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Well consider this my last post on this account but here ya go:

I was in marketing and learned to code. In 2019 I quit my job to launch a startup in the live entertainment industry. Things were going well until Covid hit. I had to shut things down and I was grateful to have left marketing and switching to development. But make no mistake I'd rather be running my business.

You tried to string together a post history and make assumptions to discredit my original comment. It was rude.

I had covid. I can tell you losing my business from the lockdowns was infinitely more depressing than losing my sense of smell/taste for 5 days.

I think the author was a bit extreme in a few items but for the most I 100% agree. I am never going back to the office

Starting with 'Lets Dive in" and only using 1 word made me lol.

Then only word being 'whataboutism'... which is an infinite loop of an argument. Literally the same as saying "I know you are but what am I".

And clearly I'm on the crypto train. Why would I be projecting jealousy? That I secretly wanted to off the crypto train? lol

This is how I read things as well. so much jealousy.

I stop reading any btc criticism at the endless climate impact/criminal activity discussions.

Of all the things that impact climate change, this is the offender we decide to focus on?

Of all the ways criminal activity is facilitated, this is currency we focus on?

Such a brilliant technology seems lost on HN because people are jealous they missed the boat.

you are completely right and im the definition of the pot calling the kettle black. Ive collected all kinds of things throughout my life that many would deem stupid/garbage. To each, their own.

I love blockchain for transparency/authenticity aspects. I just struggle with the collector side of it not being physical things for me to hold. It just doesn't feel real to me in the digital world.

I am more into crypto than most and I do not get NFT collectibles...at least pet rocks you could hold lol

Are we ever prepared for anything?

I am a junior dev with ~400 reputation. Trust me you dont want my help lol!

what on earth does choice of versioning have to do with anything. React Native isn't at 1.0 and tons of companies use it. Google releases versions/APIs of their software with tons of bugs.

All I can say is good luck to you and hope you land something awesome!

I spent 7 years in product before making the transition to being a developer 2 years ago. I've successfully made the jump but definitely had hoped I'd be in a better position than I am now. Obviously this could be me, but I have been pretty surprised how companies/startups seems disinterested in my PM past. I think it certainly gave me a broad perspective on how to ship software customers love, and how successful teams work. It likely is still my inexperience but nonetheless no one seems to care about broad knowledge.

I was a senior product manager and made the transition to frontend dev. I've never been happier!

Yeah! You'll connect your bank account and do some security verification. Once approved you can buy whatever you want.

Although depends on what you mean by traditional trading. If you want see details charts and create market orders or limits, things like that, then you'll want Coinbase Pro.

Coinbase is great for easy buying and then holding there in your wallet. You can either leave your coins on Coinbase or transfer out to a hardware wallet like Ledger or Trezor. If you go the hardware route, stay away from Ledger. Pretty solid wallet but the handling of their customer data break was pretty unfortunate.

No company has perfect service but Coinbase has always done right by me. Great security and super easy onboarding. Whenever a friend asks me how to buy crypto, I send them to CB. My only criticism would be the lack of some coins with real value and communities like Monero, NANO, or NEO.

There is some kind of revolution coming. The big catalysts are things like censorship on social media and wall st changing the rules on the retail investors.

But actions like these only mount the problems. Why on earth would google remove these reviews? What Robinhood has done this week is an extremely reviewable act.

I have not. I get a lot of value out of HN as it relates to my interests. I really don't get any value over what someone I went to college with who I no longer speak to anymore is doing with their lives. But I understand your frustrations. Its hard to find any place that escapes it all

I left all social media just after xmas after I couldn't take the constant flood of politics. I miss the memes but overall i've loved my decision. Ill never go back

how does brave do a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers? Its the main reason I use it and _I think_ it works well but never done any kind of analysis (nor would I even know how to). Could you elaborate on this for the uninformed?

not sure why you were downvoted. I instantly thought of Truffle as it relates to smart contract work as well

I will be using my 2015 MacBook Pro until the last viable OS update until they make the laptop better

just downloaded it the other day to search for old files from long ago and was barraged by popups, installers, and trying to get me to do 5 things at once. So confusing. I gave up searching for what I was looking for

man I love evernote. I dont want to use ios notes and deal with all the confusion icloud brings. I love using a service that is hyper focused on one thing and does it well.

Ive been working remote long before the pandemic and cant stress these points enough. They might seem silly at first but they really work. At the bare minimum, no slack or work email on your phone.

I've also learned to over communicate. Usually when I step away I leave a pretty detailed overview of where things are and the feeling of "leaving the team high and dry" diminishes.

you aren't the president. Any future elected official now has to consider if these social media companies are a good medium to communicate with the people. If that elected official doesn't play big tech's rules, the looming threat of a ban might change their mind.

It's crazy naive to not see the implications of this

Thank you for the story, I definitely understand now. I am also relieved that you were compensated for this critically important pivot! /s

I am hoping this will be an area I can eventually excel in. I was a senior PM for a while and decided I wanted to write code instead. Been going down this crazy career change for about 6 months now. Right now I am just trying to survive and learn the basics of software development.

When I was PM I certainly had the luxury of working with invaluable devs I could brainstorm with on ways to optimize a feature idea that maintained customer value in the shortest time possible. I need to learn how to become that invaluable dev I had.

> They are able to discern and avoid work that does not provide value (this is often their greatest skill)

junior dev here...could elaborate a little on what this means? Generally speaking the PM is the one creating a roadmap and informing what is the highest value item to work on. I must be misunderstanding what you're referring too.

imagine if I said this: "cell phones have unlocked the full potential of sending crime communications".

should we ban cell phones?

Back in 2011 I thought Kickstarter and crowdfunding in general was so cool. I funded a maybe 20+ projects. I think I received 4-5 items and the products i did receive were very underwhelming. Probably half of the projects I never even heard from after the funding closed. Needless to say I haven't been on KS in a long, long time.

because just about every single person in the comments is bashing this?