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Ask HN: Would you hire a felon? 7 by melonbar | 9 comments on Hacker News. I have posted a few times before regarding this topic but in short I have a few felonies for playing with bitcoins and drugs while in college. I have a job as a full-stack JavaScript dev (just launched a new Gatsby site last week, I <3 netlify) and am a founder in a startup that counts CocaCola as a client (in negotiations with a few more Fortune 500 companies as well). I love to code more than just about anything else in life (aside from perhaps naps and nachos). It legit saved my life from a terrible addiction. I have been out of trouble for six years now, I got my life in order, and am in a great mental space. Yet, I want to get remote work while I continue my own projects. I am a competent developer who can make it past interviews and code challenges alike. Yet no one will hire. I usually get to the end and am told I am a top candidate. But at whatever point I reveal my past, I immediately get 'wai

Ask HN: Which large tech company will best prepare me to be a startup founder? 4 by throwaway40404 | 5 comments on Hacker News. - I'm soon to graduate from university. - I want to go into big tech for a few years as a software developer to do things like knock out student debt fast and have a secure job as I find my feet. - I also know that I want to found a startup a few years later. - Of the big tech companies, which cultures will help prepare me for this role most? Why and how?

Ask HN: What are your rules-of-thumb for personal finance and saving? 30 by elamje | 24 comments on Hacker News. I am curious what kind of algorithms and rules you all follow to stay on top of your finances.

Ask HN: How to practise Algo/DS for interviews that are every 2-3 years? 7 by 1qazxsw23edc | 3 comments on Hacker News. It's okay to learn Algorithms and Data structure once and practise questions to be good at it but once you leave practising you forget almost all the details and when time comes to interview for next company, you start to practise all over again to pass the interview which is quite inefficient and tedious. What strategies do you use to keep up with these interview questions every 2-3 years (assuming you change companies in 2-3 years)? One answer to this question is you keep on practising for eternity to keep your Algo/DS game up, but this means you can never devote your time to learn other fields you might be interested in or to work on your personal projects (assuming you are a full-time working professional and so have limited time to study). Also if you are not up-to-date with your Algo/DS skills, then there might be a situation that you have been given an o

Ask HN: What are the most fun areas of programming? 27 by that_thing | 30 comments on Hacker News. I'm not satisfied with the challenge, mission, technologies, or quality of the projects I've done web development for. Are there more interesting, impactful, challenging, lighthearted, or otherwise more satisfying areas of programming?

Ask HN: Discipline but no focus, how to fix? 21 by tinktank | 14 comments on Hacker News. I am incredibly good at getting up and out of bed and going into work and doing 12 hour days. What I'm incredibly bad at is focusing on the task at hand. I will often go off on a tangent to learn how something works, or something shiny will come my way and I'll go off and play with it. What are your strategies for increasing focus for someone who has the discipline to put in the time?

Ask HN: How to RTFM? 7 by rja907 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have seen dozens of times that people direct to the language manuals etc. to understand something in depth. I am a new college grad working as a Software Engineer and I mostly reference the manual when I cannot find something on Stackoverflow or some blog. Whenever I have tried to go through the manual, the kind of language used has diminished my interest and ended up in my giving it up. Also, I don't have an eidetic memory, so I don't see how manuals can be useful in the real sense but I really want to go in depth of some topics like PostgreSQL, Spring, Javascript, Python etc. It would be great to hear if someone actually reads the manual and is able to successfully apply it in their lives...

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