I don\u2019t know if it helps, but I\u2019m a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience, located in Canada. Up-to-date with the latest web frameworks (React/Angular/Node.js/TypeScript) and have mostly worked with C# before that on enterprise software, with a bit of React Native on personal projects. Have worked in both back-end and web front-end projects depending on the need of my employer. My GitHub profile is pretty bleak, but I have personal projects that are public.
Also, will I need a work visa if I\u2019m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada? Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I\u2019m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start"}},"_tags":["story","author_hamstercat","story_17081900","ask_hn"],"author":"hamstercat","children":[17082012,17082552,17082555,17082572,17082611,17082658,17082790,17082930,17082958,17083058,17083068,17083071,17083214,17083345,17083893,17083985,17084040,17085036,17085074,17085220,17088370],"created_at":"2018-05-16T12:42:30Z","created_at_i":1526474550,"num_comments":71,"objectID":"17081900","points":258,"story_id":17081900,"story_text":"As the title suggest, I\u2019m trying to learn more about remote work to find better opportunities than what is available to me locally. Where should I start? Any tips about where to look for work, how to make my resume attractive, what to look out for, etc. I\u2019m not in a hurry to change, I want to learn what I can before and make an informed decision. I\u2019m interested in a full-time job preferably as an employee.
I don\u2019t know if it helps, but I\u2019m a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience, located in Canada. Up-to-date with the latest web frameworks (React/Angular/Node.js/TypeScript) and have mostly worked with C# before that on enterprise software, with a bit of React Native on personal projects. Have worked in both back-end and web front-end projects depending on the need of my employer. My GitHub profile is pretty bleak, but I have personal projects that are public.
Also, will I need a work visa if I\u2019m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada? Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I\u2019m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary.","title":"Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:28:27Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"robbiet480"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"BranchOut Falsifies Wall Street Journal Quote"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"http://socialsplat.net/2012/08/31/branchout-falsifies-wall-street-journal-quote/"}},"_tags":["story","author_robbiet480","story_4462553"],"author":"robbiet480","children":[4462611,4462627,4462645,4462652,4462688,4462693,4462709,4462724,4462735,4462738,4462764,4462773,4462804,4462872,4462874,4462953,4462990,4464377],"created_at":"2012-09-01T03:13:59Z","created_at_i":1346469239,"num_comments":69,"objectID":"4462553","points":141,"story_id":4462553,"title":"BranchOut Falsifies Wall Street Journal Quote","updated_at":"2024-09-19T18:50:07Z","url":"http://socialsplat.net/2012/08/31/branchout-falsifies-wall-street-journal-quote/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"totallynothax"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I've been building web apps for over 10 years. Generally I'm the guy everyone (managers, other devs, etc.) comes to ask the difficult questions. I've built a lot of user-facing stuff, can handle architecture etc.
I just get the feeling I could do more than just being an engineer, but all the jobs I hear about are just sw engineer stuff, or don't allow telecommuters (one of my very few must-have requirements)
Am I just lacking the connections to hear about more interesting opportunities? Any suggestions?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Ask HN: How to branch out past being \"just\" an engineer?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_totallynothax","story_6826176","ask_hn"],"author":"totallynothax","children":[6826195,6826289,6826933],"created_at":"2013-12-01T04:54:11Z","created_at_i":1385873651,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"6826176","points":6,"story_id":6826176,"story_text":"I've been building web apps for over 10 years. Generally I'm the guy everyone (managers, other devs, etc.) comes to ask the difficult questions. I've built a lot of user-facing stuff, can handle architecture etc.
I just get the feeling I could do more than just being an engineer, but all the jobs I hear about are just sw engineer stuff, or don't allow telecommuters (one of my very few must-have requirements)
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So my question is: which would be better for my career as a software developer:\n1. Become an expert in iOS, trying to become as well known in it as possible, attempting to make popular apps and open source projects, and pushing the boundaries in this area as much as possible.
2. Try to transition into something I have no experience in but that I find interesting, like data science, and becoming more of a generalist. What is even the best way to branch out into a completely different field? I'm passionate and a fast learner, but I wonder if having personal projects would be enough to break into a new field."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Ask HN: Should I try to become an expert or should I branch out?"}},"_tags":["story","author_bribri","story_10891582","ask_hn"],"author":"bribri","created_at":"2016-01-13T00:58:02Z","created_at_i":1452646682,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"10891582","points":3,"story_id":10891582,"story_text":"I'm a pretty new grad out of college and have been doing iOS development for a few years, which I really enjoy, but I'm worried about becoming too niche in my professional experience. I've done some backend and frontend work for my job, but I still wouldn't feel comfortable applying for a job that was asking for "3+ years Rails experience" or something. I try to expose myself to as many new ideas as possible in my personal projects, and have used Android, Haskell, Purescript, Elm, React, Go, Docker, etc but I have not used these at work. I love technology and broadening my horizons, but I also see the usefulness of knowing something well enough to make a significant contribution in it.
So my question is: which would be better for my career as a software developer:\n1. Become an expert in iOS, trying to become as well known in it as possible, attempting to make popular apps and open source projects, and pushing the boundaries in this area as much as possible.
2. Try to transition into something I have no experience in but that I find interesting, like data science, and becoming more of a generalist. What is even the best way to branch out into a completely different field? I'm passionate and a fast learner, but I wonder if having personal projects would be enough to break into a new field.","title":"Ask HN: Should I try to become an expert or should I branch out?","updated_at":"2023-09-07T00:33:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"simon_weber"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"disclaimer: I get a shirt if enough people sign up. 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Currently my career have consisted of writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that. I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method. Thi bis true not just for CS and software development, but other technical and mathematical subjects I've attempted to learn.
The typical suggestions for people in my situation dont interest me. These seem to be roles adjacent to what I do now and often, but closer to business then tech. These might include becoming a business analyst, technical salesman, fast tracking to management, etc. These are sound even worse to me than what I do now, and given the choice I'd just stick with development.
Now I'd likely have to return to some sort of schooling and I'm young enough to do it (I guess), but given my intellectual limitation and my stubbornness on what I take interest in, I'm not sure what options I have."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?"}},"_tags":["story","author_throwaway88p","story_22988809","ask_hn"],"author":"throwaway88p","children":[22989215,22989229,22989233,22989255,22989260,22989264,22989276,22989285,22989299,22989305,22989306,22989344,22989351,22989359,22989373,22989388,22989389,22989399,22989411,22989425,22989426,22989429,22989434,22989437,22989441,22989510,22989529,22989536,22989542,22989552,22989555,22989570,22989575,22989586,22989605,22989609,22989610,22989661,22989932,22990569,22990672,22990761,22990788,22990795,22990866,22990874,22990976,22991157,22991169,22991185,22991228,22991449,22991485,22991596,22991974,22992003,22992292,22992818,22993089,22993211,22993357,22993634,22993654,22993822,22994170,22995082,22995194,22995363,22995393,22997740,23006283,23007721,23010994,23022835],"created_at":"2020-04-26T17:56:42Z","created_at_i":1587923802,"num_comments":163,"objectID":"22988809","points":186,"story_id":22988809,"story_text":"So I've been working in the industry for a while, and as a hobbyist for a good bit of time before that. Currently my career have consisted of writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that. I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method. Thi bis true not just for CS and software development, but other technical and mathematical subjects I've attempted to learn.
The typical suggestions for people in my situation dont interest me. These seem to be roles adjacent to what I do now and often, but closer to business then tech. These might include becoming a business analyst, technical salesman, fast tracking to management, etc. These are sound even worse to me than what I do now, and given the choice I'd just stick with development.
Now I'd likely have to return to some sort of schooling and I'm young enough to do it (I guess), but given my intellectual limitation and my stubbornness on what I take interest in, I'm not sure what options I have.","title":"Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?","updated_at":"2026-07-22T17:14:57Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"drekipus"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I'm looking for some books to help me practise and refine my skills as a developer and Engineer.
I'm currently working in python on a django project, working in a financial domain. I lead a few engineers and direct/manage some projects. But I feel like I'm missing out on something when I read about people making things in zig and rust, or how they apply some numerical modelling techniques to certain problems, plus the new technologies being developed. I feel like I'm very much not knowledgeable or distinguishable enough, so I want to refine my skill a bit and maintain "sharp" in case of something happening and i need to find a new job quickly. And i want to make sure that I'm learning all that I could be learning in my current position.
Some previous books I've read / enjoyed:
* The makings of an Expert Engineer\n* Designing data intensive applications (haven't finished, moved house and lost the book, want to pick it up again)\n* Designing Elixir Systems with OTP\n* Practical Common Lisp
I feel like I have learned a bit with the Elixir/CL books, inwhich I apply to how i write python, but I never branch out to doing my own projects in these languages, so I feel like I'm missing out on utilizing these tools fully.
