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tthrowawayyon Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes

Or "we'll sleep when we're dead". That sure is where you're going if you think that way.

tthrowawayyon Ask HN: How you ever quit because the engineering culture is too messed up?

I once worked at a place where everyone working there was recruited straight out of school. They were nurturing a mentality of "I don't have to learn things ever again". Mind you, they were using Delphi 2010 at the time but were stuck in their old ways, using DataSets like it was 1998.

I was hired and had about 3 years of experience back then. It seemed like they tought they knew everything about software development at that point and swore to themselves to would never learn something new again. They were perfectly happy with their "misc" file, containing somewhere near 45K lines of code, hundreds of functions that were totally unrelated. Nothing wrong with that, according to them.

So yeah, I spent 8 months there. One wednesday afternoon, I had enough and went to my boss, handed my resignation, and never stepped in that office ever again.

tthrowawayyon Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?

That's exactly what retiring is, only with the hope you die before your funds run out.