If you're an African programmer, or even a programmer living in some country where you do have internet access but little or no local market: Please apply next time the 'who wants to be hired' thread rolls around. It's in my opinion one of the most direct ways in which HN can help you improve your situation, either by being noticed and to get hired remotely or by giving you a ticket out. Though the latter is a nice example of brain drain and evaporative cooling in action it is at the same time a very clear and direct way to get you into a substantially different situation. What you do if/when you get employed is up to you, I know plenty of stories of people that went abroad, made some money and then somehow found a way to leverage that into improving the situation for a whole slew of people back home. So I'm not adverse to this at all, in fact I think it is a good thing, it sure beats being unemployed.
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If you're an African programmer, or even a programmer living in some country where you do have internet access but little or no local market: Please apply next time the 'who wants to be hired' thread rolls around. It's in my opinion one of the most direct ways in which HN can help you improve your situation, either by being noticed and to get hired remotely or by giving you a ticket out. Though the latter is a nice example of brain drain and evaporative cooling in action it is at the same time a very clear and direct way to get you into a substantially different situation. What you do if/when you get employed is up to you, I know plenty of stories of people that went abroad, made some money and then somehow found a way to leverage that into improving the situation for a whole slew of people back home. So I'm not adverse to this at all, in fact I think it is a good thing, it sure beats being unemployed.