A little over a decade ago, I stopped a project* that got submitted to reddit and hacker news which is how I learned about hacker news via the referrer header.

A little over a decade ago, I stopped a project* that got submitted to reddit and hacker news which is how I learned about hacker news via the referrer header. I was young and not exactly entrenched in the culture as I was in the midwest writing code from books without any desire of community, so I wasn't used to opinions. The negative things expressed caused me a depression since I was proud of my work. Unfortunately, for the business, the right thing to do was to stop developing the language and use shit that the local labor market could handle. This awareness of what the market could support was depressing as hell, and I eventually couldn't be an effective leader for that company as I was more interested in doing interesting things versus the right thing. I found it boring, and that's when I went into big tech to work on interesting things. Now, I'm older, and I'm up to my shenanigans again with a new language: http://www.adama-lang.org/ http://www.adama-lang.org/ One thing that I have learned is that you can't make everyone happy, but you can make a small group of people ecstatic. Next year, I intend to work on my language full-time (ish) and ship something that people can use with just a command-line. * https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ori0/kira_is_a_programming_language_that_compiles_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ori0/kira_is_... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480