larrykubin

I would live as I did in :gasp: 2019. I would simply write code myself and spend less time talking to chatbots. I was more in demand then too.

The Odd Lots podcast puts my wife to sleep

I think I signed up one of the first days after it launched, it was called Startup News. Either from a pg essay or reddit, can't remember which.

I have a history going back to 2012, which is great. I've always worried Spotify would stop working with last.fm, I wonder if this makes it more or less likely.

For me personally, looking for solutions like this and researching tinnitus makes it more noticeable and worse. The best approach for me has been to pretend it doesn't exist and is insignificant, and even though it's still there after 7 years, it doesn't bother me as much anymore.

I always traced this to Ryan Holiday marketing the philosophy and selling books on the topic and starting a YouTube channel "The Daily Stoic"

This page shows some sites still using ColdFusion:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-coldfusion

NPS.gov

walgreens.com

acm.org

Cornell University: https://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm

FDA: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cber/ReleaseNotes.cfm...

Yeah, the people I've worked with at startups never said things like "I'm worried I'll get in trouble", they just did shit

Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

I was finishing up engineering school around this time. I just remember handing out my resume at various career fairs and not getting any interest. Most of my friends and I took very low paying jobs that were not directly related to our chosen fields and scraped by for a few years. By 2004 or so things picked up and I was so excited to get my first programming job.

Yeah, I bought past versions of the Surface and the Surface Book. They would often never wake up from sleep or the battery would be dead unexpectedly. Hard for me to trust them after feeling like I wasted money multiple times.

There was an interview with the CEO on This Week in Startups today that answers some of these questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw

Was reading about Blank Street Coffee raising money recently to compete:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90867251/blank-street-coffee-rai...

I lived in Seattle for 4 years (2014-2017) and moved to SF in 2017.

1. Over time the weather in Seattle got to me and I became depressed. I've gotten more sunshine in the Bay Area and that has made all of the difference to me. People complain about the fog in SF but after living in Seattle and Portland I find SF weather to be almost perfect year round. The things I don't like about SF are well documented in the news and social media, just look it up on YouTube or Twitter and you'll see footage from Market St. / Tenderloin areas.

However, most of my time is spent between Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, which is just beautiful and pretty chill. The neighborhoods are walkable, have natural beauty, great food, and various venues where I enjoy hanging. So while I often see SF described as a "hellscape" and a "warzone", much of my daily life feels like a pretty postcard and is fairly quiet and peaceful.

2. I owned a 3 bedroom townhouse in Seattle but rent a 2 bedroom flat in San Francisco. I saved a lot in taxes and had a low mortgage in Seattle. SF is definitely more expensive, but the added cost was worth it for me since I've personally been happier. YMMV, some people seem to hate it here.

3. My pay went up in SF and I have had a variety of opportunities that I might not have had elsewhere.

4. Yes, I have been better at making friends in San Francisco. I never had much of a social circle in Seattle and failed in my efforts there. I do feel like SF has become a bit worse socially since the pandemic. I made quite a few new friends pre-2020, but not as many since. Also some of my favorite music venues and hangouts closed down in recently years.

5. I don't know anything about schools, day care, etc.

Just follow the accounts of the tools and authors you mentioned on Twitter. LangChainAI, hwchase17, huggingface, replit, etc. It seems like there is a meetup in SF every few days lately. There was just a langchain meetup in the Presidio area and a big AI event at the Exploratorium.

Any promising cures for tinnitus in the future? I've had it since 2018 and it appeared during a time when I was very stressed out. I have learned how to tune it out and live with it most of the time, but wish I could eliminate it all together. At the beginning I would look up different tricks for dealing with it, but they all seemed to make it worse. The most effective for me was to learn to ignore it.

My path was to join a mobile game company and work server side. There is plenty of need for vanilla REST APIs, content management systems, build pipelines, devops, admin panel development, billing systems, and other code required to run the game. I've also seen demand for technical artists who write plug-ins for Unity and other tools that help 3d artists. Whatever path you use to get in, it's pretty easy from there to move around to other areas and companies.

Developer Relations / Developer Advocate jobs involve a lot of travel.

For those not aware, you can also access O'Reilly books online through many local libraries for free:

Seattle: https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/books-and-ebooks/oreilly...

San Francisco: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/335267

Others: https://www.oreilly.com/library-access/

I second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I've been working on a side project that uses Supabase (built on PostgreSQL). There was a post on HN yesterday on PostgreSQL full text search and now I want to incorporate that as well.

I was a full time web dev on a 2011 Air with 4 GB, so this one should be good :).

Similar experience, lived in both Seattle and Portland. There is a lot to like about the Pacific Northwest and I loved living there the first few years. But as the years passed I got a bit more depressed.

Had to pay a lot more to move to California, but the sunshine tax has been worth it for me.

Michael Arrington argues Silverlight is the future of the web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531

Segway, Google+, Google Glass, Theranos

From what I remember, Hacker News enjoyed crypto discussions in its very early days (early 2010's) when it was just bitcoin and a small number of technologists discussing it.

I think I noticed a turning point when it became more mainstream and rebranded to "web3". The nonstop hyping of NFT's and "web3 is the future" and "web3 will make web2 obsolete" takes on Twitter has gotten a bit annoying. This is coming from someone who finds it interesting and has spent some time working in crypto.

No, you need to be patient, persistent, and keep making content. I just crossed 50K subscribers and 3 million views for a Python for Finance tutorials channel (https://youtube.com/parttimelarry).

You are well ahead of my pace so far. It looks like you just started in December and it's only January.

I documented my stats on Twitter:

End of Year 1 (2019) (first 5 months July-December 31). 100 subscribers.

https://twitter.com/PartTimeLarry/status/1211790724259176449

End of Year 2. (2020) 10,000 Subscribers.

https://twitter.com/PartTimeLarry/status/1337845070515466240

End of Year 3. (2021) 50,000 Subscribers.

Keep going if you have the time and good things will happen. In Casey Neistat's 10 Million video, he says the hardest thing is getting the first 10,000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7_XJ1WUqk

This is definitely possible. My career in the early 2000's was spent as a mainframe developer and a ColdFusion developer (not very common these days). Then later did random startups and freelance projects for years.

Around 15 years into my career, I got a software engineer position at a game company and had a lot of fun. There are plenty of companies that could use your help. Sure, there will be some that consider you overqualified or may make assumptions based on your long resume, but you only need one yes.

Go through the intro Solidity / Ethereum project on buildspace, it's free. They do a live kickoff on Twitch and then the rest can be done at your own pace in a day. I think it is worthwhile to try it out for yourself - make a simple React UI, use ethers.js to connect a wallet, and interact with a smart contract. Deploy to a test network.

I would buy 25 shares of QQQ

I was going to post this standalone, but will post it here. I was recently reading the Hacker News initial reaction to Facebook acquiring Instagram in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840

One of the commenters says it will be the equivalent to Google buying YouTube. To which another commenter replies "bookmark this comment, see you in 2022". And here we are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3818055