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Peter Thiel is the Jordan Peterson of capitalism.

Years of poor education and dark money being invested in the system. People like Peter Thiel who love America already have their plans to escape to New Zealand. We are one of the only developed countries where we still argue about teaching evolution AND biblical myths like Afghanistan. We could have been one of the best countries in the world. If we had stayed honest and hardworking.

Schedule romantic times. It sounds cheesy but schedule it. Light some aromatic candles. Have cheese and wine.

Leetcode but without the drudgery? Seems nice.

The memcached story https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/TutorialCachingS... is still an iconic piece of dev writing for me.

A16z has lost all their credibility with the massive crypto pump and dump.

Klarna and affirm are the next gen of bullshit companies. Like Uber and WeWork before it. Absolutely massive scams fed with easy money and dumping on the next fool.

Software is eating the world but the future world is made with hardware. Companies like these are the future.

My calculation is 100_000 per month * 12 * 33 (3% safe withdrawal). What's yours?

Yet all of them have minted millionaires and billionaires. This is the new game. Nobody cares about profits. Money has been made.

Yup same. The top performers I know want to work on really hard stuff, crush it and go home. The most they like doing is going to a party where they can hold a drink and chat about a topic. But as soon as cutesy like refrigerator boards or dress like a cuckoo starts happening, they will look elsewhere.

I had savings from my vested RSUs which I received working for a rising company. Then I turned into an angel investor and made some good money which should last me for a while. I still can't retire but I will deal with it a bit later. To retire I would need 39_600_000 dollars.

Same. Quitting and working on my own small projects are such a joy.

Wow, Sacha! 10 years already. Meteor was one of the first Javascript frameworks which gave me joy. Maybe the closest to that today is Imba. Realtime all the time was performance heavy for sure but so much fun. I recently saw https://liveblocks.io/ which is trying to do realtime primitives for the current wave. Discover Meteor was one of the first "modern" programming framework books I bought and I still remember the book built around an example, something which was missing from a lot of books in that era. Modern JS is a complicated mess. I would love to go back to that era where people were trying to do magical things with one api call. Hooks in React is more complicated than a whole library from that era. That is not a good thing. In 10 years we should have had far more higher level tools. Wish you all the best. Meteor gave me a lot of joy. Maybe I will try building something with it again to see where it's at.

Amazon shouldn't mess with the French. They will get their heads chopped off.

Consider extracting this to a separate function.

I remember the seti one. Probably dedicated a decade of idle cpu usage to it.

> All the great ideas for starting a software company have been taken and executed.

Wow. I am amazed a comment like this could be made by someone reading Hacker News.

this deep culture is fundamentally missing from the US. we must try to start them.

I mean here chat won't be as useful. The point with that chat is not the chat, it is the access to people who can spend 25k. Here you will only get normies who have nothing special to add.