Comment Re:Oh, the timing... (Score 1) 727
And a techie's definition of 'working', i.e. drinking coffee and reading slashdot is still the same too.
Which tends to involve reading about technologies that you are not already familiar with, or getting information about finer points explained. In sales-speak, just another form of "continuing education".
It used to be much better. Someone would post an article about new technology X (such as Xen or KVM or HyperV) and you'd get 50-100 modded-up posts detailing what it is good for, why to use it, why not to use it, and anecdotes about how well or poorly it works in reality.
These days, I only read 10-20% of the articles, and only briefly browse the comments (usually at 3+ or 4+ scores).
Which tends to involve reading about technologies that you are not already familiar with, or getting information about finer points explained. In sales-speak, just another form of "continuing education".
It used to be much better. Someone would post an article about new technology X (such as Xen or KVM or HyperV) and you'd get 50-100 modded-up posts detailing what it is good for, why to use it, why not to use it, and anecdotes about how well or poorly it works in reality.
These days, I only read 10-20% of the articles, and only briefly browse the comments (usually at 3+ or 4+ scores).