Is there anything to read that could take me to the proverbial next level?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?"}},"_tags":["story","author_drekipus","story_46483863","ask_hn"],"author":"drekipus","children":[46484294,46484347,46484400,46484785,46484826,46484854,46484902,46485536,46485719,46486063,46486338,46487237,46488074,46489787,46491038,46545644,46556167],"created_at":"2026-01-04T01:33:35Z","created_at_i":1767490415,"num_comments":17,"objectID":"46483863","points":48,"story_id":46483863,"story_text":"I'm looking for some books to help me practise and refine my skills as a developer and Engineer.
I'm currently working in python on a django project, working in a financial domain. I lead a few engineers and direct/manage some projects. But I feel like I'm missing out on something when I read about people making things in zig and rust, or how they apply some numerical modelling techniques to certain problems, plus the new technologies being developed. I feel like I'm very much not knowledgeable or distinguishable enough, so I want to refine my skill a bit and maintain "sharp" in case of something happening and i need to find a new job quickly. And i want to make sure that I'm learning all that I could be learning in my current position.
Some previous books I've read / enjoyed:
* The makings of an Expert Engineer\n* Designing data intensive applications (haven't finished, moved house and lost the book, want to pick it up again)\n* Designing Elixir Systems with OTP\n* Practical Common Lisp
I feel like I have learned a bit with the Elixir/CL books, inwhich I apply to how i write python, but I never branch out to doing my own projects in these languages, so I feel like I'm missing out on utilizing these tools fully.
Is there anything to read that could take me to the proverbial next level?","title":"Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?","updated_at":"2026-09-04T17:54:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ktharavaad"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"As a computer programmer, I've realized that one of the best way to improve myself is to read the code written by the masters of the art and try to emulate them. This is helped by the enormous amount of opensource code out there.
However, along the way, the very act of reading code has become a stumbling block in my journey.
I'm posting this because I want to get a perspective of how other programmers approach this problem. When faced with a huge chunk of code, how do you guys read it? do you read it line by line? do you guys put it into an IDE, look at the outline and simply jump into functions you are interested in?
Do you read through the \"main\" function first and then branch out to the utility functions or do the reverse where you read the utility functions and subroutines first and then figure out how they are put together?
please share with me some of the tips and tricks of code reading that you have discovered."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: how do you read code?"}},"_tags":["story","author_ktharavaad","story_483824","ask_hn"],"author":"ktharavaad","children":[483872,483873,483877,483892,483901,483905,483910,483925,483946,483998,484039,484098,484120,484148,484303,484356,484508,484575,484596],"created_at":"2009-02-16T23:58:42Z","created_at_i":1234828722,"num_comments":26,"objectID":"483824","points":46,"story_id":483824,"story_text":"As a computer programmer, I've realized that one of the best way to improve myself is to read the code written by the masters of the art and try to emulate them. This is helped by the enormous amount of opensource code out there.
However, along the way, the very act of reading code has become a stumbling block in my journey.
I'm posting this because I want to get a perspective of how other programmers approach this problem. When faced with a huge chunk of code, how do you guys read it? do you read it line by line? do you guys put it into an IDE, look at the outline and simply jump into functions you are interested in?
Do you read through the \"main\" function first and then branch out to the utility functions or do the reverse where you read the utility functions and subroutines first and then figure out how they are put together?
please share with me some of the tips and tricks of code reading that you have discovered.","title":"Ask HN: how do you read code?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:34:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tupe12334"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Why can't we get an agent scheduler that supports all of the following:
- git compatible
- agent agnostic
- 100% open source
- os and system-agnostic
- multi-runner support
- support mcp/ui/http
- unlimited routines/crons
So I built one, moadim.io is a local Rust daemon you install in the target machine, give it a name and manage its routines via a Git repository, wants a new routine that send you a daily message from this machine? Create a pr and merge, have another routine that run every hour to pull the latest changes to the ~/.config/moadim folder.
With more than 1,000 users, I define this project as almost "done" and ready for production. Me and thousand more people are use it in a daily manner.
It currently supports Claude, Codex, Hermes, and Pi, and you are welcome to add your agent of choice as well because it's 100% configurable.
You are welcome to have a look at the source code of the daemon in "http://github.com/moadim-io/daemon"
Feel free to provide me with suggestions for more features around this topic. I don't want to branch out to new off road topics likt webhooks, this is a "done" software in the realm of agents schedulers that focus on cron-like work.
Also feel free to start the github repository and open issues and PRs for your suggestions."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Moadim.io \u2013 A scheduler for agents"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://moadim.io/"}},"_tags":["story","author_tupe12334","story_49571537","show_hn"],"author":"tupe12334","children":[49571538,49572005,49572021,49572197,49572492,49572753,49573201,49573846,49576084,49577527,49579797,49580575,49582872,49596297],"created_at":"2026-09-04T23:50:29Z","created_at_i":1788565829,"num_comments":19,"objectID":"49571537","points":37,"story_id":49571537,"story_text":"Why can't we get an agent scheduler that supports all of the following:
- git compatible
- agent agnostic
- 100% open source
- os and system-agnostic
- multi-runner support
- support mcp/ui/http
- unlimited routines/crons
So I built one, moadim.io is a local Rust daemon you install in the target machine, give it a name and manage its routines via a Git repository, wants a new routine that send you a daily message from this machine? Create a pr and merge, have another routine that run every hour to pull the latest changes to the ~/.config/moadim folder.
With more than 1,000 users, I define this project as almost "done" and ready for production. Me and thousand more people are use it in a daily manner.
It currently supports Claude, Codex, Hermes, and Pi, and you are welcome to add your agent of choice as well because it's 100% configurable.
You are welcome to have a look at the source code of the daemon in "http://github.com/moadim-io/daemon"
Feel free to provide me with suggestions for more features around this topic. I don't want to branch out to new off road topics likt webhooks, this is a "done" software in the realm of agents schedulers that focus on cron-like work.
Also feel free to start the github repository and open issues and PRs for your suggestions.","title":"Show HN: Moadim.io \u2013 A scheduler for agents","updated_at":"2026-09-13T19:52:18Z","url":"https://moadim.io/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sergiotapia"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I want to teach my son how to program and I've been wondering what language to start with. I work with Ruby day-to-day but if I teach him that first I feel like it'll sully him for other languages and "taint" him.
I was thinking of going with Go since it's very basic, clean and explicit. It's a C-style language so he will be able to branch out to other languages years down the line if he wants to.
On the other hand, distributed systems are on the rise and probably the future of computing. Something like Elixir will go a really long way in teaching how how to think in a functional, distributed manner.
What do you guys think? Fathers, what languages have you taught your son first?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language first a bad idea?"}},"_tags":["story","author_sergiotapia","story_14213009","ask_hn"],"author":"sergiotapia","children":[14213038,14213113,14213299,14213754,14213768,14213784,14213794,14213842,14213873,14213972,14214140,14214230,14214394,14214408,14214438,14214481,14215456,14215491,14216262,14217592,14218656,14220060,14223114,14225770,14236302],"created_at":"2017-04-27T16:58:54Z","created_at_i":1493312334,"num_comments":39,"objectID":"14213009","points":31,"story_id":14213009,"story_text":"I want to teach my son how to program and I've been wondering what language to start with. I work with Ruby day-to-day but if I teach him that first I feel like it'll sully him for other languages and "taint" him.
I was thinking of going with Go since it's very basic, clean and explicit. It's a C-style language so he will be able to branch out to other languages years down the line if he wants to.
On the other hand, distributed systems are on the rise and probably the future of computing. Something like Elixir will go a really long way in teaching how how to think in a functional, distributed manner.
What do you guys think? Fathers, what languages have you taught your son first?","title":"Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language first a bad idea?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T00:42:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"perspective1"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I'd like to branch out from MVC for my next webapp. What battle-tested alternatives are others using?
Here's a post from 2014, but there aren't any example code bases. https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/11/alternatives-to-mvc.html"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC"}},"_tags":["story","author_perspective1","story_20690672","ask_hn"],"author":"perspective1","children":[20691147,20691205,20691719,20691920,20693076,20693224,20693347,20693443,20694696,20700697],"created_at":"2019-08-13T21:57:09Z","created_at_i":1565733429,"num_comments":15,"objectID":"20690672","points":25,"story_id":20690672,"story_text":"I'd like to branch out from MVC for my next webapp. What battle-tested alternatives are others using?
Here's a post from 2014, but there aren't any example code bases. https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/11/alternatives-to-mvc.html","title":"Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:42:12Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jd_illa"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I'm an attorney interested in starting my own practice. Probably will start with corporate, financing & M&A work for tech startups since that's my experience, but I'd be open to branch out as I learn more. I was surprised to learn very few attorneys do user research before opening their own shop.
(Unlike many lawyers,) I actually like practicing law and helping clients problem-solve. Would like to build a practice that serves as a solution, not another problem.
So tell me: what bad experiences have you had with lawyers? What about the good ones? If you're a founder, what is something you'd like to tell the legal industry?
