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Indeed standards have slipped or better say have been sacrificed at the altar of "quantity over quality".
For a simple "Hello, World!" string message, nowadays you need how many MBs of RAM.
Madness, complete madness!
Em...no. it means "mighty" in the sense of "power beyond limits".
[1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/tree/v2.1I should start using Fossil more; seems like things are getting out of hand in an implicit way.
I'm not kidding, this is what happened to me 4 years ago.
Don't worry about your intermediate level.
For sure I can honestly say that I am more than honored to have a 'PhD' in C++'s "hello world" :D
It's a language that I would love to work on exclusively for the rest of my life, if I could get hired much like those stories we read about back in the early '90s.
They were hiring pretty much anyone who had an interest in computing, even if they were working on something completely unrelated to technology, and they were willing to train them.
The fun times...
https://www.kirix.com/You are basically helping them avoid the hurdles you came across through your 11+ years of professional experience and you are pretty much giving them a number of steps ahead of other startups that have to go through trial and error until they make it, if they are lucky that is.
Try to write down the standard, cliched if you will, steps a startup needs to go through until they become functional and autonomous from a technological point of view.
I'm sure through this consulting experience you will be narrowing down countless of unique niche projects that could be offered as SaaS or even PaaS by you that could boost a startup's momentum AND help you make good money while doing two things you seem to love the most.
Now, as far as concern analysis paralysis, you can solve this by doing simple, standard writing; school-like if you will.
Dedicate a notebook, the good ol' pen and paper thing (lol), and write down each idea of yours by separating its pros and cons.
Concentrate on each project separately without letting your thoughts or worries intervene and narrow down each project's unique features until you feel pleased by what you have written up until the very end of it.
If you can, apply the logic of Normalization Form until you exhaust all potential commonalities each step has with its previous ancestor.
Doing so can reveal so many things to you, even help you extract common factors from each project separately and combine them to produce yet another project or idea that could lead to something interesting, let alone profitable if it gets the right attention and response from users.
I cannot think of anything else right now, but if you want to keep in touch to philosophize it a bit further, feel free to contact me via my email which is included in my profile.
Take your time to rest your busy mind and let me tell you something you need to hear: you got this mate, don't worry about it.
The less you worry, the less you pay attention to your mental noise, the clearer everything will become around you.
Keep it up mate!
Cheers.
I have lots of things I want to improve and those things will eventually influence the way I think about problem solving and becoming a better engineer / developer.
I know when I do those changes, the rest will follow.
cPanel
craigslist (https://www.craigslist.org/about/thanks)
imdb (https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/what-software-are-you-using-to-run-imdb/GH25HF4NB3C2KP9E)
Companies who use Perl within London http://london.pm.org/advocacy/
2018 sponsors (https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2018/)
2019 sponsors (https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2019/sponsors.html)So, I doubt they do one thing only :/
In author's case, it was rather simple I would say: they have acquired an extensive experience in D language and saw its potential by switching from PHP for good.
Could they have used swoole and go fully concurrent and asynchronous with PHP, while maintaining their legacy system? Yes.
Could it perform? With swoole, they could outperform Golang under specific use-cases and circumstances.
But that's not author's point.
Their point is, they have used a language and have saved a lot of money for their business.
Could they have done the same with PHP? I cannot say, I do not know; what I do know though is that a static typed programming language is ideal for writing performant code, especially for businesses that deal with ads, marketing, FinTech, Banking, and Medical systems to say the least.
Also not a single language becomes dead, at least in programming; it just becomes obsolete and not used, that's all.
Maybe they need to say the same thing for COBOL that "still runs the world in traditional banking, lots of large scale government systems, insurance and health care". [2]
[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
[2] https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-is-COBOL-still-being-used-in-2019Other than that, an amazing presentation. Kudos +1
Right now I'm in a very difficult situation where I don't know what to do. I cannot find anything that does not ask for previous experience; and the irony is that I don't know anything else apart from technology which I started hating the last 4 years.
edit: obviously my impostor syndrome kicks in lately due to countless factors and I self-sabotage with every interview out there lol. I just want to go back in time and slap me in the face for choosing this career -_- I don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a screen.
Here's your facts:
01:30 (wakes up)
16:30 (works for 15 hours until kids get home)
00:30 (spends 8 hours with kids and wife)
I too want to switch career and do something else, completely different than technology and as many of you mentioned, I want to deal with handcrafting, anything that falls under the "art" category, really.
In my opinion, my mind and body tells me that 80% physical activity and 20% mental / intellectual is the best combination.
That's my ideal concept I believe.
Seriously Jesse, isn't this the very same reason __some__ people end up implementing yet another programming language without realizing it?
First they start out of exasperation with X language they use, because they hit some obstacles or limitations, and before they know it they end up implementing a newly created language.
You know what's the fun part? In their attempt to fix the aforementioned language's issues, they end up introducing __the very same problems__ in their own language, only under different "cloak" so to speak.
It's a vicious cycle I'm afraid...
Feeling like playing music? Music then is!
Feeling like writing a blog post? No worries, consider it done.
Ah the memories...exactly as I was as a college student; those were the days of my life!