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Ask HN: Know someone who's unhappy from caring too much on moral dilemmas?
1 points by amazonavocado 3y ago|0 comments
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by amazonavocado 3y ago
It is actually sometimes healthy to compare yourself to others, in order to have a broader perspective and prevent tunnel vision.
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Ask HN: How to properly "underpromise and overdeliver" in job interviews?
2 points by amazonavocado 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: When is going on a power trip, impostor syndrome gone very wrong?
5 points by amazonavocado 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Unemployed- skill up vs. lowering your standards?
1 points by amazonavocado 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone out there trying to help new devs avoid career pitfalls?
30 points by amazonavocado 3y ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: What is the future of cold-applying to jobs?
6 points by amazonavocado 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Is a work methodology worth doing if it's easy to do wrong?
1 points by amazonavocado 4y ago|0 comments
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by amazonavocado 4y ago
>I agree. Also, it's not that stable diffusion spontaneously generates art: someone has thought of a prompt, written it down, iterated, and finally decided that a given image was good enough to publish. Is stable diffusion an "
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by amazonavocado 4y ago
There are still a few message boards that I frequently go to, not as many as before, but they have their active community. Having their own Discord channel also helps boost activity. In particular in a hobby like PC building, using a messag
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Ask HN: Have coding bootcamps killed the for-profit tech college?
1 points by amazonavocado 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What popular articles discuss “cures” for the Expert Beginner?
1 points by amazonavocado 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Isn't keeping up with tech for your career same as “timing the market”?
35 points by amazonavocado 5y ago|32 comments
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by amazonavocado 6y ago
And these tech firms don't really ask tricky interviewing questions? I'm aware that FAANG companies ask Leetcode style questions which I'm not willing to drill myself over. That wouldn't be very low maintenance if the in
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by amazonavocado 6y ago
I consider "no major uses beyond web" to be a strength. Whereas other languages were adapted into use for HTTP servers, PHP was a tool for HTML rendering from the ground up, and therefore a specialist. I tend to trust specialists
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by amazonavocado 6y ago
Cloud-based hosting services personally give me too much analysis paralysis. Sometimes I just want old school shared hosting that already has an Apache config that is sensible for most small-mid scale work because it's more intuitive t
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Ask HN: What low-maintenance career tracks, if any, exist for SWE's?
1 points by amazonavocado 6y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Why are most software eng. internships not offered to non-students?
5 points by amazonavocado 6y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Can you still achieve FIRE if you start planning at 40?
56 points by amazonavocado 6y ago|43 comments
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Ask HN: Pre-Covid, what job markets have been improving for entry-level?
1 points by amazonavocado 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do you manage your career?
30 points by amazonavocado 6y ago|22 comments
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Ask HN: Why was system admin re-branded as devops?
65 points by amazonavocado 7y ago|24 comments
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by amazonavocado 7y ago
Generally one of two things needs to happen. Either a new industry, or new innovations in existing industries, creating more low-skill jobs in the same manner that previous industries have done. Or make the need to work in order to make a
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Ask HN: Transitioning from agency work to scalable product work?
2 points by amazonavocado 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Inbound marketing with just LinkedIn and GitHub? (freelancer)
8 points by amazonavocado 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Are web agencies considered software companies or not?
2 points by amazonavocado 8y ago|0 comments
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Would it involve devising a new unit of measurement? Your reply reminds me of this page: http://wiki.c2.com/?HowLongIsaPieceOfString
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Ask HN: What job would you offer a person w/experience but now fails interviews?
1 points by amazonavocado 8y ago|2 comments
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
>A robust professional network is almost always more valuable and more resilient than a MS CS. I actually think that this is OP’s biggest opportunity/challenge. You are actually right about that. I do not have a robust network. It c
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Elaborate? What are some examples of this? More importantly I want to know if you read the content of my post, and what are your thoughts on that content and your personal reflection of it.

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