Share/vent/spout off as you please, but be civil and please don't mention specific names!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Tell me your good and bad experiences with lawyers"}},"_tags":["story","author_jd_illa","story_32840645","ask_hn"],"author":"jd_illa","children":[32840978,32841144,32841221,32841460,32844550,32845214,32855384,32859668],"created_at":"2022-09-14T17:46:31Z","created_at_i":1663177591,"num_comments":28,"objectID":"32840645","points":20,"story_id":32840645,"story_text":"I'm an attorney interested in starting my own practice. Probably will start with corporate, financing & M&A work for tech startups since that's my experience, but I'd be open to branch out as I learn more. I was surprised to learn very few attorneys do user research before opening their own shop.
(Unlike many lawyers,) I actually like practicing law and helping clients problem-solve. Would like to build a practice that serves as a solution, not another problem.
So tell me: what bad experiences have you had with lawyers? What about the good ones? If you're a founder, what is something you'd like to tell the legal industry?
Share/vent/spout off as you please, but be civil and please don't mention specific names!","title":"Ask HN: Tell me your good and bad experiences with lawyers","updated_at":"2024-10-29T19:50:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"keepamovin"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Random question, I know, sorry. I'm a fan of classics -- ( Blake, Tennyson, Coleridge, Kipling, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Basho, Yeats, Eliot, Lorde, Khayyam, Frost, Whitman ) -- but I want to branch out and very curious as to the poetry interests of this venerable group of intellectuals here. Haha! :) So please share your likes, preferably with links, and I'll definitely read them. Hopefully this can function as a useful spot for folks who enjoy poetry to share the (ideally modern and contemporary) poets they like. :)"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Can you recommend some poetry?"}},"_tags":["story","author_keepamovin","story_40257154","ask_hn"],"author":"keepamovin","children":[40257548,40257596,40257780,40257937,40258069,40258159,40259778,40261683,40261800,40261941,40263089,40263165,40267786,40267812,40277455,40278101,40281287,40281298,40281659],"created_at":"2024-05-04T12:30:04Z","created_at_i":1714825804,"num_comments":23,"objectID":"40257154","points":18,"story_id":40257154,"story_text":"Random question, I know, sorry. I'm a fan of classics -- ( Blake, Tennyson, Coleridge, Kipling, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Basho, Yeats, Eliot, Lorde, Khayyam, Frost, Whitman ) -- but I want to branch out and very curious as to the poetry interests of this venerable group of intellectuals here. Haha! :) So please share your likes, preferably with links, and I'll definitely read them. Hopefully this can function as a useful spot for folks who enjoy poetry to share the (ideally modern and contemporary) poets they like. :)","title":"Ask HN: Can you recommend some poetry?","updated_at":"2025-10-06T20:32:12Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rayvy"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I work at a large ad-tech/tracking company that's ruining the internet (not FAANG, but in the next tier). Me personally - this is my first job post-undergrad. I tell myself that I need the money, and I'll only do it for 2.5 years, until I have the savings/skills/experience to branch out and do something relatively more meaningful."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you rationalize working at an ad-tech/tracking company?"}},"_tags":["story","author_rayvy","story_18096772","ask_hn"],"author":"rayvy","children":[18096867,18096880,18097006,18097129,18099996,18104334],"created_at":"2018-09-28T20:29:17Z","created_at_i":1538166557,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"18096772","points":17,"story_id":18096772,"story_text":"I work at a large ad-tech/tracking company that's ruining the internet (not FAANG, but in the next tier). Me personally - this is my first job post-undergrad. I tell myself that I need the money, and I'll only do it for 2.5 years, until I have the savings/skills/experience to branch out and do something relatively more meaningful.","title":"Ask HN: How do you rationalize working at an ad-tech/tracking company?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:10:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"py_or_dy"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I'm curious how many people are having trouble getting hired lately?
I mostly voluntarily quit my full time dev job (web based ERP software powered by Perl) last June 2020 after covid cut hours. I figured it would be an easy step to jump from Perl web developer to Django. So I re-wrote my linkedin and resumes to mostly brand me as a 'Django Expert'. I'll admit my experience with it is more limited (compared to Perl offerings), but I have used it off and on for the last 6 years or so and can easily deploy apps using traditional HTML templating or rest based apps on modern javascript via Django rest framework.
Yet after sending out over 80 applications and doing about 60 interviews, I have not gotten any offers. I'm starting to get a bit nervous as savings are getting thin. I don't think anything is wrong with my resume since I normally hear back from 80% of what I apply to. I'm starting to feel that perhaps the python/django market is overly flooded at the moment? Should I perhaps try jumping to a different language like Go where the market isn't so flooded (if that is the case)? I'm honestly shocked I have not had any offers. For the first 6 months, I'll admit I didn't try very hard to be friendly or personable. I felt like just showing I was a good "worker bee" would be good enough during interviews.
Since then I've taken a more scientific approach to interviewing and have tried many different tactics, from being overly friendly or talkative, to talking about a desire to move into management or a desire to not move into management. Emphasized different skills (or lack thereof), etc. And although in some cases I feel like I get along great with the team and my skill set is a direct match, I still end up not getting selected. Only about half the time is salary even discussed, so I'm not being limited by what I am asking for pay. Even worse, if I get feedback, it is always maligned. Just recently one small company said they didn't choose me because they felt I was weak with databases. We had talked in detail about my experience with using postgresql as a data warehouse with 15 billion rows and 5tb of data and having migrated it through various OLAP schemas and dimensional models. To me, it just really feels like no one is actually hiring?! And sadly, job posting in September and October have really fallen flat compared to the last 6 months.
For the most part, I have been using boards like python.org/jobs and the HN hired monthly post. I normally try to stick to small companies since they seem to value actual work skills instead of interview and leet code etiquette. So perhaps I should branch out to bigger companies? I tried for a few weeks to put my resume on dice.com but got slammed by recruiting firms sending me job apps that had nothing to do with my background and I was stupid enough to list my phone number so then I had recruiters calling me trying to sweet talk me into applying anyway because "maybe they'll hire you even though your skills aren't a match". But that just lead to many interviews where I could tell the interviewer was annoyed with me since the req stated python + C# or Java experience and I had neither. I really can't think of a better way to improve myself. I've got about 10 years experience and am getting close to the dreaded 40 year mark. I have noticed a high percentage of jobs seem to want you to have a bunch of AWS experience. I've messed around with EC2 instances but that is about it. Not sure if it is worth it to try to get some AWS certs (I really hate certs) or what?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Who has been unemployed for more than 6 months?"}},"_tags":["story","author_py_or_dy","story_28853675","ask_hn"],"author":"py_or_dy","children":[28853763,28854006,28855410,28855604,28862306,28943657],"created_at":"2021-10-13T15:46:13Z","created_at_i":1634139973,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"28853675","points":16,"story_id":28853675,"story_text":"I'm curious how many people are having trouble getting hired lately?
I mostly voluntarily quit my full time dev job (web based ERP software powered by Perl) last June 2020 after covid cut hours. I figured it would be an easy step to jump from Perl web developer to Django. So I re-wrote my linkedin and resumes to mostly brand me as a 'Django Expert'. I'll admit my experience with it is more limited (compared to Perl offerings), but I have used it off and on for the last 6 years or so and can easily deploy apps using traditional HTML templating or rest based apps on modern javascript via Django rest framework.
Yet after sending out over 80 applications and doing about 60 interviews, I have not gotten any offers. I'm starting to get a bit nervous as savings are getting thin. I don't think anything is wrong with my resume since I normally hear back from 80% of what I apply to. I'm starting to feel that perhaps the python/django market is overly flooded at the moment? Should I perhaps try jumping to a different language like Go where the market isn't so flooded (if that is the case)? I'm honestly shocked I have not had any offers. For the first 6 months, I'll admit I didn't try very hard to be friendly or personable. I felt like just showing I was a good "worker bee" would be good enough during interviews.
Since then I've taken a more scientific approach to interviewing and have tried many different tactics, from being overly friendly or talkative, to talking about a desire to move into management or a desire to not move into management. Emphasized different skills (or lack thereof), etc. And although in some cases I feel like I get along great with the team and my skill set is a direct match, I still end up not getting selected. Only about half the time is salary even discussed, so I'm not being limited by what I am asking for pay. Even worse, if I get feedback, it is always maligned. Just recently one small company said they didn't choose me because they felt I was weak with databases. We had talked in detail about my experience with using postgresql as a data warehouse with 15 billion rows and 5tb of data and having migrated it through various OLAP schemas and dimensional models. To me, it just really feels like no one is actually hiring?! And sadly, job posting in September and October have really fallen flat compared to the last 6 months.
