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Thank you for drawing my attention to this, I was not aware of Backblaze! I'll have to deduplicate my backups (of backups of backups) and will definitely look into saving most precious bits!

If my house cought fire my NAS burns, and that's fine. If I survive the fire I can still access my email. If I don't Linode shuts it down month later, so it's good for the planet too ;)

I'm not under pressure so it's easy to say this, but I'd rather not get a job than lie during interview.

I might be calling obvious but if candidate uses something like this, is this not lying to potential employer?

I'd rather be rejected than got job I'm not qualified to do, that's why I never prepare for interview above studying the actual company- and that is more to give me proper signal if I want to work for them, I want to be motivated to make move on more than just money.

I also have never done leetcode, though I like competitive programming problems, especially bot programming contests on codingame.com

Is UK-based bank account one of requirements?

Not OP, but- it seems OP is looking to test an idea and not paying unnecessary costs or setting up unnecessary entities abroad, exploring possible options for paying less does not mean she/he 'does not have the stomach for that kind of a gamble'- why pay more when you can pay less?

I tried on my phone and it does not seem to work..

I'm inhabitant of a country Germans tried to anihilate in 1939. Germany of 1939 is usually called Nazi Germany here, still- it's Germany. Same as Soviet Russia who attacked 17 days later- it was Russia, not some misterious nation called Soviets. These are language cover-ups. I do acknowledge there had been many Germans who chose death rather than to join their countrymen in horrible crimes, and I admire those who did not join. Unfortunately orders of magnitude more volunteered and were actively taking part in German death machinery.

Yeah, and it's pseudonyme, not 'real', I thought that's what author of the post was reffering to

Not original commenter, but I would opt not to use such social media. There is world outside of computer, less social media is less temptetion to waste time online :)

I never had 'real' social media account, and never had 'immoral' intentions. I find it interesting phenomena how easily people switched from pseudonymes on the internet to using their real names, and now think there is something wrong by not providing real data.

From experience I'd risk to say that whatever you get initially will be hard (not impossible but hard) to change later, so I'd always try to negotiate terms to be as comfortable as possible before I join.

Not YC founder and I have no data to give you advice on monetary values. However. In my area, if you advertise yourself as junior you are setting yourself to be paid junior rates- scout LinkedIn, career pages for companies you are interested in, and whatever other sources to get a feel of what juniors are paid. Some companies (not all) hire juniors due to budget reasons. Having said this, it's all in your hands and circumstances- target the figure you want to earn and weight your circumstances, if you are not in need for money you can prioritise getting good entries in your CV, if you prefer to hunt at expense of time- do it. Good luck!

I had a period of time in my life when I worked at toxic place and my stress levels were so high I could not fall asleep at night. I would have constant flow of thoughts and was laying in bed for hours with sleep not coming. I could not leave that place for some time (circumstances out of my control). I found an article about a method some RAF pilots used during the war to fall asleep. Can't find that particular article I have gone through but google yields lots of results:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&sca_esv=a6b.....

I tried that as last resort before going to GP but luckily this method worked for me. Later when I left that toxic place the sleep came back on its own.

I'd risk to say, at whatever age you choose to. On this very forum I have seen comments from 60+'s who were snowed under work and very happy (and not with 'old' tech), and also I have seen early 30's who were worried about them becoming too old for the industry. I believe it depends on your motivation, and maybe how you came into industry. Some are self-taught enthusiasts and some are formally trained workers, and some are in-between. Some are burned out by their circumstances, some are not. Some have family to feed and some are living life of a single. Superposition of all of this will result in mindset and how the one feels about their age related with what they do for living.

I'm in my early 40's and I think I will be doing what I do now until I retire (in whatever form it will be done, and if I'm not hit with brain desiese).

I thought the same thing, why not calling family first and let them provide help...

There was a time I was running a 10+ team and was executing scrum by the book, not really understanding much of it at start. Meetings felt weird and generally it was very intense time. But after some time a few things clicked in my head: I could plan with some certainty without bothering people, and execution was falling between min/max planned capacity, everyone was aware of pretty much everything, even in 'other places' where they were not actively contributing, everyone learned to estimate their work based on complexity. And above all, after leaving the place and working in a few different shops, when I look at the code quality produced in that place I'm still impressed (not brownnosing myself, really). We executed ~50 2-weekly sprints, I miss that time.

One man's side project is other's business, that's how I find mine. I have people in my network who are geared towards business, they know their niches. I build POCs. If it takes off I get %, otherwise I rip it off and opensource whatever makes sense.

Looks like https://everyonedraw.com is offline

I love engineering sense of humour :)