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can somebody fill me in what happened? is this related to the oAuth vulnerability through github a while back?

the small percentage of survivors will lay it out like there's specific sequence of steps but its 1) very tough to find market product fit 2) even if you do, theres no guarantee you will be chosen 3) your immediate circle, your economic class, education, race impact your perceived social credit 4) luck (even all three are met but some still do not "make it"

It's pretty foolhardy to tell people to go out and gamble and brush off survivorship with vanity. Back to the original parent's comment, they could've easily taken that Google job and continue development of their side project which didn't raise any money and grew organically, anyways.

sorta, yes, and yes ;)

Google IPO: $85

Today: $2500

very cool, did not know there was a market for python web products. constantly being gaslighted by frontend/backend.js crowd.

This article is laughable, coming from someone who has lived in Japan, there are lot of superficial processes and forms that the society knows is useless but individuals are powerless to stop it, for instance the idea that coordinated hand eye movement of pointing is contributing to safety, situational awareness (one rail worker was caught playing mobile games and that's just one), its more of a top to bottom bureaucrat culture and thinking. Ton of rail systems/workers outside Japan have impeccable track record too without the stupid pointing gestures.

Japan's strength comes from following the rule to the letter but it also comes with the ridiculous overheads that puts downward pressure on productivity.

I'm sure some westerner will gawk at anything novel, for instance the usage of fax machine and the claim that its secure from vulnerabilities. Yes, paper can't get hacked but the overall disadvantage slows down Japan Inc., and its entering now the 40th year of stagnation and unlikely to improve going forward. In fact, it's already being outclassed by its neighbors who adopted bandwidth and digitization at the turn of the millennia.

This article has absolutely no merit whatsoever, the same attitude can be applied to Japan's worse problems like ijime culture over the slightest things.

if you owned stock options and invested it in Google with portion of your salary going to it, you absolutely would be looking at extreme returns. The power of compounded returns is still not clear to some I see.

With that money you could've funded any side project that generates recurring revenue.

I don't get why you should quit your job, take on tremendous amount of risk for a highly improbable outcome with heavy survivorship bias.

tarsnap is a one man show and he's not building a startup. he could've easily worked at Google, take advantage of the rising stock prices AND continue work on his SaaS. Lot of us do exactly that because it doesn't make sense to leave a good paying job at a large company to take on tremendous risk at as you said, consuming endeavour with small probability of success (+90% failure rate).

I don't get why people are so upset at my comment or why that should warrant ad hominem attacks.

I merely mentioned that parent could've had a job at Google and benefited from it. He made it sound like it was a power move, it really wasn't. My argument is only that he took on even more risk by not taking advantage of Google's offer and growing stock prices to fund his passion. He doesn't seem like the type to get distracted by a day job either.

    I'm still a bit steamed from being gaslit all throughout the mid-2010s years when we were told <div id="root"></div> + SPA was The One True Way of building web applications. 

omg. tell me about it. One CTO I remember flat out getting angry that his reason for using React was because Facebook was doing it. that's it

We are going to see more reversion to '05 days, with financials of SaaS as interest rates rise. I remember one CFO getting mad because spending $2 to make $1 doesn't make sense as an enterprise company and that his reason was because we are in a new economy.

Perhaps I'm extrapolating but it seems that the boring, predictable and old is that way because it's been through market manias, both financially and technologically during periods of novelty recycling.

Absolutely refreshing to read and I feel that many of us are fed up with the 2015 approach, two codebases, with much of the woes coming from the frontend.

I'm super relieved to see that many of us are beginning to see the emperor without clothes.

Seems you understood it just fine.

The two aren't mutually exclusive, you could've easily started out with salary + stock options that would've put you in a better position to start a side gig.

Then you might actually be driving a lambo now too ;)

You are being pressured to get higher salary for the same level of work you are currently doing and this is a problem? Strange.

I feel such a disconnect from all the comments. Seems most engineers/manager in the comments are pulling by my estimates, $400,000~$1,000,000+ a year arguing over culture. I don't get it because it's not an issue outside of FANG. Seen far more ugly stuff in companies that pay 90% of that in Canada. It explains why there's a big brain drain here.

