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Personally for me, before during and after the quarantine my use of HN has pretty much remained the same, I work with computers (like most of us here) and I che
by malikNF 6y ago
Personally for me, before during and after the quarantine my use of HN has pretty much remained the same, I work with computers (like most of us here) and I check HN when I get a little bit of down-time, like while waiting for something to compile or waiting for a file to get transferred or something to finish installing,only thing that changed was during the quarantine I was working from home, the number of hours I worked, the nature of work I do and how I do that work remained pretty much the same.
So, I am guessing this is pretty much what happened to most of us as well? And therefore for a majority of HN users, our HN browsing habits probably stayed the same?
- swyx 6y agoin short, HN readers were already living in de facto quarantine pre quarantine
- dekervin 6y agoLet me fix that : In short, HN readers were already living in the future pre quarantine. Basically applying one of PG maxims in "How to Get Startup Ideas"[0]: "Live in the future, then build what's missing." http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
- dekervin 6y agoI am genuinely curious of what triggered the downvote. It makes me feel as if I didn't express myself correctly. If anyone has an idea ?
- swyx 6y agoit was less relevant than my comment, which was already not very relevant.
- dekervin 6y agoThanks for your reply ! Well, I found your comment extremely relevant, and delivered in a very succint (albeit tongue in cheek ) way. A greater share of the HN readership was already having a quarantine friendly work/lifestyle, than the general population. Due to underlying macro-trends (technology, mobile consumer internet, entrepreneurship...). And one of these macro-trends, the fragility of our hyper-reactive interconnected world, was illuminated by the covid crisis. I will try to reach you on twitter, to not pollute this thread further.
- swyx 6y agoi doubt it really matters for the record i did not downvote you.