Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by geezerjay on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:44PM (#18132689)

> Aren't young people allowed to, well, be young though?

Working all-nighters to the point your health starts to suffer is not being young. It's exploitation the likes of which the chapters on the industrial revolution warn us about.

More importantly, we as a society should actively discourage this sort of abuse. It makes no sense to let our health waste away just because a manager wants to boast about a target or a deadline.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by sincerely on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:10PM (#18132999)

If I'm pulling an all-nighter coding, it's sure as hell going to be on my own project. I think that's the context of the convo

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by SZJX on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:35AM (#18159886)

The OP wrote:

> "coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make somebody else five figures a week"

which makes no sense. Of course if one ever codes outside of the day job one should code for their own project, but that's not what the OP was suggesting.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by sincerely on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:38PM (#18197915)

Oh, I must have missed that. My apologies :)

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