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Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by ltac »

rjzzleep wrote: post #387
pokepim wrote: post #239

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Is it common for Germans to dream about getting out of Germany and moving to US? Congratulations to you that you managed to do that, I am wondering how hard for German is to migrate to US to puruse better life here.

This is vastly different for native Germans and immigrant Germans. There are even some papers about how having a Turkish name immediately cuts your chances of getting a response to your job application in half. German job applications also require a photo on the application. For a lot of immigrant Germans leaving Germany is very much a goal, since upward mobility in German society is very low compared to the US. So f…

Agreed. It’s much easier to assimilate than in Germany I’d say. The ceiling or bias simply doesn’t exist in US whereas perhaps due to historical reasons it exists in Germany. From experience, Turkish are treated as “mainstream” in US than Germany.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

Sophistifunk wrote: post #283
alephnan wrote: post #278

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> thrilling position on some compiler team What’s wrong with compilers?

Nothing I'd love to work on that sort of thing. The point wasn't that the kind of job is bad, but that even if you're working on stuff that shouldn't be secret, you still have to jump through all those hoops. And imagine how many middle-managers they have who think a) they're the next Steve Jobs, and b) that what drove his success was being a dick to his workmates.

amen. the worst thing about STEM, IMO, is STEM people.

yeah I mean you

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

bifurcations wrote: post #176
rikafurude21 wrote: post #96

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Interesting projection, but to respond to your point: anyone could just put in a decade at Averagecorp inc. or even just hop around and throw together a decent resume. If a random OSS side project lands you an offer from apple thats gotta be jackpot level luck.

I'm now with the sibling commenter in that I can't tell if this a troll account. In case it's not, there's an extension of Cunningham's law. If you're wrong and disagreeable to a sufficiently high degree, people will just ignore or quietly ridicule you rather than try and correct you.

apple has the best marketing bots in the world.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

manfre wrote: post #255
rikafurude21 wrote: post #104

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Im sure "uproot your life and dedicate it to Apple" isnt on the job description and apple is very flexible with this stuff. You think all 164,000 apple employees live in silicon valley?

Apple has many large offices outside of silicon valley.

Apple logistical hubs for shipping and rando 3rd party acquisitions are one thing, but if you're working on a main-effort product you're either in Austin or SV.

You're doing RTO, and you're signing NDAs out the wazoo.

Helluva opportunity if you're young, but I'm in agreement with the parent posters that it's not the end-all, be-all. I'm far enough along in my career that I don't need the prestige line on my resume, and 100% remote somewhere I want to live is worth far, far more to me.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by avhception »

binwiederhier wrote: post #398
aureianimus wrote: post #391

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Add-on story: I joined binwiederhier for a while in developing Syncany and he invited me for an internship at his current employer. The experience I gained both in contributing to Syncany and said internship helped me indirectly land the role I'm currently in, and my open source experience in general helped me land a cool engagement where I got to do some innovative open source projects.

Oh man, Pim! What a small world. I looooved working with you on Syncany, and I tried so hard to recruit you hehe. I looked you up on LinkedIn the other day and it looks like you're doing amazingly. Ping me and we'll chat if you like. I'm working on a new open source project [1] that needs your help, hehe. [1] https://ntfy.sh

Looks great, what differentiates ntfy.sh from https://pushover.net/ ?

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by binwiederhier »

avhception wrote: post #485
binwiederhier wrote: post #398

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Oh man, Pim! What a small world. I looooved working with you on Syncany, and I tried so hard to recruit you hehe. I looked you up on LinkedIn the other day and it looks like you're doing amazingly. Ping me and we'll chat if you like. I'm working on a new open source project [1] that needs your help, hehe. [1] https://ntfy.sh

Looks great, what differentiates ntfy.sh from https://pushover.net/ ?

Pushover is fantastic, and if you are happy with it, then stick with it :-) I've never used Pushover, so I don't actually know all that well.

However, ntfy is 100% open source so you can self-host it if you like, and I believe it does have a bunch of features that Pushover does not (email notifications, email publishing, scheduled delivery, tags/emojis, phone calls, icons, ... see for yourself: https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/). I'm sure ntfy is missing things too that Pushover has. I'll let you be the judge of it.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by avhception »

binwiederhier wrote: post #486
avhception wrote: post #485

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Looks great, what differentiates ntfy.sh from https://pushover.net/ ?

Pushover is fantastic, and if you are happy with it, then stick with it :-) I've never used Pushover, so I don't actually know all that well. However, ntfy is 100% open source so you can self-host it if you like, and I believe it does have a bunch of features that Pushover does not (email notifications, email publishing, scheduled delivery, tags/emojis, phone calls, icons, ... see for yourself: https://docs.ntfy.sh/p…

Self-hosting it does indeed sound intriguing! Looked through your Github repos and pcopy looks really interesting, too.

Is your name a reference to that Grönemeyer song, btw? ;)

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by binwiederhier »

avhception wrote: post #487
binwiederhier wrote: post #486

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Pushover is fantastic, and if you are happy with it, then stick with it :-) I've never used Pushover, so I don't actually know all that well. However, ntfy is 100% open source so you can self-host it if you like, and I believe it does have a bunch of features that Pushover does not (email notifications, email publishing, scheduled delivery, tags/emojis, phone calls, icons, ... see for yourself: https://docs.ntfy.sh/p…

Self-hosting it does indeed sound intriguing! Looked through your Github repos and pcopy looks really interesting, too. Is your name a reference to that Grönemeyer song, btw? ;)

pcopy is quite abandoned but it still works. ;-)

And yes, it's a reference to the song. Good catch. I was listening to it 20 years ago or something like that when I had to come up with a new username. And it stuck. ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by octokatt »

simonsarris wrote: post #438
hackernewds wrote: post #337

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how has your life worked out not having taken that offer?

Well I'm not certain about life on twin earth where I chose differently, but I'm quite happy. I still live 10 miles from where I was born in New Hampshire. I still work at the company that I interned with when I was in high school. I am now part owner. I probably have a lot less money than if I went to California, but I have a house and family (2 children so far, we want more) and I somewhat think that if I went out…

You did it right. Kudos for making the smart decision -- you can't buy home.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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Post by dranudin »

__jonas wrote: post #393
rjzzleep wrote: post #387

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This is vastly different for native Germans and immigrant Germans. There are even some papers about how having a Turkish name immediately cuts your chances of getting a response to your job application in half. German job applications also require a photo on the application. For a lot of immigrant Germans leaving Germany is very much a goal, since upward mobility in German society is very low compared to the US. So f…

> German job applications also require a photo on the application. I don't disagree with the rest of your comment but this is not true. Technically an employer cannot legally require you to attach a picture to your application or judge you any differently if you do not attach one, since the AGG passed in 2006 – although I don't doubt that it plays out different in practice sometimes. I remember even being told in Hig…

I got all of my developer jobs in Germany without a photo.
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