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If those stories were excluded, I'd be very uninterested in visiting here. This sort of tunnel-vision is why hackers and engineer types often seem completely ou
by quoderat 17y ago
If those stories were excluded, I'd be very uninterested in visiting here. This sort of tunnel-vision is why hackers and engineer types often seem completely out of touch with society -- and not in the good way. It's engineer-itis.
- wooby 17y agoI enjoy the engineering tunnel vision that good days on HN provide me. On the bad days, HN, for me, is sort of only the culture and pieces of society that those who don't know much about either are interested in. To learn about people, places, and things I don't know anything about that aren't hacking related - I go outside.
- aswanson 17y agoIf you don't have engineer-itis, you probably shouldn't come here. If I didn't, I wouldn't. The discussions that veer off of technical tracks (like politics, economics, social issues) are full of so much noise and emotional opinion that they make good stuff harder to find.