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I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old so far
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Re: I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old so far
#42This is what you think when you don’t exercise and aren’t in tune with yourself. You had all this time to do it (get in tune with yourself) and if you still didn’t manage it by 60 (!) it will establish itself and occupy you with these memories etc. that this man has listed.
Now listen to someone who lead a different life and you will not get this dread in their answer.
If anything this is another reminder how not to live life.
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#43I am 60 years old and as a person always learning I have accumulated a huge stack of knowledge and I think my mind is in a very good shape so I still can learn new things quickly. Long time ago I found a good balance between life and work, and a good paid job by european standards. The only problem is that sometimes I envy the 200K $ paid jobs, but there are two main walls to pursue that salary: First: I have no work…
I can't believe you have a PhD in math, can do leetcode easily, but AWS is too much for you. I will personally show you around AWS if you're up for it. Although, I only know EC2, but arguably that's the only thing that matters :D
I don't think it's too much for him. He just finds it distasteful. I have such feeling for some technologies, like Oracle. It's not that they are super hard. I just don't want to touch it with 10ft pole.
Re: I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old so far
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked at AWS and have architected large scale systems, and AWS is too much for me. The problem is that many of their solutions are super focused and they have ecosystem lock-in (i.e. lambda) which allow it all to come together (at a price).
What is a better route for someone wanting to run a personal project but also learn the tooling that would be needed if the project "took off" in the sense of using a lot of bandwidth or having a lot of users/data? If that question is too broad... Is lightsail a good starting place within AWS? Or is there another service that would allow for less lock in but similar features?
Scale really does require some degree of dimensional analysis. You can go very far with just Amazon S3 and an EC2 host. The place to begin is really with the fundamentals of a single host, and then looking for where bottlenecks will happen per project. That's when you can go through the catalog and find something which may be an ok upgrade to then buy into the lock-in.
Re: I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old so far
#45Except I hate TV and radio and cannot think straight when that NOISE is running yammering and ego tripping away… The grunts are real, however… but I’m only 47 so what do I know
I mean, despite chair time, and I do also have a keyboard rack for my hammock, and a neck rest…
I’m do ride 60km on my bike at least once a week and run and bike some daily, in addition to stretching and yoga and stuff…
I recently discovered acupuncture and it’s joys.
I still grunt, and not just standing up, but contemplating the bewildering array of different things I must do simply by being newly aware of their significance in a given task at hand that I previously was content or able to deal with in a less profoundly holistic manner…
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#46This concept that old-people skills are obsolete is a completely modern phenomena, and I'm dubious that it's even true. The pace of change is fast, but only because we are still dealing with the consequences of the scientific and industrial revolutions. I now think of all technologies past ~1800 as "modern". Basically you should learn all of it to some degree. 19th century machinist skills? Still useful and valid. Th…
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but my sense in my own lifetime and in talking to those who went before me that people are increasingly seen in terms of existing certified skills rather than actual skills or abilities. It's as if people are widgets and you need a certified widget to fit in a certain spot in the machine; it's not enough if the widget actually fits but isn't certified as such, and it doesn't matte…
You say "people are increasingly seen in terms of existing certified skills" - now I wonder if that's really true that its more nowadays, and if it is, why... In the 90s employers demanded Microsoft or networking certs. This kinda thing's been going on long time. Some of us unix geeks sidestepped that nasty treadmill, as unix jobs didn't generally require formal quals (albeit some folks commanded a premium with Sun or HP certs). Nowadays you can no longer escape using *nix, for with cloud computing, you're tied to MS/Google/AWS. This may account for the perception (or indeed reality) that certs are required more these days. But as a dev (rather than ops) person you can still dodge it. Personally I think AWS certs are a PITA - lots of effort spent for a piece of paper with a limited shelf life which doesn't necessarily prepare you for the actual tech skills needed in your immediate job. IMHO, as always in the tech industry, one has to spot the fads and treadmills and stand well clear ;)