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I had covid. I can tell you losing my business from the lockdowns was infinitely more depressing than losing my sense of smell/taste for 5 days.

NicoJuicy 5y ago
Somewhere else you mentioned being a junior dev? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231702 For 2 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119765 And you were never happier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26068330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26068330 Covid had, as far as I know of, no impact on dev work. On the contrary. ( I was curious on which sector covid had an impact in this community)
- 1996 5y ago
  Some of us try to start small businesses on the side, just for fun. I'm retired, but I do. I assume active devs do the same - buying a restaurant or a bar that suffered due to covid can be quite cheap at the moment. Now that's been said, going through the person posting history with a fine comb like you did strikes me as rude.
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    I was curious in which sector. So I don't think of it as rude. It could have checked out completely. Even then, failing with a dev business on the side would have been "looking for an external reason of failure" ( which i thought it was). While it would be more blamed on the person, not on covid. To give you a retrospect, blaming something on covid and letting people believe that would be rude too. I wouldn't have bothered if it was a older account or with more karma. Claiming you lost a business due to covid-19 and saying 2 months ago you were never happier with changing job roles is unlikely to be both true. Post history and karma is part of a profile. It's in my right to see if the author has a proven history to make claims like that. Since: I don't know him. Do you? Note: i have a side business too. I'm perfectly aware that people start things on the side...
    - hiimtroymclure 5y ago
      Well consider this my last post on this account but here ya go: I was in marketing and learned to code. In 2019 I quit my job to launch a startup in the live entertainment industry. Things were going well until Covid hit. I had to shut things down and I was grateful to have left marketing and switching to development. But make no mistake I'd rather be running my business. You tried to string together a post history and make assumptions to discredit my original comment. It was rude.
      - NicoJuicy 5y ago
        I've seen tons of people blaming it on other factors. And tons of people blaming everything on covid-19 as soon as it was possible since they are sick of lockdowns. But I'm not sure what niche in frontend development as a founder is available for live entertainment outside of tickets. And yes, that niche would have been affected by covid-19. Almost more than anything else, coinsidence? Most startups downscaled until after covid and if it was in video, transitioning to online video could have been a very viable means. Even podia builders which are directly affected in every way ( i know 2) have temporarily transitioned. What was the name of the startup? You're comments are still incoherent to me, even if I "sound" rude. ~~~ In real life, i would have questioned more to see legitimacy ( it's still perfectly possible to be true) and you wouldn't have noticed it. I'm just using the tools available to my disposal. And I'm still curious on what blocked a transition in that niche if it was in live entertainment as a dev. Since it couldn't been hibernated i would think of something capital intensive and that's why I'm asking the name to check further. Claiming: this is my last post, just adds to me not believing you. Which is a shame. Consider it more as curiosity in the specifics why it failed, than taking it personal. > Well consider this my last post on this account Why do you need multiple accounts? ;) More than in rl, online should be clear since it's easier to misinterpret something ( for better or worse)
        kbelder 5y ago
        Not just rude; looking through somebody's post history to find a gotcha is _embarrasing_.
- robjan 5y ago
  Covid definitely did have an impact on some dev work. I run a consultancy and business development is a lot harder when you can't have face to face meetings with potential clients or prospect for new clients at events.
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    That scope is a bit broader than i anticipated, since you are talking about new projects and meeting new clients. Finding new clients is different than before, yeah. But that's "sales" in my opinion, not dev. A lot of that has been migitated by focusing on e-commerce ( eg. in my side business)
- dang 5y ago
  This crosses into personal attack. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to use HN for cross-examination, and hauling someone's personal details into a different thread is particularly nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22personal%20details%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do any more of this.

NicoJuicy 5y ago

Somewhere else you mentioned being a junior dev? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231702 For 2 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119765 And you were never happier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26068330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26068330 Covid had, as far as I know of, no impact on dev work. On the contrary. ( I was curious on which sector covid had an impact in this community)

1996 5y ago
Some of us try to start small businesses on the side, just for fun. I'm retired, but I do. I assume active devs do the same - buying a restaurant or a bar that suffered due to covid can be quite cheap at the moment. Now that's been said, going through the person posting history with a fine comb like you did strikes me as rude.
- NicoJuicy 5y ago
  I was curious in which sector. So I don't think of it as rude. It could have checked out completely. Even then, failing with a dev business on the side would have been "looking for an external reason of failure" ( which i thought it was). While it would be more blamed on the person, not on covid. To give you a retrospect, blaming something on covid and letting people believe that would be rude too. I wouldn't have bothered if it was a older account or with more karma. Claiming you lost a business due to covid-19 and saying 2 months ago you were never happier with changing job roles is unlikely to be both true. Post history and karma is part of a profile. It's in my right to see if the author has a proven history to make claims like that. Since: I don't know him. Do you? Note: i have a side business too. I'm perfectly aware that people start things on the side...
  - hiimtroymclure 5y ago
    Well consider this my last post on this account but here ya go: I was in marketing and learned to code. In 2019 I quit my job to launch a startup in the live entertainment industry. Things were going well until Covid hit. I had to shut things down and I was grateful to have left marketing and switching to development. But make no mistake I'd rather be running my business. You tried to string together a post history and make assumptions to discredit my original comment. It was rude.
    - NicoJuicy 5y ago
      I've seen tons of people blaming it on other factors. And tons of people blaming everything on covid-19 as soon as it was possible since they are sick of lockdowns. But I'm not sure what niche in frontend development as a founder is available for live entertainment outside of tickets. And yes, that niche would have been affected by covid-19. Almost more than anything else, coinsidence? Most startups downscaled until after covid and if it was in video, transitioning to online video could have been a very viable means. Even podia builders which are directly affected in every way ( i know 2) have temporarily transitioned. What was the name of the startup? You're comments are still incoherent to me, even if I "sound" rude. ~~~ In real life, i would have questioned more to see legitimacy ( it's still perfectly possible to be true) and you wouldn't have noticed it. I'm just using the tools available to my disposal. And I'm still curious on what blocked a transition in that niche if it was in live entertainment as a dev. Since it couldn't been hibernated i would think of something capital intensive and that's why I'm asking the name to check further. Claiming: this is my last post, just adds to me not believing you. Which is a shame. Consider it more as curiosity in the specifics why it failed, than taking it personal. > Well consider this my last post on this account Why do you need multiple accounts? ;) More than in rl, online should be clear since it's easier to misinterpret something ( for better or worse)
      - kbelder 5y ago
        Not just rude; looking through somebody's post history to find a gotcha is _embarrasing_.
robjan 5y ago
Covid definitely did have an impact on some dev work. I run a consultancy and business development is a lot harder when you can't have face to face meetings with potential clients or prospect for new clients at events.
- NicoJuicy 5y ago
  That scope is a bit broader than i anticipated, since you are talking about new projects and meeting new clients. Finding new clients is different than before, yeah. But that's "sales" in my opinion, not dev. A lot of that has been migitated by focusing on e-commerce ( eg. in my side business)
dang 5y ago
This crosses into personal attack. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to use HN for cross-examination, and hauling someone's personal details into a different thread is particularly nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22personal%20details%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do any more of this.