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Ask HN: Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings
If you were a 25yo Web Developer (Full-stack Dev), single, no debt and had $30k/£20k savings, what would you do?

Please bear the following in mind:

- I am based in the UK
- I did not go to College/University
- I am self-taught
- From the age of 16-20 when I was learning
I didn't party a lot or go out much
- From the age of 20-25 I was in a
long term relationship
- I have been a tech co-founder of a company
which grew to $7m/£4m turnover at its peak
- From the age of 20-25 I was working 60-70 hours
per week, both in employed jobs and
growing the company I was a co-founder of
- I have no debts
- I have a core group of friends who I see perhaps
once per week but they are slowly getting into relationships
- I am currently freelancing for the company I was
a co-founder of (I sold my shares)
but I am working from home

Sometimes I look around and I am grateful for the way everything has turned out. Having said that, I can't help but feel I have missed out. I never had my "party days", never travelled and I am working and living out of a apartment in the UK, which with my line of work, could in theory be anywhere in the world.

Some weeks go by and the only people I see are my family members, 1 or 2 friends and I may go out on the odd date now and again. My friends no longer want to go out to bars and clubs because they all did this when they were younger.

Part of me would love to put all of my belongings in storage, take my laptop and freelance from around the world.

My monthly outgoings are $2,500/£1,500 for rent and bills (I live on my own) and this is covered by my freelance work (8 hours per WEEK) so I barely have to touch my savings.

I want to meet more people, make more friends, meet more girls, have fun, come across exciting work opportunities, etc but I am not doing this right now.

What would YOU do?
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Could yóu explain how/why do you think the past is constantly changing?
We think (@pagefair) it's clear that adblock is being promoted just fine by word of mouth. It's the ad industry that's got to change somehow. We're trying to be part of that. What's shocking to us is how the ad industry mostly doesn't even recognise how fast adblock is growing. To them, it just looks like more people have switched off their PCs, because they just can't see that segment of the audience anymore. Therefore, they're having a really hard time figuring out that this is even happening to them.
> Prime Minister David Cameron and his Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will tell a special cabinet meeting on Thursday that emergency legislation is necessary to keep the country safe.

Safe from what, exactly?
Samsung and TI don't design their own GPUs so it'd be surprising to see them outpacing AMD in this. Qualcomm's efforts also appear to be behind AMD so far, and they don't appear to have as much priority for it as AMD does.
Bowing my head in shame! Stevey doesn't mince his words does he? Lol
Look forward to the argument "this bill just lets the security services keep doing what they're already doing" when this bill has to be renewed after the sunset date.
From PM and deputy PM throwing a tantrum, of course.
Well, I contacted my MP. I'm not holding my breath with this voting record:

* Voted very strongly against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability

* Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT

* Voted very strongly against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices

* Voted very strongly for reducing central government funding of local government

* Voted a mixture of for and against a wholly elected House of Lords
Go travel round Europe whilst freelancing, no visa hassle as you're an EU citizen and travelling is definitely worth it. Either put stuff in storage and pick a list of countries to go to, or go visit a new city for a week each month I'd say.
One of the things we can be truly proud of... kudos to the original designers and engineers who thought "Lets do it properly".

My dad taught electrical engineering, and I think how reassuring the absolute confidence must have been with us kids using plugs, and even pulling on cables. He knew it was going to be a minor inconvenience for him to recable it, and absolutely no risk of electrocution to us.
Do something that has nothing to do with any of this.

True story from my first week an university. I was a typical bright, nerdy guy away from home for the first significant amount of time. I decided that I had to do _something_ to force me to not stay in my room and it had to be something that was going to get me to meet people unlike me.

So I looked around and went for something well outside my comfort zone: ballroom dancing. I had no idea how to dance at all, but you can learn to dance and you dance with women. Also, all the other people there were in a similar situation (some had danced before) but most were doing it to try something new.

