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Ask HN: Best things happened to you just because of HN?
I got my current job because of HN. One of my posts got featured on the front page(https://introvertmac.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/list-of-y-combinator-companies-i-have-hacked/) last year, and my current CEO contacted me after that. Do you have a similar story? Just curious!
- keviv 10y agoI just started freelancing and a lot of people contacted me after seeing my comments on various discussions on HN. They usually go through my blog where I've mentioned about all the XSS vulnerabilities I found in various Indian sites. These posts are very old but still validates my experience and my skills. Indirectly, a lot of good things have happened to me because of HN as well. Things change very quickly in tech space. Yesterday's anti-patterns are today's best practises and best practises of today will become tomorrow's anti-patterns. I owe a lot to HN which keeps me updated with ever changing tech ecosystem. Being a full-stack developer, I've to keep up with both frontend and backend changes happening everyday. Without HN, I'd not have found out lots of things for sure.
- bbcbasic 10y ago> Yesterday's anti-patterns are today's best practises and best practises of today will become tomorrow's anti-patterns I'm not sure where you are getting this information, but I'd ignore the labelling of things as best practice and anti-pattern and delve deeper into the reason why some design is a bad fit or good fit for the problem you are trying to solve. A made up example to illustrate: It may be seen as an anti-pattern to have a site that requires JS and cannot function without it. Tim Burners Lee would not be impressed with you. On the other hand if you are developing a paid-for web app and you know the users are happy to have JS enabled to use it then this may be less of an issue.
- happycodework 10y ago4 real examples to validate op Goto considered harmful Jquery .show ()/.hide () is now biggest performance drain in some SPAS Node callbacks now harmful, async/await or promises could be next... possibly React is so slow it cannot render > 10 fps for some SPA
- bbcbasic 10y agoHa! These things prove my point. "considered" "promises could be next..." ... think for yourselves! don't let Mr/Mrs famous blogger dictate how you solve problems.
- nicomfe 10y agogot my first remote freelance project thanks to HN and one of those who is hiring posts!
- pryelluw 10y agoGot Jobs, contracts, and most importantly, friends. I've met lots of great people by just sending them a simple email. This community is amazing.
- sumitjami 10y agoFound a job listing on who is hiring. Was the only way I could find one in my "branch" of tech. Was glad that I applied, and finally got the job. The whole experience was really amazing. Thank you HN.
- majortennis 10y agobranch?
- yolesaber 10y agoI also got a job off a Who's Hiring post! Thanks HN!
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoI crowdsourced a logo design on Crowdspring, which supposedly had procedures in place to prevent plagarism. Resulting from posting a new project here, someone who looked was able to tell my logo had been stolen from a company halfway across the world from me- local to this user, but unknown to me. I wouldn't have known & could have run into legal issues down the road had I kept using it. Unfortunately Crowdspring ruled it wasn't a refundable issue, so I lost around ~$4k on a design I can't trademark. Would be nice to be able to do something about that, but I currently lack the resources necessary to persue it legally.
- wkoszek 10y agoGot a lot of GitHub stars and useful comments from people who reviewed my stuff: https://github.com/wkoszek https://github.com/wkoszek
- ZeroFries 10y agoI also got my current job, by posting in the "Who is hiring?" thread.
- ud0 10y agoGot both my first remote gig outside my country() and also a fulltime Job. I'll be traveling to Europe in a bit.
- partisan 10y agoIt opened my mind and then fed it such that I was able to strike out on entrepreneurial ventures that I would not have otherwise undertaken.