Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just read the short summary on goodreads [1] and... color me skeptical... It reads like a version of "The Celestine Prophecy" [2] but aimed at a middle-aged tech bubble. Could you (or anyone else) compare the two, for a very slow reader to make a decision? :D PS yes the comparison is probably too harsh but that was honestly my first gut reaction... [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36481028-4000-weeks-a-li..…
I believe you reference the wrong "4000 weeks". That one is by a different author. There doesn't appear to be a Goodreads listing for this one yet, but there is on Amazon.
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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
#532Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two: 1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things. 2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and…
How much would you pay for a program that would help you do 2 way more effectively than just by querying it?
That depends on how easily I could compile it, and how much more effective it would be than querying. At the moment I can't come up with anything better than queries.
I'm willing to part with some money to have someone implement it for me if I see there's demand.
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#533I 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.
I feel someone should see a therapist if thinking about joining the military out of boredom
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#534My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month. I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve. Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears. Edit: thank everyone for the kind…
I'm very sorry for your loss. Beautiful video.
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#535I have grudgingly accepted the fact that I'll never be hired unless it's on the cheap. And I already have a job. So although I still talk to recruiters occasionally I never end up pursuing an opportunity anymore. The risk of loss of income outweighs any marginal salary gains I could have. I don't have the energy to go after things like Amazon which require serious studying to get in. I got caught violating a rule that I can't rent out to more than two people and had to pay a 3000€ fine and of course suffered a big loss of income (it was worth it though, I own my house mortgage free thanks to my decision to break this rule). I discovered stock investments. So far it's not gone so well because I got caught by the spac selloff. Recently started swing/day trading and I'm now seeing a plus sign for overall gains which is good. Maybe I'll be a better trader than I am a programmer. I'm certainly greedy enough for it. Oh and I got my driver's license after two years of struggling and probably tens of thousands of euros in costs. I'm only allowed to drive an automated shifter but I'm really glad I can. So now I'll have to look for a car which is nice but also costly. My girlfriend is complaining about us not going to Budapest for a Christmas market because of all this but I guess she'll have to swallow that. She's expensive enough as it is.
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#536Writing a little OS for fun in rust: https://github.com/vinc/moros
I started two years ago and I'm finding that project very fulfilling with lots of areas to explore. For example I recently bought an old ThinkPad to have another reference computer and played with Coreboot+SeaBIOS to understand the BIOS better. I'm also reading about the early history of Unix and how some features I'm implementing where developed in the first place. It's never ending and perfect!
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#537I programatically create educational videos on fundamental algorithms and data structures, a side project that I'm very excited about. I'm creating the videos using Python and the manim library. My latest video is on insertion sort and you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-8RcO_9ds . I am still developing a recipe for the videos, but it is a definitely a lot of fun.
Can you do bitwise stuff pretty please?
Hi! It is in my plans for the future. I'm currently concentrating on sorting and searching algorithms.
What exactly in bitwise operations would you find interesting?
Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
#538I programatically create educational videos on fundamental algorithms and data structures, a side project that I'm very excited about. I'm creating the videos using Python and the manim library. My latest video is on insertion sort and you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-8RcO_9ds . I am still developing a recipe for the videos, but it is a definitely a lot of fun.
i actually understood the insertion sort this way
Thanks! I'm very glad when someone finds my videos useful. There are also videos on quick-sort and merge-sort on the channel and I'm planning on doing bubble-sort, selection sort, heap-sort, and radix-sort in the future.
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#539Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great idea. Would you consider putting your contents into public domain?
Thanks for the kind words. In principle I'm absolutely in favour of releasing it to the public. To be sure: do you mean the _content_ I create in the video or the _videos_ themselves (I wouldn't mind both, but just to clarify). One of the things I want to add later are downloadable resources: PDFs with the drawings or cutting templates, so people can get a head start with e.g. colouring instead of having to do the dr…
Please put the craft content as CC0 or CC BY! I like attribution-noncommercial for the explanation/demonstration of the craft to make it clear that you are source of the work.
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#540I'm healing from PTSD, I took two years off work and then the last nine months I just finished up my PhD in mathematical physics working part time. I'm still disabled in different ways, I get triggered by groups of people so I can't socialise very easily I'm kind of slowly reintroducing interacting with society.
I had an interview for a postdoc in my field last week and I'm waiting on whether I got offered a job or not, I think I'm quite likely to get it. I've got a consistent little voice in my head saying, "don't take it, don't have a job just spend your time on learning how to talk to people again and think about working later" but it seems kind of crazy, if I get offered the job it's everything I've worked towards for ten years.
I've been reading HN for about 6 months and I registered a few weeks back. I guess I'll probably going down some kind of tech route in a year or so if I don't get a position in academia.