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by TekMol 966 days ago
I'm eating. I have always been able to eat.

Never did I have to take a job for that.

In the beginning, that was the main point of Hacker News. How to build stuff yourself, in a better, more efficient way than the old school "work for the man" approach. Roll up your sleeves, leave the beaten track and achieve higher efficiency than the mainstream.

It was called "Startup News" back then. Then PG renamed it to "Hacker News" because he wanted it to be more focussed on amazing things than just building startups.

Looking for a job in a big company seems to be 180° into the other direction to me.
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thaumaturgy 966 days ago
You might prefer this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101613, or this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38107078, or this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38082938, among others, all currently on the front page. There's really no need to make this particular thread the one that you think most epitomizes the decline of HN.

HN's always been a mix of interests, what with it being a website frequented by a mix of people and all.

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satvikpendem 966 days ago
> I'm eating. I have always been able to eat. Never did I have to take a job for that.

How? Do you farm for yourself on your own land?

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reaperman 966 days ago
Yeah...I've occasionally not had paying work and I was not eating for long stretches of those times due to lack of money.
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satvikpendem 966 days ago
You were not eating, literally speaking? Or just eating fewer calories?
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reaperman 966 days ago
Both. Low calories most days and sometimes 1-3 days without food. Went from 200 lbs to 150 lbs in about 3 months.
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Tade0 966 days ago
The intellectually stimulating part is in the comments (which is typical really).

Any discussion about PHP is actually, since the language occupies the most tragic of niches: "very productive and with a low barrier to entry, but badly paid".

A while ago I did a side gig in PHP - it was surprisingly easy to get back to it after more than a 10 year break and I made it worth for me, but my client was not used to such rates.

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