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Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life by horns4lyfe on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:21AM (#30134593)
Bird watching? Ballroom dancing? This has to be a joke, I’ve never met a single person under 60 that does either of these
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Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life by legerdemain on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:58AM (#30134720)
I don't know about bird-watching, but ballroom dancing is really big in computer science. It was really big in my CS department on the east coast 20 years ago, and it's really big at Stanford now.

As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing. I would never have guessed how common they are, but it is what it is. D&D is a distant third.

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Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life by chrisseaton on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:09AM (#30134768)
> ballroom dancing is really big in computer science

Lol that’s the absolute polar opposite of what the OP wants. They want to get away from other engineers like them and to meet some different people.

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Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life by harambae on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:38PM (#30168890)
>As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing

also kiteboarding

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