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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by y4mi »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #582
sigg3 wrote: post #548

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This is quite normal. Many who win big in the literal lotteries are worse off. I know reddit is all antiwork these days, but that's really mostly about rights and not not working. Being a productive member of society is meaningful. I'm from Scandinavia and a lot of our identity is tied up with our careers. Being without a job or any structural social purpose is asking for depression. GWF Hegel wrote about suffering f…

Considering the number of depressed people who have jobs, this seems a very questionable view.

Most of these people are forced to work.

I think for me personally a 4-6h workday on 4 days per week would be optimal. It's enjoyable to actually work together with a team on a product and provide a service which people want to use.

Such part time jobs can be very fulfilling if money is not an issue.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by kypro »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Happy birthday!

I'm a similar age as you (30) and like you I've built a decent amount of wealth to the point where I no longer need to work anymore. Over the last couple of years I've had to question what life means beyond money and all the hedonistic pleasures which money can buy.

I don't know how transferable my experience is, but I would warn against focusing on pursuits that are overly self-indulgent. At some point you're going to find there just isn't much more you can want, and you may even find yourself feeling depressed and confused about what your next pursuit should be -- especially if you've always been a highly driven individual like myself.

Instead I've found looking around myself and asking how I can help others has given my life a sense of purpose again. You may not be able to make yourself any happier with money, but you can improve the lives of others. And to be clear, I'm not talking strictly about spending money here (although that is an option), but if you don't need to work anymore simply volunteering your time in a way you believe will make a difference can give your life a huge amount of meaning.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by andyish »

Working as a senior developer which is fine but me and a friend have bootstrapped an idea we had at the start of the year. We've got some paying users (nothing insane), just trying to grow it and improve it.

It's quite fun, I almost forgot what its like to work without all the tech debt (though i'm probably the one creating it)

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by prox »

amelius wrote: post #563
prox wrote: post #562

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My econ teacher always said to keep the money invested you want to lose. Couldn’t you take out a sum, but keep investing a sum you dare to lose?

My econ teacher taught me nothing about personal finance. Is this normal?

I dunno, got taught in Europe, got micro, meso and macro in different years, and sometimes semesters. My econ teacher was also a bit weird in a good way, a real character with a lot of knowledge. Ofcourse I didn’t do anything with it, wish I had.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by Random_Person »

Last year, I started working on a randomly generated, text-based adventure game. I made random equipment and room generators. Started working on enemies, and lost steam. I turned it into a Mad-Libs style dungeon room/loot generator, and that's neat and all, but I've been wanting to dig back in and finish that project to some level.

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Post by j_autumn »

tralarpa wrote: post #597

I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file. Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is…

That does sound like fun! Very cool activity.

Sadly I never got into reversing. How did you learn that? Can you recommend some resources?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by tim333 »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Probably quite fun to have a small business / startup where you are the boss and hire a few people to solve some problem, maybe related to your previous employment but a niche they didn't cover?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by quanto »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #528
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #187

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Thank you! I had all the parts lying around and I’ve not put together a full BOM to calculate costs. But it’s two odrives and four brushless motors plus maybe $100-150 in bearings from AliExpress, then some screws and a couple kilos of PETG. So maybe $850 if you built it from scratch? I haven’t done testing of its capabilities yet as I just got it working today. Also I am running at 24v but I want to try 48v when I c…

Also it should be noted that with my $850 estimate that is $400 worth of Odrives. For years I have longed for good brushless drives for under $100 per channel and there are some newer ones out there. But basically brushless drivers are a major chunk of the price which I think could be reduced with cheaper custom drivers.

For my previous work years ago, we did custom brushless motor drivers including basic control theory implementations. I was under the impression that the driver designs were fairly standardized/commoditized.

Could you explain more on your search of suitable drivers and on why you didn't build your own drivers? Why are these drivers so high in price?

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