For the most part, I have been using boards like python.org/jobs and the HN hired monthly post. I normally try to stick to small companies since they seem to value actual work skills instead of interview and leet code etiquette. So perhaps I should branch out to bigger companies? I tried for a few weeks to put my resume on dice.com but got slammed by recruiting firms sending me job apps that had nothing to do with my background and I was stupid enough to list my phone number so then I had recruiters calling me trying to sweet talk me into applying anyway because "maybe they'll hire you even though your skills aren't a match". But that just lead to many interviews where I could tell the interviewer was annoyed with me since the req stated python + C# or Java experience and I had neither. I really can't think of a better way to improve myself. I've got about 10 years experience and am getting close to the dreaded 40 year mark. I have noticed a high percentage of jobs seem to want you to have a bunch of AWS experience. I've messed around with EC2 instances but that is about it. Not sure if it is worth it to try to get some AWS certs (I really hate certs) or what?","title":"Ask HN: Who has been unemployed for more than 6 months?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T09:37:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ehsanul"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"The website: http://jellly.com/
Many web apps are heavily dependant on network effects, and are completely useless without a decent user base already in place. When faced with this issue, the common wisdom is to target a small niche at first. Over time, you can branch out to other users. There are many examples of this, such as Facebook starting with just Harvard students for example.
The strategy makes a lot of sense, but the question is what niche should one choose? In our particular case, we need to sign up people who browse many of the same web pages. This is necessary because our app, Jellly, is meant to suggest related links as users browse the web, so there better be other users who saw some of the same web pages earlier and already suggested related links.
The \u201chacker\u201d niche, as represented by this community, may be a good choice here, but I\u2019m not sure. We had thought about targeting bloggers, as they are often all looking at the same blog posts and articles; they provide free marketing and they could get into an app like this (it\u2019s much better than using track-backs for sure), and they\u2019d be happy to get some traffic out of it too by linking their own posts to other relevant stuff on Jellly. But the overall blogosphere is huge; the target needs to be more focused than that at first. Hacker-bloggers?
To better understand Jellly and our problem, you could take a peek at our FAQ. It may be more instructive though to see the crappy demo app I threw together in a few hours for our (failed) YC application, as long as you don't consider it to be characteristic of the actual app. It really just demonstrates how it might work for finding content: http://prettyobscure.jellly.com/"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: We have an app. Now what's our niche? "},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_ehsanul","story_1594688","ask_hn"],"author":"ehsanul","children":[1594759,1594836,1594842,1594889,1594994,1595066,1595214,1595288,1595830,1597441],"created_at":"2010-08-11T14:07:02Z","created_at_i":1281535622,"num_comments":22,"objectID":"1594688","points":15,"story_id":1594688,"story_text":"The website: http://jellly.com/
Many web apps are heavily dependant on network effects, and are completely useless without a decent user base already in place. When faced with this issue, the common wisdom is to target a small niche at first. Over time, you can branch out to other users. There are many examples of this, such as Facebook starting with just Harvard students for example.
The strategy makes a lot of sense, but the question is what niche should one choose? In our particular case, we need to sign up people who browse many of the same web pages. This is necessary because our app, Jellly, is meant to suggest related links as users browse the web, so there better be other users who saw some of the same web pages earlier and already suggested related links.
The \u201chacker\u201d niche, as represented by this community, may be a good choice here, but I\u2019m not sure. We had thought about targeting bloggers, as they are often all looking at the same blog posts and articles; they provide free marketing and they could get into an app like this (it\u2019s much better than using track-backs for sure), and they\u2019d be happy to get some traffic out of it too by linking their own posts to other relevant stuff on Jellly. But the overall blogosphere is huge; the target needs to be more focused than that at first. Hacker-bloggers?
To better understand Jellly and our problem, you could take a peek at our FAQ. It may be more instructive though to see the crappy demo app I threw together in a few hours for our (failed) YC application, as long as you don't consider it to be characteristic of the actual app. It really just demonstrates how it might work for finding content: http://prettyobscure.jellly.com/","title":"Ask HN: We have an app. Now what's our niche? ","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:14:40Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"flippyhead"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Yeah yeah, HN is great, I spend too much time constantly checking for new whatever. I'd like to branch out. Got any suggestions?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What are good HN alternatives?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_flippyhead","story_5702645","ask_hn"],"author":"flippyhead","children":[5702683,5702736,5702759,5702798,5702824,5702888,5702952,5703137,5710033],"created_at":"2013-05-14T01:58:15Z","created_at_i":1368496695,"num_comments":15,"objectID":"5702645","points":15,"story_id":5702645,"story_text":"Yeah yeah, HN is great, I spend too much time constantly checking for new whatever. I'd like to branch out. Got any suggestions?","title":"Ask HN: What are good HN alternatives?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T21:30:23Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"brooksbp"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I am a university student majoring in CS and minoring in EE and have noticed that while I do learn some programming in my classes, it's not enough. I've been working a job on campus doing web application development (LAMP, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, JSON, AJAX, insert cool web technology here), but I've also noticed that this is not enough; hopefully PHP is enough of a reason to support my last statement.
Anyways I would like to start hacking on some open source projects. But I can't seem to find one that 'fits' me. Most of them are huge. I would like to find a relatively small community, with a small project. I would also like to get involved with a couple -- in different languages. So I can branch out of C, C++, PHP, Java, insert corp lang here.
I've been recently really into memcached for a while. Been working on client APIs here and there, but they're pretty well supported already. Idk but something about caching really intrigues me.
Do you guys have any recommendations? I would like to hack on Python, Ruby, OCaml, whatever really.. Thanks!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask YC: Good/small open source projects to work on?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_brooksbp","story_90569","ask_hn"],"author":"brooksbp","children":[90627,90634,90636,90638,90694,90699,90752,90809,90833,90976],"created_at":"2007-12-18T03:08:34Z","created_at_i":1197947314,"num_comments":12,"objectID":"90569","points":14,"story_id":90569,"story_text":"I am a university student majoring in CS and minoring in EE and have noticed that while I do learn some programming in my classes, it's not enough. I've been working a job on campus doing web application development (LAMP, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, JSON, AJAX, insert cool web technology here), but I've also noticed that this is not enough; hopefully PHP is enough of a reason to support my last statement.
Anyways I would like to start hacking on some open source projects. But I can't seem to find one that 'fits' me. Most of them are huge. I would like to find a relatively small community, with a small project. I would also like to get involved with a couple -- in different languages. So I can branch out of C, C++, PHP, Java, insert corp lang here.
I've been recently really into memcached for a while. Been working on client APIs here and there, but they're pretty well supported already. Idk but something about caching really intrigues me.
Do you guys have any recommendations? I would like to hack on Python, Ruby, OCaml, whatever really.. Thanks!","title":"Ask YC: Good/small open source projects to work on?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:07:16Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"JohnTHaller"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I find myself laid up with a broken ankle/leg and I've been meaning to learn Git for a while, so I figured this would be the best opportunity. I last used version control back with Visual SourceSafe (I know, I know) in the late 90s while I was working corporate. Now, I hack on PortableApps.com which uses a combination of Hg, Git and SVN for various sub-projects, though my stuff often only gets dumped in once per release. I'd like to get them all better organized and standardize on one system, and it looks like Git will be it (possibly at Github).
On my end, I know enough to re-read a manual and poke a button on the various SCMs here and there to get some code out and maybe get a change in. But overall, assume I'm starting from scratch. I need to learn from the basics through the theory (branches and merging and collisions, oh my) through some more advanced bits. I'm more comfortable with a GUI but can use the command line in a pinch. And I'll be using it in Windows exclusively for now. I may branch out to Linux later, but all my work is on Windows apps at present.
I've done the usual Google searches and know about things like try.github.io, codeschool, etc, but figured that some of the more experienced folks here... maybe even some of the github folks here... could point me in the best direction.
Thanks in advance!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Git for a version control (mostly) newbie?"}},"_tags":["story","author_JohnTHaller","story_7022214","ask_hn"],"author":"JohnTHaller","children":[7022385,7022428,7022596,7022824,7023628,7024875,7025940,7080163],"created_at":"2014-01-08T07:17:58Z","created_at_i":1389165478,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"7022214","points":14,"story_id":7022214,"story_text":"I find myself laid up with a broken ankle/leg and I've been meaning to learn Git for a while, so I figured this would be the best opportunity. I last used version control back with Visual SourceSafe (I know, I know) in the late 90s while I was working corporate. Now, I hack on PortableApps.com which uses a combination of Hg, Git and SVN for various sub-projects, though my stuff often only gets dumped in once per release. I'd like to get them all better organized and standardize on one system, and it looks like Git will be it (possibly at Github).
On my end, I know enough to re-read a manual and poke a button on the various SCMs here and there to get some code out and maybe get a change in. But overall, assume I'm starting from scratch. I need to learn from the basics through the theory (branches and merging and collisions, oh my) through some more advanced bits. I'm more comfortable with a GUI but can use the command line in a pinch. And I'll be using it in Windows exclusively for now. I may branch out to Linux later, but all my work is on Windows apps at present.
I've done the usual Google searches and know about things like try.github.io, codeschool, etc, but figured that some of the more experienced folks here... maybe even some of the github folks here... could point me in the best direction.
