My wife is a clinical pharmacist (rounds with medical doctors and provides detailed patient analysis of their drug needs).
This article blew her mind.
Readit Newsrobodale commented on Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living fourthievesvinegar.org/... · Posted by u/Beijinger
This is my 30th year programming. I always hope it's my last. Programming for money destroyed the fun hobby long ago.
It's just reinventing the wheel year after year by this point. The last thing the world needs is more software.
The web is the crappiest platform ever conceived; I won't touch it. Social media is poison. Smartphones didn't impress me in 2007 and they don't impress me now. They're annoying and intrusive. I still like desktop software. I know, I'm a dinosaur.
I just don't care about computers any more. I don't care what direction the industry goes in. I'm not depressed and I don't need to learn a new language or work on a different project.
I love creative problem solving. What I do not love is solving whatever problems are handed to you without asking whether they truly need solutions, or whether it's good for the world. Much of what people want computers to do is a waste of time and of life. Whether it's bureaucratic corporate garbage or thought stopping entertainment.
I'm so tired of computers.
I started on a Commodore 64 in 1983. I share your opinions. I think it's hilarious how much I am paid by companies to write their crapware.
robodale commented on Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now? · Posted by u/kirso
Walked away from 20 years of software development last year. I've been day and swing trading stocks for last 2 years. I'm now trading full time and doing great. I don't miss the daily stand-ups, scrum meetings, planning meetings, "quick chats", one-on-ones with management, weekly department meetings, monthly company meetings, and late night critical support calls one bit!
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robodale commented on Ask HN: How to find the energy for side projects after day job? · Posted by u/MehdiHK
I "pay myself first". I get up early and get at least 1 hour in on my side project. Sometimes I wake up earlier and so be it - 2 hours some days. I also make sure I know the very next thing I need to work on before that morning work session, that way I'm not just staring at the project reviewing which way to go in my pre-coffee brain.
I have resurrected an old side project that once hit the front page of HN and did Ok on Product Hunt.
I burned out because what started as a selfish dog-fooding utility became this vision less beast filled with feature requests from strangers.
The reboot is now tightly scoped to what I want and only what I want. Once done I slap a price on it and call it feature complete.
"...vision less beast filled with feature requests from strangers..."
Yikes, I'm near launching my little monster. I don't want to feed that little guy too many feature requests. I don't want a visionless beast.
robodale commented on Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/alexrustic
I rode it to the bottom and sold. Bad timing for me I guess. Luckily only 2% of my holdings.
robodale commented on Ask HN: How to find a new role as a very senior software engineer? · Posted by u/TheMog
A great question. I'm partially-grizzled (only 20 years experience) and looking for the same thing. Some sort of Principle Software Engineer with technical focus and no direct people management responsibilities. Searching LinkedIn brings back plenty of job hits...but it's mostly MegaCorp jobs like you mention.
3 months? I've been trying to make it work for 18 years.
Both AI tools came back with...garbage. Loops within loops within loops as they iterated through each day to check if the day is a weekend or not, is a leap year and to account for the extra day, is it a holiday or not, etc.
However, chatGPT provided a clever division to cut the dataset down to weeks, then process the result. I ended up using that portion in my final algorithm creation.
So, my take on AI coding tools are: "Buyer beware. Your results may vary".