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  1. Ask HN: Is shipping speed the most important metric?

    Ever since the advent of AI tools in our workflows, it became even more obvious to me how companies (and most developers) brag about how fast they can deliver value. As a career-switcher, I always considered programming…

    1 points 3
  2. Workaround-Oriented Programming (en.uncyclopedia.co)
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  3. How to practice backend engineering (lethain.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Ask HN: Listing unrelated work experience on the CV

    I'm 40 years old and I worked lots of jobs before I turned into a software developer last year. I only have 1.5 years of software development experience. However, whenever I try to mention my older work experience…

    4 points 4
  5. Ask HN: How can I learn from an existing codebase?

    I have the opportunity to learn backend by studying a codebase of an abandoned project. It's a company project, and I asked the devs who made it to make sure that I'm not doing something they don't want me to do.…

    3 points 3
  6. Ask HN: Is speed of delivery the most important metric in productivity?

    I'm fairly new to the field and relatively late to the party (because I'm old), but a recurring theme that I'm noticing in my current company (which is a small startup) is how the faster you deliver the better you look…

    3 points 2
  7. Ask HN: What is the proper way get into back end development?

    Side note: I'm currently working as a frontend developer, but I want my career to take a trajectory that leans towards backend. My personal choice of language/framework right now is Python with Django. I'm aware that…

    3 points 8
  8. Ask HN: Want to change from front end to back end. Resources?

    I'm currently working as a frontend engineer for a small agency (mostly using React and TypeScript). As much as I like the place, I want to grow my career towards backend, which is something they don't do. For this…

    1 points 0
  9. Ask HN: I just got my first job and I need to learn faster and better

    A little background: Self-taught web developer, hired to work with both frontend and backend code. This is my first software development job. My problem is, I'm slow to pick the technologies needed to start working on…

    40 points 35
  10. Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?

    This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hire…

    117 points 123
  11. Ask HN: What kind of projects make a junior candidate stand out from the rest?

    As a self-taught I'm getting the impression that, while I'm learning the basics following tutorials, FreeCodeCamp, the Odin Project etc. there's no one calling me back for interviews, and the cause for that is the type…

    59 points 69
  12. Ask HN: What's the best Linux distro for fullstack development?

    I've been learning React with TypeScript on my Windows 10 desktop but I have some new needs: 1) To become more familiar with Linux and 2) My desktop doesn't meet the Windows 11 requirements. So my choice was to either…

    9 points 19