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I doubt that anybody will help you here. This website is filled with affluent first-worlders (many of them ivy graduates) that live inside their silicon valley bubble. Their rent price is probably several times your salary.

These people prefer not to care about people that were not so lucky with their country of birth.

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I've seen HN'ers go way over and beyond the call of duty, also to help perfect strangers in 3rd world countries halfway around the globe.

i don't know, i thought maybe the developer brotherhood could help me. but i never think with your perspective. And yes we're not lucky about our birth country, there are worst places out there but we live in a shit hole.

To use the YC/dev culture to your advantage you have to play your cards in a smart way. Make yourself a name (make a cool html5 website promoting yourself as a professional). Make trendy silly things in javascript, post 'em to github, to show HN. Get upvoted. Comment, gather karma. Don't show your depressive attitude to people, it turns them off (because it reminds them about their privilege of being born into a wealthy country).

Basically read this guy http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... and follow the clique.

You can make it if you try hard enough.

sorry HN blocked my account for submitting fast. they remove the blockage now.

you're right but i can't pretend to be someone im not. im not a rockstar dev you know there are lot of them.

yes i'm looking depressed now but im a burning fire in me work hard and joy. trying to find a place to work with good people and good purpose

Chip on your shoulder, much?

Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I?

Note that my advice is rational and completely unironic. It is rational to follow the clique if you want to succeed in tech.

I act like that too.

> Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I?

Not really. Your posts in this discussion just seem unnecessarily... angry?

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