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Where else am I going to find a pile of articles on math, Erlang, Lisp, etc? I've really expanded my horizons from my usual Enterprise Java experience and have
by dabent 17y ago
Where else am I going to find a pile of articles on math, Erlang, Lisp, etc? I've really expanded my horizons from my usual Enterprise Java experience and have developed a full website from CSS to the database to user management using a lot of what I've learned here.
PG's influence has drawn a lot of really bright people here. Sure there are silly comments, some articles that don't seem important to me, but overall I come here just about every day to see what new gem someone has found.
- amichail 17y agoPG's influence has drawn a lot of really bright people here. Could you be specific about the influence? If there were no funding by PG et al., would this be the same kind of place?
- nahumfarchi 17y agoI think he influenced this community through his essays, and without them this place wouldn't exist.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI've heard of Y Combinator and Hacker News not because I'm seeking funding but because I've been reading Graham's essays ever since "A Plan for Spam" made the rounds in 2002. I actually am working at a startup now, but I wasn't when I started reading. In my case at least the cause and effect were just the opposite - pg and HN were part of what convinced me to seek out and join startups.
- philwelch 17y agoLet's look at a cross section of typical HN topics: -Startups -Web applications -High-level, often functional programming languages with sometimes fringe appeal Looks like almost a complete overlap with the topics PG writes about. I never used Digg or Reddit heavily, but on Slashdot the emphasis was more towards open source, science fiction, privacy, and YRO.
- jseliger 17y agoYou're forgetting social structures and their intersection with institutional issues, which interest me. PG's view on those mostly relates to technology; mine mostly relate to other fields.