I'm not a CS graduate, I didn't went to the university and I understand/follow the basic concepts behind most of what I see here because it happens to to map quite well with my areas of interest and my actual job: front end developer. What I don't understand/don't know I'm very glad I can read about it here.
I usually avoid the facebook/twitter/google/ms/apple/stocks stuff because I don't give a crap and am not a fanboy but I like most of the rest. The signal/noise ratio is still extremely high on HN for me (it was higher when I started lurking, though). If it's too low for you, why do you inflict yourself all this suffering?
The SNR on HN is great. For one, most people here still know what SNR means. I still like reddit but at some point in the last several years teenagers became the primary demographic. Anyone remember when it was mostly programmers?
The first sign of trouble I've seen for every social site in the last 10 years has been when that site's users start saying, "At least we're better than ________."
I usually avoid the facebook/twitter/google/ms/apple/stocks stuff because I don't give a crap and am not a fanboy but I like most of the rest. The signal/noise ratio is still extremely high on HN for me (it was higher when I started lurking, though). If it's too low for you, why do you inflict yourself all this suffering?