19:[[23951850,{"by":"zffr","descendants":157,"id":23951850,"kids":[23952057,23952181,23951988,23954098,23951985,23953211,23952047,23952407,23953802,23953390,23952043,23953188,23952176,23952175,23952153,23952287,23951966,23962871,23952105,23952274,23952564,23953159,23959642,23953200,23951931,23952230,23951940,23952214,23952724,23962123,23952244,23952281,23952213,23952506,23962974,23952205,23952304,23952191,23952905,23955906,23953134,23953138],"score":186,"text":"I've been programming since middle school, and have been working as a software engineer for the last 5 years. The pay is great (FAANG-level comp), but I'm extremely bored and considering leaving software engineering altogether.

I'd like to better understand what career options other software engineers have explored.

If you are a former software engineer:

1. What are you doing now?

2. Why did you leave software engineering?","time":1595706433,"title":"Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?","type":"story"}],[23362667,{"by":"shivekkhurana","descendants":50,"id":23362667,"kids":[23362972,23362987,23364151,23364694,23365110,23363128,23363302,23364187,23365722,23368449,23370387,23368584,23364764,23363034,23365001,23366775,23366442,23363353,23364287,23364264,23366970,23366499,23370201,23365541],"score":48,"text":"I recently talked to someone who helped a company with their main-frame architecture in the 80s.

As a 90s kid, I grew up with internet, github and stackoverflow so it can be argued that I got everything easily.

But I'm eager to know what was it like before internet or personal computers were a thing.

Who hired you? What did you work on? How did you learn ? How did you fix issues? How did you find talent? How did news spread? Do you have any war-time stories ?

Thanks","time":1590858452,"title":"Ask HN: What was programming like before internet?","type":"story"}],[22876241,{"by":"PirxThePilot","descendants":474,"id":22876241,"kids":[22877789,22877289,22877193,22877245,22877521,22878112,22877442,22877034,22877002,22879855,22877434,22877735,22877710,22879996,22878105,22879859,22878795,22877080,22880410,22876928,22882098,22877632,22877318,22877092,22877630,22876699,22877346,22879656,22882083,22877340,22883027,22877649,22877479,22881019,22881187,22876921,22882593,22876815,22880474,22883463,22880001,22879087,22882760,22877137,22879441,22880641,22883440,22878520,22878154,22884238,22877055,22879536,22877811,22882731,22882495,22879773,22879198,22878334,22880678,22877795,22886840,22976279,22885761,22881391,22882077,22879459,22967649,22879989,22877650,22878299,22877487,22880608,22887071,22877342,22881010,22898172,22877885,22881273,22877242,22878557,22889776,22882742,22883828,22879201,22880272,22890813,22876929,22884780,22879240,22876799,22877539,22891135,22881841,22881277,22877505,22877301,22878573],"score":472,"text":"What's your story? What do you do now? Any regrets? And how come you still follow HN?","time":1586946831,"title":"Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?","type":"story"}],[22519876,{"by":"buchanae","descendants":199,"id":22519876,"kids":[22520827,22520256,22522652,22524002,22521268,22520131,22521486,22520184,22520147,22521686,22521307,22521532,22521575,22522258,22520073,22521539,22520252,22521096,22524109,22520189,22523101,22522464,22520078,22520087,22520096,22520058,22521416,22525214,22524222,22520062,22521446,22523058,22520061,22523025,22520179,22544220,22520196,22522845,22521487,22524153,22559791,22539179,22520057,22524442,22521590,22523572,22520101,22521185,22524258,22520182,22523876,22520209,22521277,22520107,22521094,22521042,22520975,22520324,22524483,22520963,22520609,22520134,22520267],"score":432,"text":"I have 15+ years of experience in many languages: javascript, python, go, etc.

I can write C, but I'm not confident I'm doing it the right way. There are now decades of forums and blogs I can search through, but I'd love to have a single, clean, clear source of truth for recommendations on how to write C code.

I've started reading "Modern C" by Jens Gustedt. I'm not sure if this is the closest to a modern source of truth.

Note, I'd like my C code to work on Windows, which possibly restricts the "right way" to features provided by C89. But again, I'm not sure, the internet is super clear on this.

