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Ask HN: Best things happened to you just because of HN?

12 points by introvertmac ↗ HN
I got my current job because of HN. One of my posts got featured on the front page(https://introvertmac.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/list-of-y-combinator-companies-i-have-hacked/) last year, and my current CEO contacted me after that. Do you have a similar story? Just curious!

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keviv
I just started freelancing and a lot of people contacted me after seeing my comments on various discussions on HN. They usually go through my blog where I've mentioned about all the XSS vulnerabilities I found in various Indian sites. These posts are very old but still validates my experience and my skills.

Indirectly, a lot of good things have happened to me because of HN as well. Things change very quickly in tech space. Yesterday's anti-patterns are today's best practises and best practises of today will become tomorrow's anti-patterns. I owe a lot to HN which keeps me updated with ever changing tech ecosystem. Being a full-stack developer, I've to keep up with both frontend and backend changes happening everyday. Without HN, I'd not have found out lots of things for sure.

bbcbasic
> Yesterday's anti-patterns are today's best practises and best practises of today will become tomorrow's anti-patterns

I'm not sure where you are getting this information, but I'd ignore the labelling of things as best practice and anti-pattern and delve deeper into the reason why some design is a bad fit or good fit for the problem you are trying to solve.

A made up example to illustrate:

It may be seen as an anti-pattern to have a site that requires JS and cannot function without it. Tim Burners Lee would not be impressed with you.

On the other hand if you are developing a paid-for web app and you know the users are happy to have JS enabled to use it then this may be less of an issue.

happycodework
4 real examples to validate op

    Goto considered harmful
    Jquery .show ()/.hide () is now biggest performance drain in some SPAS
    Node callbacks now harmful, async/await or promises could be next... possibly
    React is so slow it cannot render > 10 fps for some SPA
bbcbasic
Ha! These things prove my point.

"considered" "promises could be next..." ... think for yourselves! don't let Mr/Mrs famous blogger dictate how you solve problems.

nicomfe
got my first remote freelance project thanks to HN and one of those who is hiring posts!
pryelluw
Got Jobs, contracts, and most importantly, friends. I've met lots of great people by just sending them a simple email. This community is amazing.
sumitjami
Found a job listing on who is hiring. Was the only way I could find one in my "branch" of tech. Was glad that I applied, and finally got the job.

The whole experience was really amazing.

Thank you HN.

yolesaber
I also got a job off a Who's Hiring post! Thanks HN!
cdvonstinkpot
I crowdsourced a logo design on Crowdspring, which supposedly had procedures in place to prevent plagarism. Resulting from posting a new project here, someone who looked was able to tell my logo had been stolen from a company halfway across the world from me- local to this user, but unknown to me. I wouldn't have known & could have run into legal issues down the road had I kept using it.

Unfortunately Crowdspring ruled it wasn't a refundable issue, so I lost around ~$4k on a design I can't trademark. Would be nice to be able to do something about that, but I currently lack the resources necessary to persue it legally.

ZeroFries
I also got my current job, by posting in the "Who is hiring?" thread.
ud0
Got both my first remote gig outside my country() and also a fulltime Job. I'll be traveling to Europe in a bit.
partisan
It opened my mind and then fed it such that I was able to strike out on entrepreneurial ventures that I would not have otherwise undertaken.