While I'm still waiting for the right moment in my own life to do my own Recurse Center retreat, I have had the pleasure of hiring and working with several RC alums over the years and in every instance have found them to be high-quality developers and interesting people to boot. Big congrats to RC for 15 years!
Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
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Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#32Congrats! I'd be curious to hear what changed (and what didn't) with applicants over the last 15 years.
I feel like the programming community is very different than in the early 2010s – when's the last time you've seen a coworker brag about using vim – but I can't really put my finger on what changed exactly.
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#33Congrats! I'd be curious to hear what changed (and what didn't) with applicants over the last 15 years. I feel like the programming community is very different than in the early 2010s – when's the last time you've seen a coworker brag about using vim – but I can't really put my finger on what changed exactly.
I resemble that remark!
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#34I attended a Recurse Center batch, and while I understand that others had amazing experiences, mine was quite bland. I can't blame anyone but myself for this. Most of the other attendees were intelligent or highly self-motivated, or both. Many people seemed to connect instantly, forming small work groups, sharing project ideas, and even going out for lunch or dinner together. They were constantly talking about how aw…
The competitors to Zulip are Slack and Discord, maybe Matrix/IRC. The question is how do you group subjects and sub-subjects aka threading and Zulip forces the user to pick both explicitly. This results in an easier to follow conversation. Eg in the 3d printing channel there's a modeling thread and a filament thread, so if you want to see stuff about filaments, you don't see the conversation about modeling unless you…
I never thought about it this way but this is true. But why can’t you delete things?
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#35Recurse is an incredible community. Thanks for everything you’ve done for the NYC and broader tech ecosystem!
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#36I loved my time at RC. It changed me a lot. I wrote several blog posts about different projects and my time during my batch. I would strongly suggest applying if you like computers and want to talk about them constantly while building cool stuff.
https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-projec...
https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning...
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#37Congrats! I'd be curious to hear what changed (and what didn't) with applicants over the last 15 years. I feel like the programming community is very different than in the early 2010s – when's the last time you've seen a coworker brag about using vim – but I can't really put my finger on what changed exactly.
> when's the last time you've seen a coworker brag about using vim
Are you suggesting these people have increased or decreased in quantity? I feel like I've met more vim/neovim/tmux/theprimagen/tool-rewritten-in-rust geeks with every new job.
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#38My time at RC has genuinely changed my life. I joined my first batch expecting to dust some rust off after being in management at my last gig, and found a community I will cherish for the rest of my life!
If you looking for community in tech I can't think of a better place.
To 15 more!
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#39Congrats!! I remember growing up in Italy and really really wanting to attend Hacker School but couldn’t afford to. It resonated a lot with me and make me want to keep learning; I am sure you are still having that impact on others today, it’s great to see it’s still around!
Re: Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
#40congratulation! i first time know this. and i am curious what RC is like for remote participant? also, i would like to apply!