After reading HN daily for years, I finally registered to answer this question. I'm a military officer. I spent the first half of my career flying helicopters a

After reading HN daily for years, I finally registered to answer this question. I'm a military officer. I spent the first half of my career flying helicopters and doing general management stuff, but now I work on IT (not software development, sadly) within the military because I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in CS. I still do some programming as a hobby. I guess I straddle both worlds, like others who've already responded, but I'm definitely not in the originally intended audience of Silicon Valley startup founders and employees. I used to read Slashdot and various subreddits to keep learning and stay current on computing, but I ultimately found that HN is the best place on the Internet for that. Now that I have an account, maybe I'll start adding my own insights to threads that touch on military matters.