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modeless 5 days ago

I once got a job from a post on my blog that hit the front page. So the value to me was enormous.

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jader201 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251

That was over 11 years ago.

I still work there.

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andreabergia 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here! I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!

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saagarjha 5 days ago | parent [-]

If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?

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andreabergia 5 days ago | parent [-]

I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it. Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.

	▲	saagarjha 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, interesting. Thanks!

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mooreds 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's amazing! Can you share more?

Did they reach out to you? What was the interview like? Was the post adjacent or directly related to the job tasks?

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anonyfox 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here. And same day from posting to interviewing even.

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leeoniya 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

same. except was an oss lib on github.