> Hackernews is a self selecting community of tech works who study their job in their spare time as a hobby.
In a matter of days, I have seen similar comments about HN audience in HN comments.
Is consuming HN really an added qualifying factor or is HN audience a little too full of themselves. I don't know if I can attribute anything but being a bit curious as a quality for being HN audience. I don't think it's true that HN is a self selecting community who study their job in their part time. I spend time on HN, I am in tech and used to spend a ton of time "studying my job in my spare time" when I was younger, as I get older and have a family, my priorities are different. In the recent time, I tend to spend time now spending time with family or learning how to ski or spend time with yard work instead of spending energy on the latest shiny framework/language every year. I still work on personal projects but as I grow older, I have other priorities and things I'd rather do as well. I just don't think I am better just because I read HN as opposed to reddit or Instagram or Whatsapp.
In a matter of days, I have seen similar comments about HN audience in HN comments. Is consuming HN really an added qualifying factor or is HN audience a little too full of themselves. I don't know if I can attribute anything but being a bit curious as a quality for being HN audience. I don't think it's true that HN is a self selecting community who study their job in their part time. I spend time on HN, I am in tech and used to spend a ton of time "studying my job in my spare time" when I was younger, as I get older and have a family, my priorities are different. In the recent time, I tend to spend time now spending time with family or learning how to ski or spend time with yard work instead of spending energy on the latest shiny framework/language every year. I still work on personal projects but as I grow older, I have other priorities and things I'd rather do as well. I just don't think I am better just because I read HN as opposed to reddit or Instagram or Whatsapp.