Thanks for the tips!","time":1583694517,"title":"Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?","type":"story"}],[22325975,{"by":"_benj","descendants":175,"id":22325975,"kids":[22327554,22326893,22326920,22326812,22330078,22327494,22326744,22327082,22328555,22326926,22329657,22327253,22327870,22327296,22328683,22327305,22327011,22326889,22327933,22326791,22327411,22326986,22327769,22327804,22326949,22327184,22326905,22327656,22328641,22328122,22327185,22328029,22327704,22328072,22326814,22327942,22331416,22330909,22328686,22328043,22331463,22327845,22327957,22332949,22327049,22330727,22328054,22327029,22331665,22326897,22332677,22330087,22329675,22327999,22331626,22326863,22329742,22329304,22333669,22328816,22342954,22330815,22326685,22327431,22332706,22329534,22329204,22327173,22330274,22328217,22330713,22328867,22340965,22332107,22329791,22343465,22327863,22329486,22327842,22326883,22326950,22327781,22329081,22327244,22326848,22326707,22326866,22327736,22328230,22331456,22327654,22327622,22327952,22327035,22331077,22327497,22326710,22327407,22326845],"score":420,"text":"When in the past I've picked up a reference manual or something of the sort I'd go slowly, lookup every word I didn't understand and started experimenting as soon as possible.

But that is quite time consuming and intense.\nI've been considering skimming through the whole things to get kind of a big picture of what the thing is and where I'm going and then going back a second time to catch then the details and experiment.

Any other ideas? How do you tackle learning something new and complicated?

(ps. the complicated thing for me right now is kernel development, including writing proper C)","time":1581683154,"title":"Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?","type":"story"}],[21732105,{"by":"lelf","descendants":26,"id":21732105,"kids":[21733360,21733664,21732677,21733545,21735043,21733709,21734612,21734648,21732361,21733958],"score":54,"time":1575747284,"title":"One Instruction Set Computer","type":"story","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer"}],[20946008,{"by":"jhatemyjob","descendants":79,"id":20946008,"kids":[20947944,20946800,20948642,20949020,20949082,20946742,20948684,20949238,20946865,20947863,20948884,20946714,20949420,20946023,20951083,20949181,20948664,20948988,20948978,20949002,20959500,20949123,20952185,20946372,20946035,20950313,20946312,20949061,20953481,20948701,20948698,20948563,20946091,20947856],"score":71,"text":"$1a","time":1568245783,"title":"Ask HN: Fired from my first job – how do I talk about it during interviews?","type":"story"}],[20909019,{"by":"bishala","descendants":192,"id":20909019,"kids":[20910869,20909349,20909287,20909621,20910532,20909648,20909380,20909454,20909560,20909458,20909649,20910793,20909573,20909331,20910776,20909321,20909735,20911195,20909835,20909782,20910982,20909401,20909654,20909679,20909468,20910957,20911982,20909350,20909951,20910975,20909554,20909090,20909430,20913558,20912378,20910142,20909703,20912297,20910277,20909745,20914032,20909362,20909369,20909584,20911161,20909515,20916029,20910732,20911925,20910767,20909395,20911025,20909945,20911241,20909344,20911910,20913597,20910138,20910852,20909402,20909514,20913649,20910648,20912017,20909499,20911023,20912994,20929455,20911576,20911685,20927456,20909481,20915180,20909379,20909794,20909527,20911880,20926427,20910576,20909250,20911134,20937990,20909408,20918267,20911629,20945873,20909510,20911736,20913163,20926573],"score":176,"text":"Even though cloud based password managers have been around for a long time now, I never felt comfortable using them - the idea of handing over my important login details to some third party company seemed really weird to me. Most people might not care but the HN crowd are generally security conscious or say paranoid about security(for good reasons). But from password managers related threads, its apparent that many of you use them. So I wanted to get a general idea of how HN users feel about them.","time":1567925797,"title":"Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?","type":"story"}],[20857592,{"by":"nnq","descendants":40,"id":20857592,"kids":[20857752,20858710,20857867,20857759,20857758,20857952,20861174,20857786,20857822,20857969,20858807,20857694],"score":37,"text":"$1b","time":1567412888,"title":"Ask HN: Why is Google in love with purposely-impaired languages like Go, Dart?","type":"story"}],[19343521,{"by":"serbiruss","descendants":122,"id":19343521,"kids":[19344312,19345046,19346610,19345147,19345162,19345308,19343755,19343732,19346616,19345128,19344511,19345460,19344808,19344323,19344040,19344774,19346145,19344871,19344658,19344803,19344346,19344333,19344870,19346175,19344250,19343831,19344892,19345960,19346059,19345109,19344237,19344351,19345827,19346180,19395645,19344283,19345674,19346153,19346537,19351607,19345666,19344340,19345022,19345231,19344430,19344509,19344854,19345500,19346230,19345701,19345760,19344952,19347458,19345749,19344835,19346259,19346522,19346196,19348573,19343626,19347515,19346194,19344916,19363315,19344634,19345107,19344815,19346551,19345020,19344988,19345435,19345313,19345414,19345544,19344999,19344540,19343534,19344571,19344276],"score":194,"text":"I'm currently a lab technician with a background in microbiology and would love to get into software development; however, I lack experience and I feel I'm too old to ever get a job in the field. I'd appreciate any tip!","time":1552090517,"title":"Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?","type":"story"}],[19184657,{"by":"adrian_pop","descendants":22,"id":19184657,"kids":[19185945,19187389,19196625,19185233,19184942,19185101,19187344,19187114,19194849,19185282,19188811,19190592,19186151,19186040,19184770,19185879,19187396],"score":15,"text":"Recently, I came to the need of using a Note taking app + reminder + tasks.\nI've investigated multiple apps, but none of them does what I need entirely.

