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jressey commented on Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play hakari.io/... · Posted by u/woodsey
jressey commented on Meta lays off 11,000 people about.fb.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/technics256
So, after Twitter and Meta layoffs there will be around 15,000 people looking for the job. In one moment. With other layoffs it can be counted over 20,000 people IMHO.
Will this over flood the market and bring expectations and salaries down?
My 2 cents is that it's going to be mostly recruiters, sales, customer success, and other misc operations folks. That's the pattern I've been observing since the post-covid layoffs have begun.
jressey commented on Microsoft's Largest Piece of Software Weighed More Than 40 Pounds pcmag.com/news/microsofts... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I did not know that there was a job "archivist" at big tech companies.
Does anyone here have experience? Would you share any of your interesting stories?
jressey commented on Winner of $1.28B Lottery Gets $433.7M After Tax forbes.com/sites/robertwo... · Posted by u/Vaslo
Some quick back of the envelope calculations suggests that powerball becomes positive estimated value at about 650mil for jackpot or above (though if we want to discount for taxes, lump sum etc, high than that) but obviously that EV is massively weighted towards one very very very rare event
I've got no qualms with folks who can afford it playing the big jackpots from time to time, especially because the money coming in is typically earmarked for positive social programs.
jressey commented on Winner of $1.28B Lottery Gets $433.7M After Tax forbes.com/sites/robertwo... · Posted by u/Vaslo
jressey commented on Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning? · Posted by u/dev_0
Write notes with your hand, paper or digital, when you notice something important.
You will almost never revisit them in a meaningful way. It is better to just focus on using note-taking to pay attention.
jressey commented on Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster avohq.io/... · Posted by u/adrianthedev
A very pertinent question. If you're asking if Avo "pays the bills", it doesn't. I hope it will some day. Damn, I hope I earn money in some other way and donate Avo to Ruby central, becomes free so it becomes the default way of building Rails apps.
Until that time, I am pretty stocked that other developers want (and pay) to use something I've created.
Yeah, it takes a lot to build the messaging around a product. This current message "Build apps 10x faster" is probably the 10th or 20th iteration. I had to speak with a lot of users and try to figure out how it helps them in their daily dev life.
Building the product is the easy thing (for a developer), doing the marketing, steering it into the right direction, figuring out what the best features are, sales, funnels, etc. Those are the difficult things. They are difficult for me because I don't have a following.
Regarding your "Bold and cynical claim", I respect your opinion. I wouldn't go to say that everyone just want to build a following and launch useless product to achieve that.
I respect your hustle and understanding of what makes a successful product. I'm making no comment on that.
I was in general asking the community about how often they get paid to start apps vs. continue them.
jressey commented on Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster avohq.io/... · Posted by u/adrianthedev
This is a serious question: Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects? In my career I have "started" projects for maybe 2-5% of my time. All of the real effort goes in to massaging the app to actually solve unique business problems, about 80-90% on edge cases.
Bold and cynical claim: Making and selling apps like this is akin to building a social media brand about building social media brands. The problem this solves is only experienced by serial creators who like starting projects, not making useful stuff. I personally know 2 people who are like that attempted to start this exact same concept for a company, and that was like 6 years ago, and it was Rails too.