15:[[41336584,{"by":"Tazzi","descendants":11,"id":41336584,"kids":[41336967,41369141,41377384,41346260,41337292,41378455,41336868,41338422,41340492,41337199],"score":8,"text":"Hey guys how do i start learning python?","time":1724488380,"title":"Should I learn Python with GPT?","type":"story"}],[41286630,{"by":"purple-leafy","descendants":108,"id":41286630,"kids":[41286725,41286864,41286810,41286781,41286700,41286712,41286920,41286713,41286873,41286824,41286784,41286836,41286708,41286790,41307083,41286716,41286731,41286816,41286694,41286870,41286780,41286724,41286752,41288066,41286856,41286778,41335490,41294655,41328771,41296541,41293985,41286880,41286869,41286765,41306513,41286854,41293693,41286687,41286738,41289252,41286893,41286825,41292438,41286768,41288022,41287411,41286987,41286801,41286884,41286949,41289446,41288839,41296617,41325844,41294608],"score":92,"text":"I work as a fullstack developer. Mostly doing frontend.

I’m sick of the mess of tooling, of the colleagues who code these giant spaghetti messes, I’m tired of standups. I’m tired of the codebase, and I don’t care about what we are building.

But most or all I’m tired of all the minutiae. I just feel like what we are working on, and how we are doing it, is boring as hell. There’s no intellectual stimulation.

Is it time to move jobs, or time to move careers?

What other careers are good for burnt out developers?","time":1724026444,"title":"Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?","type":"story"}],[40414780,{"by":"codingclaws","descendants":13,"id":40414780,"kids":[40415092,40414944,40422870,40451593,40416962,40426095,40416259,40419811,40431258,40430517,40416247,40417724,40433210],"score":4,"text":"What is the company that you work for doing with AI or trying to do with AI? Just trying to get a more realistic sense of how AI will affect society and the workplace.","time":1716208474,"title":"Ask HN: What is your company doing with AI?","type":"story"}],[40396212,{"by":"mundanerality","descendants":26,"id":40396212,"kids":[40397735,40396902,40425179,40425143,40426609,40396823],"score":26,"time":1716001778,"title":"The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers","type":"story","url":"https://GrumpyOldDev.com/post/the-one-where-i-convince-the-cto-not-to-outsource/"}],[39820296,{"by":"sdsd","descendants":26,"id":39820296,"kids":[39822980,39825157,39845971,39854186,39821251,39857367,39828325,39847477,39821580,39823276,39848026,39821602,39834490,39838539,39823790,39823910,39847947,39820411,39820336],"score":21,"text":"Personally, I compute in 3 ways:

1. Professionally\n2. Recreationally\n3. Personally

Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to.

For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?"

So I ran this on my mac:

    egrep '^[a-z].*v[^eaiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words\n

\nThe part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count)

And voila, a buttload of them showed up!

I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends.

I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?","time":1711394479,"title":"Ask HN: When was the last time you used your tech skills for a real life task?","type":"story"}],[39237561,{"by":"bazil376","descendants":30,"id":39237561,"kids":[39237683,39237998,39246080,39238095,39238629,39238777,39238371,39244298,39238625,39258078,39240174,39237870,39239103,39257568,39240323,39238828,39238539,39237976,39243385,39238719,39240821,39238214,39237669,39244421],"score":24,"time":1706934844,"title":"Ask HN: Do you think software quality is going downhill? If so, why?","type":"story"}],[38783425,{"by":"arjun_krishna1","descendants":27,"id":38783425,"kids":[38789340,38807494,38788359,38790088,38788113,38788901,38800096,38786117,38784051,38800348,38800936,38801554,38786879,38793378,38783436,38798578,38787906],"score":21,"text":"For me "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card and the Bhagvad Gita","time":1703693955,"title":"Ask HN: What books do you want to read over again?","type":"story"}],[35551036,{"by":"akasakahakada","descendants":31,"id":35551036,"kids":[35552462,35557582,35552209,35551779,35633231,35554999,35553412,35551048,35554874,35551290,35552133,35564103,35552087,35551214,35567018,35564086,35558191,35552476,35554839,35552876,35551059,35551366,35552362,35552152,35552952,35553289,35551234,35551813,35562625,35551437],"score":10,"text":"Tried Firefox mobile multiple time in 2022, underwhelming.

