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Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
Economics 101 seems completely useless as taught, but it's just there so people understand the jargon. Unfortunately, it's often a general elective so that foundation wasted. So, I can see plenty of ways to make it useful. What is wealth? Things people want. Money = wealth not because it's directly useful but because people want it so you can trade it for things you want. Why do people want Money? Taxes, and loans. I…
Completely disagree.. Common people should know the philosophy which shaped the government thinks about their lives and productivity. Yes econ is not a true science, because it is mostly conjecture supported by handpicked data, but at the same time, it is the only template we have created to think about the complex interactions in the competitive marketplace. The power of the competitive market is the foundation for…
I am not sure what your getting at. My point is you can use definitions that are more intuitive while teaching the same topics.
Do a search and: The demand curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity demanded for a given period of time. In a typical representation, the price will appear on the left vertical axis, the quantity demanded on the horizontal axis. -This means nothing to most people.
"What is the demand curve? Different people are willing to pay more or less and buy more or of the same things. ex: 3rd car, water for a bathtub vs water for a swimming pool." -Sounds like something you might recall in 10 years.
I am all for talking about the laffer curve as more than as math. You can also talk about it as society breaks down and a black market grows. It's still economics as it relates to society it's also meaningful to people.
For comparison CIS 101 is often this is how you use Excel and somewhat useful to most students, but also not really a foundation for a CS degree.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to bring the discussion off topic, but I find that hard to believe. Some good electronic artists that I enjoy are Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Burial, and The Avalanches. I agree that there is a lot of crappy electronic music on the internet but I think that's true of any genre. Why do you think its the lowest tier?
> Why do you think its the lowest tier? I'd assume because it's easier to make. Any fruity-loops beat artist might be convinced their tune is as good as any club topper.
I'm not sure why you'd judge a genre by its worst music.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you tell us about how you got into video game publishing? I'd love to make the transition myself.
My route is probably hard to duplicate, and was more by chance than anything. I made a game for Microsoft's Dream-Build-Play game dev competition (Proximity HD, now called Proximity 2), on their new upcoming Xbox 360 Indie Games Service. It was a finalist in the competition (you can see me on the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Build_Play#2007_Challeng... ), and was on display at their XNA Gamefest con…
Sounds like the advice to be distilled from this anecdote is "start making games and meeting other people who make games."
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#495Elon Musk ^^
read the Ashlee Vance biography, his life.. its brutal!
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#496Advanced Cash Crop Agriculture.
I've also always liked the idea of being a welder or machinist. Whatever it is, it must satisfy my need to tinker and experiment.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#497Get into motorsports in some capacity.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#498Would like to be a back country forest ranger. Someone who does work out in the remote woods. Not one of the rangers that has to deep with the public. The problem like most of us have is that our position and tenure in IT has lead to salaries that make such a change (and reduction in pay) almost impossible. Add kids, etc. and it gets set permanently in the dream category. I know the logical response to this statement…
You are that flexible. If you were forced into making do with less you would adapt. What it really is, is the dream is not something worth pursuing to you, all things considered.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#499When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career), I became an aged carer for my disabled mum. I learned a lot about cleaning, gardening and adding subtitles to films as she is going deaf. I also learned a lot about editing spoken word audio files for pacing, volume and noise reduction as she wrote a memoir then recorded an audio…
Can you scale this to help other carers? Maybe a domain-specific website promoting ideas and tools
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#500Painter (of canvasses, not of fences). It does occur to me sometimes that I could sink everything into a small cottage somewhere and live very simply, trying to make it as a small-time, local artist. It usually occurs to me shortly afterwards how quickly I'd (probably) get bored.
What I coincidence; Painter, as in fences, was the first thought I had by just looking at the title.
Probably not a trade I'd take on for the long term, but if I'd be leaving my programming career for good today, I'd definitively need some activity that would allow me to remain active and earn a modest cashflow while I figure out what to do with the rest of my life. Painting is something I am more or less competent at, is relatively safe to do, and therefore would be at the top of my list.