I didn't expect to end up spending so much time here. I am nowhere near a programmer in my day-to-day life. I am currently embarking on a study of topology with the assistance of a friend who does research in mathematical physics, but aside from that my interests lay in literary fields and I'm quite shocked to see that very frequently the interests of other users here oftentimes matches up with my own. But I am also aware that many users here are actually in "silicon valley" (or at least work full time as developers); though, looking at the CS majors I went to school with, I have to imagine you guys are a special sort.
I had to learn about astral projection, which allowed me to disconnect from myself and rise above my physical body so that I could see what I was doing.
It was only then that I was able to visually observe myself and found that I was actually looking at Hacker News.
It was well with the trouble.
> I'm a developer in Windows and contribute to the NT kernel. (Proof: the SHA1 hash of revision #102 of [Edit: filename redacted] is [Edit: hash redacted].) I'm posting through Tor for obvious reasons.
> Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening. The cause of the problem is social. There's almost none of the improvement for its own sake, for the sake of glory, that you see in the Linux world.
> [...]
http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...
This was reported on certain tech news sites that I was occasionally reading then.
around the same time, i randomly visited some startupfair here locally and made friends w some folks, then one guy asked if i read hackernews, i said yea yea ofc. (not the one he was asking about)
later that night, i was wondering why that guy asked me about hackernews he was not even into security. So i looked up hn, and since that night, this site keeps on giving.
HN is likely part of a lineage of online discourse. I was introduced to that lineage with slashdot. Slashdot -> digg -> reddit -> HN was the likely path.
A lot of comments here are in the spirit of slashdot, but HN punishes "funny" comments so is a bit more serious.
I imagine slasdot was ultimately a child of usenet. I think SomethingAwful and metafilter and the greater phpBB ecosystem were also in there somewhere.
There are likely related lineages with IRC, Slack, TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and discord.
But heard through the grapevine back in 2010 or so. Joined and have lurked here everyday more or less since and always find something interesting. Kind of a homepage really.
Had I know I'd be here 13 years later I wouldn't have made such an ironic username lol.
Since COVID and subsequent Long Covid in March 2020, I've got very little in terms of outlets for my attention.