Apple Notes: notes, no tasks or reminders

Evernote: notes, no tasks or reminders (easy ones)

OneNote: crashed 5 times before even using it

Wunderlist: tasks + reminders, but the notes UI is poorly designed

Notion: cool concept, way too complicated

Todoist: tasks + reminders, no notes

Today I found 1 app that integrates with slack and I can write something like:

- /remind some task today at 5

- /remind some other task in 15 minutes\n...but there's no easy way to get a big picture of what are the current tasks

I'm a heavy keyboard user, any action that would require clicking or scrolling is a loss of time.

Here comes my question: what do you use that proved to be useful?","time":1550414569,"title":"Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks","type":"story"}],[18494028,{"by":"zldkz5","descendants":130,"id":18494028,"kids":[18494326,18494473,18495017,18494594,18494454,18494925,18494993,18494908,18494524,18495419,18494325,18494626,18495356,18495358,18494390,18496007,18494495,18504245,18494808,18494991,18494898,18494359,18494759,18494447,18495336,18494825,18506521,18494839,18494557,18495255,18495572,18495012,18500122,18494272,18494401,18494250,18494411,18494445,18495716,18494903,18495245,18495052,18494964,18494269,18494734,18494553,18495204,18500247,18494710,18494227,18494260],"score":177,"text":"$1c","time":1542724391,"title":"Ask HN: How to deal with incompetent people","type":"story"}],[18172765,{"by":"peteforde","descendants":35,"id":18172765,"kids":[18173040,18174226,18173388,18172990,18172910,18176697,18173240,18180023,18176418],"score":65,"text":"$1d","time":1539049767,"title":"Tell HN: Forwarded Facebook emails automatically login as recipient","type":"story"}],[17636856,{"by":"gravy","descendants":154,"id":17636856,"kids":[17642012,17641010,17639695,17639588,17636931,17639334,17637192,17651449,17640758,17637852,17638419,17637255,17643008,17637342,17643309,17639447,17639547,17637142,17639516,17640990,17639348,17637119,17639346,17637134,17637217,17641734,17639471,17637386,17638889,17639101,17637491,17639435,17642078,17649296,17637500,17656046,17644681,17639605,17639195,17657279,17640016,17637388,17649671,17637219,17639724,17637011,17641425,17646351,17644860,17637000,17637421,17640512,17640850,17639916,17639745,17637146,17659491,17639557,17645039,17643129,17637289,17637290,17637522,17637590,17637631,17637179,17643975,17639656,17639114,17637140,17637518,17637350,17643793,17637688,17640302,17637404,17639996,17637909,17636995,17640213,17637358,17637620,17637141,17637343,17637238,17640321,17639167,17636958,17641878,17637170,17637033,17639642,17637160,17643600,17637251,17637154,17639024,17640061,17652277,17643327,17637149,17639003,17637152],"score":78,"text":"Doesn't have to be tech related.","time":1532846590,"title":"Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?","type":"story"}],[17563170,{"by":"charleswzx","descendants":32,"id":17563170,"kids":[17563462,17564211,17566217,17563414,17563934,17586762,17564445,17565983,17564199,17565737,17563227],"score":32,"text":"$1e","time":1531960189,"title":"Ask HN: Software eng, but not a web dev. Learn new frameworks to build MVP?","type":"story"}],[17527151,{"by":"hguhghuff","descendants":14,"id":17527151,"kids":[17528246,17544109,17527629,17548474,17527615,17530413,17529261,17535676,17545021,17534959,17532902,17527185],"score":8,"time":1531519131,"title":"Ask HN: What’s some favorite recollections of your earliest days of computing?","type":"story"}],[17521757,{"by":"taparisbat3","descendants":74,"id":17521757,"kids":[17523642,17527375,17525054,17526612,17526694,17528149,17528530,17526240,17523506,17523577,17527671,17525213,17526989,17527907,17525841,17529330,17527859,17526990,17529033,17523676,17524700,17528875,17523537,17535260,17528090,17523499,17523486],"score":60,"text":"I have a good job. It pays well. I work with intelligent people. It's programming in a trading company (which doesn't align with my values that much).