I'm genuinely worried for that guy. He's exposing powerful connected people and I can't really see that end well. It's not like people retweeting and liking his tweets have any sort of power like what is alleged.

guessing this doesn't work with Canada

I don't see anything wrong with this. We regularly see YC companies getting upvoted.

absolutely insane. seems like its installing pip packages and running localhost in the browser? I don't 100% grasp what is happening underneath the hood. But usually you would launch the local server, browse over to http://localhost to view it in your browser. This is running the web server inside Web Assembly inside your browser? Is it then possible to expose that local web server inside web assembly to the internet? Crazy stuff! looks like its possible to speed up the initial load time by using web workers, very much eager to see that in action.

    Loading...
    distutils already loaded from default channel
    Loading micropip, pyparsing, packaging
    Loaded micropip, pyparsing, packaging
    Loading ssl, openssl
    Loaded ssl, openssl
    distutils already loaded from default channel
    pyparsing already loaded from default channel
    Loading setuptools
    Loaded setuptools

but wouldn't it be easy to catch people with lot of near expiry far OTM put options for instance?

Or are these people going on r/wallstreetbets to write long DD upvoted by bots, purchased accounts, awards, under VPN to make their purchases seem organic?

Still wouldn't it be obvious somebody doing that routinely and establishing a pattern of unusually high win rates before earnings?

Sort of like how poker companies catch cheaters, simply by knowing the average win rate to be within a specific distribution, even the slightest deviation or outlier would send its risk management scrutinizing play by play to determine a pattern.

Wouldn't large state actors with web of shell companies be able to obfuscate and get away with impunity? Literally printing money and also weaponizing a foreign financial market.

same can be said of the parent's comment. just say something contrarian and not back it up.

you haven't worked in the industry long enough if you haven't encountered poorly constructed/documented API integration from vendors.

the ideal world you described does not exist on this planet.

Felt like a wallstreetbets post. Inflation is only at "8%" (still remember back in 2021 calling this a conspiracy), so 8 / 12 = ~0.7% = 700 USD loss / month on 10k deposit.

okay thought it wasn't working because it seems to take a long time for the spinner to go away. but I'm very impressed with the todo.py! This is what frontend should be and in 5 years or so I wouldn't be surprised to see python taking over. If only the initial payload for the python runner was smaller and if only browsers started supporting webassembly/python stack out of the box!!!

    from datetime import datetime as dt
    from utils import add_class, remove_class
    from js import console

    tasks = []

    # define the task template that will be use to render new templates to the page
    task_template = Element("task-template").select('.task', from_content=True)
    task_list = Element("list-tasks-container")
    new_task_content = Element("new-task-content")

    def add_task(*ags, **kws):
    # create task
    task_id = f"task-{len(tasks)}"
    task = {"id": task_id, "content": new_task_content.element.value, "done": False, "created_at": dt.now()}

    tasks.append(task)
    
    # add the task element to the page as new node in the list by cloning 
    taskHtml = task_template.clone(task_id, to=task_list)
    taskHtmlContent = taskHtml.select('p')
    taskHtmlContent.element.innerText = task['content']
    taskHtmlCheck = taskHtml.select('input')
    task_list.element.appendChild(taskHtml.element)
    
    def check_task(evt=None):
        task['done'] = not task['done']
        if task['done']:
        add_class(taskHtmlContent, "line-through")
        else:
        remove_class(taskHtmlContent, "line-through")

    new_task_content.clear()
    taskHtmlCheck.element.onclick = check_task

    def add_task_event(e):
    if (e.key == "Enter"):
        add_task()

depends on Owen's agent. think it will be a bad look if he did go after it. also tough to make money off ads these days

pretty cool but will never use it until enough blue checkmarked twitter handles I follow are on it. If anything it will probably be replicated by existing social networks. Good work and its a neat idea

but if you can't generate enough revenues to justify valuations you wouldn't go anywhere either. i guess it is better to find that out after raising millions and paying yourself a fat salary

i guess you make millions a month, i will still take 3k a month MRR.

good to hear the improvements! dont know why you would be downvoted for this. HN really has fallen from grace.

really bizarre all the ppl who improved themselves from abstaining from porn are being downvoted and flagged. is somebody absolute in their beliefs that they would try to censor others who have reached self improvement?

absolutely bizarre and juvenile sort of the behavior you would find on reddit

can you explain why you decided to flag this?