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How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by tlear »

patio11 wrote: post #26
zio99 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be interesting then to do a Hacker News meetup, at least in Toronto, and we can reminisce on the recent HN front page articles. How great would that be? Thanks for the inspiration patio11. +1. Any one here from Toronto?

The Tokyo meetups -- which take me about 3 hours to get to -- generally are some of the most fun I have all month. I strongly recommend starting something like that for your area if there isn't anything -- meeting people in the flesh is very worthwhile, too.

I was visiting Tokyo last February and ended up coming to the meetup, was a ton of fun! Really interesting mix of people

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by sabat »

ry0ohki wrote: post #61
kkowalczyk wrote: post #51

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error and I worry people will learn the wrong lesson here. The OP's story is: 1. learned to program iOS (hard, completely under OP's control) 2. wrote and published iOS app (hard, under OP's control) 3. the app failed so wrote a blog post about his experience (easy although often neglected by programmers, under OP's control) 4. HN picked up the story which led to interview (total…

At least the irony of him noting the discourse had turned negative is not lost on you...

I came here to say exactly that. I stopped reading HN as often because it seems like every time I read a Show HN post, or, well, practically anything, someone is trying to crap on someone else's effort. Here's a guy who has a nice story to tell, and we get:

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by MattGrommes »

thomasf1 wrote: post #57
MattGrommes wrote: post #31

If 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. :)

Glad you changed your life and are happy with it... What was special about post that captured your attention?

It was that it was in San Diego doing Java at a company doing cutting edge wireless stuff with their own hardware. San Diego + Java + doing something new == whoohoo! :)

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by MattGrommes »

kkowalczyk wrote: post #51

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error and I worry people will learn the wrong lesson here. The OP's story is: 1. learned to program iOS (hard, completely under OP's control) 2. wrote and published iOS app (hard, under OP's control) 3. the app failed so wrote a blog post about his experience (easy although often neglected by programmers, under OP's control) 4. HN picked up the story which led to interview (total…

Fortune favors the prepared. If he hadn't done the other stuff he wouldn't have been able to make this fortunate event happen, that doesn't mean it wasn't fortunate.

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by allardschip »

raganwald wrote: post #62
zio99 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be interesting then to do a Hacker News meetup, at least in Toronto, and we can reminisce on the recent HN front page articles. How great would that be? Thanks for the inspiration patio11. +1. Any one here from Toronto?

Nope, nobody from Toronto. (Written at Coxwell & Queen) ;-)

Toronto as well. Couple of blocks north!

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by Ingaz »

ecaron wrote: post #53
kkowalczyk wrote: post #51

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error and I worry people will learn the wrong lesson here. The OP's story is: 1. learned to program iOS (hard, completely under OP's control) 2. wrote and published iOS app (hard, under OP's control) 3. the app failed so wrote a blog post about his experience (easy although often neglected by programmers, under OP's control) 4. HN picked up the story which led to interview (total…

I think the largest point the OP makes is that he wasn't intended to find a new job, but the HN community (mentality & philosophy) brought that opportunity to him. That's the key piece in #4, and the linchpin for the whole experience.

Yes. Not even "mentality & philosophy", he explains distinctly that his problem was communication and HN gave him auditory. Auditory that interested about his findings and problems. And even auditory that can solve part of his problems

(Excuse my runglish, I don't remember what I must write: "who" or "that" or "which")

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by knz »

crgt wrote: post #63
knz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Following this advice... If any other Minneapolis/St Paul based HN users are lurking out there and are interested in meeting up (or know of any similar events) then please reply here or email.

I'm in Mpls and would love to meet up.

One user emailed - so there is at least 3 of us out there. If you're still interested, whats the best way to get in contact and organize a meetup?

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by Ingaz »

lectrick wrote: post #86

I think everyone should live on the West Coast (ideally SF) or the East Coast (ideally near NYC) for a while in their life. Or both, like I did.

Is it really so?

In Moscow a humorous proverb exists: "There is no life outside MKAD(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Ring_Road)

When I read PG (and others) about "there is no opportunity for [startups ... interesting productive life] except SF" - I think it's the same. Not true

Re: How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

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Post by anovikov »

Ingaz wrote: post #89
lectrick wrote: post #86

I think everyone should live on the West Coast (ideally SF) or the East Coast (ideally near NYC) for a while in their life. Or both, like I did.

Is it really so? In Moscow a humorous proverb exists: "There is no life outside MKAD( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Ring_Road) When I read PG (and others) about "there is no opportunity for [startups ... interesting productive life] except SF" - I think it's the same. Not true

I think this is a good point. Both are about equally true. Around half of Russian economy lives in Moscow region, formally or informally. About half of the world's startup ecosystem is in North California. Everyone else just makes do with what remains, or moves.
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