jklein11

Super helpful, especially with the recommended runway of 2-5 years. When you say you have done this, can you elaborate on your situation a little bit more?

This is super helpful, thank you! Is this coming from a strategic perspective or have you been the hirer or hiree in this situation?

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. If you don't mind me asking, what is your job today?

Eh I think that was just a way of asking "How do we know you are serious about this"

You bring up whether I would be okay on my deathbed, and honestly I do think that if I don't do it I will regret it, but there are other things in life that I would regret not doing as well. I'm trying to gauge if it would mean an uncomfortable year or two if it meant having a lifelong impact on my earning potential.

I'm not sure I agree with you that joining a company of under 50 is the next best thing to entreprenuership. I've been there and it seems like you get a lot of the negatives (ambiguity on your role, disorganization, uncertainty on stability of business) without a lot of the benefits (freedom/flexibility to work on what you want and potential upside.)

For the record, I am the kind of person who wants to have my cake and eat it too, (what's the point of having cake if I'm not going to eat it?)

Bret Taylor

> Billing departments are "secretly" using it to "refine" coding. What does this mean exactly?

oh you mean like hacker news?

This is an excellent landing page. It has a clear call to action and a simple way to capture leads. You may want to change this text "Hi, I'm Aziz Berkay Yesilyurt. I transform tedious workflows into streamlined software." to be details on your call to action ("Automate Your Workflow with One Call".)

This landing page is not going to win you any business on its own. Its further down your funnel. Whether you are running ads or writing content or just word of mouth telling folks about this site after you meet them, your clients will be learning about you from outside of this site. I would think of it as your business card.

Am I the only one that made the change from dev to SE and hates it?

Won't the water get cold fast? Having it run all the time without adding heat seems like the quickest way to get the water to be room temp

I'd highly recommend reading "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction" by Rob Fitzpatrick. Its a super pragmatic tutorial on writing non fiction that folks will actually use

I'm a little bit confused, are you saying that the IRS would have some sort of beef with employees of Microsoft serving on the board of a 501(c)(3)?

I just finished reading "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick and immediately bought 2 other books by him. If you have ever had a customer conversation and left with a slightly empty feeling this is the pill you are looking for

To be fair to the CEO, the layoffs were probably happening either way and the tropical team building activity probably didn't have an impact on the size/scale of layoffs. The acquiring company was going to cut head count and needed the impact to show on their financial statements starting Jan 1. No way to keep people through the holidays. The extra expense in the previous year might even have been encouraged because it would make the following year look like they were doing an even better job of stream lining.

Not an answer to your question but why are you offering sentimentscanner for free?

What about Google workspace is costing you clients?

I know this is completely unrelated to you post but I'm surprised that COVID impacted you so hard. I would have thought that the trend toward hybrid work would have boosted demand. Any insight as to what didn't work?

I'm a fan of Shaan Puri's template. https://shaan.beehiiv.com/p/pitch-deck-template

Yeah - if you didn't have a lawyer take a look at the policy, what was the point of even putting the policy up there? and if you did have a lawyer look at it and they didn't catch it - get rid of that lawyer lol

I would say there are two ends of the spectrum.

On the idealistic side:

The market for equities is enormous. Making it work requires some blunt instrumentation. This creates inefficiencies that hedge funds exploit. These exploitations make the overall market more efficient and make the hedge funds money.

On the skeptical side:

Hedge funds charge 2% of AUM and 20% of returns. They use some of these profits to market to investors and convince them that they are the smartest people in the room. They keep the fund afloat as long as they can until they need to raise another round.

I think the reason why hedge funds exist is somewhere between the two.

Why do you care if the end user is AI or human?

Would the lock have prevented someone from breaking open the case?

My dude - I think you have mistaken this website with www.reddit.com

Not if Amazon isn’t paying for the delivery drivers time

Github's SLA is only for 3 9s of availability. For enterprises there is likely much more visibility for applications who's downtime had direct impact to revenue. If a system that processes orders or claims or shipments go down there is a direct line to $$$ lost. If Github goes down the impact isn't the same.

I don't have a course but this sounds like a good idea. I would try researching content creators and then offering to do their courses for free. I will note that this is probably not going to help you become a software engineer but could help you grow an audience.

If you are doing content creation part time you are going to have more income than the 2k. the 50% is likely the marginal rate though and not the effective rate.

Usually BAAs are required for IT vendors from healthcare companies before they start getting paid. It doesn't mean that they are claiming that their systems are HIPAA compliant

I made this change a year ago for similar reasons to you - I didn't want to be coding for the rest of my career. I can say this is one of the decisions in my career that I truly regret. For me at least, it felt like I was completely starting over. My comp was a modest bump (a 20% increase but with a much bigger portion of that being variable and not guaranteed.) The skills I have been developing are sales/ storytelling skills. I rarely end up writing any code. Unless the thing you are missing in your current role is talking to customers I personally think there is a lot more opportunity as a software engineer with a business focused mindset.