Thanks in advance!","title":"Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Git for a version control (mostly) newbie?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:21:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bgg"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"You'd think this is something that has been discussed on HN or another startup forum, but I can't seem to find a combination of search keywords that yields anything useful on the topic.
I've been a moonlighting entrepreneur for about 18 months, and have a single, slightly profitable webapp/startup. I am a solo founder and the only contributor/employee. The company is a registered LLC.
Since that app requires little ongoing maintenance, I've decided to branch out and create additional, unrelated businesses/apps. I am thinking that it would be best to create a single \"parent\" LLC that owns and operates these various \"brands\" possibly under a DBA.
The advantages, as I see it:
* The simplicity of running one LLC, having one bank account, etc. instead of 3 to 5.\n* Economy of scale from things like shared hosting, shared payment gateways, shared legal and accounting support, etc.\n* Avoiding additional (admittedly minor) fees from multiple filings.\n* Fewer qualms about things like cross-promotion between the sites.
I understand that some of the drawbacks under this scenario are:
* The \"limited liability\" umbrella would extend across all the businesses, so that if Brand A gets sued, Brand B's assets are at risk. I can live with that risk (although if there were an easy way around that I'd certainly take it). I guess maybe a Series LLC would work around that problem? They don't have those in my state but they do in Delaware, of course.
* It may be more difficult or complicated to sell one of the businesses. I hope that can be mitigated by proper accounting, but I don't know that for sure or exactly how difficult that is in practice. For example, would it require independent bank accounts or is it sufficient to maintain independent general ledgers in my accounting?
In case it matters, I expect that most of these businesses will be a one-man shop with the occasional contractor but probably not actual employees. I also expect to run the businesses for profit rather than seeking to sell or flip for profit. But I'm not ruling anything out.
Am I missing something that makes this a terrible idea?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: pros and cons of running multiple startups (webapps) under one LLC?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_bgg","story_2620053","ask_hn"],"author":"bgg","children":[2620086,2620387,2620392,2620431,2621041],"created_at":"2011-06-04T18:14:50Z","created_at_i":1307211290,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"2620053","points":13,"story_id":2620053,"story_text":"You'd think this is something that has been discussed on HN or another startup forum, but I can't seem to find a combination of search keywords that yields anything useful on the topic.
I've been a moonlighting entrepreneur for about 18 months, and have a single, slightly profitable webapp/startup. I am a solo founder and the only contributor/employee. The company is a registered LLC.
Since that app requires little ongoing maintenance, I've decided to branch out and create additional, unrelated businesses/apps. I am thinking that it would be best to create a single \"parent\" LLC that owns and operates these various \"brands\" possibly under a DBA.
The advantages, as I see it:
* The simplicity of running one LLC, having one bank account, etc. instead of 3 to 5.\n* Economy of scale from things like shared hosting, shared payment gateways, shared legal and accounting support, etc.\n* Avoiding additional (admittedly minor) fees from multiple filings.\n* Fewer qualms about things like cross-promotion between the sites.
I understand that some of the drawbacks under this scenario are:
* The \"limited liability\" umbrella would extend across all the businesses, so that if Brand A gets sued, Brand B's assets are at risk. I can live with that risk (although if there were an easy way around that I'd certainly take it). I guess maybe a Series LLC would work around that problem? They don't have those in my state but they do in Delaware, of course.
* It may be more difficult or complicated to sell one of the businesses. I hope that can be mitigated by proper accounting, but I don't know that for sure or exactly how difficult that is in practice. For example, would it require independent bank accounts or is it sufficient to maintain independent general ledgers in my accounting?
In case it matters, I expect that most of these businesses will be a one-man shop with the occasional contractor but probably not actual employees. I also expect to run the businesses for profit rather than seeking to sell or flip for profit. But I'm not ruling anything out.
Am I missing something that makes this a terrible idea?","title":"Ask HN: pros and cons of running multiple startups (webapps) under one LLC?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:55:42Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"RocknRolla"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I currently own a net based company and am looking to branch out into some new ideas. Unfortunately my biz partners of 13 years are looking to head a different direction. Therefor I've been on the hunt for potential other professionals to hook up with.
Is there any type of site out there that makes the intro?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Is there a site where people looking for biz dev partners can meet?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_RocknRolla","story_2925955","ask_hn"],"author":"RocknRolla","children":[2925962,2925965,2926226,2926359],"created_at":"2011-08-25T18:42:08Z","created_at_i":1314297728,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"2925955","points":12,"story_id":2925955,"story_text":"I currently own a net based company and am looking to branch out into some new ideas. Unfortunately my biz partners of 13 years are looking to head a different direction. Therefor I've been on the hunt for potential other professionals to hook up with.
Is there any type of site out there that makes the intro?","title":"Ask HN: Is there a site where people looking for biz dev partners can meet?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:53:10Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vital101"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"I've been around this community long enough to know that \"Java\" is almost a bad word, but hear me out. In my area (Western Michigan), there is an abundance of jobs that require experience doing enterprise Java development. I'm currently a web developer(PHP), and would like to branch out a bit in to Java programming as a profession.
The thing is, even entry level Java jobs are looking for at least 1 year of experience. I used Java during my academic career extensively, and consider myself proficient with it. However, since I don't have any \"real\" experience, nobody is willing to look my way.
So, my question is: How do you get started in enterprise Java development? What is the best way to gain experience without giving up on the current day job that pays the bills?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you get started in enterpirse Java development?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_vital101","story_1290870","ask_hn"],"author":"vital101","children":[1290932,1290943,1291000,1291002,1291028,1291059,1291276,1291332],"created_at":"2010-04-24T14:15:54Z","created_at_i":1272118554,"num_comments":12,"objectID":"1290870","points":11,"story_id":1290870,"story_text":"I've been around this community long enough to know that \"Java\" is almost a bad word, but hear me out. In my area (Western Michigan), there is an abundance of jobs that require experience doing enterprise Java development. I'm currently a web developer(PHP), and would like to branch out a bit in to Java programming as a profession.
The thing is, even entry level Java jobs are looking for at least 1 year of experience. I used Java during my academic career extensively, and consider myself proficient with it. However, since I don't have any \"real\" experience, nobody is willing to look my way.
So, my question is: How do you get started in enterprise Java development? What is the best way to gain experience without giving up on the current day job that pays the bills?","title":"Ask HN: How do you get started in enterpirse Java development?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:25:21Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hacknat"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Sorry for yet another question about getting a MS in CS question, but I did a search through old posts and I think my question is unique-ish.
I got a degree in Hebrew Literature in College, I taught myself how to program and I've been working at a pretty decent startup in the Seattle area for 3 years now. I have some decent projects on Github. I have some decent chops, I'm pretty much full stack, and I've been working through an Algorithms and Data Structures book (Sedgewick's) on my own and really getting into it. It made me wonder if I should go back to school and get an MS.
My company is doing well, but I think I'd like to branch out technically after I'm done there, and try new things other than Web/Mobile CRUD. Embedded looks interesting, and I've built a DSL compiler in JavaScript, so learning more about compilers would be fun.
I'm also worried that my status as a really good Engineer won't transfer between companies. It took me a good year to convince people at my current company that I could do much more than work on the front-end.
The University of Washington is, supposedly, a really good CS school. They offer a professional Masters degree. Will this solidify my status as a good Engineer? Is this something I need or should I continue to learn on my own and trust that good people will recognize my work?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Should I get an MS in CS?"}},"_tags":["story","author_hacknat","story_7384342","ask_hn"],"author":"hacknat","children":[7384444,7384694,7384823,7384904,7385299,7386382,7430261],"created_at":"2014-03-12T06:59:36Z","created_at_i":1394607576,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"7384342","points":11,"story_id":7384342,"story_text":"Sorry for yet another question about getting a MS in CS question, but I did a search through old posts and I think my question is unique-ish.
I got a degree in Hebrew Literature in College, I taught myself how to program and I've been working at a pretty decent startup in the Seattle area for 3 years now. I have some decent projects on Github. I have some decent chops, I'm pretty much full stack, and I've been working through an Algorithms and Data Structures book (Sedgewick's) on my own and really getting into it. It made me wonder if I should go back to school and get an MS.
My company is doing well, but I think I'd like to branch out technically after I'm done there, and try new things other than Web/Mobile CRUD. Embedded looks interesting, and I've built a DSL compiler in JavaScript, so learning more about compilers would be fun.
I'm also worried that my status as a really good Engineer won't transfer between companies. It took me a good year to convince people at my current company that I could do much more than work on the front-end.
The University of Washington is, supposedly, a really good CS school. They offer a professional Masters degree. Will this solidify my status as a good Engineer? Is this something I need or should I continue to learn on my own and trust that good people will recognize my work?","title":"Ask HN: Should I get an MS in CS?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:23:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wsgeorge"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Here are a few things I've noticed after 9 months of job hunting:
1. Applications that look worthwhile are tedious, if filled with the kind of attention to detail they expect.
2. There is no guarantee of response (not even by a bot), which raises serious questions about the value placed on potential hires, and the thoughtfulness expected from them during the process.
