Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by version_five on Monday November 01, 2021 @06:31PM (#29074115)

I don't want to be hired and I also don't have any project going on.

Basically "between ideas" and desperately want to come up with something before I have to give up and get a job. It's not healthy to be idle too long.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by kennu on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:28PM (#29074745)

I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getting new ideas.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by knownjorbist on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:30AM (#29077107)

The moment it "clicked" for me was accessing an app and paying for its premium features using my wallet. I didn't sign up. I didn't provide any information about myself.

Having a wallet is effectively having a pseudonymous account to every dApp that will ever exist. Likewise, the developers don't have to store any of that information or care about auth, authorization or payments.

This obviously won't translate to everything, but it does show how some presumptions about the way the web has to work(just because it always has worked that way) are being completely turned on their head.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by hihihihi1234 on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:38PM (#29074875)

Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by nielsole on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:27PM (#29076175)

When did web 3.0 stop being synonymous with semantic web? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by jazzyjackson on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:23AM (#29078073)

Since when was the semantic web a thing? Metamask exists and people use it, I think it wins the 3.0 designation.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by knownjorbist on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:27AM (#29077091)

Some jumping off points:

https://web3.foundation/

https://dci.mit.edu/decentralizedweb

https://berkeley-defi.github.io/f21

Find a DAO aligned with something you like. Join their discord and get engaged. It's really the wild west right now.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by tienthanh8490 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:26AM (#29159437)

The Berkeley course is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing this.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by kennu on Monday November 01, 2021 @08:34PM (#29075340)

Reading this conceptual overview was what made me excited today. I knew all the basics but it was nice that someone put them all together. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by lynx234 on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:11PM (#29076486)

I agree with what another commenter said about getting some money and trying it out for yourself.

I'd add on though to try out some DeFi protocols as well. Using things like DEXs, lending protocols, and yield farms. Experience is the best way to learn for sure.

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Re:Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) by throwaway98797 on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:42PM (#29075818)

Best way to grok crypto is to try it.

Buy $500 worth of ether. Download metamask. Login to opensea. Buy a cheap NFT.

Look at it as an education budget.

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