hoboon

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by hoboon 11y ago
Your story is heartening. I wish it would work for me. Nothing really makes me happy or interested. I could lay in bed all day if I didn't force myself to get out. I think it's great that you didn't have any formal education,
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by hoboon 11y ago
Did that last year. No bootcamp guarantees placement.
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by hoboon 11y ago
> That is called learning. I get the tripe of what you mean, but perhaps I fail at failing, then. I don't really learn anything. Everything I do is wrong, I'm told. I wish antidepressents would work. If I could cut out parts of
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by hoboon 11y ago
I don't know what my pay grade is, or how to feature the data I get. I do ask for feedback from interviewers; they usually don't response. When they do, I get conflicting answers.
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by hoboon 11y ago
C/C++, learning python, ruby over the lst couple of years. Been working for several years, graduated with bachelors from a cow college no one has heard of. bug fixing. that's all i've ever done. anytime i try to move into a d
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Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible
30 points by hoboon 11y ago|39 comments
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About (Amazon) Prime Stations(amazon.com)
1 points by hoboon 11y ago|0 comments
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by hoboon 11y ago
It's a good interactive method to constantly challenge yourself into remembering and learning material. Basically, what you're supposed to do when you're actively reading material. I never really learned how to study until la
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by hoboon 11y ago
> Go solo. At 40 you should be experienced enough to handle up to mid-sized projects, alone and on a reasonable time-frame. Try to pick projects that your clients will actually use, someday i might get there.
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by hoboon 11y ago
This is fantastic, and makes me hopeful. I'm almost 40 and no real career accomplishments but there's still time for me, maybe, before I just decide to hang it up and just go home.
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by hoboon 11y ago
You're right. I talk about this often. I'm going a little crazy, and maybe angry.
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by hoboon 11y ago
> I think the best way to get over that is to make something on your own that is so great that everyone wants to hire you without even doing an interview! This is a good idea. I have no idea what people would want or what I could make t
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by hoboon 11y ago
I wonder if it's common or I am just unlucky or unskilled... I've been out of work for 11 months. I've been on a large number of interviews and it seems like after that many failed interviews, the answer is probably with me.
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by hoboon 11y ago
Highly recommend people apply for this company. I interviewed here and while I didn't quite make it, they're a good group with an interesting embedded/hw product and backend.
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by hoboon 11y ago
These are very good points. It's what I tried but it seems like I never met anyone. Just keep at it, I guess.
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by hoboon 11y ago
I'm not OP but how do you find work/clients/projects? I saw a posting earlier that had some suggestions.
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by hoboon 11y ago
I like tptacek's list but I'm wondering about how to get clients. tirrellp makes a good point, though. I guess that's how?
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by hoboon 11y ago
> I'm guessing you are someone who does not enjoy programming? Did your parents pressure you to take it up to have a well paying job? I do like programming, and I can at least empathize with the parent's skepticism. I do recal
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by hoboon 11y ago
I've noticed people will look at it if you really have their attention, say an employer who is inclined to give you a job. Having a site talk about requirements is useful. A lot of the times I don't know about features or needs in
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by hoboon 11y ago
> I got rid of my cell phone and got rid of internet service at my house. I've been wondering about doing something similar.
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by hoboon 11y ago
>cool friends, lovely girlfriend. I don't have any of those.
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by hoboon 11y ago
This is how I feel. I don't watch TV for hours like I did as a child. What I do now is worse; stay in doors programming, browsing the web aimlessly, or staring at the ceiling. I don't blame my internet lifestyle for this really, b
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by hoboon 12y ago
> I use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot. I loved wget for that. what are your options? Mine was always -r -p -k -nH --cut-dirs=2 -np
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by hoboon 12y ago
I would figure that by 1997 most people stopped using gopher/archive/veronica. I think I stopped by 1995 or so. now days we use curl/wget for web dev it seems? probably used it for the same thing back then but I also image th
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by hoboon 12y ago
I interviewed with these guys a few years ago. Nice people, good people. I don't have a web background but they gave me a fighting chance anyways. I wish them the best.
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by hoboon 12y ago
Hi! I interviewed at matasano before and regret not really getting it. I think I came close but I'm eager to try again.
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by hoboon 12y ago
I'm curious to know something: how do you meet these non-technical people?
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by hoboon 12y ago
I've thought about what you said. It's not terrible advice, I think, and I can see what you mean. It was difficult to apply in my situation, though. on top of my many-hour commute, family commitments, normal day-to-day work (bug f
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by hoboon 12y ago
I've been looking through some of these. I hope it works out for me. what do you think of topcoder?
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by hoboon 12y ago
this is very helpful advice. i thank you for it. I think I might be below your threshold, though. I agree with you about a great github. though i don't know what i could make that people would want in the dozens or hundreds. my quip ab

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