Once tech became glamorous, it started attracting people with narcissistic traits - much like Hollywood did. Expect to see more antisocial behavior as a result.

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ferrouswheel 9 hours ago | parent [-]

We need a new unglamorous tech, massaging floating point quants by hand in a hex editor.

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Hugsbox 8 hours ago | parent [-]

At least there's still plenty of places for real nerds to be nerds. HN, hanging around in IRC, Eternal September, among other places. Finding myself more and more drifting away from "mainstream" internet stuff, and as a result I'm finding a lot more engaging and thought-provoking things and am overall happier as a result.

	▲	lukasm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		any examples? Even HN became too business focus. Very little software engineering.