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by granshaw 5y ago
4+ year Chicago resident here. Chicago neighborhoods vary night and day to each other. Crime is very well contained to the dangerous ones, and the neighborhoods where are tech worker can afford and would want to stay in are very safe.
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by granshaw 5y ago
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"
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by granshaw 5y ago
It’s very easy if you’re a Google Ads customer. Really underscores the “you’re not the customer, you’re the product” saying
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by granshaw 5y ago
Aka the Google model
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by granshaw 5y ago
Exactly. Don’t for a second buy into any notion that Putin has gone crazy - within the framework where human life has no value and the population is so placated that risk of popular revolution is small, everything he’s done sofar is complet
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by granshaw 5y ago
I remember those and they were such a breath of fresh air. Just like coding interviews where you’re allowed to lookup docs, which is the case on the job
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by granshaw 5y ago
If you can get funding to maintain a steady salary sure, otherwise the financial risk is through the roof
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by granshaw 5y ago
Umm, those things have nothing to do with web _design_, but are rather a function of market dynamics
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by granshaw 5y ago
Bingo. Many people at a certain point have figured out they’re fine (or have to) be a rat, but they’ve had enough of the race. Just do a decent job while preserving as much of your mental energy as you can for your family and your actual li
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’m old enough to remember a time where carrier grade NAT wasn’t freaking everywhere and everyone actually had a static dedicated IP address You could start a multiplayer game of StarCraft just by putting in your friends IP. It was wonderfu
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by granshaw 5y ago
Nowadays HN is far different from its roots of being a founder hangout. By far the biggest audience are tech workers who don’t have or even want entrepreneurship experience.
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by granshaw 5y ago
We’ll, you know, it’s kinda true in other careers, and that’s where the belief comes from. Needing to constantly keep up is quite unique to Tech, and is a good or bad thing depending on your outlook
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by granshaw 5y ago
I think he's missing one big endgame – becoming a [Co-]Founder. The most risky of the bunch, and with the most variables outside of your control, but it IS there as an option, esp if you have relevant or prestigious experience as a sen
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by granshaw 5y ago
Become a contractor. You’ll pretty much be coding all the time. Don’t get scared by the business-management side, you can pick it up pretty quickly and then it doesn’t take up all that much time
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by granshaw 5y ago
What now? Reddit is incredibly diverse these days
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by granshaw 5y ago
Something something pedo submarine
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by granshaw 5y ago
That's annual comp – you just need to sell your soul at one-year increments for however long you feel it's worthwhile ;)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Are you referring to the uncle bob martins of the world who mostly do classes? Surely not 50k a week doing implementation work right?
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by granshaw 5y ago
Small price to pay for 400-500k TC
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by granshaw 5y ago
Not sure if that was a sarcastic reply but if not You’re missing the point - which was that these fools will often be better paid and more well off than you :)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Systems design on how he’d build a hotel booking site
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by granshaw 5y ago
Broadly I think society only considers “harmful” activities as addictive - drinking, porn, your usual If you can’t stop doing something that’s societally acceptable or even lauded, you’re just “passionate”
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by granshaw 5y ago
Bingo. IME Producthunt is lazy marketing for indie founders. Their main user base is other founders, wannabe founders and super tech literate power users who are itching to use “the next new beta thing”, who’ll be a tiny percentage of any
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by granshaw 5y ago
Hah yeah that line was pure gold and probably just made my day
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by granshaw 5y ago
It’s how we were programmed biologically and evolutionally, that’s it.
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’m curious in the “breaking free from unfulfilling corporate tech job” part
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’d wager the opposite, that they have this scheme precisely because through all of their optimization they’ve discovered that this was the most profitable
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by granshaw 5y ago
Risk aversion and predictability, I think, is the root of it all. Ideal employees are like ideal business finances: safe and predictable
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by granshaw 5y ago
I think it’s the closest to rails in philosophy where they aim for sane defaults and one way to do things and also prioritize the dev experience Oh, and also they provide a repl to your app code and data… that is huge and super hard to find
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by granshaw 5y ago
Last I looked the rails like JS framework was https://adonisjs.com/

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