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I just “never graduated” from an RC batch. It’s also a mid-career shift, and my experience was very similar. I also spent the day of the interview dejected assu

• benesch 8y ago
  Well hello, Dan! Nikhil here. It’s always nice to get a reminder that the internet can be a small place. (Dan and I were at RC concurrently for the second half of his batch.) I’ll echo the sentiment: RC is a really cool and unique place. I was somewhat atypical, I think, in that I came in with a very defined and niche project that I wanted to work on (hacking on gccgo), but the RC format is flexible enough to be amenable to that. It’s nice to be surrounded by a community of folks united by a love (or at least appreciation?) of programming, even if you’re not actively working on a project together. I’m a bit sad that I missed out on some of the more social/collaborative side of RC by focusing so heavily on one project, but I’m told this is a common sentiment: it’s hard to strike a balance between being people-driven and being project-driven.
  • raphlinus 8y ago
    It is indeed hard to strike that balance. I've not properly written up my return statement but based on my experiences I would recommend not trying to do a hugely ambitious project, expect the experience to be social, and, if you're already a senior programmer, expect do to mentoring. RC is definitely a cool and unique place! One thing people might not recognize if they're not keeping track is that there's usually about one item by a Recurser on the front page of HN.
  • maximp 8y ago
    Small world! Looking forward to your talk at Localhost!