Reddit was founded in 2005, the year I graduated. HackerNews was 2007.
At those times, I had very little working knowledge of the software engineering industry, and I was in no rush to pick it up since I was under the impression that I was far-far-far behind everyone else, and should just focus on anthropology in Malaysia for some years. ( Moreover it was a known quantum that documentation would improve over time, and that quant work being more deskbound than anthro, would be something more suitable for older than younger age. )
I really didn't get into Reddit and HN for a very long time. I might have chucked a few fanciful posts at it, but there was no need to plumb the network very seriously - even my hipster colleagues used Reddit more than I did, for their non-technical interests. Anyway, in 2025 I'm amused to be finally more active on these two sites. As I frequently tell folks in my circles ... Malaysia is where STEM goes to die, and since I'm looking into very upstream stuff like Programming Lanaguage Design, Type Theory, Set Theory, and Foundations of Logic and Mathematics ... I pretty much have no local groups to harass, not even online.
On we go ... such is the student life.
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