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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by tinktank on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:00PM (#39868370)
and luck.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by piterrro on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:03PM (#39869482)
People often confuse luck with persistence.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by yzydserd on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:12PM (#39869553)
And vice versa.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by zer00eyz on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:07PM (#39869509)
No.

Brains and persistence, are more important. If you're not launching dumb stuff and you keep trying at some point something sticks.

Learn from your failures, keep going after you fail, you're going to feel lucky when you do finally get a hit. Luck will have had NOTHING to do with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by hellomrsparrow on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:03PM (#39876548)
What do you mean by "If you're not launching dumb stuff"? "...and you keep trying at some point something sticks" this part makes sense to me
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Re:Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for th... by butwho on Monday April 01, 2024 @11:08AM (#39894935)
This is something people oblivious to their lucky breaks keep saying to themselves.

>you're going to feel lucky when you do finally get a hit.

Yes, because if I try something for 15 times and only 1 time succeed it is not my skills that worked, otherwise they would have worked the first time, it is pure luck. So I feel lucky because I am.

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