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Yep it feels good to be disengaged from all that stuff. Personally it's about the hobbies, and forcing myself away from screens into nature. I enjoy sports so i'll get outside and play. Also fishing is a great one. Peace, quiet, nature. Plus you are focused on fishing. But also just getting outside is amazing. It feels great hearing the birds etc.

Yup. I think this dude has earthbound playing on the video screen at his shows. He aint lying about listening to video game music!

Good points. I think if you are living a bachelor life, with a good tech gig paying six figures, yes you can get there by 40. If you max out retirement accts, live a decently modest lifestyle, have no debt. I bet you could hit 1million, if you are working from age 22-40.

Good opinions here. I worked at very early stage startup, and our huge competitors with 1 billion worth of funding were stealing our shit from day 1. Thankfully, we didnt spec out a nice API and all that shit because we were in startup mode. That makes it a bit harder to copy things our stuff because it was a huge pile of undocumented software and data.

I think that is just life in tech now. You put out a 'feature' in your app that is new and cool. Two weeks later the same feature shows up in your competitors app.

In our case, always better to be ahead of the curve. You've got a small team with 20 folks who are putting pressure on the 100 person teams at these giant companies.

I think there is a difference because python doesnt require a web browser to run. People are just running programs with no web UI or webserver etc... If you really wanted, you could pipe your debug prints to a file and load in a browser if that is what you want :p

Even then, some of my friends are rich buttholes who somehow manage to take many huge trips each year. International, snowboarding multiple times (denver, canada etc).

It doesnt bother me much, but I sometimes feel bad for my wife. She seems everyone doing fun shit on instagram and she is stuck at home. We cant afford to drop 10k+ a year on trips. We get one or two a year which is enough for me.

The thing is when we go on these trips, we just enjoy each other. We take pictures, but we arent fucking posing for instagram 20 times a day. We take pictures to remember the moment together, and to share them with our family in the future.

Yeah, i am like a social media hermit but doing fine in life. I kind of lucked out finding a wife whom I love. I care about her more than anyone in the world. I have 10 or so really close friends that i dont keep in touch with much. However when we see each other face to face (every month or so) it feels as good as ever. I dont feel left out because i'm not looking at their social media posts...

I got my own shit goin own. Thankfully i've been able to separate myself from everything. I dont think that is as 'easy' for younger folks. However, there are always going to be punkers and alt kids right? I'm sure there are some youths who dont live their lives on social media.

There have always been fads that the cool kids do. That is never going to change. You dont have to have a cool presence online.

Yeah I think you are right about shaving costs. From the business perspective, you shave off 5 cents, times 10 million sales.. you got some serious $$$ there

brilliant, does this work? It makes sense, great little hack

Scenic route is definitely enjoyed especially in todays society. Even better if you are a little bit fucked up on drugs and traveling safely (train, passenger etc).

I just want to see what she named her jupyter notebook. 'black_hole_v4_new_FINAL.ipynb'

On the opposite side of this argument. I was there. I was shit in college but managed a degree and self taught programming. I was hustling hard to graduate and convince someone to hire me as a programmer even though I had no degree. I was 23 at the time.

If you are in this scenario, just you, no wife kids etc. What is wrong with working really hard on a problem? I loved the startup and it fit my perfect niche. I would grind 12 hours days, but also had lots of freedom. Remote work, unlimited days off etc. Sure at sometimes you get burnt out but you are a sponge soaking up everything you can.

now i'm 28 with wife and kids, no overtime for me. I still work extremely hard and lazer focused, but i show up at 7:30-8am and leave at 4 everyday :p

Interesting... i'm in a similar space where I found a decent startup, grinded for a year or two... and have pretty much been riding a gravy train ever since. In the midwest, making 100k in my late 20s and going full time remote soon. we got bought up by some corporate shmos as well so got a pretty penny in stock options

I do this twice a day at work, if weather is nice i will take a 10 min walk to reset myself. I like to close out all my fuckin tabs, take stock of WTF happened in the first hours of work, then refocus path. A 10 min walk helps refresh things. Typically go out after about 1.5 to 2 hours of time at the desk.

Just popping in to say i believe the Equifax hack was also do to a 'bad manual deployment' similar to this. They had a number of servers but they didnt patch one of the servers in their system. Hackers were able to find this one server with outdated and vulnerable software and took advantage of it.

I think deploys get better with time, but that initial blast of software development at a startup is insane. You literally need to do whatever it takes to get your shit running. Some of these details dont matter because initially you have no users. But if your company survives for a couple years and builds a user base, you still have the same shitty code and practices from early times.

this is great, thanks for sharing. It's funny hearing the stories of when these legends were just research geeks in college labs.

yeah good for you, many of us never even got into it to begin with. I will say my job got me a macbook pro (after decades of windows usage and hackage) and this bitch is still kicking ass 5 years later. Big ups for the laptop. iPhone, who gives a shit it's a phone. Some people are super into it, i'm like dude i dont fucking care about the screen, the camera, the unlocking your face with a picture. If think all that jazz is worth $800+ be my guest.

same thoughts here. I mean i appreciate the article and write up. My big skill is openness, communication, honesty. I have worked with many brilliant nerds who cant stay focused and literally contribute jack shit to major projects. They probably make the most $$ too.

