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by rc-1140 6y ago
I would chip in to the OPs feedback by repeating some advice that's somewhat commonplace but is very practical: for anyone in the shoes the OP has described, practice your speech, especially if you haven't found yourself in this s
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by rc-1140 6y ago
As someone who's not from a traditional background and currently in an odd area of 3 years split between regular software dev and SDET, I genuinely feel like everyone at every stage of this is a failure point (including the engineers)
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by rc-1140 6y ago
Yes, I've gone through double-digit revisions of my resume at this point. Asked someone I knew to look at it, then went so far as to post it on reddit's CSCQ board, got people telling me it was fine and a student telling me to mak
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by rc-1140 6y ago
I should probably try to constructively vent more or find people to listen to my leetcode woes. I don't really leverage my friends circle to complain about the hunt. Leetcode's definitely the constant. Hoping I can look back at th
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by rc-1140 6y ago
I've been doing both of those myself, but it hasn't really paid off in any way. I made a CLI for interacting with Neocities and I've been sitting on Pluralsight a lot, but I don't get far enough or get people who want to
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by rc-1140 6y ago
> You can make or troubleshoot software elsewhere than 'software companies'. Banks, energy companies, telecoms, government, and practically every organization relies on software one way or another. Unfortunately I'm unwant
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Ask HN: How do you stay sane during a floundering job search?
20 points by rc-1140 6y ago|17 comments
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by rc-1140 6y ago
This comment should really be more towards the top of the chain so more people are aware that the grandparent comment is one of those "HN is atypical" moments. Many HN users like the grandparent are very disconnected from the re
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by rc-1140 6y ago
I get why this is being downvoted but it's still a very good point: an ex-con needed a previously-established connection with someone who just so happens to be CTO of a reasonably successful startup who knows another engineering le
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by rc-1140 6y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes, depending on timezone Willing to relocate: Currently only within the United States or Canada Technologies: C# & parts of .NET Stack (ASP.NET, WPF), Python, Selenium, a bit of: TypeScript, React, Angu
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by rc-1140 6y ago
I went to a respectable state school (to the point where people comment that they like the SDEs that my state school has produced when I speak to other devs) for my undergraduate degree, and I've recently become debt free. If I had gon
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by rc-1140 6y ago
Not taking out a loan for a CS degree. It's gotten in my way so much, especially recently. The paper saying that you took some courses is way more important than a github profile with projects.
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by rc-1140 6y ago
Sorry, but C2H sounds like a great idea to you because you have the luxury of having already earned FAANG money on your side. You'd have to pay me considerable money for me to consider taking a C2H role so I could cover health insuranc
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by rc-1140 6y ago
I'm a junior software developer looking for a stimulating new role. I love writing software that has a positive impact on people, especially if it means that the target audience is relieved of a boring and burdensome low-energy task. I
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by rc-1140 6y ago
Glad that I wasn't the only one to have alarm bells go off in my head when I read that first step. There are plenty of other rational options, most people are saying github pages, but I'd like to put forth the NeoCities + Hugo com
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by rc-1140 7y ago
Trying to develop (ha) some web development skills and I was studying interview questions. I've never done anything web-related outside of making API calls, so I'm reading "The Little ASP.NET Core Book" by Nate Barbettin
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by rc-1140 7y ago
> What does your friend mean by fundamentals? Your second sentence is mostly it, although it really generalized and lessened what it means to learn your fundamentals; learning your character's options are and what the basic flow of
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by rc-1140 7y ago
Agreed. Since a bunch of people seem to be responding to you about competitive games/experiences, my friend left me with the following pointer when he gave me a lengthy rundown on 2D fighters (cleaned up a bit for HN posting): "Te
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by rc-1140 7y ago
I can't really tell if this is what I'm looking for. I was hoping for something that simply cataloged information about birds like the Audubon does, i.e., I can go to the page for the Purple Sandpiper[0] and see information about
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by rc-1140 7y ago
I've been dabbling in amateur birdwatching for a few years now, it's honestly a lot of fun to be able to pick out local birds that I previously wouldn't have been able to put a name to: recently discovered that there are Grey
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by rc-1140 7y ago
"Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s"[0] Instantly reminded of all of the posts about ISPs and cellular carriers tacking on all sorts of goofy fees and their usual
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by rc-1140 7y ago
I agree with the content of your message, as I have seen it happen many times myself first-hand, but I disagree with the way you're framing the phenomenon. > My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes d
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by rc-1140 7y ago
A lot of the responses to the parent are things along the lines of "well it needs to be owned by a team" and all the usual valid cost-related reasons why [x] can't be maintained, and of course that doing so is boring. Isn&#x2
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by rc-1140 7y ago
I agree. I was expecting something sort of like the good Blind posts, but I guess these are controversial because... one said "fuck"? Another said that people put too much emphasis on career advice, which is probably controversi
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by rc-1140 7y ago
While it isn't directly related to the topic of the thread, is the Imposter's Handbook a suitable purchase for someone who didn't major in CS in college to "catch up"? I had two intro to CS courses during my undergr
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by rc-1140 7y ago
Probably indication for the OP that such groups are still out there, rather than leaving it open to interpretation that reddit has finally absorbed the last of such groups.
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by rc-1140 7y ago
Pluralsight is probably the only online learning website that I've used that actually caters to varying skill levels and has some kind of quality filter (there are still courses I've taken that aren't great, but there appears
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by rc-1140 7y ago
> Personally what I value is just basic cloud storage with a decent automatic sync. Similarly. That was the biggest appeal to me back when I first discovered them and they were giving out bonus space for their free plan depending on the
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by rc-1140 7y ago
> I built it because I wanted it. I loved reading this line in Takuya's post. It felt a lot more real than all of those "made with " and "we open source" taglines that other projects throw around.
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by rc-1140 8y ago
The whole discussion of phone games reminded me that more and more developers are porting/revamping older games for mobile devices, and some of them aren't busted like the Chrono Trigger PC port. This is honestly pretty excellen

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