an almost original slashdot reader, user id is 4 digits. I haven't browsed there in perhaps years at this point.
- jopsen 6y agoThe Microsoft bashing was better on slashdot though </joke> I'm still getting used to the idea that Microsoft might not be all evil. It's a weird feeling :)
- dillonmckay 6y agoIt is pretty bad now, low signal to noise ratio. Lots of trolling.
- kls 6y agoIt's been at least a decade or more since I have been on /. . It really seemed to have went down hill when the Bush election was going on, they did a lot of political coverage and it just ruined the feel of the site. People started exposing their political bent and the site in general just became more snarky.
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- franksvalli 6y agoDoing market research for the Ballmer Peak
- cammikebrown 6y agoI have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.
- pstuart 6y ago> Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks. AOC has done an excellent job in that regard :-)
- xster 6y agoThough sad that she's now taking marching orders from Pelosi now https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-activist-left-toward-a-more-conventional-staff-and-political-strategy/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-act...
- therealdrag0 6y agoI don't follow politics much. But I think it just underlines to get stuff done in many areas of life you need to be willing/able to compromise and build coalitions.
- khrbrt 6y agoThat article has very thin gruel for "taking marching orders from Pelosi": not endorsing some people and asking for civility in Twitter feuds. Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.
- mostlysimilar 6y agoMy bartender friends are some of the smartest, most capable, most hard-working people I know.
- lb1lf 6y ago-Irrelevant, but I chuckled at your last sentence. One of the all-time smartest people I’ve ever met worked a bar in Bergen, Norway; autodidact in anything which caught his fancy, he could give you a lecture on what brought down the Scythians, serve a new guest and striking up a conversation on advances in semiconductor fabrication with him, picking up where he left off the lecture on the Scythians before heading out to see if any of the patrons outside wanted anything, having a quick word on the Poincaré conjecture with the math postgrad having a beer in the backyard... He had studied for a while at the university before figuring out that he’d have more time to study if he didn’t have to concern himself with exams, quit, kept his uni library card and got down to it.
- avip 6y agoIf you read this forum carefully you'll find it indeed contains constructors, truck drivers, firefighters, pilots, physicians, teachers... just to name a few from memory. All these "non-developers" are priceless when discussions pop up which require domain expertise (which we developers usually lack) [edit: they are also priceless generally speaking]
- demarq 6y agoha I tried to find out what people are on HN, but I didn't get any responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484252
- gazelle21 6y agoI use to read hackernews when I was working at Macdonald's non stop, it was the only thing that kept me sane.
- lackbeard 6y agoI took a year off once and strongly considered trying to get a job as a bartender for fun because I enjoy making cocktails.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoI always found it interesting how many people have taught themselves programming. I was at a customer site a few months ago installing some test hardware and the guy I was working with was their welder, having been an auto mechanic before and we got into a discussion about programming in Python! The best interaction, however, would be the homeless guy I met who used to be a programmer.
- pbourke 6y agoI once met an unemployed software engineer who went door to door selling magazine subscriptions.
- karatestomp 6y agoReminds me of King Vidor's The Crowd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd_(1928_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd_(1928_film) (I guess that could kinda be a spoiler for an almost 100 year old film?)
- kls 6y agoLOL might be too dated, for this crowd but man that movie was a classic to those that worked thru that era.
- Spooky23 6y agoOne of the best Microsoft stack Sysadmins (AD/Exchange) I knew back in the day was a former diesel mechanic who got badly injured in an accident and transferred to do help desk work. He dove in and really mastered it. Just a great guy who was great at training new folks. Not programming but the other wacky transition was a Wall St guy who burnt out, started a subsistence farmstand in the country, married a hippie lady and sold vegetables, drove a school bus and plowed snow to get by. Really nice guy... when he died it turned out he owned a few buildings in NYC and was loaded to the tune of $20-30M, and his family had no clue.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoMy plumber has written a ton of VBA in Excel to automate his business.
- dropit_sphere 6y agoAt one point I was working construction during the day and working on a visual programming language at night. Needless to say, I have little sympathy for those claiming a talent shortage.