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Programming wasn't even my original plan.

I went to school to be a geneticist. First year of college, I sign up for classes as a nerd and see "Intro to Video Game Programming" and pick it of course. Starts out in Game Maker, but halfway thru the year they switch to show the code being generated, and it was like a magic moment for me where I was like "holy shit I want to do more of this". Moved over to coding and never looked back.

What would my Plan B be now? No idea. I feel like I could pick up a variety of different corporate professions like sales or marketing or something in a short enough time to not screw myself over. But nothing sticks out in my mind.

The “Fashion: Colorized” image had me rolling. I have to imagine they knew what they were doing haha

When I first compared Spotify/YT Premium (Google Music at the time):

- Relatively similar offerings of music, at least when it came to my tastes. I have a wide variety and some weird stuff in there, but both worked for me to find whatever I thought of.

- Relatively similar price ($10 Spotify vs $12 YT), so I knew I needed at least some extra value from YT to justify

- YT Premium not only gives me YT Music, but also HASSLE FREE ad-free YT. What I mean is -- I don't have to manage extensions for web youtube and apps for Android or iOS or using NextDNS or a pihole or something just to get "ad free" from YT. It just works. Not having ads, and not having to CARE is a big value add for me. This alone is well worth $2 a month just in the time it saves me dealing with it.

- YT Premium USED to be Google Music, which I loved the UI of way more than Spotify. I am still VERY upset at YT Music since it's objectively worse than Google Music in every way, but it's still the same goddamn company

- AT THE TIME, I was having serious issues getting Spotify to play music from cache. Even if I cached, it would still default to streaming it as long as I had data. This resulted in huge data usage each month. I am SURE this is fixed by now. But this went into the calculus for me at the time.

Would I move over to Spotify? I think the things that would push me back would be an increase in YT price, a further degradation in YT Music UX, some new killer feature Spotify has/gets (podcasts aren't my thing)

This was a VERY long answer which can TLDR to "Having ad-free YouTube + Music all at once for $2 more was well worth not having to give a crap about all the infrastructure needed to block ads across all my devices forever."

…why? Sorry I’m not being flippant here I mean it. Why would this be okay? What is the reason that I would want someone to be able to intentionally take advantage of me as a person in a way that benefits them but not me when I have no personal connection to them?

Moreover, why would I let a corporation or other business do that?

Im genuinely curious where your thinking is at with this and hope you’ll elaborate beyond this short reply you gave.

Once you have enough karma (I forget the threshold several hundred but less than 1000) the downvote button is available to you yes.

I have a vive, and my lighthouses are on collapsible tripods that sit in corners of my living room when i'm playing. Takes ~5 min of time to set both up, point them in the right direction, and setup room boundaries in Steam. Works really well, if you prefer to do it that way! I think I would still prefer inside-out tracking, but I have very specific reasons for only using the Vive, so that's what I'm stuck with. I think it's a problem that can easily be overcome if you're interested in this headset, without having to drill holes into walls! It's definitely an extra expense though.

However, if their whole goal was "smallest lightest headset" then you can't really blame them for removing every single piece of tech from the headset they possibly could and outsourcing it to another device to maintain that claim. The right call? I dunno. But if this headset can be a drop-in replacement for my Vive one, I will buy the hell out of that. It's a strict upgrade for me with basically no extra expenditure of effort/money beyond the cost of the headset.

To each their own though!

Super simplified: Firing is when the reason for the employee leaving is their fault. Layoff is when it's "the employers fault" (e.g. overstaffing etc).

That said, this article gives zero indication this is a firing, so I expect that your parent's comment is someone who is salty at Twilio and wants to make this sound "more vicious" -- 'firing' someone is a harsher sound than 'laying them off'. Plus, there's VERY few examples ever of significant staff cuts happened with _firings_. That would imply that 17% of Twilio did something so egregious at work that they got fired all simultaneously, which, like...how?

a $1B high-yield (3.5%) savings account yields $35,000,000. Sounds like plenty to operate what is essentially a shell company plus app for managing monopoly money :)

Middle square. ;)

  - Comments about how this is a good thing and bravo to the CEO for actually taking accountability  
  - Replies saying how it's never enough and the CEO should be fired for doing something as stupid as hiring people during an economic boom  
  - Comments off ^^^ talking about how much net worth the CEO has based on stock that he hasn't liquidated, and how much he made off this temporary stock bump from cutting "cruft"  
  - Comments questioning why <Company> needs # employees to do <overly-reductive description of their product>  
  - Comments pointing out that they still have more employees than pre-covid  
  - Comments assuming that every person laid off was an engineer because why would a tech company hire anything else.  
  - Comments off of ^^^ talking about how it's a rough time to be job hunting despite the massive labor shortages in many sectors including tech  
  - Comments about how stupid the demonym for the employees was/is

I filled out my bingo card. Anyone else?

EDIT: I always get HN list formatting wrong.

Nah, techno SORCERERS need high CHA. Mages and Wizards use INT. Priests use WIS (something something coding holy wars).

> the high tech industry

I know you didn't mean it this way, but my morning brain read "high tech industry" as a "high elf vs regular elf" thing and it made it sound pretty funny. I could totally see some sector of tech considering itself the "high tech industry".

