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homieon Maintaining weight loss

“Sugar is poison” is an absolutely insane claim to make

homieon Ask HN: Those who got layed off. Have you found a job?

Laid off last August. Still actively looking. I have about 4 years of experience.

No notable company names on my resume so I suspect that's why I'm still having a hard time.

homieon Ask HN: How can I obtain an invite to Lobste.rs?

try hanging around on irc for a while

https://lobste.rs/chat

homieon Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience

is there any way out if you find yourself stuck with a couple years of wrong experience?

homieon Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

absolutely not

homieon Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job

Absolutely agree. I’ve found that behavioral interviews are harder than technical interviews at this point. If you don’t have the set of experiences they’re looking for then it’s game over.

This can be ameliorated slightly if the interviewer is willing to accept a hypothetical, but this has rarely been the case for me recently.

homieon Ask HN: Who's sick of remote work?

Not I

homieon Ask HN: Any successful transitions from a tech/IT career to working in the arts?

>Classical violinists are already playing at close to a professional level before they start college. At your age (assuming you're older than 8), you don't have a chance at making your hands do those things, or mastering skills such as sight-reading. I started playing music at age 8.

Sort of bewildered by this statement. You can't learn to sight read after age 8?

homieon Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

Interesting. Lately it feels like I might as well have thrown my applications into a black hole.

homieon Why I prefer making useless stuff

The analogy here doesn't make sense. It'd be more like the actor mentioning that he doesn't have any experience doing commercial work, but he has acted in a theatrical production before (suggesting that he's adaptable and willing to do more than just one kind of acting job).

homieon Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)

Mostly because it’s impossible to accurately predict the market - and this is just a competition to see who can build the best model.

homieon Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)

a language being a DPL doesn't preclude it from being a DSL

homieon 'Range' Argues That Specialization Should Not Be The Goal For Most

I’ve never understood the obsession businesses/managers have with specialization in the tech realm. Knowing a lot of different (but related) things doesn’t preclude you from learning something in depth.

homieon Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++

It really depends on the project. A lot of times that modern thing you're working with is just a wrapper around some C/C++ library (unless you're doing web dev - then there's a whole other set of issues).

homieon GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

This person has very strange and misguided idea of what open source software is intended to be.

homieon Ask HN: Is a computer science degree worth it or should I learn on my own?

My 4 year degree sure doesn’t look like 4 years of experience to any HR staff/hiring managers I’ve ever interacted with.

homieon Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom

instructors are also better off without computers in the classroom. lecture has been reduced to staring at a projector while each and every students eyes roll to the back of their skull