Tried Firefox desktop these days, super underwhelming. I can't even show my bookmark bar.","time":1681360972,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone Use Firefox in 2023?","type":"story"}],[34904328,{"by":"zoozla","descendants":19,"id":34904328,"kids":[34924204,34910722,34919968,34906841,34994886,34904679,34934663,34904388,34905328,34907825,34906518,34905685,34906939,34907620,34904627,34907616,34907774,34907550,34907666,34907379,34907347,34907431,34907812,34907591,34907409,34907456,34907527,34907832,34907363,34907797,34907737,34907261,34907511,34907761,34907963,34907580,34907560,34907672,34907700,34907352,34907323,34907603,34907479,34907270,34907947,34907339,34907243,34907471,34907303,34907198,34907206,34907227,34907785,34907421,34907179,34907896,34907240,34907393,34907871,34907880,34907921,34907489,34907859,34907281,34907637,34907644],"score":17,"text":"You know the kind I'm talking about.

A huge lumping monolith of spaghetti with barely any tests, class hierarchies a mile deep, and a list of dependencies that can make a grown man weep.

Written by a self proclaimed "genius" 15 years ago with junior devs patching features on top of it since.

What's your story? How did you deal with that mess? Are you still on that team?","time":1677107094,"title":"What's the worst codebase you've ever worked on?","type":"story"}],[34133673,{"by":"vincentchau","descendants":32,"id":34133673,"kids":[34134358,34134134,34136061,34137728,34135227,34134594,34138495,34136155,34133715,34135976],"score":42,"text":"Let's say that you're a Ruby on Rails veteran and now you get a job at Google, where you need to learn Go. What's your approach to quickly learn new framework/programming languages?","time":1672019330,"title":"Staff+ engineers, how do you learn new technologies at a new company?","type":"story"}],[31879981,{"by":"Brogrammer69","descendants":22,"id":31879981,"kids":[31882540,31882743,31892522,31883522,31886051,31887524,31880921,31881288,31882615,31880378,31881174,31903579,31898040],"score":28,"text":"$16","time":1656204122,"title":"What startup snakery have you experienced as a developer / employee?","type":"story"}],[31679201,{"by":"TekMol","descendants":34,"id":31679201,"kids":[31679783,31682006,31680365,31679429,31680161,31681014,31684868,31679354,31680438,31680028,31703906,31684383,31679349,31679615,31680210,31710152,31679542,31679490,31679677,31680681,31683696,31683114,31680483,31689400,31693198,31682472,31697297,31685341,31685264,31680224,31679640,31679463],"score":12,"time":1654766683,"title":"Ask HN: What is a movie you keep watching again every couple of years?","type":"story"}],[31553670,{"by":"jobhdez","descendants":5,"id":31553670,"kids":[31553815,31553803,31555649],"score":3,"text":"Should I contribute to open source before my first software engineering job so I can get experience working on a large unfamiliar codebase? Like experience adding features and fixing bugs. Thanks","time":1653864700,"title":"Should I contribute to open source before my first job?","type":"story"}],[30283264,{"by":"JNRowe","descendants":935,"id":30283264,"kids":[30294839,30297711,30301003,30295316,30300677,30296455,30295091,30296719,30294051,30297993,30298366,30295242,30294403,30297680,30287201,30296038,30294308,30302067,30294319,30295978,30296125,30295764,30296614,30297924,30298748,30311137,30294074,30302489,30283566,30297385,30297675,30294521,30296899,30295083,30295111,30298207,30284048,30297742,30284539,30285201,30294840,30297460,30286013,30294547,30294135,30295023,30294984,30303222,30294967,30294582,30304444,30294155,30283676,30298993,30283646,30297548,30303637,30296197,30295700,30299917,30303473,30295909,30294229,30304884,30297290,30295816,30298581,30300583,30283609,30303523,30294610,30285641,30295233,30300966,30285373,30302312,30300563,30303235,30283598,30294320,30296123,30284435,30294828,30297783,30294631,30297368,30295116,30302171,30296552,30300159,30296216,30300458,30295634,30297687,30295048,30298190,30292821,30295274,30297438,30308083,30285951,30298302,30298413,30298741,30284738,30295165,30296816,30299616,30301474,30285227,30296973,30297709,30295218,30297261,30294760,30294983,30297545,30302608,30296842,30299751,30295485,30297477,30284750,30301675,30298903,30295781,30299297,30285645,30284249,30301785,30295415,30296093,30298528,30296562,30294693,30298881,30295566,30299675,30295741,30299500,30311884,30294913,30298107,30303707,30284036,30296019,30295674,30301282,30296177,30295980,30297715,30286048,30300696,30313431,30297406,30295935,30295898,30304159,30294335,30303389,30298280,30296414,30294477,30297613,30304138,30296620,30297888,30294398,30297157,30295776,30295134,30298078,30295227,30294068,30304493,30300034,30296775,30298353,30295745,30296588,30295973,30294716,30309006,30285947,30302659,30296978,30295506,30304122,30297383,30298465,30299754,30296024,30311674,30297277,30295452,30296458,30286528,30305512,30300253,30296505,30295278,30301376,30290134,30295382,30294370,30298567,30300960,30294286,30303399,30294619,30298570,30311486,30304536,30301342,30295672,30301517,30324807,30302100,30298792,30305336,30295371,30303617,30297798,30294066,30297050,30283688,30303464,30307244,30295169,30303766,30381936,30294722,30299737,30296016,30295752,30297146,30296682,30300215,30299226,30292867,30303646,30296754,30296606,30295863,30298025,30302578,30295623,30298294,30295951,30300679,30303964,30298356,30300632,30295859,30285658,30284059,30296744,30308844,30285584,30300399,30301301,30299229,30300464,30303590,30294497,30315587,30306682,30301060,30296105,30297452,30301488,30298787,30295533,30305540,30319254,30309316,30294905,30299995,30296568,30298182,30296795,30298618,30298918,30295088,30298610,30295553,30284897,30284256,30311525,30297982,30303732,30295630,30299247,30303408,30283597,30302342,30295397,30299545,30298661,30303172,30298538,30293541,30309505,30302891,30295376,30294743,30302324,30296745,30302019,30294515,30302826,30311656,30299635,30310484,30299285,30313674,30298243,30303544,30288330,30294745,30338411,30297478,30313805,30299374,30314621,30297347,30294131,30298480,30308232,30296417,30298967,30296171,30303947,30298586,30298947,30305339,30298235,30296446,30301123,30295779,30300810,30297829,30299702,30296649,30297174,30299984,30295040,30294609,30305417,30297424,30295624,30299684,30301820,30298371,30299998,30301027,30298476,30295470,30295916,30301405,30294457,30297845,30296740,30296495,30300893,30294585,30308977,30307388,30296129,30296661,30295033,30298566,30295188,30294720,30298616,30298578,30298264,30294764,30285039,30295629,30294970,30304032,30302360,30299831,30351294,30296137,30294938,30300338,30303209,30297985,30295645,30294594,30296663,30302370,30297344,30298361,30332770,30299480,30296228,30294791,30351287,30310539,30301115,30300212,30287511,30295746,30295668,30300308,30300504,30302777,30297884,30284768],"score":573,"text":"Last February there was, in my opinion, a really uplifting thread with the same title¹. I'd like to see all the cool new things going on, and I'll steal the intro text from as89 to explain:

