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Post by robocat »

_npza wrote: post #300

As a self taught programmer, I struggled to get a job. So I decided to build [name redacted], which has now turned into my full time job. [name redacted] comparison website for mobile phone contracts and SIM contracts. [link redacted] Being my first project with no prior experience behind me, I made a lot of mistakes along the way. It's been a great learning experience and I've learnt more than I thought possible. Ho…

> I'd be embarrassed to ever show my code to anyone else. I'm never happy with what I build and I can't shake the feeling that all of my code is spaghetti code.

I wonder how you would feel if you could see the average commercial codebase out there?

Why do we expect to be world quality coders? If you tried painting, you would likely like your art, regardless that what you produced was nothing like the quality of famous artists!

The other weird thing is that disliking your code shows taste, and that means you will improve over time. Loving your code might be a bad sign! As you mature you are likely to learn more subtle reasons to dislike your own code - never being satisfied is a strong motivator to improving.

Perhaps read some: https://thedailywtf.com/

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Post by caditinpiscinam »

waldohatesyou wrote: post #319

I wish I had something interesting to say here but honestly, kind of depressed. Not the clinical kind of course but more the aimless 24 year old kind. I've been working at this startup (or perhaps scaleup would be a better term considering they're already worth 7 billion dollars). It's great career-wise. I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm being compensated fairly. But I thought my life would feel "complete" once…

I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I often feel sad that the friends I have aren't very interested in the programming / tech things I like to think about. I'm hoping to find some meetups or other communities where I can build those relationships in person

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Post by ehnto »

Trying to develop a game idea I have had for a while. If anyone is interested in chatting hobby game dev feel free to hit me up!

I am currently side tracked by fixing my car's aftermarket digital dash, and musing how that cyberpunk makeshift techno-future kind of already exists outside of all the polished digital products. It's a 3D printed case, open source hardware, commodity parts and and open source software all sold as a complete working unit. It's exactly what I wanted from technology.

I am also constantly dabbling in music, riding bikes, and slowly piecing together a metal fab workshop. I may be overleveraging my time, but my work life balance is pretty much where I want it right now.

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Post by techsin101 »

mattfrommars wrote: post #7

Trying to figure out how to build a commercial viable CRM for real estate niche as someone who works in fintech - C#/Java backend guy. Nailing down on unique UI/UX is hard.

I'm a Frontend dev and would be interested in this. How do you know there is a demand, we can chat over email: myemailum14 gmail

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Post by knownjorbist »

hihihihi1234 wrote: post #56
kennu wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getti…

Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.

Some jumping off points:

https://web3.foundation/

https://dci.mit.edu/decentralizedweb

https://berkeley-defi.github.io/f21

Find a DAO aligned with something you like. Join their discord and get engaged. It's really the wild west right now.

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Post by knownjorbist »

kennu wrote: post #37
version_five wrote: post #2

I don't want to be hired and I also don't have any project going on. Basically "between ideas" and desperately want to come up with something before I have to give up and get a job. It's not healthy to be idle too long.

I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getti…

The moment it "clicked" for me was accessing an app and paying for its premium features using my wallet. I didn't sign up. I didn't provide any information about myself.

Having a wallet is effectively having a pseudonymous account to every dApp that will ever exist. Likewise, the developers don't have to store any of that information or care about auth, authorization or payments.

This obviously won't translate to everything, but it does show how some presumptions about the way the web has to work(just because it always has worked that way) are being completely turned on their head.

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Post by amirbehzad »

mwattsun wrote: post #269
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…

I was in a similar circumstance. I drove a city bus in Las Vegas for a year. The experience opened my eyes to many things and changed my life in good ways.

Like how?

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Post by ehnto »

bri3d wrote: post #201

I have been reverse engineering automotive ECUs for a while now - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash . It's a nice change from my day job in enterprise engineering management, and I've met some fun people and taught several folks a lot of new concepts, which is always extremely rewarding. My latest project has been reverse engineering the data-flash encryption in Simos18 ECUs. After some work, it oddly appears the enc…

That is wicked. Would you ever be interested in developing an open source ECU platform?

I feel like there is a hole in the market for affordable and hackable ECUs. You could monetize it by selling the hardware boards I guess.

There are some projects out there already but none of them seemed usable for a full size track car at the time, and the issue was still a lack of suitable hardware to run it on. Idealy you could just buy a board with a generic wiring harness for ~$300, and have an open extensible platform for engine management in the software. Kind of like the ecosystem for flight controllers for drones.

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Post by caditinpiscinam »

I released the rough-draft of a programming language last year that I'd been working on for fun: https://ptls.dev. I'm building a second version now that's a lot more practical than the original. Once it's ready I'd like to see if I can find some users for it!

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Post by idontevengohere »

caditinpiscinam wrote: post #342
waldohatesyou wrote: post #319

I wish I had something interesting to say here but honestly, kind of depressed. Not the clinical kind of course but more the aimless 24 year old kind. I've been working at this startup (or perhaps scaleup would be a better term considering they're already worth 7 billion dollars). It's great career-wise. I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm being compensated fairly. But I thought my life would feel "complete" once…

I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I often feel sad that the friends I have aren't very interested in the programming / tech things I like to think about. I'm hoping to find some meetups or other communities where I can build those relationships in person

I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I love programming! How about we start a Discord - club for aimless 24 year olds....
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