I was laid off from a middle manager position , I was with a H1-B like Visa (not in the US) the only chance to stay in my host country was to open a business and get an investor visa. I did that with a business partner, the business went down, my partner fled with the remaining money and now the government is giving me 2 months to leave since I am not longer and investor. Good times. I have always coded so I am moving into that direction. So although this is not a thread for that, if you are looking for a Rails or Phoenix guy please reach to me. I work with Python too.
Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#12I once put adding the recipients for an email to the wrong loop which meant if you were the last user in the database you would receive the email 10.000 times if there were 10.000 users. If you were the user before 9999 times etc.. only the first user that signed up received it once (my test account). So I only found out when the client called me that all their mandrill credits had ran out in a few seconds. In startu…
haha the first one is funny. About the second one, yes it's important to talk to users as soon as possible.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#13Oh sweet sweet failures! I'll start. I recently started trying to quit drinking for good, since it slowly turned from a thing that made me all charismatic and happy and jumping around, to a bitter angry man. This change started when I got together with my current girlfriend, since every time we would go out and have a (probably more than one) drink, I would get jealous (I'm very jealous and insecure, working on it) f…
Please just drink it out tonight.a glass of wine instead if jealousy
You almost got me! I'll opt for a glass of chocolate milk, but thank you :)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#14Well, not recent, but a few years ago I deleted the production database of my fathers rental company (whoops). The (manual) backup was a week old. Luckily, all data was still there, but on paper (all signed contracts) so I worked overnight to restore all data from the paper pile. After this, I built a script that did a backup once a day and made sure I had to go through some extra hoops to connect to the production d…
That was an example of what could be called a teachable moment. I'm remembering my standout moment as I type, the 'oh no, oh no' as I realised what was happening.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#15I failed starting running.
I failed getting into my preferable school and disappointed my family
I failed getting a gf this year also (3 months left we all going to make it)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#16I failed to start an IG video channel talking about starting your own contracting business. Released two or three videos and then just stopped, and probably won't go back.
However, I have now started a Youtube channel for vlogging which is one of my old loves. I had a vlogging channel in 2006 and stopped because of bullies and life getting in the way. Feel like I'm getting my creative side back which has been a revelation for me.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#17I was laid off from a middle manager position , I was with a H1-B like Visa (not in the US) the only chance to stay in my host country was to open a business and get an investor visa. I did that with a business partner, the business went down, my partner fled with the remaining money and now the government is giving me 2 months to leave since I am not longer and investor. Good times. I have always coded so I am movin…
Don't sweat it. My brother in law was in a similar position (education instead of work though), and is now doing very well for himself.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#18Oh sweet sweet failures! I'll start. I recently started trying to quit drinking for good, since it slowly turned from a thing that made me all charismatic and happy and jumping around, to a bitter angry man. This change started when I got together with my current girlfriend, since every time we would go out and have a (probably more than one) drink, I would get jealous (I'm very jealous and insecure, working on it) f…
kudos man! And good luck :) I haven't drank since uni (about 5 years ago), and don't miss it :) You'll be fine, no worries.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#19I haven't been able to motivate myself to finish several projects that are 90-95% done.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?
#20A few days ago I updated to a new version of Go and noticed a perf regression on one of the programs for a cloudspanner backup. A really bad regression, so I thought the update must have changed something to cause this, and started to debug it.
After a few hours, and help of a colleague, we figured out the issue. I wasn't using the companies wired connection but instead was using the much slower wifi..