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by mkelly
5422 days ago
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This is a very good point. I'm this is true to some extent, but (as much as I'd love to wholeheartedly agree with you), the reason I don't consider this likely is this: the main reason I have this opinion of HN is because of one 3-month period in 2009, where I was off the grid (bought a car in Europe, drove around, drank lots of booze, smoked some mushrooms, &c). I assure you I didn't learn about computers during that time. When I left in June, I thought HN was full of insightful articles and comments; when I returned in September, I thought it was markedly worse. I think HN had its Eternal September then, and it's been steadily downhill since then. (Um, yes, I was keeping track of replies, and logged back in to post this. Mea culpa.) |
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I wrote my post from the perspective of being a long time lurker on various tech forums who is only just beginning to feel I may be able to contribute on some topics (and only after many years of coding, reading & sponge-learning from sites like this one).
If it weren't for stories like this & people like yourself engaged in insightful discussion about them I personally would have missed a lot of "assumed knowledge" in the developer world, heck I wouldn't have heard of K&R (the shame!).
So I guess what I'm saying is: please don't leave, stay & help make us noobs less ignorant!
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