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My main issue is that they're now slowly testing the waters to see if they can make you watch ads while still paying for the subscription, and at that point, might as well take advantage of Romania's lack of law enforcement and hit the torrent websites.

This is really cool, I love how you planned the entire development before with graphs.

When I was 16, I developed an mp3 player in C (I cheated and used mpg123 library). Audio players are a great way to learn about low level stuff and as a first project.

Keep developing things!

First of all, your situation is completely normal for the time period we live in. A few people I thought would never become homeless (web3 engineers who used to make 300K a month etc) are on the verge of it now. Pretty insane combination of a mental health and economic crisis we have going on.

I’m willing to work. I know I can earn 3-4x more doing freelance tech, but I can’t do that from a car.

Why not? There are homeless people doing Amazon Turk from cafes in Hong Kong.

Second, you need to focus on fast money making sources. That's Lyft, shoveling snow, micro-tasks (I help people with Solana developer questions in the Raydium Discord for example, earning 100-200$ per small script), food stamps, church handouts, it does not matter. Cash quick. You need some quick money to ease up the stress so you can focus on the next big leap. You'll get to the big tech job, but until then, you need to focus on your current reality.

This is probably how people who never pay their debts think.

"It's ok if I am late with the bill, they will feel bad for me and never risk me reputation damage by airing out my debts".

But in the absence of a sense of responsibility or obligation, shame might be the only thing that might work to make them fulfill their obligations.

As someone who agrees with cutting back some of the funding to Ukraine, this could've done in a much more professional and diplomatic manner. Arguing in front of televisions and interrupting Zelensky is just a bad look.

Anyone who has ever worked with VCs or shareholders before knows that, if you tell them the reality and limitations of something, they will either fire you or ignore what you say. They have been desperate to remove the leverage programmers have due to their skill and replace us with AI that they don't have to pay salaries to. All we can do at this point is just take VC money promising them exactly what they want to hear, that they will be able to replace us with a NLP model. Sometimes you just can't save people but you can profit from their voluntary fall from the cliff?

I've been disappointed to not encounter the hot trans girl content the comments are complaining about.

How do you handle iOS testing? Do you have VPN blocking? What are some guerilla marketing tactics did you use? I am trying to grow a community in an unrelated topic and want to see what I could potentially do.

Cool project by the way!

Two theories:

1) This is an ego problem. Whoever is doing the development cannot handle being called out on certain software architecture / coding mistakes, so it becomes "nitpicking".

2) The software shop has a "ship out faster, cut corners" culture, which at that point might as well turn off the AI review bot.

Funnily enough, 4chan's /g/ board got me into learning C when I was around 14. That went into doing my own small projects (like a music player in GTK), doing some PHP and NodeJS later on, and then going into a full blown freelance career. A place like 4chan having such a positive impact on one's life seems like a bit of God's sense of humor.

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: If paid

Technologies: Solidity, Solana (Rust and web3.js), NodeJS, React, React Native, NextJS, MongoDB, Postgres, Linux sysadmin, docker, AWS, GCP

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V7iHwKIQ5YazaDz0EfqTcTwD...

Email: bireratilla AT gmail POINT com

Introduction: I deliver end-to-end solutions for upcoming start-ups (back-end, front-end and DevOps), with a heavy focus on web3 and crypto since it's my main area of interest.

I have been active in the space for the past 5 years, working with big names like BitPay. I am looking for a role that's going to challenge me (bonus if others have tried and not succeeded before) and give me an opportunity to be a part of the zero-to-hero journey of the next unicorn.

Send me an e-mail describing your project idea and what you are looking for to be built.