high_byte

how so.?

me too, but instead of meetings it's about energy. I can sit 18 hours on the computer if I have to, but rarely can I code for 18 hours. (sometimes I can but usually it's something very exciting and non-work related)

I think most people would prefer focused work instead of more office idle time. think less days (hopefully) lead to less meetings (hopefully) lead to better time management.

for me it was 30 minutes commute for only 2 days a week, usually at least one direction was carpooling with a coworker so beyond tolerable, even enjoyable at times. but more than 1 hour while driving x5 days would be a no-no for me.

those 2 hours (actually 3+ since it's normal for 9+ hours over here) include everything from shops, sun, avoiding traffic and other things I didn't mention or think about. also allows you to plan your day differently, like working 12-6 instead of 9-3 for example. imagine waking up at 6am and only starting work at 12pm...

I guess 4 day school days wouldn't be a bad idea either... of course the other day should be filled with something productive, which may or may not include "schooling" (learning) or "working" (as in creating, not paid/unpaid labor) or other form of activity.

strangely I had encountered mostly resistance to this idea, but after staying persistent on this condition I finally got what I was looking for. before (and still) I would've imagined this would make sense to employers. even startups have this old fashioned mentality ingrained...

fair enough. I wonder if there's a job board for this kind of jobs..?

I always look for one-way tickets to get the best deals. this site loads really fast and already loaded flights from my country starting $30. amazing, bookmarked for next flight!

very interesting. I would like to see that math applied to the emergence of life. how slim were our chances? or maybe not slim at all and maybe even unavoidable?

I think the thing is we used to search for content, e.g. go to programming forum, specific language sub-forum, specific topic sub-sub forum, etc.

now we have "feeds", infinite scrolling of content we never asked for, paywalls and cookie popups.

I feel like the solution would be complete backend/frontend separation. imagine reddit as being only a comments database, your user is an api key and the website is just one of many frontends displaying queries on that database. right now we have only one frontend pushing whatever "the algorithm" thinks is optimized. but maybe then we will have freedom.

and the first iphone cost about... idk, $10m in R&D?

I wanted something like this. it's really cool but unfortunately it freezes explorer & crashes for most of my folders...

question is why isn't visual programming more popular amongst "traditional" or non-gamedev programming?

LightBot is cute There's a cool one called "GATE" where you program a bot using only logical gates, hope you can find that one

I enjoyed these articles, you really nailed it. I think if you ever add podcasts and videos you could be the next YouTube, without the click-maximizing algorithms.

exactly. everybody complains about our office location in private but never bring it up and even deny this when asked directly... also it drives me nuts how every issue must be sugarcoated for 15 minutes of ass licking instead of giving it straight as it is

this is pretty neat!

embassies are not considered territory of country which they belong to. I'm not a lawyer buuut... sometimes morals are above the law.

going to Ukraine is a whole other matter.

whole lot of fuss over nothing. still takes 30 seconds hanging when compiling script changes. I don't care if the flag check is 100 nano seconds faster if I can't work.

two problems: 1. GPT3 is used to generate text, if the input is what you say it isn't your dog's reply, is it? 2. your dog still lacks understanding of human language, or concepts of politics, it will not be able to interact with your questions in a meaningful way in the first place to give any input to such AI.

what you could do is try to translate dog behavior, but the dog will have to learn this language as well, so there's no magic "stick this chip to your dog's head and discuss about the meaning of life" kind of solution.

question is too open, it depends on the issue. even plastic surgeries for aesthetics alone range from few thousands to hundreds thousands. hospital bills can inflate to millions and more.

someone with your skills and money shouldn't worry about getting up and leave a toxic environment. I may not interpret the situation correctly but I can tell you the sooner the better. I had friends leaving days after starting, me personally weeks after starting. in the long run nobody remembers "that guy who was here two weeks" but you will definitely remember a bad workplace.

unfortunately Reddit is dying alongside Google Search. of course by all means I don't mean economically. but quality-wise - yes, especially since it was acquired.

dude why don't you just continue working on bug bounties? #11 should be able to make 6 figures easy, probably 7 figures a year in bug bounties.

if maybe that's not your thing and you want "a job" I'm sure many people will be willing to help, me included. feel free to contact me on Twitter @high_byte

anyone who isn't married, kids or girlfriend, as well as many people in those groups.

if she wasn't your wife already I would've told you she's marriage material!

I don't get the homomorphic encryption part... so it's still proof of work, just got science. many such projects exist, mainly the "X@Home" projects and more.

Bruno Simon

desktop does not imply "not SaaS". I'll add that today most desktop apps are headless Chrome. that being said, I actually do web, but were I to go desktop I would look for a niche that can't be done in browser, even though today you already got access to most APIs & hardware...