I don't know what's going to work for you, but there's something out there.
The one thing that would make it better would be if it posted the data to the public blockchain, so we didn't need to depend on sparkfuns' servers for retrieval purposes ..
Actually embedding an X server in the article is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.
free business app, in the store for three months, downloaded less than 200 times. withdrawn.
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Just curious, are there any visualizations of how weights of these networks change in time?
"Do something that has nothing to do with any of this."

This is actually some of the best advice I've heard in a while. Never thought it would come from HN. Thanks.
A new web editor. Could this defeat Dreamweaver?
I would do what https://twitter.com/levelsio is doing: Start different startups, working from cool but cheap places anywhere around the world, with a lot of travels.
> What would YOU do?

First of all, relax! you are only 25 you have all your life in front of you. The best years in your life are about to come.

In your case I will travel for a couple of months on your own. Go to asia, south america... you'll have a lot of new experiences and get to meet some people.

Also you can practice an sport or get a new hobby like playing an instrument, you have a lot of free time and you'll meet new people.
I agree with jgrahamc.

Do a Bruce Wayne Gap Year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617684
has anybody run bonnie++ benchmarks with this fs?
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Yeah, and bomb building instructions and child pornography.
I would like to try this out but it crashes when I try to start it and dumps core.

I raised an issue here: https://github.com/breach/breach_core/issues/95
When I was 26yo I freelanced while traveling. I had a blast, but if I could change one thing, I would have saved money (or created passive income streams) to travel for a year without having to freelance. Why? Because you can have more fun and adventure if you're flexible with your time and if you have minimal responsibilities. Staying out until 6 AM in a Brazilian disco with 10 new friends that you've just met is a lot more fun if you don't have to be on your laptop three hours later to write code for a company in a different timezone.
" That's probably sufficient for cases with infrequent read-write cycles, assuming that your floats tend to cover useful time-space coordinates (i.e. where and when a hard drive could plausibly reside). I'm not sure how "space-time coordinates" would work (where is the origin and what is the granularity?), so I don't know if it's likely."

Now I have calculated a little:

The age of the universe is 8 * 10^60 in planck time units:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=universe+age+%2F+planck...

So if the simulation is for example something like a cellural automaton with a planck-time (5.4 * 10^(-44) sec) step-size, than assuming we use fix-point numbers, 26 bytes suffice. (25 bytes are just not enough, 256^25 = 1.6 * 10^60)

Suprisingly the size of the universe is 5.4 * 10^61 in planck-length units:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planck+length+universe+...

So again, we need 26 bytes, for a super fine representation. I was one byte off for all components, so we need altogether 104 bytes.
Looks like status quo as this is the response I got from Sky regarding data retention a couple of week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970165
My dream is living in a Latin American country (I learned Spanish) and do freelance work online for western salaries, e.g. $60 hourly. I maybe would get bored of it after 6 months, but with a European passport, you can always easily go back to Europe. I recently moved to the UK by the way, but just doing a full-time job.
There was a place to write code. In this example, obviously, none was written. But interfaces leave no opportunity.
You're welcome.

The other piece of advice I'd give is: "Do things that scare you but where you can overcome that fear". I, at least, find that I have great satisfaction from that.
This is a good idea. We need help realizing it.
I stand corrected, it's clearly been a long while since I looked at the Firefox build process (I believe there was something on top of autoconf at the time, but not quite what mach is now?).

While I don't hate autoconf, the combination of gyp and ninja is quite nice -- although I have more experience with cmake and ninja. From what I've seen of gyp, it has many "typical" "modern" build-tool features -- and I'm really happy they ended up keeping gyp featureful, and ninja simple and fast.

I imagine you'd need about as big as a mess (no criticism, it's a large project with a long history, complex dependencies) as Firefox to have any reason to choose mach over just autoconf/automake for a new project. And if you're going with a "new" build tool, I think I would go for CMake (many people hate CMake, too, though) or perhaps Waf or SCONS.

