[HN Gopher] What value can I add to the hacker community if I'm ...
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       What value can I add to the hacker community if I'm not a
       programmer myself?
        
       I enjoy browsing this website. I enjoy reading news about the
       latest developments in software and technology generally. But I'm
       not tech savvy. I'm also not particularly motivated to learn
       programming.  But somehow I want to be part of this community. What
       value can someone like me add to the hacker economy if I don't know
       how to program?
        
       Author : mercs
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-05-11 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | Rodeoclash wrote:
       | I find as a programmer, it's very easy to just want to apply
       | programming to everything. I think the issue lies in the fact
       | that it's very easy to know when you've solved a programming
       | problem. Other problems, say marketing, are very open ended and
       | can not be completed the same way a feature can.
       | 
       | So I'd say, contribute perspective. Contribute ideas and ways of
       | thinking that wouldn't occur to me.
        
       | runjake wrote:
       | "Those who can't, teach."
       | 
       | Sarcasm, up there. I don't actually believe that quote, but it
       | fits in this context.
       | 
       | Write documentation, write blog posts, make videos about concepts
       | or tools that interest you (enthusiasm is contagious), as you
       | learn them.
       | 
       | Make them for any skill level you feel comfortable with.
        
       | Bostonian wrote:
       | If you try out open source software that interests you, and after
       | reading the documentation you don't understand how something
       | works or have an idea of how the program could be better, give
       | specific feedback by (for example) raising an issue at GitHub.
       | 
       | I am a Fortran programmer primarily, and most Fortran compilers
       | are written in C. When I encounter bugs I report them at the
       | Intel Fortran forum, GitLab (for LFortran) and bugzilla (for
       | gfortran). So you can contribute to a project written in X
       | without knowing X.
        
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