I wonder what opportunities, interesting insights, or otherwise has this community given to you. Thanks for the answers!
Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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#2Probably the best advice I've gotten on here is from reading 'patio11 and 'tptacek posts on how to bill for consulting work. I don't have a particular comment as they've written it many times over, but it's really changed the game for me.
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#3I found my current job (since 2015) working 100% remote in the whoishiring thread, and I'm super grateful for that. Besides that, it's been my go-to source for tech and startup news and great (sometimes frustrating) discussions.
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#4HN is my main source of up to date news. The technical orientation and relative absence of mainstream "noise" is well aligned with my interests. For example I found out about Golang and Closure by reading HN.
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#5A sense of dispair: still no idea which web framework to choose.
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#6For me the coolest thing about HN is the breadth of experts here for any (even niche) tech field. This allows for in depth understanding of new products (when someone who actually worked on the team making it is here) or calling out conspiracy theories about why some company shut down some product (because they have inside knowledge and can actually explain the reasoning).
I can't count how many times I've read 'I work on the team that built that' with some new insights or opinions just sitting nested in a comment chain 4 levels deep.
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#7Made a "who's hiring" post a few years ago, looking for a presumably short-term contract worker. Met the co-founder of my next company. Win!
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#8I have a more thorough pinboard.in collection.
I discovered attrs here, which really has been very useful.
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#9Mainly, early exposure to a wide variety of languages, libraries, and even more obscure projects that I wouldn't have heard of, or not as early. Also, a somewhat wider vocabulary for talking about many aspects of software.
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