Could this have planets?
Well not planets, but my question is more general - could a star moving this quickly have a planetary system - obviously this one would not if it got shot out of a supernova.
Readit NewsWhat are you using to make the menus pop and slide?
Are you me?
Programming feels like productive work, and indeed it is, up until just about the point you are at. Now it is not productive work any more, in fact, once the product is finished, programming is counter productive work. Other things need to be done and you don't know how to do them and if you do, are not in the habit of doing them. IOt is easy to get up in the morning and write code, harder to do unfamiliar things.
--> self sabotage (deeply seated need to actually not succeed)
--> fear of the unknown
--> avoidance of a change in work habit - from programming to...... ? what does one do post launch
--> fear of the likely outcome which is zero feedback, zero users
Curious - how close are you to launch, what remains to be done, and what does the software actually do?
Can I suggest perhaps be really ruthless about the remaining tasks - likely many of those launch tasks just are not important, even though the completionist in you thinks they are. For example - terms and conditions document? Ditch it until users are interested. Privacy document? Same. Purchase? Drop it.
See what I mean? If people like what you have built and use it, then the world will not come to an end because you did not have those things... and user interest will motivate you to implement them.
It's incredibly hard to work on something with no user interest. Just dump what you have built out there and see what happens.
Hey wow that's great advice I think I'll learn from what you say here.
Whenever there is a financial crisis, someone goes back and sees who predicted these exact circumstances, which of course someone did because that's statistics for you. But it doesn't make then a genius or prescient.
It just means they are the person who happened to guess what did actually happen. And I tell ya, it aint hard to predict which of the big companies will buy some other highly successful smaller company because there ain't that many acquisitive really big tech companies.
If you want to look like a genius in the future, Tweet a few predictions about random([amazon, google, microsoft]) will buy random([jetbrains, atlassian, twitter]). No one will notice if it never happens but when it does you can stand tall as a true crystal ball gazer who "really called it".
Here's when "The Simpsons" predicted the Trump Presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcYMvzZ7jk Same thing.
Here is when some other guy predicted - right here on HN - and way back in 2008 - that Google would buy github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=262460 Now that guy is a genius! Oh wait now he wasn't, it was someone else who made a different guess.
And when those aliens arrive.... you'd better believe there will be a long queue of people lining up to take their title as "genius" and "prescient" and "called it".