HN inspired my move to the Bay Area too. Thanks for sharing your story.
How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life
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#42thestoicjester, this is one of the funniest blog posts I've ever read. This line is especially good: "A 'co-founder of a mobile development startup in SF' was a humorous creature I’d read all about on the internet — I may as well have been replying to a hobbit." What's the name of the company you're working at now?
http://daemoniclabs.com/
Just a note on the site, for an app website it doesn't look great on an iPhone currently.
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#43I quit my job as a biologist, became a freelancer, working for clients found on HN, and was eventually hired full-time by one of those clients, who I had previously interviewed for a side project that I was working on so I could show Hacker News.
So basically, Hacker News is pretty awesome, regardless of whatever people say.
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#44Thank deus for readability.com.
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#45As long as we're on the love boat: I've met at least three good friends here. Y'all have collectively pushed my career in a quite different direction than it was probably on when I started. I think I'd probably have ended up quitting ye olde day job and putting the BCC phase of my life in the "That was fun and I learned a lot, but time to get serious, what is next?" bucket. Then I would have done what everyone other…
I feel like we're past due for somebody to come in here and complain about there being too much meta-discussion of HN these days.
I think you just did. Careful, don't look directly at the aperture!
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#46If not for an HN "Who's hiring" post I'd probably still have my safe job writing internal apps for an insurance company in Albuquerque; instead I'm back living in beautiful San Diego (my favorite city) and I get to see the ocean every day on my drive to my current awesome job. So add me to the list of people for whom HN changed their life. :)
I guess you're not the only person to take a wrong turn at "Albuqoike"
Sorry. Look at my handle; I couldn't resist :-)
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#47moving across the country to a state I’d never been to and a city in which I knew nobody
As someone who did just this, but in kinda the opposite direction: from the East Coast to Minneapolis, I hope it works out for you as well as it has for me. I basically rebuilt myself here. I love MN!
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#48Thank deus for readability.com.
Yes, indeed. Dark backgrounds aren't good on your eyes, when everything else has a light background. Besides that, great post! (The article by Jake.)
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#49This article gives me hope. I've been at a megacorp soul sucking job (I realize not all are soul crushing) for the past three years after my comp. sci. degree.
I'm going to make the jump as soon as possible. HN has really been both an inspiration and a great place for sage advice.
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#50moving across the country to a state I’d never been to and a city in which I knew nobody As someone who did just this, but in kinda the opposite direction: from the East Coast to Minneapolis, I hope it works out for you as well as it has for me. I basically rebuilt myself here. I love MN!
Me too! CT to Boston, admittedly not as big a move but where I lived was practically Nowhere, USA. There's so much energy here and Boston has exceeded all my expectations. I'm now working at my third startup here.
Since January. Laid off from the first along with most people there, and the second one shut down literally the week I started working. But hey, technology moves fast and so do startups. They have to. I'm actually grateful since it's given me three entirely different viewpoints into how startups work.