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I run a 2 year old company in Shanghai, China creating English resumes, interview coaching, enhancing LinkedIn Profiles, advising on school picks for undergrad and grad program seekers, and preparing academic application documents for US, UK, Canadian, Australian, and Japan. Prior to that I had a Wall Street type career for ~24 years which required use of R-Project and a bit of Python. I come to HN multiple times a d…
Travel Agent. I used to be very into programming when I was younger, so I enjoy the content, but the level headed discussions make HN so much better than reddit overall.
Read about development, learn from the people in the industry... but I ask myself that question many times when I get to read comments on some news :) (why the f* am I here?)
I do r&d. Indirect networking and the hope to spot niche market opportunities that may go big in a not too distant future.
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> You wouldn't mean software developer, would you? Of course they mean software developer, because this is a forum for software developers. I wouldn't show up on a site for property, product, or marketing campaign developers and get angry that they were using the word in their context.
> this is a forum for software developers I always took HN to be a forum for people either starting up a business or into "hacking" things. Of course many software people visit here, probably because many fast-growing businesses over the last 20-30 years have been software based, and/or many products and systems that people hack have a large software component. But HN isn't specifically for software developers as far…