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Man invented computers and is 80. He can boast a little bit for all I care.

Add crypto to that list too.

Comments on other internet sources I follow are mostly mixed bag of beans, however here they are prevalently salty when it comes to crypto and every time I stumble upon topic like this I wonder why. I was expecting that HN audience sees blockchain tech and bitcoin for what it is, and unique capabilities it offers, beyond "omg its a ponzi scheme!!11!" narrative.

I'm really curious why that annoys you? As I mentioned earlier, almost any emerging technology will go through period of instability, and with bitcoin and its speculative nature this is certainly the case. And there are people that are ready to ride that wave.

Bitcoin is here to stay. You're mixing up shitcoins and other ponzi-like schemes.

As with any new & emerging technology, blockchain ecosystem hosts various (intentional or unintentional) FUD and malicious coins that are backed by nothing and often run in a ponzi scheme manner. These coins will eventually crash and disappear.

Bitcoin's intrinsic values are similar to other asset classes, plus, its also decentralized and censorship resistant.

Controversial take, but the amount of salty comments on crypto here always amuses me.

Care to elaborate how is bitcoin untraceable exactly?

My previous employer used it, and I use it nowadays for my side project. I like it, but granted, its the only log ingestion software I've ever used, so cant compare it. The charts I made are nice and I can easily pinpoint errors, bottlenecks and similar in my platform/code.

Here are some views that we're using for our little startup:

https://i.imgur.com/Q1V6ArY.png

https://i.imgur.com/rCfg4nr.png

https://i.imgur.com/GgYHgPA.png

I disagree here. I think this is a valid way to distinct 10x engineers vs other ones.

I broke up with a girlfriend shortly before whole hell broke loose, so February to April lockdown has been the loneliest time in my life, but I powered through it by working a lot (two fulltime jobs + startup) and having few close friends that I hung out with. Also started doing yoga and meditation which immensely alleviated anxiety and loneliness.

All in all, I held up pretty well, but I don't think I would be able to power through another lockdown. I'm from Belgrade, Serbia and looking to fly somewhere warm and remote for the fall and winter (Thailand/Bali/Mexico) where I'd have more freedom than being locked down in an apartment.

All the time. I put pride in my code. I worked in various teams and codebases and came to appreciate the quality of my code.

Thanks for giving me advice on database syncing, but I think that you kinda missed the point.

It doesn't matter how I chose 10 seconds as a periodic task interval, problem was that to a simple question about feature support I got dismissive/borderline rude answer which made me lose confidence in Huey as a project and it's long-term maintainability. And it's not like I asked for something exotic, but a support for subminute periodic tasks which almost every other task queue has.

That issue doesn't seem to be anywhere in Github, so it's deleted: https://github.com/coleifer/huey/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%...

As you said, it's a free software and you can do whatever you want with it, but to me this is a huge red flag and I'm happy to not be part of it. ;)

I also liked Huey because of it's simplicity, and tried using it in a commercial project, but it couldn't execute periodic tasks in less than a minute intervals which puzzled me a bit. I had need to execute task every 10 seconds to reindex database changes to ElasticSearch.

After opening GitHub issue about it and asking if there were plans to implement sub-minute intervals, library's author (coleifer on github) had dismissive/arrogant attitude, and his reply was something along the lines of "too bad you cannot fork it and do it by yourself" and deleted my thread.

This threw me off from using this library, and I went back to Celery.

I didn't know this was possible, thanks!

I prefer to use keyboard instead mouse.

While this looks cool, I learned over time that basic Windows shell works just fine for productivity purposes: https://i.imgur.com/HC4evaK.jpg, and this would just add another layer on top which potentially requires maintenance, troubleshooting or debugging.

The only additional customization I have is a little utility I wrote in C++ that runs in background and provides hotkeys to launch Chrome, Sublime Text, Total Commander and Cmder via Win+1, Win+2, etc hotkeys.

And to run any other program, it is enough to hit Win key and start typing that programs name.

I'm active in development related channels on freenode (e.g. #python, #aws, #docker, etc). As a contractor who codes alone most of the time, it's a great source of help if I can't solve something, or to hear opinion of others about something.

Thanks, very insightful.

It requires a lot of pampering, but I quite enjoy using it and discovering it's possibilities. I am using it for the startup project which I work on, that has search feature very similar to Instagram one. Do you have any other suggestions for search engine that is flexible enough? I don't want to couple things too tightly by using zombodb and similar stuff.

This is truly amazing. I have always developed on Windows and recently got a new contract where whole development environment is based on OSX/Linux. It has saved me hours and hours of work (and $$$) since I can run their environment in subsystem, while keeping Windows interface. Thank you, Nadella.

Yeah, ever heard of empathy?

USA, had few from bay area as well. I work in the mornings or just read the news and learn some new things since I am more-or-less on holidays now and will start looking for full-time contract more actively soon.

Timezone difference (+13h) can be PITA.

I'm a 29 year old freelancer / digital nomad, been traveling and doing high-profile tech contracts for last 5 years. I go with the flow. It really depends on the contract and what's currently going on in my life, or where I am.

Last summer I was in Europe and I've been working 10-12h per day in August (my peak month so far). June-November approx 4-6 hours a day.

Now I'm in Koh Phangan, Thailand and work few hours a month, but fully focusing on healthy lifestyle and training/meditation.

In April I go back to Europe and plan is to grind hard for the next few years. I work in bursts. My routine when I work full-time is having breakfast at my place or a coffee shop and working from there in the morning, hitting the gym around noon, then more work at home/another coffee shop, and unwind during the evening.

There are exceptions to this, if I don't feel productive in the afternoons, I postpone work for evening. I again tend to feel the "flow" of my mental productivity and organize around that. Never had any strict rules and it's been working pretty fine so far.

I worked on an online poker platform software as a developer and team leader, where client was professional poker player with zero vision about the product. It was a mess. Team was also terrible and irresponsible. 2 years and 150 KLOC later, we had a product without any vision.

It was good money and just what I needed right then. I used that money and time to travel and live digital nomad lifestyle, which directly impacted and transformed my professional career in a great way. So, that part, I don't regret. But I regret wasting 2 years of my professional development time down the drain on a product without vision. I learned a lot about handling people and about the lifecycle of a bad product tho.

Thanks!

Honest answer is that I don't know exactly why. I am really torn about this right now. After 5 years of moving around all the places look more or less the same and I am getting pretty lonely/anxious/depressed due to lack of stability/constant friendships and relationships.

So I have to make a homebase to fix this. But the problem is that I feel like I would be making a mistake whichever place I choose.

At one side I like Europe more because it's better aligned to my personality, interests and also the standard of living is higher. I would settle down somewhere in south of France, Italy, or Spain, and then travel maybe few months per year max. I want to start a family and figured out Asia is not the right place for me to do this.

At the other side there's SEA and all the spicyness it brings. I go back to Europe every summer and spend winters in Asia, and I have good friends in SEA which I miss, but I feel like I am delaying the "real life" whenever I go there.

It's a good question to which I don't have a good answer to. I am going through a bit of existential crisis right now due to this.

Buying one way ticket to Thailand, leaving Eastern Europe and becoming a digital nomad when I was 24. I'm 29 now and looking to make a home base somewhere in Europe after 5 years of traveling, but the personal growth, people I've met and experiences during this time were invaluable.

Freelancing agencies. More specifically, Toptal, Gigster and Pilot.co.