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Post by songzme »

anikdas wrote: post #439
songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

I would like to put some of my time helping your initiative. Do let me know. Email in my bio

Thank you, reached out.

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Post by nishs »

adtac wrote: post #77

Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :)) It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had…

There's a product named Hosted Comments mentioned in another comment on this post with a similar goal.

https://www.hostedcomments.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042162

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Post by canadiancreed »

JDiculous wrote: post #230

Left $150k software engineering job (well got fired for making video called "9 Ways to cope with having a boring 9-5 job" which somebody found and sent to HR) to make videos about stuff I think is interesting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.facebook.com/HonestLogic ), with a slant towards addressing wage slavery, basic income, student loans, capitalism, etc. Still in the early stages, but I'll be h…

Sounds like wonderful co-workers to have. Probably a matter of time before being stabbed in the back in such a work environment.

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Post by zamalek »

Attempting to ramp up my OSS involvement. I made a small contribution to CoreDNS and, encouraged by the friendly and welcoming maintainers, got System.HashCode committed to .Net. It proved what I've known all along: there's much more to learn and people who know way more than me out there - I've found a second love for programming. I can't recommend getting involved in any project enough.

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Post by wjossey »

throwaway65465 wrote: post #248
wjossey wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey. If this is more of a lifestyle change, where you drink a few times a week but want to cut it out, I’d say (with zero scientific justification whatsoever) it’s sort of up to the person. Dietary and habitual changes for me have been easiest when made dramatically, but I know for many others that reduces quality outcomes. This is proba…

> If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey. Could you elaborate? I have plans to do exactly that Jan 1.

Hey there. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I hope you still see this.

Alcohol has very dangerous withdrawal for those who are daily drinkers. I’ve witnessed this first hand with a father who was a daily drinker that was forced into stopping due to medical issues.

There are multiple risks during severe alcohol withdrawal, including heart failure, seizures, and more. I cannot stress enough that if you are a daily drinker over a long period of time, you need to seek medical assistants from at least your primary care. Do not stop unless you are being supervised. Not only are you reducing your risk for success, but also you’re putting your life at risk. Quit, but please quit responsibly.

My email is in my profile name. Happy to talk more in detail. Here for you my friend.

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Post by canadiancreed »

Working for six months on a project that initially sounded awesome, but the combination of the slowness of client feedback (it would take weeks to get signoff on features that would have been days for other projects), and conflicts with the architect (I asked questions regarding the project, he'd complain to my manager that I was asking questions) had me moved onto a legacy maintenance project for three months, then laid off when the budget ran out. Add financial fun and being hospitalised for what turned out to be an uncontrolled blood pressure spike and ya, it was a fun time.

I'm now with another company managing various development teams to add continuous delivery to their projects. Combo of project management, business and system analysts, and a bit of coding and devops knowledge has been making this project challenging, but pretty cool to work on.

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Post by canadiancreed »

kthakore wrote: post #3

My health https://www.instagram.com/p/BdX6yyInrBD/?taken-by=kthakore2 Took a long break from hacking and staying indoors playing with yet another framework. I am much happier :) my depression is better and I have more balance :) Less likely to burn out.

Awesome to hear. Mental health is something that is overlooked by a lot of people in this industry until it's too late. Ran into that a few years back and like yourself, have been working to make it better.
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