Lately I've been feeling depressed and overwhelmed and burnout from all the work that I have to do and some personal stuff in my life.

I wake up every morning feeling anxious, I am starting to have panick attacks at work and I have lost my concentration and the ability to think straight. The other day I started crying while talking to a collegue.

What should I do? Is quitting this job a good idea?

edit: i'm seeing a therapist lately and got some meds but I think this lifestyle is not for me anyways.","time":1531477366,"title":"Ask HN: Depression and job","type":"story"}],[17532094,{"by":"brownguy","descendants":429,"id":17532094,"kids":[17533712,17534291,17533142,17534123,17533777,17533788,17534920,17534169,17542338,17534056,17533204,17533266,17534795,17534831,17534666,17533198,17533380,17534286,17536323,17534597,17534374,17534752,17534629,17532920,17535203,17534516,17534351,17533079,17534017,17534383,17532530,17533836,17533077,17535575,17534759,17534716,17533893,17539389,17533860,17533159,17533090,17534342,17534931,17532579,17533938,17534570,17534058,17534546,17536705,17533795,17533953,17534542,17539599,17534174,17534440,17533845,17533278,17535021,17533751,17536268,17533172,17533911,17533990,17534036,17533823,17535017,17633475,17534558,17533089,17543147,17535825,17533321,17534989,17533807,17534363,17534001,17541688,17534147,17534204,17534225,17533822,17534184,17535089,17539793,17534588,17533244,17535768,17535516,17533249,17535161,17536277,17532356,17536400,17535258,17546943,17533914,17534487,17535092,17533215,17534267,17533234,17534971,17533862,17538483,17534172,17534043,17548236,17534779,17550112,17533276,17534766,17533868,17541698,17535386,17535761,17534322,17534903,17534689,17534391,17535002,17533951,17533208,17535126,17534099,17620846,17534357,17539212,17535191,17536340,17541682,17534804,17536959,17553560,17538491,17533710,17547875,17534805,17534088,17542115,17533774,17534307,17538958,17537093,17533307,17532393,17534975,17533361,17534259,17534354,17533342,17534526,17539619,17535167,17548856,17535027,17532584,17533253,17533144,17554148,17539029,17533746,17533164,17535061,17548055,17535038,17535142,17534534,17534298,17534296,17534944,17533356,17541497,17533277,17534626,17539647,17533980,17533696,17534643,17533263,17534399,17577234,17548878,17539522,17537305,17535293,17533354,17533297,17534520,17545577,17534735,17533958,17534822,17534300],"score":374,"text":"I've been using Evernote but I'm tired of the 2 device limit; suggestions for alternatives? Thanks!","time":1531598860,"title":"Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?","type":"story"}],[17170970,{"by":"optimmal","descendants":116,"id":17170970,"kids":[17171061,17171504,17171180,17171834,17171353,17171060,17171091,17171046,17178151,17173150,17171305,17171289,17171794,17179799,17173208,17173234,17171084,17172403,17171456,17171321,17171251,17171892,17171052,17173603,17173109,17171518,17173270,17172186,17171534,17172233,17172392,17171874,17172289,17173287,17171400,17171040,17172278,17173490,17171662,17184346,17171079,17171156,17171100,17171034,17171506,17173124,17171038],"score":190,"text":"I am positive that there's a huge difference between the theoretical model and reality here.

