purplejumpycows

Ask HN: How to ask for an infosec mentor

Posted by purplejumpycows on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:51AM
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Having been a programmer for around 26 years now. I recently had an illness which also affected my memory and other mental faculties, to the point I cannot concentrate well enough or hold information long enough to be useful as a programmer.What I would like to do is go back to my first love, that of reverse engineering. I have been advised to undertake a path or relearning, especially with...

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Ask HN: Have you ever lost your confidence?

Posted by purplejumpycows on Sunday May 22, 2016 @12:11PM
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Have you ever lost your confidence to to point you could no longer perform your professional duties?If so how did you deal with it/overcome it?

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Re:Ask HN: What to learn with 8-16 weeks of recuperation on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:24PM (#11398870)

You've reminded me I always had it in my mind to learn Lisp, I've spent 25+ years in C and Assembly land. Recuperation time down to not being able to breathe properly, collapsed lung, pneumonia, etc.

Re:Ask HN: What to learn with 8-16 weeks of recuperation on Thursday March 31, 2016 @11:35AM (#11397927)

Thanks for all the replies so far, very interesting. Just to add, I'm just wondering what others on HN would do, I've no idea yet what to do, but from Monday I'll need to do something , or I'll go mad :)

Ask HN: What to learn with 8-16 weeks of recuperation

Posted by purplejumpycows on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I will have between 8-16 weeks of recuperation from a recent illness, there are no financial worries, therefore I would just like to ask you, what would you learn if you had this amount of free time?

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