Every time I hear a programmer has taken up farming I think of this moment from "MongoDB Is Web Scale":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs&t=2m35s
Not a bad idea, actually.
Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
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Re: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
#102Every time this topic comes up I say the same thing. If you've never worked on a farm and have some kind of romantic idea about it then you shouldn't do this. Farming is hard work. Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have. If you're thinking of doing this and do not have experience go work on a farm for a year before you buy in.
Maybe they have saved enough from working in tech that they can grow vegetables for themselves in a very low scale way. Its nice to escape from the career you've had for decades. Sometimes its not even an escape from the career, but the career and the city you've lived in. Moving to the forest and growing some vegetables and raising chickens isn't that difficult. You certainly don't need "millions in equipment". Its…
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Re: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
#103Every time this topic comes up I say the same thing. If you've never worked on a farm and have some kind of romantic idea about it then you shouldn't do this. Farming is hard work. Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have. If you're thinking of doing this and do not have experience go work on a farm for a year before you buy in.
I see this kind of comment every time someone decides to take a different path. Pessimistic sounds smart I guess. Well, you are wrong. I have done it myself, started a farm on a whim a couple years back, and did just fine! And no I don't know what hard work you're talking about, I'm much healthier than I was sitting at a desk all day long.
Re: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
#104I do a lot of farming. Lots of S3 and zmq and vision and sensors. Pretty demanding job.
Re: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
#105Every time this topic comes up I say the same thing. If you've never worked on a farm and have some kind of romantic idea about it then you shouldn't do this. Farming is hard work. Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have. If you're thinking of doing this and do not have experience go work on a farm for a year before you buy in.
Corn or dairy cattle, absolutely. Oranges for concentrate, sure. Even cabbages for transport, right. But there are other things there's demand for, or demand can even be created for, that do not have such vast efficient scales. Hand-reared escargot, or spinach grown within resonance of a woodpecker pecking at dawn, just two examples.
> …spinach grown within resonance of a woodpecker pecking at dawn,
Please tell me this is a real thing freaks overpay for…
Re: Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
#106Every time this topic comes up I say the same thing. If you've never worked on a farm and have some kind of romantic idea about it then you shouldn't do this. Farming is hard work. Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have. If you're thinking of doing this and do not have experience go work on a farm for a year before you buy in.
Are you Jeremy Clarkson in secret :P.
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> Yea, most people dont get what a "future" is, and why corn and lumber have them (but not onions... thats a lesson too)... The farm has the support of a lot of high finance and hedging exists not just as an instrument but has a purpose. Not many farmers I know (in an ag community) understand what a future is either, or would even know how to trade them. That's the domain of hedge funds, not farmers. (And, if they tr…
They should, it's basic insurance. You don't have to be a speculator, just understand that you're long the thing you're producing in the future so it makes sense to be short some future contracts to lock in your price in that future . (Just make sure your futures broker accepts delivery, otherwise there's funny stuff happening)
> They should, it's basic insurance.
If you grow corn: It can be sold as a future, and you can have crop insurance on it.
IM not sure you grasp what a future is in the case of a farmer...
Now if your in construction, or buying fuel a future can be insurance. Or a risky bet.
None of that is like your heath or home owners or car insurance.... unless you dont have them.
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> You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist I love this about farmers. They are the polymaths of our age and folks dont get it. Farming YouTube is a trip because there's more tech in a tractor than in some startups. > and if you're doing properly, crooked accountant as well. Yea, most people dont get what a "future" is, and why corn and lumber have them (but not onions... thats a les…
> Yea, most people dont get what a "future" is, and why corn and lumber have them (but not onions... thats a lesson too)... The farm has the support of a lot of high finance and hedging exists not just as an instrument but has a purpose. Not many farmers I know (in an ag community) understand what a future is either, or would even know how to trade them. That's the domain of hedge funds, not farmers. (And, if they tr…
From a farmer's point of view, futures can allow for relatively cheap insurance against the agricultural product's price moving against you. You're basically negotiating the price of the product before it's ready to sell, with a standardized product on a global marketplace.
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I was the only grandkid interested in the family farm at all and stood to inherit the whole works. I went to college instead and work a regular job. Grandpa has been on that farm since he was born in 1922. Until he retired in 2006, he took two days off work the entire time. No. Thank. You.
Two days off sounds bad but when you’re working for yourself and don’t have to answer some prick manager, suffer on a commute, sit hunched unnaturally at a desk, it could be much better.
I'll take my 5+ weeks off per year (with strict 40 hour maximum weeks and strong work life balance) and you can have your self-employed 2 days per 30 years = 0.06 days off per year. That's 32 minutes of personal time off per year.