3. The hiring pipeline takes a long time (could be several weeks), which seems to be at odds with the idea of "actively recruiting" companies.
4. "X years of professional experience" requirements can make it difficult to branch out of a stack/space, limiting the pool of opportunities.
5. Sometimes, you're required to sign up to the company's job platform, which adds more friction to the process. It's worse when creating an account is sold as a way to help you "stand out" from the crowd.
How could it suck less? For those in the position to hire, how much does it suck on your side?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: The Job Search Sucks"}},"_tags":["story","author_wsgeorge","story_36163884","ask_hn"],"author":"wsgeorge","children":[36164118,36164574,36165580,36169024,36172948,36177178,36184160,36188000],"created_at":"2023-06-02T11:48:10Z","created_at_i":1685706490,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"36163884","points":11,"story_id":36163884,"story_text":"Here are a few things I've noticed after 9 months of job hunting:
1. Applications that look worthwhile are tedious, if filled with the kind of attention to detail they expect.
2. There is no guarantee of response (not even by a bot), which raises serious questions about the value placed on potential hires, and the thoughtfulness expected from them during the process.
3. The hiring pipeline takes a long time (could be several weeks), which seems to be at odds with the idea of "actively recruiting" companies.
4. "X years of professional experience" requirements can make it difficult to branch out of a stack/space, limiting the pool of opportunities.
5. Sometimes, you're required to sign up to the company's job platform, which adds more friction to the process. It's worse when creating an account is sold as a way to help you "stand out" from the crowd.
How could it suck less? For those in the position to hire, how much does it suck on your side?","title":"Tell HN: The Job Search Sucks","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:16:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"oxffff"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Are there any online forums or discussion boards that features a book club style academic paper critic or discussion? The normal reading group meeting in my own lab focus too much on the field we do research in but I figure it would be a good idea to branch out using online resources and see what's cool out there"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Book club style academic paper discussion forum?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_oxffff","story_8233588","ask_hn"],"author":"oxffff","children":[8234710,8248334],"created_at":"2014-08-27T17:59:03Z","created_at_i":1409162343,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"8233588","points":11,"story_id":8233588,"story_text":"Are there any online forums or discussion boards that features a book club style academic paper critic or discussion? The normal reading group meeting in my own lab focus too much on the field we do research in but I figure it would be a good idea to branch out using online resources and see what's cool out there","title":"Ask HN: Book club style academic paper discussion forum?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T21:05:50Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"cajuntrep"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Hey guys / gals, after validating the idea of using the Google Maps API to search for jobs and a successful beta, we've relaunched - implementing much of the feedback and comments from both the HN and Reddit communities. Plus, we've got an all new design which I couldn't be more excited about!
Would love to get some feedback from you guys. What do you love? What do you hate? Any WTF's?
Currently we're focused on service type jobs and food service as these types of jobs are most dependent on location, but we'll branch out soon.
Thanks for your support!
The site can be found here: www.jobkaster.com
Regards,
Paul Chittenden\nCo-Founder\nJobKaster
paul@jobkaster.com"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Review my startup: JobKaster Google Maps for Jobs"}},"_tags":["story","author_cajuntrep","story_7558884","ask_hn"],"author":"cajuntrep","children":[7559220,7560865,7560919,7567607],"created_at":"2014-04-09T12:39:13Z","created_at_i":1397047153,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"7558884","points":9,"story_id":7558884,"story_text":"Hey guys / gals, after validating the idea of using the Google Maps API to search for jobs and a successful beta, we've relaunched - implementing much of the feedback and comments from both the HN and Reddit communities. Plus, we've got an all new design which I couldn't be more excited about!
Would love to get some feedback from you guys. What do you love? What do you hate? Any WTF's?
Currently we're focused on service type jobs and food service as these types of jobs are most dependent on location, but we'll branch out soon.
Thanks for your support!
The site can be found here: www.jobkaster.com
Regards,
Paul Chittenden\nCo-Founder\nJobKaster
paul@jobkaster.com","title":"Ask HN: Review my startup: JobKaster Google Maps for Jobs","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:38:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"danielrakh"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"This past year I had decided that I want to become an iOS developer. I had no prior programing experience, but I was determined that I would teach myself how to code and design to release an App. I have succeeded in doing that and plan on doing it many times over. However, making myself too dependent on one platform kind of scares me. But I also want to be great at what I'm doing, and that only happens through hours of beating on your craft. Should I continue to pursue and master iOS or branch out into learning something else like Ruby or JS?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Should I learn a few different languages or become a master of one?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_danielrakh","story_6099991","ask_hn"],"author":"danielrakh","children":[6100130,6100181,6100237,6100345,6100491,6100904,6101224,6101666,6102323],"created_at":"2013-07-24T23:53:01Z","created_at_i":1374709981,"num_comments":12,"objectID":"6099991","points":8,"story_id":6099991,"story_text":"This past year I had decided that I want to become an iOS developer. I had no prior programing experience, but I was determined that I would teach myself how to code and design to release an App. I have succeeded in doing that and plan on doing it many times over. However, making myself too dependent on one platform kind of scares me. But I also want to be great at what I'm doing, and that only happens through hours of beating on your craft. Should I continue to pursue and master iOS or branch out into learning something else like Ruby or JS?","title":"Ask HN: Should I learn a few different languages or become a master of one?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T21:49:28Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"anony79"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Hey folks,
I have been working on a consumer app that leverages our social graph. The idea has been validated by potential users, startup executives, and investments are beginning to happen in this space. So we can say that the need is real. Related startups in this space - BranchOut, Jibe, Identified.
Since I am non-technical (I carry business development and marketing skills), I took the help of hacker friends and built a working prototype. My friends cannot spend more time on the app - they have other commitments. So, here I am looking for 1-2 hackers to join me in building the app further, validating it with real users, and then applying to the next YC batch or seeking angel funding.
The problem we are trying to solve is complex and challenging, but there are ways to start small and make the system intelligent over a period of time - and that's the path we are taking for now. It requires expertise in graph theory, algorithms, and social network APIs. The current version of the app is built using CakePHP.
So far there wasn't any other competitor doing exactly what we're trying to do, but recently we learnt of another startup that has built a solution \"just like ours\" - they have a seasoned team, and just raised good amount of funding from VCs. That said, there's still a lot of scope for us to differentiate - this other company has gone in for an enterprise play, and there's good opportunity on the consumer side as well. Plus, differentiation can happen through user experience too - the other company hasn't done a great job on this, considering they have been there for a while.
The opportunity exists for a team that can execute! And there is room for more than one player in this market.
We have the startup incorporated in US, from funding and valuation perspective. I am currently based in silicon valley, US. Though I am moving to my home country (India) so that I can spend time on this startup - due to visa constraints I'm not able to do so while in US on my work visa (I tried part-time work options but that didn't work out). I can come back to US once we're able to raise funding (the startup will be able to sponsor my H1 visa then). The situation is not the most ideal one, we might be working remotely - which can be a bit of a challenge, but hey 37signals guys have demonstrated how remote teams can successfully execute.
If you are interested in the opportunity, drop me a mail at: lostincoding at gmail dot com . Do share a little bit about your background and why you are interested. And we can chat more then, and explore if there is a good fit.
Thanks."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Do you want to build it with me?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_anony79","story_1793360","ask_hn"],"author":"anony79","children":[1793419,1793445,1793471,1793747],"created_at":"2010-10-15T01:36:46Z","created_at_i":1287106606,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"1793360","points":8,"story_id":1793360,"story_text":"Hey folks,
I have been working on a consumer app that leverages our social graph. The idea has been validated by potential users, startup executives, and investments are beginning to happen in this space. So we can say that the need is real. Related startups in this space - BranchOut, Jibe, Identified.
Since I am non-technical (I carry business development and marketing skills), I took the help of hacker friends and built a working prototype. My friends cannot spend more time on the app - they have other commitments. So, here I am looking for 1-2 hackers to join me in building the app further, validating it with real users, and then applying to the next YC batch or seeking angel funding.
The problem we are trying to solve is complex and challenging, but there are ways to start small and make the system intelligent over a period of time - and that's the path we are taking for now. It requires expertise in graph theory, algorithms, and social network APIs. The current version of the app is built using CakePHP.
So far there wasn't any other competitor doing exactly what we're trying to do, but recently we learnt of another startup that has built a solution \"just like ours\" - they have a seasoned team, and just raised good amount of funding from VCs. That said, there's still a lot of scope for us to differentiate - this other company has gone in for an enterprise play, and there's good opportunity on the consumer side as well. Plus, differentiation can happen through user experience too - the other company hasn't done a great job on this, considering they have been there for a while.
The opportunity exists for a team that can execute! And there is room for more than one player in this market.
