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Re:Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? by IgorPartola on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:20PM (#13524159)
I suppose I prefer to consume my personal developer blog posts filtered through something like HN. It ends up being fairly high quality without worrying if I'm following enough people or the correct people.
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Re:Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? by sportnak on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:39PM (#13524789)
I understand what you're saying, some people follow a popular developer and that can cause them to take what they say and regurgitate it with an annoying arrogance.

But supposing everybody took your stance we wouldn't be able to have something like Hacker News. I think following popular developers and sharing what you believe to be good content may not be enjoyable all the time, but I do think it's necessary. Just as someone who has only been in the software culture for about two years now.

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Re:Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? by IgorPartola on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:37PM (#13526750)
You are right. Someone has to do it. I suppose I just don't want to be me :-p
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Re:Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? by artacus on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:24PM (#13526994)
They call me the wanderer.
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