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Ask HN: How to overcome the feeling that everything has already been done?

I remember clearly that when I first built a "site" in Front Page (maybe in '98) I thought to myself: "ONCE I REALLY LEARN THIS I CAN DO ANYTHING!!!111".15 years later and I'm a web developer with a lot of free time looking for any opportunities, and I just can't get myself to build anything, because every single idea seems to be already done.I know people used to say this decades ago, and I...

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Re:KeePass – questionable security on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:46PM (#9727496)
what is the problem with the singleton?
Re:Google Tone on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:35AM (#9576574)
Is there something like this that can transfer to a Android device? I found Chirp, but the app requires way too many permissions.
Re:ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf] on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @08:28AM (#9575824)
From Wikipedia: 'The 2015 World Finals are being held in Marrakesh (Morocco) during May 16-21, hosted by Mohammed the Fifth University, Al Akhawayn University and Mundiapolis University. Final competition will be on May 20th. 128 teams are competing to be World Champion.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Pr...

sure, you can use it properly, but what I see most of the time is a generic "[passionate/awesome/etc.] developer"
write some code, destroy the office, drink some coffee, do a little debugging, bite a pigeons head off, deploy
thanks for the link!
yes! I just did this today and it works very well
haha I forgot about the 'rockstar', which makes even less sense than the others

Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing

- Random words to make me feel special: 'guru', 'ninja', 'hacker', etc.- Random words that adds nothing: 'professional', 'talented', 'passionate', 'awesome'. "hmm, maybe I'm not awesome enough for this position" - said nobody ever- Describing your company like it just cured AIDS (if you company actually just cured AIDS, I will allow it). I only want to know what your company _actually_ does.-...

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