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

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  • bibanon

    The Bibliotheca Anonoma: A wikified library of the internet's treasures. Researching Something Awful, 2channel, 4chan, and other imageboard/textboard communities.

  • This reminds me of this old crazy internet legend about a guy who accidentally ended up in a position where the company he worked for literally forgot about him while still paying him. It's a rather long story but totally worth it:

    https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/blob/master/Stories/Ameri...

  • elasticsearch-mapper-attachments

    Discontinued Mapper Attachments Type plugin for Elasticsearch

  • - Bonus points for lots of unnecessary, buzz-heavy text that does not give any further indication of what the product/service offers.

    Just look for any remote developer job via linkedin or any other place recruiters frequent and just invert what seems to be a "good" job and look for that instead. Approach it with your current attitude (maybe not in the actual interview) and assume that you probably won't even want to add it to your resume.

    I think you won't have any problem finding a role where you can get away with this: how it will affect your mental health is another question, but that's for you to find out. If you ever want to bail out, you can just drop it and fill this gap period with something else in your resume, like whatever hobbies you were busy with.

    For the record, I think the incredulity in some of these responses is pretty hilarious. 99,9 % of companies do not care about your well being as a person, by choosing this attitude you're really just treating them the way they are already treating you: a disposable business partner that will be removed from the equation as soon as they are no longer beneficial for you.

    [1]: https://www.elastic.co/

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  • thegreatsuspender

    A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

  • > In today's world, I have yet to see something which is not monetizable.

    This is the attitude that causes people like the author of The Great Suspender to sell out and betray the trust of everyone.

    https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

    I believe that uBlock Origin fundamentally cannot be monetized without violating the spirit of the extension itself. It's meant to fight back against predatory monetization practices. We can only hope that gorhill will never believe the mantra that anything can be monetized if you just put your mind to it.

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