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This comment section is depressing. We take ourselves too seriously.

There was another starcraft mod called Golems Evolution that was almost an idle clicker, but you had to choose how to evolve your army. Would love something like that.

Speaking from experience... Degrees are not at all required in software engineering. Passion & skill are sought after in early career developers, and years of experience will suffi…

what's cool is, it doesn't even feel futuristic anymore.

One wonders if individuality is just an anthropocentric social structure.

The author makes the point that bullshit jobs shouldn't exist in capitalist systems, since they are inherently Darwinian. There is a misconception that "Darwinian" is the same as "…

So you're saying you worship the God of Tetris? https://youtu.be/Alw5hs0chj0

Have you considered some people actually ENJOY the work, leisure, convenience, busy-ness and thrill of fast paced modern life? In what other era could I instantaneously, from the c…

Criminals also profit from legitimate businesses. This comment is irrelevant.

There is no such thing as a victimless crime.

Self referential comment.

Oh but the brain isn't clearly delimited. You think with your gut, your spinal cord, your hormones. Even your eyeballs preprocess information before passing it up to your brain. :)…

Apologies. It's actually "fuga" and "fugo", no hard "g"

Coincidence that "fugga" in hindi and "fuggo" in gujarati mean balloon?

~ means "approximately".

If youre a solo dev, sure, why not?

Yes.

Sure, but hope never really cares about statistics.

Better than being cynically apathetic.

Civilizations don't die, they fragment and reform. The analogy of an organism is being stretched too far.

Sure but why post this on HN?

I don't see any conflict here. Idempotency is not a silver bullet and cannot fully replace state tracking, but it adds simplicity where appropriate.

Ive never heard that said by altman/graham, but i highly (highly) recommend working a few years before starting your own company. Otherwise you won't have the context or the unders…

"Try writing java without an IDE." But why would I ever want to?

I live in downtown Toronto, 3rd largest city in NA. Am a developer and business owner. I drink milk pretty much every day.