So, not sure if I think gyp is "superior" (although it certainly is good) -- but the combination of a "smart" build tool and ninja as a build "blunt instrument" is pretty great: ninja is fast.
28yo Web Dev, married (with babies), no debt, corporate JOB (just over broke, one month of expenses in my bank)

"What would YOU do?"

I'd definitely go travelling. See the world. Understand culture / problems / what drives people.

Suggestion - http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackbase - get yourself to Canary Islands (plenty of cheap RyanAir flights from the UK) and figure what to do next from there :)
> To them, it just looks like more people have switched off their PCs

That's a really interesting comment. I don't think people are moving away from laptops (desktops maybe) anywhere near as quickly as I so often hear.

Anecdotally, almost everyone I know uses predominantly laptops for their computing/browsing needs. They almost all also use Adblock.
Why must JavaScript watch videos?
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It will make you more productive and by extension have all the time you devote to finding a key now free. The biggest advantage being maintaining flow as you think about code. An almost seamless transition from thought to the editor. http://hkelkar.com/2014/03/02/learn-to-type-before-you-learn...
Use couchsurfing and go travel. It's free, but you also get to meet some amazing people.

Try online dating. Tinder/okcupid. Meet some younger girls who still like to go out and party.

Take up active hobbies that force you to be around other people. Yoga, indoor rock climbing, dancing is another good one.

Try meetup.com to meet new friends and activity partners.

If you have the freedom to travel, why are you staying in your apartment!? You can settle down when you're old and grey. Get out and explore the world.
From a mass civil uprising against the increasingly fascistic tack taken by Our Glorious Leaders.
I read that blog yesterday as it was mentioned on a different thread. It seems most of his advice is don't buy anything you literally don't need to survive. What's the point of living if you can't enjoy your life? You'll be a rich corpse, who cares?

What am I missing?

I think you're missing that the most gratifing things in live are not shoppable. Learning stuff, producing stuff. Seeing your kids grow. It's the difference between strawberries from the supermarket and strawberries you raised and harvested yourself. The feeling of sleeping the first night in a bed you made with your own hands.

Or, another example I just observed looking out the window: Here in Germany people often seem to think they need special clothing for the most mundane activities. They want to go cycling, first thing they do is go to a store and buy cycling clothes. It's ridiculous. As if you are able to ride longer or faster in pink polyester shorts with stripes. I think that's what that blog is about. Shopping is a distraction from real life.

edit: typo.
You can never go wrong with travel. It will expand your mind, take you out of your comfort zone, and change you as a person.

I like to travel slow. At least one month in each place. That gives me enough time to rent a place for a month, with is cheaper, and to really get to know some people.

Don't bother doing freelancing until you have to. But if there's a side project that you'd like to work on, do work on that!

I've been spending 3 months in Cape Verde, loving it. After that don't know where i'm going. Indonesia maybe?

Travel travel travel, travel as much as you can! :)
Travel. Take up something completely non-techy, like woodworking or knitting to meet people outside the tech "scene". Find a co-working place or something to do your freelance stuff from, to better mentally give a barrier between life and work. Make sure you have a good Third Place [1]. It sounds very much like you're in the opening stages of burnout here, and you really, really need to work on breaking out and making a mark on the world outside of hacker news.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
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Actibump
In a very recent case here in Uruguay, an adult had consensual sex with a 14-year old minor, got her pregnant, and made her take an abortion pill.

The girl's mother called the police, and it surfaced that the girl had lied about her age and name to the man, so he was found guilty but his sentence was 45 days probation only (no jail time) and an 120 day restraining order.

A search for similar cases in the U.S. surfaces: 10 years jail time, 38 years of jail time, etc..
But there is something we can do. We can make the context clear and resolve this.
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Define short trial period. <14 days?
And another by the same guy, in a similar vein:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
The whole debug while requesting a page sounds great, that's a feature I adore from Xdebug.
When I was 25 I moved to London to work in another country, meet new people, have adventures ... live life. Prior to that, I was in a similar position to yourself. This was the best time of my life, and I'm glad I did it at that age. Most people wait until their midlife crisis to do those things, where it damages, or destroys, the commitments they have made.

