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Re:Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish? by roversoccer18 on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:40PM (#2324627)
Big scale: Trying to move out to California and work as a software engineer at a start-up or one of the big companies. I am a sophomore in college on the east coast, any advice or suggestions?

Small Scale: Become a better rock climber

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Re:Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish? by Nigate on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:37PM (#2324834)
> I am a sophomore in college on the east coast, any advice or suggestions?

Get work experience. Get a part time (student) programmer job, internship, work on open source projects. At least, that is the advice I've been given (CS student).

> Become a better rock climber

Hold on tighter? :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish? by ZackOfAllTrades on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:43PM (#2324848)
>>Become a better rock climber

>Hold on tighter?:)

...he would never get anywhere.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish? by Nigate on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:47PM (#2324868)
Touché!

Hmm.. the two (climbing and holding on tighter) aren't mutually exclusive are they? When he holds on to something, is when to hold on tighter.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish? by ZackOfAllTrades on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:36PM (#2325244)
Fact: most witty statements tend to break down when you look at them closely.
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