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I think I know why personal websites aren't popular anymore. It's the same reason retro video games aren't as fun as they were when they came out.

What's missing is the context of the time when they were popular. They were new and had a high-tech aura about them.

Nowadays making a website doesn't differentiate you in a good way unless you have a super creative way of coming up with the website and a lot of content to fill it with.

Nowadays you have to take it to the next level. What's a skill that's beyond the reach of most people? This could be why PCB business cards are so appealing. Because it's a thing most people can't do and if you can do it it shows your technical prowess. I think that's my personal web pages were popular back then and why they won't ever be popular again.

Good news! I am unique. My experience is valid. I really needed to hear this.

Or you could write the 10 lines of JavaScript that'll do what 99% of people use Google analytics for

No, then everyone will use extensions that support their favorite features and the browser wars will start all over again

Isn't it more expensive to launch a geostationary satellite? If their big thing is communication how are they going to compete with Starlink (which isn't geostationary btw)? How is it profitable for anyone to dream of competing with Starlink at this point. I am a layperson but it seems like game over unless Rocket Lab finds a way to compete.

The article only mentioned communications satelites and I don't think anyone is going able to beat Starlink in that area in the next 5-10 years.

I'd be open to not receiving benefits. The only one I really need is healthcare and I can get that through healthcare.gov.

The productive like the people who do slave labor in China to produce all of our gadgets?

I earn $100,000 a year writing god awful code for a doomed software company. Am I contributing more to the public good than the restaurant worker who cooks my food, the guy who changes my car's oil, or the guy who hauls all of my garbage away?

Clean code is not a phase. That's an obnoxious thing said by non-programming amateurs who find themselves in positions of authority.

In my opinion this is just one symptom of the overall illness our society is suffering from. There's no unity among people. It's very much a materialistic society. Everyone thinks everything should be safe. The government has become the arbitrator for fucking every conflict which further prevents us from seeing the humanity in each other. And that's critical because there seems to be less humanity in us every year.

The Injustice system is just an outgrowth of this madness. People in this country don't think right and so you go to justice system that ain't right. But they don't care as long as they're not the ones in prison or jail. it's literally good that other people are in jail because that makes them better than other people. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if this country reverted to some form of slavery. Our society is sick. So our justice system is sick.

Well of course they did. This is one of those times where it's easy to see the real law of the land is whatever the government feels like doing. It's all a dog and pony show. What I find surprising is that Snowden didn't know that. He's not going to win a game where his competition makes up the rules as they go along.

It's pretty clear that you're in read-only mode. You think you know the only answer so what can I tell you.

At what point did I tell OP to become an expert on IP law? Nowhere. My advice to OP was to educate himself so that no matter what he did he could be more effective.

> You're not a terrible person but you've given absolutely terrible advice

You didn't read my advice correctly and I place zero value in your opinion about me being a good person or not especially considering you thought you had enough information to even bring up the topic based on one short internet comment.

Why is that?

My point is you don't need to say obvious things. It's a waste of everyone's time.

A lot of people are talking about this but no one will do anything about it.

It's fun to get outraged and all. But how do we actually change it?

This is one reason I actually really like code camps. I got my bachelor's kicking and screaming because I knew most of the stuff I was learning was completely irrelevant. These code camps cut right through all the bullshit. In fact nowadays maybe you would question the intelligence of somebody who got a four-year degree to become a programmer?

You can check Craigslist > services > computer

Alternatively you could find someone on Fiverr

Or potentially you can try me. I've been a professional .NET developer for about 10 years but recently I decided to stop programming as a job but I am kind of looking at part-time and freelance stuff.

But this is the obvious answer. OP didn't need you to tell him to get a lawyer. If he had that kind of money he'd be talking to a lawyer not us. I mean I know you meant well and I know I probably sound like a negative jerk but yeah of course it's a legal issue and he should talk to a lawyer. It's like if someone has a stomach ache and they asked online what it might be and someone tells them they should see a doctor. It's obvious and doesn't need to be said.

I think what OP needs are good resources so that he can educate himself as much as possible. Yeah he also needs a lawyer, if this is that important to him, but being informed will be a force multiplier here.

in my experience people are generally shity when you ask for legal advice online but you could try that. For example stack exchange has one but you'll probably get condemned on there instead of getting helpful advice.

An out-of-the-box idea might be to find a paralegal on FIVERR and ask them to dig up resources to read up on.

Again I apologize for being such a jerk about your suggestion. I'm a terrible person.