I dont care how good your program or app is. If you cant talk like a normal person, accept criticism, negotiate etc. You are going to suck. The best co-workers i have are able to combine both the CS tech knowledge with other skills like good estimation, honest and open communication, clear planning and execution etc.

You can just tell in my opinion. Start workign with someone on a project for an hour and you can tell if they are a nerd without focus who spends weeks doing useless shit, or someone who will seriously contribute to your team and help get shit done.

I understand how existing legacy companies would use Oracle db but are any new companies out there adopting oracle software? Is there some wave of startups that pretend it is 1980 buying licenses for database tech?

Good for you! Scrappy young me fresh out of college was willing to do anything. I wasnt a CS student, self taught coder. I grinded HARD for a couple years. But hey you are a 23 year old smelly dude with long hair. Nobody likes you anyways. Might as well work a lot on things you love!

Now at 28, I would still say experience was worth it. However again im' not the CS degree 4.0 straight to FAANG guy who can make 100/yr (or whatever it is) straight from college. I had to hustle a bit to gain the codebro skillz & then find a job. I didnt have FAANG kissing my ass to pay me out the wazoo to 'change the world' with 'machine learning and AI'. News flash, yall are just selling shit , you aint changing the world. You just make really large paychecks and get pampered :p

I'm not entirely sure on the details. Some similar companies were getting bought for hundreds of millions, ours was only an 8 figure deal, not 9 figures haha.

we went through multiple rounds of funding so shares got diluted...However we fucking made it , which is nuts.

We actually got a bigger bonus as part of the acquisition, just not technically stock options. My total comp after the take-over is roughly 120k (pretax).

For my situation , it was pretty amazing. I'm not on the standard path of CS degree + working at FAANG. I'm a DIY-er , self taught. Given where I am now, 23 year old self would be fucking amazed. We built and sold a digital company from nothing to some mega corporate suit bros worth billions of dollars!

I started off as a wee-lad fresh out of college (degree in science not computer programming) so was on a 50k/yr salary and i got options too.

This is cool... I was first employee at startup who sold about 5 years later. My original stock options sheet said my shares would be worth a cool 1.2mil. Turns out the shares were only worth about 60k. Pretty solid , but not fuck you money. more like pay off some of wife's student debt and kickstart retirement saving money haha.

I will have to say though getting a check worth 5 figures and cashing that bitch felt great!

Yeah. interpreting wtf your 'guy' is trying to convey is half the battle. We dont do sprint planning. We listen to a madman rant for a couple hours about shit and then try to come up with some semblance of a sprint plan lol.

After a while of that I stopped caring. Just work on what they tell you , who cares if it's a sinking ship. After you try to right the ship for 5 years you stop caring as much. As long as you still get that $$ twice a month :p

I extensively watch music videos and live music performances on youtube, comments are fun to read. Not sure they are completely necessary but i've learned some interesting things and been turned on to good bands from YT comments!

I think vanilla VI (basically just modal editing in general) empowers the user enough to make it worth knowing. I'm pretty damn proficient editing code in a project (that I know granted) with hundreds of files using standard VI when i ssh to a VM or AWS machine etc. Still more proficient than people using an IDE locally without VI modal editing :p

Just wait for the vim guy who will be like "but muh java plugins make it more efficient then IntelliJ"...

I think i am more productive in an IDE, faster. Sure if you have this insane VI/EMACS setup that you have tuned for years. Good for you, you probably are a fucking wiz.

My standard right now is a terminal & IDE combo. Working in the cloud era as a data person, you need to be comfortable with terminal & vi/emacs (vi for me but whatevs) as it makes life a ton easier. I hate watching co-workers do terminal shit and write code. Seriously guys if you invest a little time into VI pretty soon you are flying around your code. People literally watch my screen and are like WTF are you doing. I feel like a surgeon with precise incisions, cuts, tweaks. Compare this to spamming down arrow 30 times and then right arrow 80 times to get to a character in your editor...

I would love to have a DS1 like journey but it's unlikely for a pokemon. Maybe a spinoff pokemon. You know how many people arrive and firelink and spends hours dying to skellies? This pokemon version would need to put level 30 pokes hanging nearby Rt. 101. And there would be some crazy backdoor route to go from starting area straight to elite 4 :p

You are right, the combat is crap, durability sucks. But the 'world' is mainly what i was referring to, the visuals and journey. Not the combat.

/uodtl is right about all of those things. I admit i never actually finished BoTW but I spent 100+ hours in it, so it was worth my money. I've seen this image on r/gaming where it shows a BoTW like panoramic view, but with your pokemans. That is what everyone wants!