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I think that is right. But while some people might hear "hermit" and think of a hermetic monk, "mountain man" connotes more wildness. He might fashion his dev t

I think that is right. But while some people might hear "hermit" and think of a hermetic monk, "mountain man" connotes more wildness. He might fashion his dev tools from the pelts of whatever animal he slaughtered last winter...

satisfice 4y ago
It's important to reflect, once in a while, about how BIG the world of software tech is. It's like a galaxy, with whole globular clusters in it that see the world entirely within their own Node.js or Lisp or whatever perspective. I love HN because it is the one best way I have of tasting the incredible depth and diversity of that world. On the one hand it gives me a feeling that I know very little about software development... but on the other I realize that my own specialty (software testing as social science) is little understood by others. I'm a decent star within my own cluster. So, maybe everyone who reads HN has a similar experience, no matter where in the galaxy they call home. (Except that people who work in big teams on popular products are more in the center of the galaxy)