On windows:

- firefix (w/ adblock plus)

- chrome (w/ adblock plus)

- git

- vscode

- visual studio community

- desk pins (utility to keep window on top)

- "a ruler for windows" (on screen ruler)

...and that's pretty much it. Everything else I just do when I need it.

Yeah but we'll still owe a debt that maybe we'll never be able to repay.

Hi, I 1000% agree with you. I was a vegetarian for a long time and only started eating meat again for health reasons. But it was a reluctant decision and one that I hope to go back on one day.

Anyways, have you ever thought about how that problem could be solved? Because you're right when you talk to people they don't give a s* about the animals we eat as food. I don't think people even make the connection between an animal and meat the vast majority of the time. It's just a product.

Yet as you know a lot of animals are suffering. Silently. Conscious beings are living out horrific nightmares for our benefit. It really really pisses me off that most people can't understand this.

But I'm kind of a hypocrite. Solving this problem won't get you the kudos that you would get for solving a problem that humans have. But it's an insanely huge problem. You might not get rewarded financially but you could end so much suffering. Have you ever thought about ways to attack this problem? I have but I've never come up with anything good.

Yes lab grown meat is on the way. But I don't think that's going to be the complete solution.

Animals do have to eat other animals sometimes. That's true for at least for some humans. So it's an inescapable reality. But how could we make existence less torturous for these helpless little animals?

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lololol case in point. Someone downvoted both of my comments in this thread. There aren't too many things that make me want to fight someone on the internet anymore but people who hate the idea of not factory farming animals need to get the s* kicked out of them and I would be very happy to do it.

Unity in 24 hours is pretty cool. If you haven't done game development before this will open up a lot of possibilities for you and it's pretty fun. For example, not only will it show you how to create 2D and 3D games but it's pretty easy to turn a 3D game into a virtual reality game. But especially with virtual reality it doesn't have to be a game. So it's actually super practical in my opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Development-Hours-Teach-Yoursel...

I think you're confusing me with somebody else.

Well I dropped the golden handcuffs. So right now I'm flipping cars (replace a clutch, head gasket, etc.) driving for Lyft, and I might get a part-time job. I'm definitely not making as much money as I used to. But for me the traditional strategy of working for a company and saving up for retirement wasn't working anyhow. it was like well I'm either going to have to deal with this now when I can do something about it or when I'm older and I won't be able to do anything about it.

So I'm kind of where I was when I was 20 except now I have a whole lot more skills and experiences. I'm not actually sure what I'm going to do long term. All I really know is I was headed down the wrong path and I've been lying to myself for far too long.

But actually I do kind of know. The only thing that really makes sense is some kind of tech entrepreneurship. I mean I know success isn't guaranteed but it comes down to kind of a deep question which is what do you want to do with your life. Sitting behind a desk coding what someone else tells me to all day long is simply not going to get me where I want to be in life. So I kind of jumped off the cliff hoping I can learn to fly on the way down.

I totally might fail so don't follow my lead too much.

I will tell you that since I've been working on cars all day I'm so much physically stronger than I was as a coder and it feels fantastic. It isn't really long-term because technically you're not allowed to buy a car with the intention of fixing and reselling it unless you're a dealer but succeeding and failing based on my own decisions feels so much better then being cemented underneath someone else in a corporate hierarchy.

I was a developer for about 10 years and even though I could get another development job I'd rather crawl through the mud and find a new way forward before I get too old and it's too late.

This is one of the reasons I quit programming. I could be spending time improving as a developer but instead they've got me doing some totally inconsequential "bug" fix (spend the next two hours updating this translation for the third time). I just got sick of someone rationalizing me doing non work by saying it's better for the business as though I have no broader perspective of what might be better for the business. It was just bullshit.

Ha, omg I've so been there. I was doing automated testing for a company for a good five months and they seriously did not care at all.

Like they have nothing for you to do and you feel guilty for not doing anything because you're getting paid. Then you gravitate towards laziness and when you finally do get some non-task you know it's of zero value to anyone and your time would probably be better spent recycling old files on your desktop. So then you feel scared talking to anyone because you feel like you don't belong and are getting paid for not doing any work.

Either go full on Costanza, quit, or get used to feeling weak. ...I spent much of my time filling out job applications.

How do you test an idea without having a patent? Weren't you worried about somebody stealing your idea?

I really like that first one. Yeah that's what I was talking about.I've seen more often than not programmers just learn language syntax but very little about architecture aside from, for example, how to use MVC. Also, for example, we might pride ourselves on memorizing http response codes but I would do a double-take if a developer said to me maybe we should try a decorator pattern here.

I guess they are more codified then I realized and I'm definitely going to read through that list.