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YES, yes a thousand times yes! I read stuff on here to try to keep up-to-date on new things... but frequently it doesn't work because I can't even understand
by larrymcp 11y ago
YES, yes a thousand times yes! I read stuff on here to try to keep up-to-date on new things... but frequently it doesn't work because I can't even understand the vocabulary.
Then I'll even try to look up the meaning of an unfamiliar term, but the definition itself uses 5 other terms that I also don't know. So I'll go look up those 5 terms, but by then I'm three levels deep and sure as hell not any closer to the original topic I was trying to learn about.
Yeah man, HN has taught me that I'm straight-up useless! Shew...
- diegoperini 11y agoThumbs up to capital YES. :) If one has the patience to go 3 levels deep every time he/she faces some strange vocabulary, then with each unfamiliar post here, that person will get to witness dozens of new technology which in the end may help him/her to find the right one to scratch beyond the surface. Hacker News, imho, is one of the places where hard consumption is beneficial for the reader as long as he/she stays sceptical which is a rare occasion in other common social media sources.