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Anecdotal, but we had a decent amount of layoffs over the summer and every single engineer laid off (seriously, every) has a job by now.

Finding your sense of purpose in your work is bad, IMO, unless you own the company or have a similar position. I don't want my self-worth to be tied to an employer or market that can get rid of me any time. It's just a job. At best, I work in places that aren't morally against my values.

Every time a "JavaScript is bad!" thread is feature it leads to nothing but the same old tired arguments too, so I don't see why that's a barometer for quality.

People like to post their opinions to the world. It feels good, and feels like you are being "heard". But for most it stops there. Not many care to debate online because a) it takes time and energy vs posting something you've had in your head for a while and b) they know almost no one changes their mind online.

On top of that, HN doesn't notify you when someone replies to your comment... so maybe they just forgot.

People come to forums to blow off steam, complain, and get their opinion out.

In the US, I can get paid very well to do mediocre work. Despite our buggy software, we keep raising more money and our valuation increases. PMs and managers get paid more if they delivery new features. At some point the company will get acquired or fail. Either way, the code will be gone and I'll be at another job.

Why bother caring?

AC has a solid, hardcore userbase. That it sold 35m units and most of those quit by summer 2020 is normal for any game. No game lasts forever unless you really like it.

TikTok is a behemoth and just keeps growing.

A lot of people still play Among Us and like it. Malls are full of Among Us t-shirts and plushies.

I'll give you Clubhouse though.

The creator probably didn't break his back making it, already has a job, and probably has reddit equity that will make him money when they IPO.

I would've for sure taken the first good offer for my project in that case.

Discord + iMessage, but it's just friends and for fun. We're not building anything.

> short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.

This is your problem, or one of them. Stop judging people and seeing them as below you. Guess what — you may not be short or aged, but you are also lonely. Probably have more in common with them.

This attitude will poison you even if you meet "normal" people, you will find reasons to talk yourself out of meeting them.

I mean, that's about the price any hobby costs you over a year.

"Cheapest" way is to develop it yourself, but of course, that's a different set of skills and equipment you may not be into. There's online labs but I doubt they'll be cheaper either and are much slower.

I shoot film too and had my best luck in an immigrant neighborhood. I develop my films in a family business and it's never over $6 per roll. This is in Brooklyn, NY.

I ended up switching to MusicBee (https://www.getmusicbee.com/), before switching to macOS. It's not as snappy but I liked the default UI and had all the batteries I needed.

Also back then they had this concept of an "Inbox" for new albums, which was a special playlist of newly scanned music that you then could "move" to your library. It was good for vetting new albums before the era of streaming/YouTube.

If you have to use Instagram and/or Twitter, a very liberal use of the mute setting.

Good for them, but not sure why they need so much money for a 100% paid product.

The creator has a good resume of tech work including two years at reddit where he created two viral campaigns and probably received stock for their upcoming IPO. Seems he's pretty comfortable and just wanted to do this for fun.

> I believe we need voices like Newport to someday be heard by people at the top running companies that are plagued by middle (project) managers that need to be seen as doing something.

My cynical view is that execs don't care because, well... startups still IPO, get acquired, they get rich, etc. Profits still go up. I know most startups don't and companies still fail, but the point is nothing is affecting the people with power to change things.

Cal Newport is a good writer and worth listening to, but most of his advice applies only to himself. I work 9-5 for a company that uses Slack, email, alerts, etc., like most of HN. I'm not a tenured professor with a lot of clout that can shut himself from the world whenever I please.

I've learned from Newport and apply some of his stuff to my own life, of course, but it's been over ten years of listening to him telling us we're doing it wrong, when most of us have no choice.

Teens? This happens well into your 20s lol. I've always had iPhones but heard experiences like these from Android-using friends.

I don't get he drama about 1Password. What's wrong with it? I'm a little wary of 8 (Electron) but eh, I doubt it'll be bad. It costs me like $4-5/mo which is an mount I don't even bother keeping track of or budgeting.

They are memes.

Startups use whatever is easier to hire for to get stuff out the door ASAP, unless the founders have a specific technical taste. That's why now it's JS and 10-15~ years ago it was Rails.

Classic tech guy response. Teachers teach multiple kids, hundreds a week of not a day, and can inspire many to go on to do great things (money-wise or not).

Why are we tech people so arrogant about our career? We already make good money, no need to think we're better than others.

Their craft isn't important. They can just move up the income ladder by getting a new job every ~3 years without really improving.

The issues you say reddit has are issues all forums have. 4chan, SA, reddit, even HN has its issues sometimes. Human nature.

IMO the correct answer is to reduce posting and browsing forums. Unless you have a specific question, it is largely a waste of time designed to make you upset (see your comment about the Elliott Smith sub).

You can't manifest more time. You have to drop something to make time for reading.

I'm nowhere near your situation — single 20 something with no responsibilities beyond a job. But even I had to give up TV show watching or YouTube to make time for reading. Maybe replace one night of a hobby with reading, or get up 30 mins earlier.

As a renter you have almost no leverage over this. Nothing you can do except get the hard key like that tenant.

> Maybe I just don't know, but this stuff really seems dead. I've spent some time digging out of curiosity and I've never found a hint of anything similar today. It seems like it all moved online into social media and now instead of dancing all night in warehouses or going camping to hear a band people just stare at phones and have their brains sucked out by "engagement" (addiction) maximizing algorithms.

People still go to concerts, raves, clubs, etc. Over the summer NYC streets were packed with young people going out as restrictions were lifting, so this isn't it.

Unless there's a select group of people who truly are addicted to technology and some who aren't (and the former is a silent majority), it's not accurate to say all young people are 24/7 on their phones and never go outside to talk to people.

The loneliness crisis is tough because it can make someone feel like there's something wrong with just them. Walking the streets on a weekend night, all you see is groups of friends at sold out restaurants, people on dates, events, etc.

Hackathons are networking events. I know a lot of people in college that went and participated in them got internships or leads into them.

Yeah this is it. Once you stop thinking "all these people will probably judge me or dislike me" or "I need to be on the defensive" when you don't even know the people there, social events become much easier.