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Nice write up. It looks like we did our bachelor's around same time though it seems you don't have any kids yet, right? Having a kid has complicated a few things but hopefully nothing too bad

Agreed, last few years I have been working in semi-leadership position. At first, I thought I wanted to move to management but it wasn't exactly what I expected. However, my technical skills suffered. I tried to go back to a simple dev jobs but didn't get hired.

So the plan is build products but also focus on acqui-hire possibilities. If that fails, make sure my resume benefits from my projects. While I am already making pretty decent salary but if all those rumors about FAANG salaries are true, I can double my salary easily. So I can easily recover lost paychecks.

Well that's the idea, who knows how it will play out.

For last few years, I have been telling myself to take it slow and do what you are doing now. I got a easy but a boring job. I figured this way I will save all my mental energy for my projects after work.

But this is slowly burning me out. The boredom of not doing any real work for 8 hours is soul killing. I do a lot of busy red tape work but it is not intelluctly stimulating.

So now I will do 180 and quit my job in a few months and go indie solo founder route.

Agreed.

Right now, I have about dozen unused names that I bought because I was working on some ideas but got side tracked. Maybe I will finish these projects next year or next decade.

But I don't want some 3rd party deciding if I should lose my domains because I didn't write enough code last month.

Not enough. As my current team is in love with NoSQL and refuse to learn anything related to SQL. But when dealing with legacy stuff, I get to do all SQL related work. Anything in SQL is faster to develop and execute than NoSQL. Only advantage of NoSQL is that you don't need to think about your data, just stuff everything in a json.

I stopped buying water filters from Amazon after a few which looked exactly like real thing but tasted funny. Upon very close inspection, there were tiny differences but impossible to notice casually.

Yeah per year. Tbf they also provided a lot of hands on consulting and training too.

One of my client charged $100k+ for their SaaS product. It simply guided clients to setup their IT budgets. They had 10s of customers. The value this software provided was worth it to the right customer.

Also in countries like India and Pakistan with very high percentage of smokers, we are seeing very low COVID19 cases.

While a lot of people are skeptical of the official numbers from these countries, I think they have free media and if cases were high, we would have known.

While GoDaddy doesn't have the best support, they have fixed many account related issues for my clients in the past.

A lot of devs don't realize that other than your HR manager, you can ignore others. Anytime a PM asked me something unreasonable, I simply said no and if They pretended like i need to obey them, I got my real manager involved. It always worked out in my favor.

It saddens me to see so many devs especially the H1Bs getting abused by PMs.

I believe they are talking about Wikileaks.

I love programming but hate to do it in corporations full of red tapes

LinkedIn had dark patterns on day one. Search posts right here on HackersNews. You will see a lot of shady stuff Linkedin was doing in early 2010s.

I see your pount about insurance but would love if health insurance and medical costs were more transparent.

In some countries without mandatory health insurance, medical cost is a lot lower and simpler. If major medical emergency happens, then families usually need to take out a loan. But for regular medical issues, you save for it. This includes issues like childbirth which in America very few people can afford without insurance.

I imagine, having health or car insurances gives some sense of false security, which leads to poor lifestyle choices or driving fast, which in turn causes one to experience bad health or accidents, thus using their insurance. Which causes insurance rates to rise. And one is not directly negotiating with hospital or bodyshop, those prices rises too.

It is legal but ToS may prohibit it.

In my experience, as a Pakistani who grew up in the middle east and had friends from all over the world in an American college, it is pretty universal to feel pressured to be doing something productive all the time.

Evolution has built altruistic behavior in many animal species. Just recently I read about some single celled species where in extreme circumstances, a few of cells self-scarfice so that rest can survive.

I am confused, are you using MomentJS for fancy output like 3 days ago etc or for simple output like 5/31/2020? I can see how it is useful in former case but seems overkill in later case.

Forcing companies to host hateful content will drive away regular users. That's not good for business.

This is 100% true especially stupid libraries that are someone's class project. And JavaScript developers are so used to dependency hell that one of my developer imported 3rd party package for date formatting.

Of course, no one planned it. But encouraging or demanding to take shortcuts is what caused it.

I have been in software industry for 15 years and this happens all the time, being forced to release unfinished features, asked to ignore security, backups, etc. I would imagine same thing happens in other industries.

As consumer, you may not be able to stop child labor but you can vote with your wallet.

Several of my friends buy clothes from a few vetted brands because of exactly this issue.

Then I have another friend who was huge cruise ships fan. He encouraged me to go on my first cruise too. But then there was a report about mistreatment of cruiseship employees, and he is totally against cruiseships now. His actions probably won't change anything alone but if enough consumers start to act like him, a change may happen.

Not a whole lot more. I had one job at a small company where I made more than my direct manager.

As a web developer, i am tired of JavaScript and whole web ecosystem and want try desktop or mobile apps. But then I read stuff like this and just cannot imagine building a business where AI or one single outsourced moderator can upend my business.

I hate regulations but I am of opnion that if you are a platform that other people use to make living then you should be regulated. Don't be platform of you cannot provide processes to handle appeals or able to pay massive damages in case of false positives.

For now, I will stick with webdev.

And just because in other industries people are used to taking smaller portions of revenue they generated, doesn't mean that we should do same.

Also unlike in some creative industries, software engineers tend to have higher education and are better able to understand their economic contributions.

I am with you here, it seems perfectly neutral question to me.

But this reminds me of a time when I went to movies with some younger family memeber and their friends. After the movie they asked each other if they loved the movie. To me love was really strong word. I wanted to say I liked it, not loved it but then I thought no need to be negative here. So I just said yes.

So when people ask did you like the movie, many people subconsciously say yes even if they disliked it.

This is really amazing, I never thought that there are people who would accept wrong food in a resturant. Also finding it kind of unbelievable that there are so many people who accept cold food. Is it because right now a lot of us are feeling bad for resturants or is it normal behavior for some people?

If you are in a resturant with friends and get a wrong food, would you tell your friends? I am wondering because I have never seen anyone stay quite if their food order was wrong. Just wondering if it may have happened among my group of friends, and they quitely ate their food.

If Amazon ships you a wrong product, would you keep that instead of what you had ordered?

I don't think you can make excuses for UberEats or whatever. Food delivery is not a new problem. I have been ordering pizza and Chinese food for more than 2 decades. It is very rare when we received cold pizza. And most of the time when it happened resturants proactively refunded us or gave coupons for another time.

It is kind of amazing how many times UberEats, GrubHub, etc deliver cold food. Not just for me but vast majority of my friends report same thing.

As a consumer, I rather get refund so bad companies can go bankrupt before becoming too big to fail.

I use Fi, when it was Project Fi they had great support. Now it is Google Fi and my last interaction with their support was bad enough that I am ready to switch. I would never trust Google with my business.