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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real wor... on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:11AM (#46478272)
Won't they be on the hook if there is a breach?
Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real wor... on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:05AM (#46478192)
How to do the transition? Do we need some certs? Won't we be on the hook if there is a breach in the company?

Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

Posted by makemethrowaway on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Same as the popular question from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721951 I'm asking again as a lot has changed in the past few years especially w.r.t LLMs, coding agents etc.copy pasting from the op: "I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible."- I really don't care about the product I work on. I just want to do some task/project and...

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Re:Jank Lang Hit Alpha on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:39PM (#46468518)
Accompanying book: https://book.jank-lang.org/
Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:11PM (#46048754)
It may not phone home now, but it can do it tomorrow, or it can in be enabled and immediately disabled in some minor releases. Even if people didn't catch those shenanigans immediately it will be evident from the commit history. I'd say opensource forces certain discipline.

Also there is point of rugpull, or the product is getting cancelled. Few people will step up to maintain it; atleast until most users migrate to a different product.

Re:Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:06PM (#45647104)
Is there any beam language that has regular 'for','while' loops and good OTP support?
Re:Ask HN: In need of mentorship, career&life advice on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:20PM (#42630535)
I really appreciate it.Thanks.

Ask HN: In need of mentorship, career&life advice

Posted by makemethrowaway on Monday January 06, 2025 @03:11PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have ~6 years of experience as a C/C++ developer but no expertise in any niche. My current work is mostly uninteresting - adding minor features and bug fixes on a legacy codebase. I feel stagnant and depressed. Should I learn Rust, Go, or another language to switch domains? How do I overcome my lack of experience in other areas? I'm looking for a job change but see very few remote...

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Re:Ask HN: Career Advice for the Confused on Friday December 27, 2024 @08:17PM (#42527686)
Should I target native mobile(swift,kotlin) or something like react native, flutter etc

Ask HN: Career Advice for the Confused

Posted by makemethrowaway on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @12:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have ~6 years of experience as a C/C++ developer but no expertise in any niche. My current work is mostly uninteresting - adding minor features and bug fixes on a legacy codebase. I feel stagnant and depressed.Should I learn Rust, Go, or another language to switch domains? How do I overcome my lack of experience in other areas? I'm looking for a job change but see very few remote...

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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:48PM (#33440999)
Should I move away from c++ ? Anyone has done this? Everytime I try to do this I get dropped citing I lack "professional" webdev experience. Thanks in advance.