Thanks, my daughter loves it. She wanted me to tell you she's only 10 and got 2nd on the leaderboard.
Readit Newsjddil commented on Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flags of the world flagmatch.com/... · Posted by u/kyrylo
jddil commented on Timeline of the xz open source attack research.swtch.com/xz-tim... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
"It's also good to keep in mind that this is an unpaid hobby project." ~ Lasse Collin, 2022-06-08.
As someone working in security, the fact that _foundational_ pieces of the computing/networking rely on motivated individuals and essentially goodwill is mind blowing.
There are great aspects to the FOSS movement, but the risks – particularly the social engineering aspects as demonstrated here – and potential blast radius of supply chains like this... We take it all for granted and that is lining up to bite us hard, as an industry.
Never understood why our industry seems unique in our willingness to do unpaid work for giant corps. Your compression library isn't saving the world, it's making it easier for amazon to save a few bucks.
You have the right to be paid for your time. It's valuable.
I enjoy coding too... but the only free coding I do is for myself.
Use a proper license, charge for your time and stop killing yourself doing unpaid hobby projects that cause nothing but stress.
jddil commented on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/FollowingTheDao
So far: alcohol, sympathetic friends. Gonna give zoloft a shot whenever they get around to filling the script.
Alcohol temporarily helps but you pay it back with interest over time.
It sounds trite but exercise and sleeping/eating better is really the only thing we have proof that works. (zoloft can help kickstart the changes but it won't reduce anxiety long term)
jddil commented on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/FollowingTheDao
Don't.
Do you enjoy playing games or do you enjoying making games?
If you enjoy playing games don't kill your hobby, if you enjoy making games I would expect you'd already have a ton of example projects you could show and discuss, even just game designs scribbled on paper somewhere.
If you don't have that you'll be competing with people that do, and with people that will kill themselves in their 20's to work unreasonable hours for shitty pay because it's their passion. It's all they've done since they were 10 years old and it's all they ever want to do.
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This completely made up series of conspiracy-laden comments is what HN is now ... well, that and people getting very confused about what free speech is.
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Nothing much. Being based in Western Europe and being run primarily by English speakers meant very few Russian leaks would get sent to Wikileaks.
How did this become the narrative? Wikileaks was started by the Russian secret service, so of course they wouldn't leak their own stuff. Assange was a useful idiot to them.
There are so many red flags in that article, and that article is coming from Sequoia Capital itself. I can't understand how anyone would have invested anything at all in FTX, let alone an astonishing $1.3 billion in Series B and Series C. Does no-one at these VCs do any form of due diligence (e.g. reading the articles on their own web sites), or are they unfathomably incompetent, or living in some alternate reality from the rest of us where everything is reversed (incompetence is competence, war is peace, ignorance is strength, etc.), or is there something else I'm missing?
You're missing the point of VC funds. Due diligence doesn't matter, incompetence doesn't matter, reality doesn't matter. What matters is if they can turn their 1 dollar into 2.
Doesn't matter if that requires breaking laws(airbnb) or stealing from naive people(shitcoins) they will do it, full stop. Once you understand that VC funds are literally robber barons who grouped together and gave themselves a new name it all makes a lot more sense.