karatefylla

3 karma · joined January 7, 2019

karatefylla··on Blowing the Dust Off of an IBM AS/400 Server

Same here. Large insurance company.

karatefylla··on Blowing the Dust Off of an IBM AS/400 Server

I'm literally staring into the "black hole" of an AS/400 right now on my second screen.

karatefylla··on Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?

Ah QuakeWorld and the golden era of gaming.

I have fond memories from playing QW not online but also go to these small LANs in the middle of nowhere and meeting some of the top players in the world in person and getting to each other IRL.

I'm still friends with some of the players from that time.

karatefylla··on Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?

Like the wild west.

karatefylla··on How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project

The fact is that you can have the best product in the world but if you can't sell it, it's basically worthless. No product or service is going to sell themselves.

karatefylla··on Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding?

Definitely. I did it for +10 years and I would hate to go back to coding for a living. Now I'm on the "dark side" as a pentester and breaking stuff instead and I love it.

When you reach the point where you don't want to code outside of work, you've lost the passion and you're slowing starting to deteriorate as a developer. It's time to do something else.

karatefylla··on Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?

To clear the minefield someone has to step on them basically. Fortunately these mines won't kill you and you will learn how to disarm them as you walk through the minefield.