We have the startup incorporated in US, from funding and valuation perspective. I am currently based in silicon valley, US. Though I am moving to my home country (India) so that I can spend time on this startup - due to visa constraints I'm not able to do so while in US on my work visa (I tried part-time work options but that didn't work out). I can come back to US once we're able to raise funding (the startup will be able to sponsor my H1 visa then). The situation is not the most ideal one, we might be working remotely - which can be a bit of a challenge, but hey 37signals guys have demonstrated how remote teams can successfully execute.
If you are interested in the opportunity, drop me a mail at: lostincoding at gmail dot com . Do share a little bit about your background and why you are interested. And we can chat more then, and explore if there is a good fit.
Thanks.","title":"Do you want to build it with me?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T20:08:43Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"itsmefaz"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Has anyone successfully built their brand within large tech companies, or the only way to successfully do it is to branch out on your own?
A brand could be a personal portfolio that can be used outside the company for entrepreneurial endeavors."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Building your brand within a company or start on your own?"}},"_tags":["story","author_itsmefaz","story_30057677","ask_hn"],"author":"itsmefaz","children":[30058817,30058834,30059533,30065613],"created_at":"2022-01-24T14:07:52Z","created_at_i":1643033272,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"30057677","points":8,"story_id":30057677,"story_text":"Has anyone successfully built their brand within large tech companies, or the only way to successfully do it is to branch out on your own?
A brand could be a personal portfolio that can be used outside the company for entrepreneurial endeavors.","title":"Ask HN: Building your brand within a company or start on your own?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:20:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ak2411"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Hey HN!
Really excited to be showing what I think is a better way to understand complex topics with AI.
You start a chat with your question, and whenever you want to clarify something or understand some jargon, you can branch out a new chat from that thread.
The cool unlock is being able to see all related chat threads in the same context without tab switching, for e.g. I can first dive into understanding world models, then spin a new chat thread on who the key players are in there, and another asking what's the frontier with this stuff.
The responses are also not just a wall of text. They're:\n- Filled with interactive diagrams and visuals\n- Super fast
And for those curious, this is how we built it:\n- React Flow (@xyflow/react) for the canvas\n- React Components for interactive diagrams\n- GPT Image 2 for image generations\n- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for super fast response\n- Parallelization whenever possible to keep things fast
You can also highlight and add notes :)
Try it out and let me know what you think!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallel"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://wondering.app/canvas"}},"_tags":["story","author_ak2411","story_49391007","show_hn"],"author":"ak2411","children":[49391068,49391362,49393048,49401121,49409713,49425493,49477810],"created_at":"2026-08-21T17:06:20Z","created_at_i":1787331980,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"49391007","points":7,"story_id":49391007,"story_text":"Hey HN!
Really excited to be showing what I think is a better way to understand complex topics with AI.
You start a chat with your question, and whenever you want to clarify something or understand some jargon, you can branch out a new chat from that thread.
The cool unlock is being able to see all related chat threads in the same context without tab switching, for e.g. I can first dive into understanding world models, then spin a new chat thread on who the key players are in there, and another asking what's the frontier with this stuff.
The responses are also not just a wall of text. They're:\n- Filled with interactive diagrams and visuals\n- Super fast
And for those curious, this is how we built it:\n- React Flow (@xyflow/react) for the canvas\n- React Components for interactive diagrams\n- GPT Image 2 for image generations\n- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for super fast response\n- Parallelization whenever possible to keep things fast
You can also highlight and add notes :)
Try it out and let me know what you think!","title":"Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallel","updated_at":"2026-08-28T13:05:58Z","url":"https://wondering.app/canvas"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"garraeth"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"http://www.terraexgame.com
Terra Ex will be a 4x ("explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate") multiplayer online browser based game. Our Kickstarter will begin Oct. 16th (link to KS preview is on our site). We are making this game, in part, to fund STEM education. Details are on our site.
About the game (from the site): \n"Our story begins eons from now, when Earth collides with Mars. Humanity must face an uncertain future: we must forge new civilizations in the far corners of space. Your ships are small at first, but opportunity is endless. Will you become a merchant society or focus on espionage? Do you seek to dominate the universe or live peacefully among other races?
Once you branch out into the galaxy, you'll have the opportunity to work with or fight against other players. You can build up your weapons or search for planets rich in minerals."
The stack is: PHP, MySQL, Memcache+APC, nginx, JQuery, SOLR, CloudFlare, our in-house Javascript+PHP framework, hosted at DigitalOcean.
We added an "Easter egg" on the site where you can click the starports on either side of the "ACTNOW!" button to launch fighters. And once launched, you can click them to shoot them down. Have fun! :)
Thanks!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Terra Ex, a 4x multiplayer online game"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_garraeth","story_6534514","show_hn"],"author":"garraeth","children":[6535736],"created_at":"2013-10-11T17:25:36Z","created_at_i":1381512336,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"6534514","points":7,"story_id":6534514,"story_text":"http://www.terraexgame.com
Terra Ex will be a 4x ("explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate") multiplayer online browser based game. Our Kickstarter will begin Oct. 16th (link to KS preview is on our site). We are making this game, in part, to fund STEM education. Details are on our site.
About the game (from the site): \n"Our story begins eons from now, when Earth collides with Mars. Humanity must face an uncertain future: we must forge new civilizations in the far corners of space. Your ships are small at first, but opportunity is endless. Will you become a merchant society or focus on espionage? Do you seek to dominate the universe or live peacefully among other races?
Once you branch out into the galaxy, you'll have the opportunity to work with or fight against other players. You can build up your weapons or search for planets rich in minerals."
The stack is: PHP, MySQL, Memcache+APC, nginx, JQuery, SOLR, CloudFlare, our in-house Javascript+PHP framework, hosted at DigitalOcean.
We added an "Easter egg" on the site where you can click the starports on either side of the "ACTNOW!" button to launch fighters. And once launched, you can click them to shoot them down. Have fun! :)
Thanks!","title":"Show HN: Terra Ex, a 4x multiplayer online game","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:24:34Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"blueslurpee"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Hello HN,
I'm looking for some advice and/or enthusiasm on which programming language you might recommend to a young journeyman programmer looking to broaden their horizons beyond the mainstream imperative stock.
As some background: Like many from the past decade, I was introduced to programming and cut my teeth via Python, and while it holds a soft spot in my heart for its lovely syntax and idioms (personal preference), I am growing weary of chasing down run-time errors in production and the squishyness of its type system (or lack thereof).
From there I've followed along the well-trodden path of imperative/OO languages one would expect to become acquainted with during the "standard" CS education, namely C & Java, along with some Golang thrown into the mix. I adore C for its close mental alignment to the computer's operations, and while I appreciate Golang and Java and have no great qualms with either, they don't scratch a certain itch.
My daily driver at work is Typescript. I find writing vanilla js to be generally objectionable.
I would classify myself as a competent journeyman, and I am really looking to branch out and broaden my perspectives. I'm not sure what itch it is I'm trying to scratch, but I'm looking for an enthusiastic community and a language that brings a lot of "joy", if that makes sense. I'm not looking for any commercial benefit out of this, but hey, if being an expert in the lang is highly profitable, that's also a data point.
A good type system might be where my interests are first piqued, but it's not a hard requirement. Similarly, my mind jumps to Functional Programming, but purity is not a requirement either.
So, if you're an experienced vet, found yourself in a similar situation beforehand, have been having similar inclinations, or are just a fanboy/girl for your specific lang, please share your thoughts!
Should I be wrangling data functional-style sans types with Clojure?
Playing around with the BEAM with Elixir/Erlang?
Diving into Scala types and the Akka framework?
Jump into the deep end with Haskell?
Try my hand at Rust and systems software?
Ocaml, a language I know nothing about?
I have formal CS training, so I'm not overly intimidated by the more "academic" languages.
Thanks a lot in advance!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Which programming language should a journeyman programmer learn?"}},"_tags":["story","author_blueslurpee","story_30265922","ask_hn"],"author":"blueslurpee","children":[30266035,30266048,30266104,30266469,30266568,30266604,30266900,30267114,30267676,30269379,30271508,30294304,30316989],"created_at":"2022-02-08T22:45:19Z","created_at_i":1644360319,"num_comments":25,"objectID":"30265922","points":6,"story_id":30265922,"story_text":"Hello HN,
I'm looking for some advice and/or enthusiasm on which programming language you might recommend to a young journeyman programmer looking to broaden their horizons beyond the mainstream imperative stock.
As some background: Like many from the past decade, I was introduced to programming and cut my teeth via Python, and while it holds a soft spot in my heart for its lovely syntax and idioms (personal preference), I am growing weary of chasing down run-time errors in production and the squishyness of its type system (or lack thereof).
From there I've followed along the well-trodden path of imperative/OO languages one would expect to become acquainted with during the "standard" CS education, namely C & Java, along with some Golang thrown into the mix. I adore C for its close mental alignment to the computer's operations, and while I appreciate Golang and Java and have no great qualms with either, they don't scratch a certain itch.
