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Post by littlethrowaway »

alexkwan wrote: post #303
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…

If you have the time and feeling lost, I suggest you to spend 10 days for a vipassana meditation camp. They have centers worldwide. Happy Birthday btw!

I do not recommend vipassana unless you've done a _lot_ of meditation before. 10 days of complete silence is a massive strain. I did it, based on little more than a recommendation like this, and had a bipolar episode (no history of bipolar or serious mental illness before). My story [0]

[0]. http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com/2010/02/bipolar-chronicl...

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Post by Delfino »

Recently got my first VR headset. Played around in Unity and did their create with VR course then made my own game - Whack-a-mole in VR. Thinking of participating in GitHub's Game Off by making another game in VR but so far none of my friends have been interested in the idea (Which is fair, they work in software and code all day. I used to but I teach now so coding outside of work is much more fun). I'll likely just do another solo project and later on maybe rope some of my students into VR development for future projects.

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Post by chrisco255 »

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…

That's sometimes how it goes. I'm in my late 30s and been through many phases in life. Different careers, different cities, etc. It's very difficult to keep friendships together when the circumstances that kept you in the same place change. After university, people go in dozens of different directions and disperse around the country. If you work in some job for many years, you'll find the same thing to be true when you leave.

There's only probably a handful of good, close friends that will last for more than a few years as good, close friends. That's okay. You'll make new ones in the new endeavors you take up. Do what you can to hang on to the ones that stick around.

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Post by kkjjkgjjgg »

giantg2 wrote: post #275
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 think you can cross the military off your list. If you've made enough money to not work, I feel like you'll get tried/frustrated of the BS involved in a lot of it before your commission is up. I could be wrong though - just things I've seen.

Plus, doesn't the military come with an elevated risk of being killed on the job?

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Post by windthrown »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #351
atonse wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did). Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without…

Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of t…

It sounds like you are incredibly privileged to not have "pre-existing" or chronic medical conditions. For many, the ACA saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones even if the premiums were as universally outrageous as you claim.

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

Main thing I'm working on is launching a new VC fund out of Europe. I've been in tech for a long time and in VC for a few years, and I think it's the right thing to do.

Side things: thinking about how to colonize the asteroid Ceres, perhaps by tokenizing its land and using the proceeds to buy a space mission to send an object there and then claim sovereignty, but without all the BS and scams that have been plaguing the crypto world since the beginning.

Another side thing: thinking about creating a new pseudonymous "artist" to send a strong message about how f*ed the world is.

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Post by skinkestek »

debruinf wrote: post #228

Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video…

Agree with waalo.

For me the thing I enjoy is that you are setting realistic expectations, not being wasteful (I notice you start from the edge of the paper instead of cutting from the middle, etc.)

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Post by cobertos »

COVID has sent me on quite a life detour re-evaluating my priorities. Tried my hand at some freelance and realized I'm not cut out for the networking aspect, at least where I'm at right now.

A good chunk of the past years free time has gone into one codebase. I'm hoping to create a new interface for myself that truly decouple data from UI abstractions. I'm just so sick of the day-in-day-out dealing with app UI/UX refreshes, forced OS updates removing and killing functionality that worked for _me_, dark patterns preying on my attention and time and at times winning, the amount of time to replicate any user interface I use.

I'm running out of money though so I'm applying like crazy to jobs again. Upset feeling like life's priorities are only to survive, forgoing a lot of other things to find necessary time to do stuff. But pushing through I suppose

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Post by throwaway34241 »

m33k44 wrote: post #203
throwaway34241 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you decided on a specific idea or are you interested in the space generally? I've been following the space pretty closely for few years now (tried most of the HW, doing development, etc). Right now the greatest number of users and app sales seems to be at the low-ish end but not absolute low end ($300 Quest), and I'd strongly recommend most developers wanting to jump into the space target that as a baseline. Mos…

> Have you decided on a specific idea or are you interested in the space generally? Thinking of developing educational content and digital twin in the related domain. > Right now the greatest number of users and app sales seems to be at the low-ish end but not absolute low end ($300 Quest) Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested i…

> Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested in devices such as Google Cardboard, Zapbox and AR4E. High cost of devices should not become a roadblock for educational content distribution.

> Some applications that I have in mind will require interaction and collaboration

I think this would be a much easier decision if there weren't the fundamental UI differences between the two categories. As I'm sure you know already, the lowest-end devices lack positional tracking for both the headset and the controllers, putting them in basically a different category experience and software-design wise than the $300 Quest and all the more expensive systems.

As far as I know the most successful product of that type was the Oculus Go which has been discontinued. The similar GearVR phone-based system people often bought but didn't use despite owning, which itself was a huge jump in quality over what Cardboard offers.

So as far as I can tell the category seems like a dead-end at this point, it doesn't seem to be receiving substantial software or hardware investment and will likely disappear altogether as positional tracking gets cheaper.

In contrast FB is launching a $150M fund specifically for VR educational content - I expect basically none of that will go towards pre-positional-tracking systems and software.

So I guess it depends on what your time horizon is - I'd just be aware that any investments into designing software for 3DOF systems are likely to depreciate pretty quickly.

> BTW, what are you working on?

I added a link to it in my profile, it's a little out of date but there's a video there (and a sign up to get a free copy when the beta launches!).

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