One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with others - you just don't care about the outcome.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782","time":1644477209,"title":"Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?","type":"story"}],[29992879,{"by":"tjwnego","descendants":12,"id":29992879,"kids":[29993289,29992961,29993797,30000261,29993247,29994490,29994568,29997493,30004434,30013143,29993860,29998511],"score":6,"time":1642596301,"title":"Ask HN: What IDE do you use and why?","type":"story"}],[29979505,{"by":"viginti_tres","descendants":16,"id":29979505,"kids":[29979991,29980624,29983428,29981183,29984078,29981062,29981339,29981412,29981038,29982501,29980181,29982123,29981426,29990599],"score":19,"text":"I have some skills/hobbies like music and boxing, and these things give me joy/flow. What are the skills that give you joy/flow? (flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))","time":1642515739,"title":"Ask HN: Skills that give you joy/flow","type":"story"}],[29968663,{"by":"Calamitous","descendants":87,"id":29968663,"kids":[29969022,29969037,29969359,29968966,29969149,29969710,29969127,29968998,29968974,29969247,29970378,29969110,29968823,29968968,29969118,29969324,29969097,29969271,29969647,29973655,29969403,29969363,29969219,29969493,29969306,29969255,29969239,29969145,29969468,29984472,29975350,29969223,29969064,29969870,29969851,29969050,29969093,29969190,29969234,29972534,29972701,29969268,29969349,29970482,29979659,29970491,29970233,29969073,29970315,29969332,29969063],"score":64,"text":"I'm in a job that's got nice folks, but a terrible stack. The money's fine, but I'm not really learning, and I've been thinking about looking for another job.

Naturally, that led me to trying to enumerate when I should leave a job.

I'm curious what metrics others here use to determine when it's time to move on. What makes you decide that it's time to quit your job?","time":1642439005,"title":"Ask HN: When to Quit?","type":"story"}]]

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