My daily driver at work is Typescript. I find writing vanilla js to be generally objectionable.
I would classify myself as a competent journeyman, and I am really looking to branch out and broaden my perspectives. I'm not sure what itch it is I'm trying to scratch, but I'm looking for an enthusiastic community and a language that brings a lot of "joy", if that makes sense. I'm not looking for any commercial benefit out of this, but hey, if being an expert in the lang is highly profitable, that's also a data point.
A good type system might be where my interests are first piqued, but it's not a hard requirement. Similarly, my mind jumps to Functional Programming, but purity is not a requirement either.
So, if you're an experienced vet, found yourself in a similar situation beforehand, have been having similar inclinations, or are just a fanboy/girl for your specific lang, please share your thoughts!
Should I be wrangling data functional-style sans types with Clojure?
Playing around with the BEAM with Elixir/Erlang?
Diving into Scala types and the Akka framework?
Jump into the deep end with Haskell?
Try my hand at Rust and systems software?
Ocaml, a language I know nothing about?
I have formal CS training, so I'm not overly intimidated by the more "academic" languages.
Thanks a lot in advance!","title":"Ask HN: Which programming language should a journeyman programmer learn?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:28:13Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"frisco"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"At my company, in addition to working on our core competency, we occasionally look at cool, compelling side projects to branch out to in order to grow the company. Recently, though, I've been consistently frustrated by existing patents blocking us from executing on really compelling, valuable concepts owned by people who aren't doing anything with it! At the end of the day, a lot of these things we want to use ourselves and would pay for them I'd they were offered. Are there subtle (or not subtle) arguments against a \"to qualify for patent protection you actually need to build this\" clause? Ideamen are usually annoying but harmless, but more and more i'm seeing them actually impede development and innovation."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Why is there no \"execution\" rule for patents?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_frisco","story_432862","ask_hn"],"author":"frisco","children":[432890,432896,432964,432994,432997,433104],"created_at":"2009-01-13T22:44:45Z","created_at_i":1231886685,"num_comments":21,"objectID":"432862","points":6,"story_id":432862,"story_text":"At my company, in addition to working on our core competency, we occasionally look at cool, compelling side projects to branch out to in order to grow the company. Recently, though, I've been consistently frustrated by existing patents blocking us from executing on really compelling, valuable concepts owned by people who aren't doing anything with it! At the end of the day, a lot of these things we want to use ourselves and would pay for them I'd they were offered. Are there subtle (or not subtle) arguments against a \"to qualify for patent protection you actually need to build this\" clause? Ideamen are usually annoying but harmless, but more and more i'm seeing them actually impede development and innovation.","title":"Ask HN: Why is there no \"execution\" rule for patents?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:30:05Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dturnbull"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"She's interested in doing translation work. Being a tech geek myself, I was curious:
Are there start-ups that are looking for a translator with that skill? Like, would it would be worth getting it touch with people and seeing if they'd like their user interface translated into Japanese?
She has the usual options \u2014\u00a0translating articles, eBooks, etc \u2014\u00a0but I'm trying to help her branch out into other options.
Any help/opinions would be appreciated. :)"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: I have a Japanese friend who speaks/writes fluent English and..."},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_dturnbull","story_6865724","ask_hn"],"author":"dturnbull","children":[6865739,6865874,6865904,6881040,6881074,6885478],"created_at":"2013-12-07T06:31:04Z","created_at_i":1386397864,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"6865724","points":6,"story_id":6865724,"story_text":"She's interested in doing translation work. Being a tech geek myself, I was curious:
Are there start-ups that are looking for a translator with that skill? Like, would it would be worth getting it touch with people and seeing if they'd like their user interface translated into Japanese?
She has the usual options \u2014\u00a0translating articles, eBooks, etc \u2014\u00a0but I'm trying to help her branch out into other options.
Any help/opinions would be appreciated. :)","title":"Ask HN: I have a Japanese friend who speaks/writes fluent English and...","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:50:46Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"smanek"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"Hello fellow HNers,
I don't know if this is kosher or not, but my startup (http://postabon.com) is looking to hire a front end developer (who would have the opportunity to branch out and learn about other things like Mobile App development, machine learning, Lisp, etc in the future if they're interested).
You should be pretty smart and comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS. Beyond that, some 'nice-to-have' skills include familiarity with Git, Linux, jQuery, XML, HTML5, Lisp, or mobile app development (iPhone, Blackberry, Android).
Our website is really Javascript heavy - so that's going to be the key skill we're looking for. You should understand the prototype object system well, be comfortable with lexical scoping/closures, not be scared by the word 'this', etc. In return, we won't make you support IE6 ;-)
We'd strongly prefer you be based in New York City, but we're willing to consider working remotely for the right candidate.
Postabon launched about 6 weeks ago. Since then, we've got a lot of great press, and a decent number of users. We have raised a small amount of working capital, but are in the process of closing a decent sized round now. We can pay you some combination of cash/equity, depending on your preferences.
This is our first technical hire, and you could have a lot of influence over the future direction of the company. We're open to all sorts of suggestions (want to change the UX? Use compass? Make our API more RESTful?) - although I have a list of 'todos' a mile long myself (combine/minimize JS/CSS server side, finish our redesign, tweak the recommendation engine, etc).
Email me at [myusername]@postabon.com if you have any questions or would like to talk about the details."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Postabon (NYC, lisp-based, startup) is hiring a front-end dev"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_smanek","story_1057281","ask_hn"],"author":"smanek","created_at":"2010-01-16T18:47:45Z","created_at_i":1263667665,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"1057281","points":6,"story_id":1057281,"story_text":"Hello fellow HNers,
I don't know if this is kosher or not, but my startup (http://postabon.com) is looking to hire a front end developer (who would have the opportunity to branch out and learn about other things like Mobile App development, machine learning, Lisp, etc in the future if they're interested).
You should be pretty smart and comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS. Beyond that, some 'nice-to-have' skills include familiarity with Git, Linux, jQuery, XML, HTML5, Lisp, or mobile app development (iPhone, Blackberry, Android).
Our website is really Javascript heavy - so that's going to be the key skill we're looking for. You should understand the prototype object system well, be comfortable with lexical scoping/closures, not be scared by the word 'this', etc. In return, we won't make you support IE6 ;-)
We'd strongly prefer you be based in New York City, but we're willing to consider working remotely for the right candidate.
Postabon launched about 6 weeks ago. Since then, we've got a lot of great press, and a decent number of users. We have raised a small amount of working capital, but are in the process of closing a decent sized round now. We can pay you some combination of cash/equity, depending on your preferences.
This is our first technical hire, and you could have a lot of influence over the future direction of the company. We're open to all sorts of suggestions (want to change the UX? Use compass? Make our API more RESTful?) - although I have a list of 'todos' a mile long myself (combine/minimize JS/CSS server side, finish our redesign, tweak the recommendation engine, etc).
Email me at [myusername]@postabon.com if you have any questions or would like to talk about the details.","title":"Postabon (NYC, lisp-based, startup) is hiring a front-end dev","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:05:59Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"simonasks"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["branchout"],"value":"A little background:\nI co-founded a company with a friend that became successful without the aid of any investors. We are trying to branch out and try new ideas.
The problem:\nUnfortunately, we haven't had the pleasure of having any kind of guidance such as the guidance I hear so much about when people are funded by Y Combinator. My co-founder and I are both technical people that have worked for large corporations and haven't really had to think about the business aspects of the industry much, until recently . With some of our new ideas, we are now utterly at a loss on how to handle issues such as preventing launches from being emulated, attaining copyrighted content, whether to raise money through investors, etc.
So should I be looking for a mentor or a business partner who knows \"business\"? Where would I find such a person?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Do I need a mentor or a business partner?"}},"_tags":["story","author_simonasks","story_1681065","ask_hn"],"author":"simonasks","children":[1681089,1681146,1681283],"created_at":"2010-09-11T05:44:37Z","created_at_i":1284183877,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"1681065","points":4,"story_id":1681065,"story_text":"A little background:\nI co-founded a company with a friend that became successful without the aid of any investors. We are trying to branch out and try new ideas.
The problem:\nUnfortunately, we haven't had the pleasure of having any kind of guidance such as the guidance I hear so much about when people are funded by Y Combinator. My co-founder and I are both technical people that have worked for large corporations and haven't really had to think about the business aspects of the industry much, until recently . With some of our new ideas, we are now utterly at a loss on how to handle issues such as preventing launches from being emulated, attaining copyrighted content, whether to raise money through investors, etc.
So should I be looking for a mentor or a business partner who knows \"business\"? Where would I find such a person?","title":"Ask HN: Do I need a mentor or a business partner?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:15:02Z"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":122,"nbPages":3,"page":0,"params":"query=BranchOut&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":16,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":1,"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":4,"total":4},"total":5},"total":5},"fetch":{"query":5,"scanning":4,"total":10},"total":16},"query":"BranchOut","serverTimeMS":20}