That's a bit like saying watching porn is more for personal development than fun. Perhaps you'll learn something, but it's incidental.
I've learned a lot from HN. But it wouldn't be good to fool myself into thinking that an employer wants to fund my personal development in this regard. Otherwise, they'd pay me to HN all day.
The crux of the issue is that it's impossible to work 8 hours every day. We all invent lies to fill the downtime.
Is all that hyperbole really necessary? Each new sentence seems primed to leak edge and corner cases. Without giving more attention to such a rhetorical blind spot, I wonder how one could imagine they know the crux from the passenger side door.
If it’s mistaken, it should be easy to explain why. Otherwise I’m inclined to believe it’s merely an uncomfortable truth.
Would your employer pay you to HN all day? If not, precisely how much of your day are they comfortable with you HN’ing? Are you sure it’s officially approved?
There’s often good intel on here that I have not been exposed to on other sources. Obviously spending 40 hours a week reading HN and getting into politics arguments on here is a waste, but there’s plenty of relevant news for most folks in tech if you stick to those topics.
Do you collect stats, how assertions line up with facts? Otherwise, what may seem likely and catchy, might just as well be opinionated, unsubstantiated and patchy.
