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What does this have to do with tech hacking?
by popup21 6y ago
What does this have to do with tech hacking?
- Rochus 6y agoI'm asking myself the same question with more than 50% of all posts meanwhile.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- kace91 6y agoevery time this question comes up, the same answer is given. From the first paragraph of the guideline: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- mellosouls 6y agoSome of us have varied interests.
- adamch 6y agoAt a general level, you may work with users, and it's important to not have fallacious thinking about users, e.g. "if I can dispel belief X their behaviour will change to Y". Instead, Talib would bet their behaviour will still be like others in the X-believing community. When tech is currently doing a lot of soul-searching about the social effects of e.g. Facebook it's useful to have a theory to explain why predictions of user behaviour were wrong. At a more specific level, I think this is very useful for thinking about programming language communities and how they affect behaviour.