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Hackernews isn't for hackers. If anything, it's geared towards software engineers, most of which aren't anything like "hackers" and can swing fairly convervati
by 01100011 4y ago
Hackernews isn't for hackers.
If anything, it's geared towards software engineers, most of which aren't anything like "hackers" and can swing fairly convervative on many topics.
This place isn't old school slashdot. If anything it's more for people that just want to get rich in tech at all costs.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoI'm not new here, and.. well ... It's always been a mix of both, but that mix seems to have shifted in % and tone in the last couple years especially. Maybe reflecting broader culture wars issues. But there used to be a much broader consensus in the industry among nerds about responses to this kind of thing. Empathy to fellow software engineers in our tech industry is one thing I would expect re: the twitter layoffs. I worry about apathy about license violations for the license that literally made Linux (and therefore huge swathes of the modern tech infrastructure) possible. Again, not recognizable to me is the dismissive sneer about new possibilities in social networks and tech. And yeah, perhaps Mastodon is annoying/frustrating to these people precisely because it isn't a monetized money making scheme. FWIW I am one of those "software engineers" you mention and did my decade in a FAANG. But I only got that title because of the time I spent as a hacker-nerd in my teens. I'm trying not to paint too much of a straw-man here, but it feels like a trend to me, a worrisome one.