py_or_dy

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by py_or_dy 2y ago
Same, I noticed my decline about two years before I got covid (2019). Getting covid def didn't help. I've managed to work a pretty simple software dev job mostly fixing bugs and not under any time constraints. I think that helped,
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by py_or_dy 3y ago
I did over 120 combined interviews/phone screens/take home tests,etc for about 55 different companies between 2020-2022. Imo, unless it is for a big tech company, interviewing is just not worth it. Sadly I get too nervous to even
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
I'm pretty burned out too with my work (mostly web dev stuff). I've been meaning to get "AWS certified" or learn Kubernetes, but like you, it all seems so crazy to me. I used to love old school "linux administration
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
I've been doing some form of development since the age of 28. I look young for my age so I could probably pass for 35. I've made sure nothing giving my true age away is online or on my resume. I think the biggest issue is I have m
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
Stuff is screwed up. I applied at over 80 companies last year, got interviews with about 60 of them, did about 110 individual phone screens/interviews. Got no offers. It seems the management paradigm right now for small shops or start
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
uh, you got a careers page? :)
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
I'm not moving, I've been working remote only since 2015. That is the biggest factor to going to a FAANG. I am near Austin, TX, there are many SaaS startups there but the dev teams are always people under the age of 30 for the mos
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
> Sounds like a long rant about how you can't get a job in a thriving tech industry where salaries are actually going up by a lot. You say it is thriving, I say it is not. So who is correct? Every job I applied for was django develo
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
I can't help but feel like the "software industry" is in a slow decline (or race to the bottom). Back in 2007 before I even knew how to "program", I was a linux admin at a small start up. We found someone that we tr
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
Curious, what is the "wrong" person? I've worked with some co-workers before that were clearly not a fit, but it was so obvious. One time I was asked to help a new hire with a project that was falling behind. He had spent 2 m
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by py_or_dy 4y ago
Best of luck. I have no idea how to get hired. I jumped shipped from my last employer in May of 2020 thinking I'd take a 2 month break and then start interviewing. Over 18 months I submitted over 80 applications, and got interviews at
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Ask HN: Who has been unemployed for more than 6 months?
16 points by py_or_dy 5y ago|7 comments
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
Goodness, you and the OP have really hit the nail on the head. I spent the last 5 years quite happy at a simple dev shop. Then they hired a bunch of people, paid them more than me, and allowed them complete free reign to write what ever kin
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
I really don't get any of this. Here's the full picture: Larry Wall mostly gave up on Perl 5 in 2000 and announced the next release would be "Perl 6". A few small updates happened to perl 5 up until 2002. Larry started w
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
Oh and I forgot to also say when comparing the languages, you have to also look at the authors too. Guido from the get go was more of a "software engineer" type whereas Larry seemed to be more involved in sysadmin and/or syst
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
> You don't see how this is the same thing? No.. but feel free to explain. With my friend that left for google, I was annoyed at him somehow thinking python was advanced just because he was using stuff you could do in any language o
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Perl 7, not quite getting better yet(blogs.perl.org)
4 points by py_or_dy 6y ago|0 comments
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
> Perl maintains strict backwards compatibility. I can run code that was written decades ago. I used to spout that off too, but I now think it is just a myth. When the leader/creator of the language abandons it and it sits there sta
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
Understood. I stated that to say my problems with perl is not the language itself. To say it is the "community" is not right either. But basically "what is left of the community" is the issue. Languages like python, ruby
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
Ruby is just as dead. Only thing it had going for it was Rails.
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by py_or_dy 6y ago
I've been a perl zealot since 2005. I didn't even know "python" existed until around 2008 when I found a script file with a ".py" file ending in a fresh ubuntu install. I started going to perl conferences somet