burntoutfire

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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Become an indie, then you can work with your preferred tools from the nineties and still produce quality software (there are people like that). If you want a job, there's no escaping the tech treadmill though.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Games convey very simplistic ideas compared to the full extent of human thought, expressed in spoken or written form. It's usually way more washed down than cinema, which is already incredibly washed down. Not to mention the benefit of
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Playing a game means mastering skills in a purely fictional world with purely fictional sets of rules and challenges. It doesn't translate into your life, expect in the most abstract way [1]. Whereas reading a newspaper, magazine or a
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I know someone who, while depressed was playing solitaire and one other casual game for hours every day, for months. It was definitely not healthy.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> To be fair, yesteryears' solutions to that for the typical non-rich people were to outsource parenting to grandparents and family friends, which are still applicable now. It's way less aplicable because people move so much. N
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It's a gradual process which started at least 50 years ago. It was only recently hyped by various media and academia pundits, because it (hyping things) is how they make a living. See also: self-driving cars.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I am actually living like that as well (I've worked maybe 10-12 of the past 20 years). Still, even when I'm between contracts, the rat race and hamster-on-a-wheel syndrome prevents me from fully relaxing. I will always worry abou
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Yep, I agree. Parenting in modern world while not being wealthy just sounds terrible. It's one huge regression from how it was done before we started civilization, and especially since we started modern living (with atomic families, ma
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
The best thing about childhood to me was probably being worry-free. After you've done your homework or passed a test in school, there was absolutely nothing more to worry about your mind was 100% free to play and explore. Such state is
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Did you expect more free time? Judging by the parents I know, 2 hours of free time for yourself every day is not bad.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> I really don't think the PNW and coastal Poland is similar (if it's anything like Sweden). The PNW is like if the Alps had a huge coastline and almost no population to speak of. Check out Olympic National Park and remember th
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> You later changed to "worth it" I didn't change anything. I think it's clear that I passed on opportunity to go to Seattle because I didn't think it was worth it (why else would I pass on it)? > I suspect yo
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Of these, the following are important today: Barley, Corn, Goat grass, Millet, Oats, Rice, Sorghum, and Wheat. What about Rye?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I never said that. (What I said is that, after already seeing NYC, SF and Las Vegas, I didn't expect the trip to Seatle to be worth it). Next time, please read more carefully before you start posting pointless comments.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> You think you can just walk into a job paying $500k without some kind of rigorous interview process? The point is, "that rigorous interview process" are just arbitrary hoops to jump through to see if you're obedient. Tha
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Thanks for being helpful...
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Haven't been to Seattle so can't comment in earnest, but from that I've seen on pictures and Street View, the downtown is just your typical American large city downtown (once you've seen Manhattan, you've seen them
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It may be European perspective, but there are dozens of absolutely gorgeous historic cities within an hour or two of flight from where I live, so flying sixteen hours to see Seattle (where I could fly two hours to see Paris or Rome) is just
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd have much time to venture outside of the city. Plus, I live in climate that's similar to PNW (coastal Poland), and actually the desert surrounding Las Vegas and semi-desert Bay Area were much more interesting
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Apart from tiny tourist part of Las Vegas, are they really that different? I've walked around Las Vegas to see how the real city (not the tourist part) looks like, and it was just an endless grid of streets with condos, houses and mini
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Have you perhaps considered that they're not very diverse? This. Being a European, after seeing NYC, SF and Las Vegas, I passed on an opportunity to go for a week-long business trip to Seattle. Even though I had the time, I imagin
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I think it's most people's version of hell. Even in Scandinavian countries, well-off people live in houses on a plot of land, not in apartments.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It's called a hobby or (better yet) a retirement.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
That is because EU has Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and other places where Western Europe partially outsourced parts of its manufacturing. It was more expensive than moving it to China, but otherwise much more convenient and less risky.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Moreover the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries taught us that focusing on the nation-state leads to widespread warfare. Better to have those nation-states in economic cooperation that leads to peace than economic compe
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Every week, there is someone whose lottery ticket wins millions or tens of millions of dollars. It's not fair, but such is life - some people are just more lucky than others. The smartest thing you can do about it is to not dwell on it
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
For me, that's just a developer. A junior is someone who needs handholding, a regular developer can do their own work, while a senior has impact that goes beyond their own work (can coach juniors, make bigger decisions which affect tea
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
It's cheaper than the cheapest electric car available in EU, but with those specs it's barely a car and more of a large scooter with a chassis. For one thing, the safety in a crash must be horrible. EDIT: just checked and the chea
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I'm betting that most people outside of Italy also can't tell where Verona or Orvieto or Tivoli are.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Interestingly, I see the complete opposite. High rates for remote contracts (700, even 800 pounds per day) in London companies, but almost all of them they want to hire remotely from the UK only. I'm not sure if there's some pract

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