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Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by alexanderjchun »

duttish wrote: post #25
alexanderjchun wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gulf Stream is new to me. Are you doing anything to position yourself for it or any of the other stuff? Not trying to be dismissive, really just trying to be optimistic/prepared if things go south. Ideally, someone gets inspired to build solutions to all the things that got us here.

Not for the gulf stream but I'm pondering a move from BigTech to the local defense industry. I can't do much, but I can do something.

Drone warfare seems to be where things are headed. I hope any work you or anyone else might do in defense can get people the lasting peace they deserve.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by forducks »

alexanderjchun wrote: post #9
annie_muss wrote: post #5

Not great. I've been trying to get into a real "career" track software job for the best part of a decade. I study, work on side projects, got to events regularly. And now the job market is even worse. I'm starting to feel like I've missed the boat. I wonder what would've happened if I had managed to get a job with chances to progress, learn and improve 10 years ago. I dream of earning 6 figures, people make it sound…

I'm not the best person to get advice on employment, but you should trust this advice anyway. The worst thing you can do is lose motivation. Labor markets have their own supply and demand and when others feel that job searching is futile, supply goes down. That may take a while, but businesses have an infinite amount of problems that they want to go away. From their point of view, "can this person make X or Y go away…

Eh, what I've been told from multiple people including former PMs/founders is that if I'm out of work for another year and nobody is willing to take a chance on me, the gap will be interpreted as coasting and the door to tech career will close. I'd like to think that someone out of work for years can score just any job in tech because hiring managers are compassionate, but reality is companies need shit done and a candidate with even a 6-month gap will ALWAYS outclass a candidate with a 3-year gap. These things really do have hard limits and it puts a deadline on how much time before it's fruitless.

Assuming you're going the LinkedIn/recruiter route at least. If a friend is going to recruit you off the street it might not apply, but... at that point it's a different type of battle. How to make tech friends for material gain while chronically depressed, broke, moody...

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by boctrg »

robotapertama wrote: post #3

Down. The end of the world is on the horizon and everyone is partying and having a great time. Isn't anyone concerned that we are going extinct soon?

I'm not sure if I am discussing semantics here, but humanity will not go completely extinct, I'm pretty sure of that.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by alexanderjchun »

sjw987 wrote: post #29
alexanderjchun wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely difficult to play a game with people who have most of the chips and don't have a good reason to care about how fun the game is when they're gone. For social media, I want to believe the newer generation is smart enough to want a better platform and I'm optimistic that someone smart enough is going to create a curation algorithm that balances things out. At least I want to take a crack at it at some po…

Why do you want a better platform? I hope that people give up on things like social media entirely, meet up in person and socialise properly. Socialising just doesn't work large-scale on screens. It's like a partial parasocial relationship.

I consider this with a lot of "solutions" that aren't doing a great job, and I'm not sure. Think it's human nature to want more and for things to be better. I've made great friends online and they're the main reason I've been able to keep a grounded look at the world. I definitely should go touch grass though.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by alexanderjchun »

forducks wrote: post #42
alexanderjchun wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the best person to get advice on employment, but you should trust this advice anyway. The worst thing you can do is lose motivation. Labor markets have their own supply and demand and when others feel that job searching is futile, supply goes down. That may take a while, but businesses have an infinite amount of problems that they want to go away. From their point of view, "can this person make X or Y go away…

Eh, what I've been told from multiple people including former PMs/founders is that if I'm out of work for another year and nobody is willing to take a chance on me, the gap will be interpreted as coasting and the door to tech career will close. I'd like to think that someone out of work for years can score just any job in tech because hiring managers are compassionate, but reality is companies need shit done and a ca…

Mood definitely will get in the way. Can you do open source work? I would try to use that negativity and pick whatever OSS I use that pisses me off the most and start fixing things. Post about it and go from there.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by incomingpain »

>There's so much going on politically that's set to change the world one way or another and I've been wondering what all the nerds of the world are doing in light of all the uncertainty.

I've been following politics for decades. Ive seen ups and downs but this time it's different. It's looking like the end of a political movement. Europe ended it. Shocking, I know. There's not a great deal of uncertainty about it. Maybe timelines? The people in that political movement sure arent taking it well and are becoming politically violent. They'll lash out at this defeat. It's not the first time people have had to escape this political movement.

I'm not apart of this political movement, I see politics as finally healing. Once it's over, the political violence will end. A ton of repairs needed once it's over.

Then the hard part, the people whose world view is the dead movement will escape. Which won't be to europe or north america. But many will stay and while their political violence will end, they will almost certainly need to become a new religion. Probably not TESCREAL?

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by alexanderjchun »

thelastinuit wrote: post #31

Oddly, I’m doing okay in an Alan Watts sort of way. Global, local, everything feels like a dance. I should be panicked, but somehow I’m not. P.S. My company (Yolo Group) just started layoffs. Is it weird that I’m calm?

Kind of why I'm asking. Everyone seems oddly calm despite all that's going on. I was wondering if I was missing something or if everyone had already started planning accordingly.

I have friends with different backgrounds that are across the political spectrum and it doesn't seem like any of them are doing anything different despite everyone agreeing that things have been getting worse.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by muzani »

al_borland wrote: post #27
robotapertama wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, climate change. We have crossed the Rubicon. Soon = in my lifetime.

I think you underestimate the resilience of the human race. We have a space station where people live outside of earth. We have people living in Antarctica. On small scales, we can completely control environments to make them hospitable. The idea that all the humans will die off in the lifetime of anyone who is alive today, from something slow moving like climate change, is pretty far fetched.

IMO it's not a world ending crisis, but definitely a city/society ending one. Countries with thousands of islands are heavily affected. Many major cities are near the ocean, so we'll see a lot of damage.

Some places will be more habitable, like Russia.

Re: Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?

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Post by sjw987 »

alexanderjchun wrote: post #44
sjw987 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want a better platform? I hope that people give up on things like social media entirely, meet up in person and socialise properly. Socialising just doesn't work large-scale on screens. It's like a partial parasocial relationship.

I consider this with a lot of "solutions" that aren't doing a great job, and I'm not sure. Think it's human nature to want more and for things to be better. I've made great friends online and they're the main reason I've been able to keep a grounded look at the world. I definitely should go touch grass though.

I respect that opinion.

I hold quite negative views of social media personally. I don't see how it could be built in a way that could suitably replace in-person socialisation. Perhaps the best idea would be a meet-up arranging app, but then that could be handled in a simple chat application really.

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