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I am autistic and doesn't detect irony very well, but if you ask sincerely I can tell you that I at least use it for inspiration on interior design.

There are really good stuff for that, like opiates and benzodiazipines.

Why? You will not experience it. What negative is it if there is nothing? Was it scary before you where born?

I have been in the same boat and this is a realization that pretty much cured me:

Fear of death is not rational. There is nothing like "being dead" more than there is anything like "not being born". Our anxiety of our mortality is just a cruel evolutionary accident. Feeling scared when facing possible death is an evolutionary function for making animals avoid dangers. Unfortunately for humans we got a brain that can simulate the future very well, and we can understand that we will die. These two generates our fear of death. Again, the fear we feel is not based in anything rational, since we will never experience being dead.

> ChatGPT doesn't do much for experienced SWEs, but it demolishes the difficulty curve for newbies. I wish I had this when I was learning.

Yes and no. It doesn't help me that much with technologies that I'm senior within, but it has allowed me to work with a wider tech-stack. For example, I can now confidently write any SQL querys I want (so far anyway) although my prior knowledge in SQL isn't that deep.

I’m neither a AR/VR enthusiast nor an Apple fanboy. Still, after looking at the presentation when Vision Pro was shown and reading about it I truly think the world will be obsessed by these devices. People will be even more addicted to it than they already are with the smartphones.

Perhaps removing Slack. What a feeling to never have to be online constantly from 8-5 so no one will think I’m not working.

What is stopping you from moving out in the wilderness if you think it's the best way to get truly happy?

Great name

What works for me is to just ask everyone for everything that is not great with my code and really encourage them not to hold back. By doing it this way I get a lot of great feedback, and it gets less dramatic somehow. If people can sense that you can't take this kind of feedback they will behave differently and you might pick up that they are unconfortable, making you feel like you suck even more :D Good luck

What is a pigeon doing at 2000 meters altitude?

I’m including VAT in the calculation, and simplifies a bit by viewing the rest as salary.

We can actually be certain that humans work the other way since we ran huge experiments in labs called the Soviet Union and China. In those experiments we found out that people worked way less/not at all when there was no economic incentive to do so.

I’m still a high earner so I’m fine. I still have approximately $7500/month after my taxes are paid. That’s a lot since all medical care, 1 year parental leave, my kids education from kindergarten through high school etc are “free”, e.g. paid with my taxes.

My point was not to complain but to say to the guy that claims that we need a new system with more wealth distribution that those systems already exist. There are a limit though to how high you can tax someone before they stop producing.

What you and other students of Karl Marx always ignore is the fact that if company owners was not allowed to earn profit then there would be no companies founded, meaning that the workers would not have jobs.

I don’t know what country you live in, but I can tell you how it is in Sweden. As a freelancer I pay appropriately 70% of what I charge in taxes. How high do you think taxes can get before people stop putting energy into raising their productivity?

Report from Sweden, I'm receiving multiple spam calls per week from UK. WTF is up with this?

What does that mean?

I have been developing with React/Node for 7+ years now and I have started to look for something else. Perhaps this would be something to try. I'm specialized in developing web portals/backoffice systems, would this be suitable for this? What limitations are there?

Thanks a lot for your advice, I will discuss it with my partner ASAP. Good luck to you too:)

Since the start of the summer I have been building a SaaS for companies doing inspections and maintenance on separators, a certain kind of device for cleaning water used in gas stations, restaurants, garages etc.

I have been dreaming of living on my own product since I started as a developer 10 years ago and tried a lot of different ideas out but it just wasn't happening. When I found out that my girlfriend was pregnant with twins in spring 2022 there was this now or never moment. I thought there would never again be enough time available in my life to do something like that. I decided to quit my job to put a gun against my head. Then I contacted hundreds of people on LinkedIn and other places asking them if they had an idea on a product to build. One guy responded telling me about how far behind in digitalization his industry is and that we could potentially do something here. I went with it and have been building it since.

As the product starts to mature we have showed it to potential customers and the response has been amazing. We have been promised around $8000 / month from 8-9 companies as soon as we finish a couple of more features and we estimate that there are at least 100 potential customers in our country.

This autumn has been so intense since I'm doing this while doing 40h/week consultation do get money plus having 2 newborn kids at home. I feel very lucky though that I finally got an opportunity to go all in on my own product.

One thing I have learned: There are so many software developers with both the skills and drive to create a business, but what is super hard is to just come up with an idea. The key is to connect with people outside of our community. The whole world is waiting to be digitalized and our skills are in short supply. The further away from the normal dev community you go, the less crowded will it be and the easier for you to find an opportunity to add value.

What did your treatment look like?

Thx

Anyone with a link to the full email?

What happens if Musk loses? Will he be forced to buy the company, or just to pay a huge fine?

I'm sure many of them are excited to get a chance to work for him.

Good point.

How about you take a couple of months off and chill? Perhaps you come up with an idea on something new that you could dive into again.

> If Musk thinks Twitter is that valuable to take such risks, current major investors will probably want to unlock that value themselves.

Elon is known for doing the impossible once he puts his head to it. Maybe he can promote the conviction that only he can turn the company around.

Don't you think he would lose a lot of reputation in future deals like this? I wouldn't trust him.