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Post by toyg »

bee_rider wrote: post #186
toyg wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If religion was a net negative, it wouldn't have survived for... well, since monkeys grew a rigid spine. The negatives tend to come from people exploiting others' dependency on its usefulness.

Everything has pros and cons, but some other behaviors that have survived for a really long time are murder, war, and (since it came up in this thread) alcoholism, which are not generally very well regarded. This isn’t to say religion is necessarily like those things, but it does indicate a flaw in the idea that behaviors that stick around mustn’t be so bad.

Murder can kill mass-murderers, and some wars can result in lasting peace. Everything in moderation.

(Alcoholism has a massive component gifted to us by the genetic lottery, so it's really unfair to bundle it with these things.)

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Post by AlecSchueler »

bag_boy wrote: post #181
thowaway959125 wrote: post #123

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You can see from my comment history that I have a history of problems with alcohol also. I have spent many Christmas's holed up in motels alone with a bottle, thinking "what's the point?". You think going through that one year would be enough, but it wasn't enough to learn my lesson. It's no place to be, but it CAN get better as you've pointed out. I noted in a prior comment I went from a senior software engineer to…

Same here. I remember thinking the depression/drinking would never end. It did. Life is great now. Merry Christmas

We're you ever happy prior to the depressive periods?

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Post by knaik94 »

Merry Chrysler, thank you HN. I hope I can be as positive an experience on someone else as others have been on me. It's hard to find such a high density of smart and experienced people in one community. I really appreciate having an environment that pushes to me constantly grow and continue learning new things.

To be clear, because humor gets lost sometimes, mispronouncing Christmas is a reference to this vine. There's nothing deeper, it's just funny to me. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Z-Nu351j58

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Post by cmeacham98 »

ellis0n wrote: post #164
cmeacham98 wrote: post #155

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Additional feedback ignoring the first impression issues: Download link being TestFlight is ... not ideal. The website is super vague? What exactly is your app? It seems to be a mobile IDE for your proprietary programming language? Committing to a new language, _especially_ a proprietary language where the only IDE is on iOS is a HUGE choice. You need way more details on why someone should choose this over learning O…

Yes, TestFlight is the main problem now, because there are still bugs blocking the publication in the AppStore. As I wrote above, this site is a draft. Mobile application for where users can create games and apps on mobile devices. For this, a programming language was created. For example, in a war or other extreme conditions, when there is no electricity, this is critical. Now it's only iOS, and then there will be A…

To be clear, the point I'm trying to make is that your potential customers aren't going to be digging around on HN posts looking for details on what the software does. After they spend a few minutes and can't figure anything out they will leave - never to return. This information needs to be prominently on the website: what your product is (much more clearly) and why people should choose it over alternatives.

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Post by Tolexx »

From Nigeria and wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a prosperous New year ahead.

I have to say that this is an amazing community full of really awesome people. I never regretted being a part of this community and I pray we all keep growing in leaps and bounds.

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Post by bag_boy »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #222
bag_boy wrote: post #181

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Same here. I remember thinking the depression/drinking would never end. It did. Life is great now. Merry Christmas

We're you ever happy prior to the depressive periods?

I think so, although it’s hard to define what happy means.

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Post by SamPatt »

bitexploder wrote: post #211
SamPatt wrote: post #171

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Nice work man. Merry Christmas.

Or woman. Or person :)

Alcohol senior engineer who ended up homeless?

In my experience that's always a dude. Women have their lives fall apart in different ways.

I'm willing to make a gendered assumption occasionally.

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Post by labrador »

sph wrote: post #220
labrador wrote: post #58

In case you're homeless and living in your car rejected by everyone you love because you can't stop drinking, but temporarily holed up in a roadside motel over Christmas with a case of vodka... that was me. It gets better. I now have 5 years sobriety, but I'll never forget that despair I felt and how my mind was in a loop thinking about killing myself. I've put a temp email in my profile in case you want to reach out…

Thanks for putting yourself out there and offering a way for people to reach out to you. Only through great suffering we learn to cultivate selflessness, and eventually grow into better people. Merry Christmas.

Thanks, it was an impulsive thing to do, but it was a good impulse. I didn't think it through and think that I might be spending my Christmas answering emails, but people understood I was trying to reach the person at the end of their rope so didn't bother me with less critical emails.

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Post by labrador »

bdcravens wrote: post #183
labrador wrote: post #58

In case you're homeless and living in your car rejected by everyone you love because you can't stop drinking, but temporarily holed up in a roadside motel over Christmas with a case of vodka... that was me. It gets better. I now have 5 years sobriety, but I'll never forget that despair I felt and how my mind was in a loop thinking about killing myself. I've put a temp email in my profile in case you want to reach out…

I can't say I reached that level of despair, but on multiple occasions I was inches away (often literally) from alcohol destroying everything. I'll reach 5 years sober next July.

OP here: Good for you and now we do the work of preventing relapse. I've been told by many people I respect that it's a daily practice so I don't "forget" that I can't drink like other people.
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