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Maybe if you wrote the entire codebase yourself just a week ago so everything is still fresh in your memory.
In most real-world situations that is not the case, and refactoring becomes a careful task that leads to regressions even with testing in place.
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Studio apartments aren't a thing anymore? Pretty common in Europe and AFAIK not entirely unknown in high-rent Metropolitan areas worldwide (NYC, Tokyo etc.)
> Studio apartments aren't a thing anymore? Where did I claim that? I think you’ve misread. I said _some_ young people. How have you expanded that to think I was writing _all_ young people? Not everyone can afford a studio to themselves. This does not imply studios do not exist.
> Buy a whiteboard and write the goals for the day on it, for instance As a solo dev the biggest productivity booster for me, from a physical and mental aspect, was purchasing a whiteboard. It honestly feels like some sort of hack. Prior to having one I would use pen and paper but that didn't quite scratch my itch - if I made a mistake I would have to scribble it out and that space was now wasted. I can't quite expla…
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> low to medium risk areas and average 10 - 15% per year. Where can I get this return reliably at "low risk"?
Firstly, it was "low to medium" risk, not "low" risk. Secondly, pretty much any reputable ETF (or combination of ETF's) can quite easily achieve this over 30 years.
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> low to medium risk areas and average 10 - 15% per year. Where can I get this return reliably at "low risk"?
Firstly, it was "low to medium" risk, not "low" risk. Secondly, pretty much any reputable ETF (or combination of ETF's) can quite easily achieve this over 30 years.
As someone who developed their career from the comfort of their bedroom, I always find it very interesting to see people all over the world from different cultures experiencing the same basic issues with this kind of work set up. I absolutely loved working from my bedroom for years. It was great (despite the common down falls like the ones listed here). My family used to make fun of me at parties and seasonal celebra…
“Now consider if you invest that money over 30 years in some low to medium risk areas and average 10 - 15% per year” How do you do that?
For the last decade, 10-15% average annual return would have required keeping 70-90% of the funds invested in Nasdaq-100[1].
Also, Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFIAX) currently has a 10-year average of 13.52%[2].
The general advice is not to keep more than (110 - your_age)% of your retirement portfolio in these high risk / high rewards funds.
Therefore, it's entirely possible to receive 10-15% annual returns until you turn 40, but as the period of time until retirement shorters, it becomes too risky.
In other words, what is a "medium-risk" at 35, can be a "high-risk" at 55, because one might not have enough time to recover from an economic crisis at an older age.
[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/when-performance-matters%3A-...
[2] https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...
I have switched from working in bedroom, to working in a dedicated office, to working in a co-working space, to working from home in a dedicated office. 1. Working from the bedroom is hell. It's fun for the first few months but then you are likely to have severe eye strain and become very sleepy. 2. Working from a real office sets boundaries and forces a schedule. You have to wake up at xx:xx time and drive to office…