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interpreters, compilers, memory hierarchy Those are nice if you want to do embedded and C. A complete waste of time for Frontend/Backend, mobile and desktop people in the beginnings.

Tell me why someone picking up Python/JS should learn the above mentioned things, rather than learn basic security principles and not pip/npm install blindly all the packages without checking the source? Change my mind.

Sure, patch your software, but you can keep accumulated feature requests on a separate branch. Then, as time goes on, decide whether you should rather monetize on an updated and more feature rich version, or just push updates and make people happy. I'd say there is more money in the first option, while the second makes me feel better. It's the developer's choice. Check https://www.holdemmanager.com/ how they do it.

For OP's kind of software, I'd say one time license purchase would be the most user friendly. So yeah, sell it like people did in the good old days, before the cancer that is SaaS took over the world.

I’m taking a year off to live off my savings and work on an idea, but I don’t have one

Why take a year if you are clueless as of what you want to do? Do some traveling and air your head. If you still cannot find something you want to do, go back to your 9-5 job.

Bye, Bye, Google 7 years ago

Switching from one email service to another instead of self-hosting, isn't he just trading a cow for a cattle?

Wine 4.0 released 7 years ago

I just bought Heroes of Might and Magic 2. A pirated version came on my first pc, a 133mhz Pentium. Blast from the past, this game.

Now I'm talking from an Eastern European perspective, but this writing is pretty one-sided with people working in (liberal) arts fields with 4 kids. HVAC repair folks, plumbers, electrical repairmen have as much an income as a software developer here.

So go get a blue collar job, if your libarts degree isn't paying for it. Welding pays well, sure it's dirty, sure it's hard, but there is zero competition in these fields.

Been fully remote since mid 2016. I've never received positive comments on my work attitude before this position.

- I am thin and tall, constantly feeling cold in air-conditioned offices.

- The office lights hurt my eyes.

- I prefer music playing instead of people talking, and I do not feel bad for taking an hour long break when I feel exhausted or frustrated.

- I usually wake up around 8, so I get out the door after coffee&breakfast is done, and we get dressed with the wife. We don't leave the house before 9:30 on average.

- I also think commuting longer than a 15 minute walk/bus ride is a waste of my time.

- I am working from a laptop, so I think it should be completely acceptable to send a mail in the morning saying "I'll be working from under a warm blanket & my cat today" when there is no in-person meeting scheduled.

In my current position I'm assigned projects that get done on time and feedback is positive. Work is done, all is well. Noone cares when you start the day, just show up for the calls, which are never scheduled before 9:30 on my request.

We got a junior fired because she couldn't keep up with expectations. I think full-remote wasn't for her. She also had untreated schizophrenia, I bet that didn't help either. When you are a couple screws loose, it helps to have people around to keep you grounded. On winter days I almost exclusively work from cafes, so as to avoid winter depression.

Magnifying inequality: only the most-privileged, available, energetic, well-paid or otherwise well-situated participants can keep up. privilege this privilege that

Shit like this is why I will never touch this language.