Let's assume it's 30 celsius inside the room and <20 celsius outside.

Enjoy your Monday my thermodynamics friends!","time":1527490812,"title":"Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?","type":"story"}],[16881966,{"by":"offbytwo","descendants":76,"id":16881966,"kids":[16882524,16892704,16882512,16882318,16882408,16889598,16892999,16882510,16882476,16882596,16882358,16883008,16913597,16887879,16882269,16882216,16882437,16882486,16882710,16883067,16889685,16882477,16884843,16882604,16882385,16882491,16882252,16882376,16882432,16883013,16893032,16882550,16885045,16883428,16882375,16882386,16883231,16882270,16882651,16882997,16883542],"score":72,"text":"I'm a sophomore in college, and feeling pretty bogged down by the not-so-relevant required courses at my school. I love the CS courses but I keep finding myself looking at entry level code monkey jobs and thinking of dropping out. I work part time as a developer right now and I enjoy working far more than doing any of my homework, so this is something that is on my mind a lot.

What are some lesser known areas of CS that would be worth studying while I have the chance? I would say the subjects that excite me the most are Machine Learning, p2p tech like IPFS, UX-design, and alternative computer-interface things (like brainwave sensors, VR, and that jawbone thing from MIT that was posted a few weeks back [1]).

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2018/computer-system-transcribes-words-users-speak-silently-0404","time":1524194996,"title":"Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?","type":"story"}],[14366070,{"by":"dhruvkar","descendants":513,"id":14366070,"kids":[14368812,14366652,14366286,14367600,14366418,14366980,14366330,14367697,14368545,14368854,14366267,14366380,14368191,14367866,14366337,14367809,14366988,14368834,14368061,14366335,14369942,14369210,14366772,14368412,14369564,14366250,14366264,14368273,14369213,14368753,14368561,14368097,14369895,14369422,14366539,14367850,14366239,14369361,14369798,14366295,14366261,14366362,14368407,14368068,14367728,14370146,14366260,14366300,14366408,14368135,14368247,14373496,14369443,14369050,14366226,14366307,14369156,14369124,14366285,14371560,14368809,14369352,14369834,14366268,14366386,14366453,14367913,14371221,14368007,14370583,14369364,14369056,14366302,14368201,14366388,14369975,14370043,14367814,14366236,14369925,14366349,14367305,14376588,14366379,14368904,14368731,14385041,14371031,14366249,14366272,14368676,14366665,14369582,14370566,14366500,14369595,14366290,14369565,14368428,14366319,14376990,14369948,14368894,14367891,14370785,14367911,14379543,14372038,14367550,14370095,14367183,14367880,14380616,14366235,14368950,14370131,14367779,14367925,14366284,14366266,14368095,14368888,14370305,14366821,14368734,14369097,14369351,14366341,14366435,14368549,14371407,14367768,14379160,14369453,14397746,14367859,14367848,14367881,14369881,14369269,14371433,14366747,14367057,14366370,14372062,14369173,14371385,14368160,14371130,14366381,14369263,14366404,14366446,14372530,14368293,14372484,14373432,14368538,14371559,14370417,14366247,14366248,14369598,14370155,14366293,14369727,14366449,14369037,14369018,14368043,14367929,14367064,14371032,14370074,14371504,14369590,14367805,14366321],"score":360,"text":"I've been programming for ~3 years now, first just on the side and now full-time. My learning has been in stops and starts. Now I can feel the cumulative learning paying off. I'm also realizing there's SO much more to learn. 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How do you organize them? Why are they useful to you?","time":1491605907,"title":"Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?","type":"story"}]]

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