Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?
Hello!
I've been studying Computer Science for a few years, but due to changing my major as well as a lot of online classes I haven't been able to meet many fellow developers in my university, especially not those who share my interests within the field. And as far as I know, there aren't many physical community gatherings happening close to where I live.
I would like to change that.
So: those of you who have managed to successfully connect with other developers online, how did you do it?
If anyone would like to chat or learn together, just send me a message here or email me at: erikpl (at) duck (dot) com. These days, my learning is focused on C (related to a compiler course) and video streaming (work-related).
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https://discord.gg/csharp
You can find me on there as NathanAldenSr#2130.
Lots of new people but also some big industry people there.
https://gdn.gg/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmuDev/comments/9mop2q/join_the_off...
> 10 reasons why JavaScript is the next BIG language that all developers should learn!!!1!
just engagement spam. BUT, once you follow a good dev account you tend to find others.
I don't really know what to say. I think Discord is more mature than Matrix, though it's great as an IRC(-bridge) client. You're welcome to start your own community on Matrix if you'd like!
internet is a richer world than IRL, flawed with social codes, unfair physical comparisons, wealth gap issues etc
on the internet, you are just another random user, it's beautiful
the only time it's ugly, is when people censor you because you speak the truth and it goes against their agenda..
but this is the same stuff IRL, the advantage of the internet is you can create a new life, it's a matter of a click
embrace the internet, contribute, and eradicate the censors by pissing them off
Go to meetup and sign up for whatever topics you are interested in. Almost all the meetings are going to be on zoom these days.
Introducing yourself on the channel can get you going so to speak and then go slowly from there. Helping people, having fun etc..
They state they never save your emails, but they don't have to save them to extract metadata or scan for content they are interested in.
We need a self hosted version of this service IMHO...
However, usually chatrooms are better for discovering stuff.
so fucking worth
I just think it's good to be clear about your relationship with the thing you're advertising.
The opposite would have been to say "I think I can solve this for you for $50 a month."
They've also been extremely biased in the number of supportive comments they've deleted as well as allowing comments that are personal attacks and name calling in violation of HackerNews rules claiming "fairness."
Please support me in asking them to remove the entire thread if they can't apply the rules equally. hn@ycombinator.com
In addition to the bias of allowing Alex to go by his legal name to avoid being identified after providing extensive documentation of Alex being his preferred name.
(If questions like these are unwelcome, I can stop.)
Why do you have such a bent against victims of sexual assault and domestic violence?
eatonphil has made the same point in a much better way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29817006.
It's like super-charged Lunchclub but for developers with tools that make the whole process of what you described in your post easier.
We are releasing a major update pretty soon and since it's developer-only, I might be posting a Show HN for it soon as well, you should try it ig, I could always work on feedback from more developers.
There are lots of us that want to meet and aren't obsessed with corona. I hold regular weekly meetups and have done so throughout the last few years, it has been a welcome respite and I have formed some long standing and close relationships.
I have found the people I've met to be more community minded and more prone to take the initiative and branch out to new people.
There’s no COVID here so besides the 2-3 month lockdown last year I’ve been able to go to many in-person meetups like normal.
Virtual is _fine_ but for my personality meeting in person is still my preferred way by far. I can’t recommend moving here enough to anyone who needs a place to live a normal life and wait out COVID.
If you are healthy and are vaccinated you may get sick but you have many, many times lower chance of being hospitalised.
The hospitals are all on bypass where they're calling in the national guard.
Thanks, this is the crux of my point really. There will never be ‘no Covid’ from here on out. We will never be able to eradicate it. The sooner we’ll all accept this the better. We will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.
For context, I believe covid has killed more Americans than anything else in your history (though I haven't been able to confirm that, most wartime figures are estimates).
That doesn't mean lock down and mask up but surely doing nothing is equally bad? Just seems like covid has become political theater and it gets minimized somewhat as a result
It is difficult to tell because it depends on how you measure.
You could for example, logically, surmise that it does not matter what we die of. Everybody dies, it is just a question of cause of death. From that point of view covid has killed nobody because if they haven't died of covid they would eventually die of something else.
Is a death of 90yo the same as death of 20yo?
What about lack of medical help that could extend the live of an ill person by couple more years? I can assume a lot of people could have their lives extended by at least a year or two given proper care.
When grandpa dies it is definitely tragic event, but it does not leave the same mark on the family as young parent or a child dying because we do not expect the young ones to die. Young person's death frequently leaves scar on the family forever while at the same time we are used to the idea of old people dying, eventually.
I think these things should be measured on "How many healthy years it has taken."
From that point of view wars are extremely damaging because they not only kill people, but mostly young healthy ones that could have long lives ahead of them. They destroy families, mark people with violence.
US does not really understand what war is because the wars it has fought were not on US soil. It only has second hand stories of wars and some number of grieving families.
I live in Poland and my grandparents lived through a real war. Real, scary, unrestricted, inhuman violence. The signs of WWII are here everywhere TO THIS DAY. The personal stories that I heard turned my stomach inside out when I heard it.
Learning Mandarin has major benefits.
When I moved to Taiwan, I spent a non-trivial part of my time in Mandarin classes. It absolutely helped with daily life and connecting with other people even though my industry is one of those "entirely in English" ones.
I find language learning fun though so it's definitely a feature, not a bug, for me personally.