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sexbombon Russia bans Reddit

Пожалуйста. As if "Russia" (read: Putin) could even begin to care about his proud, loyal fellow citizens of the Motherland figuring out how to grow their own weed. (Beyond the extent to which it might cut into his Chechen pals' profit channels, that is).

/r/UkraineConflict and the various LGBT fora are far more likely to have been the real drivers behind the decision. They just don't want to come out and say it.

sexbombon Ask HN: Former software engineers who switched careers, why did you do it?

I love both programming and engineering (for those who see a stark contrast between the two); but at some point, the unadorned "senior software engineer" role starts to feel rather menial (and if you will, perennially "junior") -- in the sense of always being asked to do work scoped out by others (and implicitly, not being thought of as capable of thinking about the bigger picture, technically or business-wise). Age definitely has something to do with it, also: the role that seems "hot" when you're in your 20s, what you get looked at as "mature" or "experienced" for in your 30s... but then at a certain point, there's a certain "you're still doing this?" tinge that sets in (as in: why haven't you cashed out, or started your own company, etc).

So while I'll (hopefully) always be coding for at least some portion of the day, for nearly as long as I breathe -- at a certain point I realized there was both a creative and professional -- not to mention financial -- imperative to hybridize. (Which can mean different things for different people -- but basically boils down to adopting some kind of a secondary discipline, either in terms of domain knowledge; or, yes, managing people; or delving directly into the business side of things).

sexbombon The Pleasure of Practicing: A Musician’s Account of Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

So if he doesn't get to play Carnegie Hall, he just ups and drops the whole thing?

The article doesn't mention Carnegie Hall (or Lollapalooza, or Coachella, or any of representatives of their equivalence class). And in any case, that doesn't seem to have been the author's point, from my reading. If anything, it was the exact opposite of his point.

It became evident at an early age that I was not the next Jimmy Page.

Just as it must have been, at a certain point, manifestly evident to both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant that neither of them were the next Skip James. Not even a million, trillion miles from it. And yet... they just kept doing what they were doing.

Do you see where this is getting at?