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by the_only_law 3y ago
I was trying/planning to get out right before the market nosedived. I was planning on my previous job being the last job I ever worked in software, at least for the time being. Of course when I lost my job that all went out the window.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Since then, I have learned new things, but not because they were "relevant" or "important", bit just because they were fun. How do you maintain a career? I stopped caring about relevant and important and my career s
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> What’s with all the woo hoo here on HN? It’s mostly pseudo-intellectual posturing. Code monkeys desperately striving for some perceived superiority.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Does anyone know what happened to it?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> HN highlights your username in orange to indicate that you're a YC founder Huh? The username looks like any other to me. The only other color I ever see is green for new accounts.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
$699 for a paperback copy. God I love textbooks.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Tried that and ended up stuck with legacy enterprise software.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Wish I could find a job where I don’t do this three months in.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Basically my story, but with a longer timescale. I was getting rejected from jobs that seemed a perfect fit for my resume. End up getting a job I wasn’t qualified for on paper via referral. And some of those jobs that rejected me are still
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> This is a well worded way of saying the deep networks as opposed to shallow ones are the most vital for mental health it would seem. I remember seeing a comment in here quite a while ago, and saving it. I haven’t bothered to see if it
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I worked most of my career in .NET. Couldn’t get a single place to hire me. Eventually ended up getting a Java role ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I do miss some of that nice syntax sugar.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
This happened to me a lot on the other side. I’d apply for a job, hear nothing, assume I got screened out and then months later get an email saying “oops we aren’t hiring anyone for this role anymore”.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I'm actually looking forward to just show up, do my job, and go home, without stress. > But I get almost no respo
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I'm hearing lots of stories of companies laying people off and then there are new openings very similar to the position that was let go I haven’t seen much of this, but I’m constantly getting notifications about jobs I was reject
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by the_only_law 3y ago
It basically destroyed me. I spent most of 2023 unemployed after being laid off in late 2022. I was working for a small SaaS company that went from ~100 to ~200 in the past couple years and than subsequently dumped the recently hired ~100 a
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> A lot of users don't seem to recognize racism or sexism when it is not directed at them. This leads them to think it is not a problem. Well for a site that loves to jack off to how much smarter they are than the rest of the intern
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Ok I know what e/acc is but what the fuck is u/acc?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> With technology you can help people in different groups to understand better people in the other group. I’m laughing harder than when the blockchain lunatics claimed they were going to solve political corruption. Well at least they had
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> To me your comment is the outcome of smug, baseless superiority. lol you’re on HN what do you expect?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> If you're entering a role at a mid-level or junior, you're likely stuck with their tech stack choices. At senior or higher, it's usually about delivering results and the tech stack is up to you. > I've never paid
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Troll account. Unfortunately mods are more interested bothering accounts that occasionally offend the HN zeitgeist.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> It stinks of hypocrisy to me having this kind of regressive behavior on a site called "hacker news" Not sure how long you’ve browsed the site, but this isn’t particularly uncommon.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Makes sense when you realize that they are never loyal to capitalism, only to themselves, and their own wealth and power.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
who the hell mentioned racism. Or are you so stupidly stuck in brainless culture war crusading you think “dog whistle” is only associated with racism?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
It was used then but it predates it apparently > The phrase was popularised during the Ukrainian War of Independence (from 1917 to 1921).
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Life is just a series of hustles for them to scam their way through existence. Well maybe we’ll get to hear from some of them! This sounds like the exact place to find people with that attitude.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Garbage. I focused on roles that were a good fit for my resume , and initially at around what I had previously been making, and progressivley lowering as time went on , but to no avail. Recruiters almost immediately vanished and never retur
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> 2. Take the time to level up on one or two foundational skills whose barriers to entry are combinations of tenacity and intelligence, or tech stacks that are very close to a foundational skill. Something like "Fart App Framework&q
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by the_only_law 3y ago
HN rules are fickle at best. Only way to get a good idea of how they’re enforced is to observe for some time.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I ended up finding new work after a while but may not be able to hold it down for long. At this point if the market is still garbage in preparing to resign and find something else to do with my life.

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