He is absolutely not considered a genius and it’s extremely damning to this article to include him in this list. He’s one of those people who knows a good amount about one topic and then waxed eloquently wrong bullshit about every other topic under the sun while peddling to the internet for fame. His day is long past at this point especially IMO after he was deeply involved in a kickstarter scam.

This article kicked its own bucket in the first two sentences. What a joke.

I lost passion for _programming_. More recent career situations have led me to the conclusion that I simply cared _too much_ about my work, and it was causing me stress and honestly causing some personality issues too.

I didn't lose my _passion_ though. I just redirected it. I've taken up woodworking, I've learned a ton about 3D printing and CAD, and my wife and I have our eye on getting a laser printer soon. I've travelled a bit more too, and have learned more about home ownership/improvement than I ever thought I would enjoy (turns out I do enjoy it!). I've started learning more about finance and economics, and took a random dive one weekend into geography so that I could try making a realistic D&D world map that took into account naturally forming rivers, coastlines, mountain ranges, etc.

On top of all that, I have a newborn daughter now and get to pour my passion for all of these things and more towards her as she grows, and getting to learn what it means to be a parent and how to do it better than my parents did (they did a fine job; but isn't it always good to improve?).

I think oftentimes this passionless burnout comes, like it did for me, from attaching too much personal worth to one single topic. May be different for others though.

As someone missing a thumb, I messaged her asking to buy one as well to try and see if it could be assistive. Never got a reply, so I emailed the researchers she worked with, and they said that she holds all rights to the design so they are unable to provide me even with plans to build my own, and I would have to get her permission/access to it.

Overall it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. It's been like 7+ years since it was first advertised by her and still nothing but PR and no attempt to interact with anyone who might NEED one, let alone those who WANT one.

Go look up the DJI Mini 2. <700 for drone plus accessory kit. 4k video with 30min battery life all flown from your controller and phone. It’s mind blowing.

Would you mind linking to the RPG systems you've written lately? I would love to play some new ones with friends from someone who knows what they're doing.

Jack Samuel Altman-Fried?

Sam Altman, Jack Dorsey, Jack Altman... If I see a tech CEO named 'Sam Dorsey' I'm going to assume I'm living in a badly-written simulation.

They only play out awkwardly because one or both of the participants don't remember the rules.

And yes, I agree with the inexcusable example you gave -- it's like the person who stops dead to let some car left turn through traffic. "Oh they've been waiting a while and I'm not in a hurry today I'll be a nice person" Yeah that's great for you but you just caused a damn traffic jam behind you and maybe someone behind you WAS in a rush. You just inconvenienced upwards of a dozen+ people to help one person. You were a net loss on society's progress in that moment.

There’s literally rules about this That we were all (hopefully) taught in drivers ed. in the case of 2 drivers reaching a 4 way stop at the same time the driver on the right goes first. If the two are across from each other then in most cases there is no conflict. In the case of them turning towards the same lane, then right turns have precedence over left turns.

I’d just like to say that “I did some crash testing in a previous life” makes it sound like maybe you were on the receiving end of it. :D

"no it's okay I just brought my laptop to take notes, just like the other 45 engineers in this meeting."

Depending on where you are, questions 1 and 3 are just straight up illegal. No interviewer in the US would dare ask about vices or your family situation unless they don’t mind shelling out lawsuit settlements to everyone they interview and decline to hire.

So this is referenced in a way (tailored for 5d week) in CGP Grays video:

https://youtu.be/ALaTm6VzTBw

I actually did this for a couple months with permission from my boss. It went well, but at the end of it I was talking with my SO and they said that it was nice but they also rarely got to see me. They worked on Wednesday and I didn’t, and I worked on Saturday and they didn’t so we basically only saw each other on Sunday.

Just my 2c. If I was single I would almost certainly work Weekend Wednesday.

Thanks as always dang!

Maybe “Part 3 of Coffeezilla investigating Logan Paul Crypto debacle”? Maybe too long but something like that

Coffeezilla is an amazing youtuber and deserves all the attention he can get. A really damn fine investigative journalist going after people and holding them accountable.

If you want to see the entire trilogy for this Logan Paul Saga:

    - Part One:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=386p68_lDHA
    - Part Two:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzyDg40-yw
    - Part Three is TFA

Highly HIGHLY recommend watching more of his stuff. He's had great quality videos for years now, and deserves a moment to check out.

it very clearly says "youtube.com" for the source, not sure why you also need [video] for that? Also is it HN policy to edit titles from the source even if they are clickbait? Genuine question. As much as I love Coffeezilla, it's definitely a more clickbaity title thanks to the YT algo.

Save you 5-10 min of reading:

The movie is "It's A Wonderful Life", and it became classic because they didn't renew the copyright and the movie entered public domain at which point everyone started playing it all the time, INCLUDING christmas, because it was free to do.

That was a long goddamn article to make that single point. Sheesh.

Yeah agreed. This is like a post equivalent to reddit comments. I don't want a new post high on the feed every time some famous person leaves twitter.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This pretty squarely does NOT fall under "On-Topic". The only reason it's even being upvoted is because it has "PG" in the title. if it were like, Kanye West, we wouldn't even have it _submitted_, let alone upvoted here.

EDIT: formatting.