16:[[18537865,{"by":"dvnguyen","descendants":99,"id":18537865,"kids":[18538334,18539069,18538221,18538848,18538324,18538126,18538542,18538085,18538112,18538441,18538292,18538222,18538157,18540177,18538113,18543785,18538378,18539418,18538308,18538885,18539025,18538988,18538360,18541217,18538167,18551419,18538330,18538163,18538301,18547439,18538092,18539002,18538394,18540689,18538421,18543841,18538180,18538991,18538342,18538337,18538894,18538999,18538081,18540299,18540311,18539295,18539011,18538903,18541613,18541676,18538300,18549990,18538915],"score":182,"text":"I always want to be a better version of myself, but it's unclear how to quantify my quality. In sporting, there're many stats about athletes to look at. In academia, you can look at some indirect indexes about your research quality. But as a programmer at work, I often receive feedbacks from 1 or 2 persons at most. It's easy to think that I'm good enough, when the truth may be not.

So, as a programmer, how do you quantify or estimate how good you are?

Thank you,","time":1543275661,"title":"Ask HN: As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?","type":"story"}],[7869738,{"by":"saurabh","descendants":4,"id":7869738,"kids":[7869760,7870002,7869768,7869779],"score":4,"time":1402338744,"title":"What startup buzzwords make you automatically cringe?","type":"story","url":"http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/27on4c/what_startup_buzzwords_make_you_automatically/"}],[7823355,{"by":"fecak","descendants":3,"id":7823355,"kids":[7823551,7823576],"score":6,"text":"","time":1401475830,"title":"How I Learned to Appreciate Job Hoppers","type":"story","url":"http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2014/05/30/hop2/"}],[7820503,{"by":"kdude63","descendants":20,"id":7820503,"kids":[7821602,7820574,7825898,7826950,7822982,7820541,7823855,7825920,7875974,7822252,7822237,7820628],"score":11,"text":"Basically, I graduate from highschool in a week and have no idea what I should do.

I currently live in a small town in Northern California where there's not much room for opportunity... So far my plan is to get a minimum-wage job and save up until I can afford to move to Sacramento, where I have a couple friends I can live with and obviously better job opportunities. I plan on going to college and getting a degree in CS afterwards, and then try to make my way into the tech industry.

Is this a bad idea? ... What should I do if so?","time":1401430046,"title":"Ask HN: What did you do (or wish you did) when you got out of highschool?","type":"story","url":""}],[1044293,{"by":"jasonlbaptiste","descendants":21,"id":1044293,"kids":[1044324,1044368,1044409,1044319,1044636,1044369,1044364,1044373,1044640],"score":12,"time":1263182691,"title":" This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone ","type":"story","url":"http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/10/flash-developers-iphone/"}],[1041886,{"by":"sunir","descendants":4,"id":1041886,"kids":[1041895,1042371,1041939],"score":8,"text":"Many of us have interesting evening and weekend projects. Since weekends are a bit slow around here, I thought it would be fun and useful to have a weekly or biweekly open thread to talk about how your project is doing this week.

I tried this last weekend to a fair deal of success, so I thought I'd try it again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028781

What project are you working on? And what goal are you striving to accomplish this particular weekend?

I'll start with mine in the comments.","time":1263066693,"title":"Ask HN: Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you upto?","type":"story","url":""}],[1031648,{"by":"benhoyt","descendants":9,"id":1031648,"kids":[1031812,1031808,1031676,1031801,1031673,1031816,1031863],"score":3,"text":"Which do you call yourself? (On a CV.) The term \"software engineer\" seems to be used on many job postings these days, but I prefer \"software developer\" or even just \"programmer\". Somehow engineer (even if I am one) sound a bit try-hard.","time":1262656250,"title":"Are we \"software engineers\", \"software developers\", \"programmers\", or other?","type":"story","url":""}],[1024180,{"by":"Murkin","descendants":95,"id":1024180,"kids":[1024302,1024439,1024294,1024555,1024538,1024360,1024306,1024285,1024296,1024340,1024485,1024489,1024852,1024543,1024677,1025010,1024496,1024503,1024495,1024307,1024623,1024419,1024299,1024561,1024745,1024291,1024540,1027048],"score":59,"text":"I have friends who got very deep into iPhone dev a few years back.\nNow, they are considered masters of their craft, have managed to build a good name and connections for themselves. (And monetize on it).

Now that I have lots of spare time, I decided to delve into something (very)new.\nIn the hope that two/thee years down the road, I too, can position myself in the same way in a new field.

So what do you think is most worth learning ?","time":1262261693,"title":"Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ?","type":"story","url":""}],[983717,{"by":"nkohari","descendants":168,"id":983717,"kids":[983764,983774,984646,983805,983748,983997,983730,984069,984099,983753,983857,983747,984438,983791,983814,983902,983832,983948,983745,985612,983797,984256,983787,983966,985623,983866,983798,984817,984131,983812,984188,984617,984403,983842,983804,984388,984245,984517,984920,984019,985368,984578,984741,984096,984412,984788,984203,983800,984289,983823,984373,984527,984137,984997,983790],"score":279,"time":1260283162,"title":"Eric Schmidt: \"If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it\"","type":"story","url":"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/"}],[915837,{"by":"alec","descendants":9,"id":915837,"kids":[915909,916255],"score":23,"text":"","time":1257122790,"title":"Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript","type":"story","url":"http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/douglas-crockford-talk-waterloo/"}],[852250,{"by":"revorad","dead":true,"descendants":15,"id":852250,"kids":[852411,852638,852588,852464,852415],"score":23,"text":"","time":1254312263,"title":"W3C, you ignorant slut","type":"story","url":"http://blog.halindrome.com/2009/07/w3c-you-ignorant-slut.html"}],[846579,{"by":"prakash","descendants":98,"id":846579,"kids":[846749,846668,846779,846718,846900,847256,846894,847077,846669,846685,846984,846796,846658,846844,846742,846761,847382,846711,846694,846703,846660,846676,847491,846642,846713,846649,846663,846792,847380,846652,846635,846891,846786,846657,846637,846662,846650],"score":160,"time":1254030944,"title":" Working hard is overrated","type":"story","url":"http://www.caterina.net/archive/001196.html"}],[847044,{"by":"unignorant","descendants":113,"id":847044,"kids":[847066,847211,847102,847263,847174,847123,847207,847116,847415,847326,847265,847108,847128,847215,847433,847369,847101,847452,847225,847534,847100,847179,847390],"score":39,"time":1254073561,"title":"On Elitism","type":"story","url":"http://www.stanford.edu/%7Epgbovine/on-elitism.htm"}],[829000,{"by":"garbowza","descendants":113,"id":829000,"kids":[829073,829031,829185,829099,829135,829085,829126,829119,829239,829152,829499,829049,829175,829090,829686,829659,829264,830163,829797,829064,829650,831600,829283,829506,829508,829476,829501,829243,829332,829057,829044,829054,829104],"score":152,"time":1253223093,"title":"The Lost Oaks of California Ave","type":"story","url":"http://paulgraham.com/californiaavenueoaks.html"}],[350775,{"by":"twampss","descendants":2,"id":350775,"kids":[350839,350868,350793],"score":8,"text":"","time":1225558419,"title":"StackOverflow Podcast #27 - Interview with Alex Ohanian and Steve Huffman","type":"story","url":"http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-27/"}]]

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