Ask HN: How to keep up?

7 points·AbdulBahajaj··8 comments

How to keep up with the frontier of technology, programming methodologies, etc.. Is there like a Techcrunch for that?

Just spending your time here will get you pretty far. HN is kind of the techcrunch for that.

At best a person might keep up with a sliver or two of the frontier and chase a few more. But the idea of being on a par with people Norvig and Moore and Cunningham and... all at the same time? Nobody can.

Good luck.

Follow blogs / forums / prominent devs on Twitter for the tech you use /are interested in, at least that's what I do. And HN =)

Meetup...I think thats the only way.

I don't really go to meetups and I consider myself pretty up to date.

I believe a person can keep up with the technology just by reading on the Internet, maybe by being a member of some expert groups on Facebook / LinkedIn (and reading the content).

How to find them or do you have links?

I don't think my links would help you, most of those are Croatian (local) communities. I'm a member of some developers groups, system administrator groups and few of them for every programming language I use.

That, plus Hacker News and maybe something like TechChrunch and you should be covered nicely.

Reddit is probably a good place to get informed too, but I don't use it personally.

You want it spoonfed to you, but to really keep up you must learn to seek information out. There is no shortage of brilliant people in our industry pumping out insightful article after article. Start googling.

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