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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by yakkomajuri »

luxpir wrote: post #769
yakkomajuri wrote: post #544

Outside of work (which is great), my main personal battle at the moment is adapting to yet another foreign country. Have done quite a bit of moving around in my life but this time it was for a relationship (i.e. not for work or studies) and given that I work remotely, it's very hard to integrate into society. I know no one and don't have a place like an office where I get to cover my social needs (no coworking spaces…

Link that blog!

yakkomajuri.github.io :D

The piece about how I made it did appear here not too long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837760

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by yakkomajuri »

readonthegoapp wrote: post #806
yakkomajuri wrote: post #544

Outside of work (which is great), my main personal battle at the moment is adapting to yet another foreign country. Have done quite a bit of moving around in my life but this time it was for a relationship (i.e. not for work or studies) and given that I work remotely, it's very hard to integrate into society. I know no one and don't have a place like an office where I get to cover my social needs (no coworking spaces…

curious if you tried to start your own coworking space. not necessarily 'officially', because that could be a massive undertaing - but more, you just let people know hey i'm going to this cafe from about 8 am to 11 am Tuesday mornings. then put some cool name on it.

This is definitely not a bad idea. I have become a regular at a cafe that I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and met a few people around there, including some other devs.

I do wonder where to "advertize" this though. I've ran a Meetup group in the past but that's not a thing here. Facebook would probably be the way, except I don't have an account (does make life harder at times).

But I will consider this, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by muzani »

davidajackson wrote: post #830
muzani wrote: post #394

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a Ask HN thread, maybe a few, of people who hit it rich and later lost it. The common theme is it's easier to make lots of money than it is to keep it, which is a little unintuitive.

Is it really unintuitive? Most Americans only save about 7% of their income IIRC, wouldn't it make sense that they would mismanage most windfalls by default? In recessions, this number jumps up dramatically, proving that it's mismanagement that contributes.

I don't believe anyone gets a windfall by saving 7% of every paycheck either. Those who ran a startup make it a habit of burning through millions a month too. What's really unintuitive for me was seeing that CFAs are terrible at personal money management.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by jrib »

agf wrote: post #323
jrib wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any surprises you wish you had planned better for? If you are in the US, what did you do for health insurance? What are you hoping is different outside of Fintech? Or do you just feel like it is time for a change?

Not sure what specifically you mean about surprises. I guess not? I bought health insurance on the state marketplace where my permanent residence is. Just feel like it's time for a change, and I'm willing to accept the likely paycut that moving into a less hot segment of the industry will likely mean.

By "surprises," I just meant that you probably had some things you prepared for when you decided to quit, things like ensuring $x amount of savings and getting health insurance.

I was wondering if in retrospect there was anything else you wish you had done that you didn't think of originally.

Thanks for the reply and sharing your experience.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by redraga »

I've started playing around with the idea of building a better retirement/goals investment calculator/tracker for Indians.

The retirement calculators available online are almost farcical in their simplicity and assumptions. And the ones offered by professional, fee-only financial advisors (I engaged one) are just clunky, uneasy to use excel sheets. They do the job of course, but I think there has to be an easier, more intuitive way to tracking goals/investments.

I know way too many of my friends and acquaintances - educated, fairly wealthy people - who seem to have almost no idea on how to plan/track goals/retirement. It'd be fantastic if I could make something which helps them and others like them.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by readonthegoapp »

yakkomajuri wrote: post #832
readonthegoapp wrote: post #806

Earlier quoted context omitted.

curious if you tried to start your own coworking space. not necessarily 'officially', because that could be a massive undertaing - but more, you just let people know hey i'm going to this cafe from about 8 am to 11 am Tuesday mornings. then put some cool name on it.

This is definitely not a bad idea. I have become a regular at a cafe that I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and met a few people around there, including some other devs. I do wonder where to "advertize" this though. I've ran a Meetup group in the past but that's not a thing here. Facebook would probably be the way, except I don't have an account (does make life harder at times). But I will consider this, thanks!

i created a laptop sticker to semi-advertize my openness to talking to other indie hackers and it's worked a little bit.

i prob look like a mean asshole most of the time when i'm hacking (and most other times), so this is somewhat intended to explicitly invite people to break thru that barrier if they might be so inclined:

https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa

i didn't want an official meetup, nor an unofficial meetup, maybe just a passive but not-completely-passive way to strike up conversations with folks who were trying to live that lifestyle, or just nerds, etc.

so far, the first and only dude to ask me explicitly, "What are you hacking?" -- i was like, "Whhut??"

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by lukem567 »

messe wrote: post #828
lukem567 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the many yaks! In this case taking memory mapped Vulkan buffers and unsafeing them to various Go arrays and whatnot. I have a gapbuffer implementation on top of this, and then a truly evil "gaptree" implementation that uses gapbuffers to represent a tree data structure.

Do you need to work around Go's escape analysis much? I was under the impression that it's good but not perfect, leading to some heap allocation of variables that wouldn't necessarily need it if they were on C/C++.

I think "good but not perfect" describes my experience here as well. I've certainly needed to rework some bits of code that were allocating when I didn't expect them to, but so far, this has not become too onerous (yet).

The "write a little bit of code, then test it to see if it allocates" approach has been very useful. That way I don't get too far out on a limb with a bunch of allocating code and no easy way to clean things up.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by boppo1 »

iposoldier wrote: post #356
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…

Same age, made $4.5 million in an IPO. Decided to join the military. It was worth it, would recommend with several key caveats. Remember, most FAANGs pay you your tech salary while you’re training. A lot easier to get smoked by a Drill SGT when you know you’re making 10x their salary while doing those push ups :)

What military job/mos did you pick? Sounds like you went reserve?
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