Travelling is one of the most educational, rewarding experiences you can possibly have.

I would stash my earnings away into an investment, travel the world freelancing with my expertise, discovering new and amazing realities with which to live life.

P.S that's what I'm doing now, 20 odd years later. again.
Travel.

Also take up dancing classes (salsa is a good choice) and possibly learn to paint/draw.
My version is "Do what worries you the most".
I am super excited about this driver. I worked on the early drm first at Precision Insight and then at VA Linux Systems, and having hardware validated command streams seperate for each process is just such a huge deal for performance. I wrote some proof of concept code awhile back that I posted to the Mesa dev list for doing something like this without hardware support, and based on my limited testing it would be a huge improvement in dma throughput. Its nice to see something like this happening finally, I think it is a path to getting a secure and highly performant driver. We have always had to make security tradeoffs with performance in Linux land, now we actually might have the infrastructure to get a chance at matching or beating Windows performance. Terribly exciting.
Oh jeez. This post struck way too close for comfort. I'm in a situation very similar to yours. That feeling of missing out and your friends now in relationships is quite stark .

I'm watching the comments above me like a hawk for what to do but I'm taking your post as an excuse to shake up my life. BRB - getting plane tickets.
The right to be forgotten vs. Copyrights
But if I understand it right, in that case the developer was distributing the app, signed with his own developer's account, abusing the 100 devices you have for testing.

What I meant was to let the users be the developers, and sign and deploy it themselves.

If you didn't care about selling it, you could just dump the source somewhere with a little installation script. I can imagine many IOS users who would like to use emulators or other banned apps would happily pay $99 and compile their own stuff.
And Microsoft is known for playing nice with partners, right?
Cython , probably the best programming language in the world
http://kilon.blogspot.fr/2010/02/cython-probably-best-programming.html
They're not the same thing, and there's currently no lunch eating going on.

KVM is a full hypervisor. It can run Linux, Windows, OSX, Solaris, etc.

Docker on Linux can run Linux. It can do it with less overhead and higher performance than KVM.
That's a seriously awesome piece of work. I'm sure it could be used for more things than demos.

X11's client-server model is seriously underappreciated, and the continuing efforts to make X behave exactly like Microsoft Windows frequently forget about network transparency.

Conversely, trying to make X behave like Microsoft Remote Desktop is often unreasonably painful. I've not yet seen a nice solution for detaching and reattaching X applications like screen(1)
"paedophile MPs?"

(From Franke Boyle, but I can't find the tweet at the moment.)

> Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle Jul 10

> Oddly, a government that lost 114 files on child abuse thinks it's important to keep a note of every time you post a funny cat video online

> Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle Jul 10

> About time we had a new electronic surveillance law to uncover exactly no terrorists and 158 million texts about fucking
That's not a lot of savings. My advice would be to save more.

edit: Also, "barely have to touch my savings" means that you're net negative every month, and you're currently not doing anything special. I wouldn't do anything new that would raise my expenses.
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One thing I'd say is, if you're going to go travelling don't label yourself as a hacker or entrepreneur or freelancer.

Don't prepare your intro story. "Hey, I'm Steve and I've just decided to go travelling but I'm a hacker and I had this startup and then I freelanced..." etc. Just say, "Hey, I'm Steve. Nice to meet you." The rest can come out naturally! It's good to meet people from all walks of life and by preparing all this backstory you might overwhelm people or become a caricature of yourself.

Oh, and if you do go travelling, and need someone to take over your freelance work - please get in touch. I'm basically the same as you but 26 and not single, not planning to pack it up and take a break just yet.

Good luck.

EDIT: And hey if you wanna get a beer some time with someone new lemme know, I live in London too.
As I understand it this law (passed or not) makes no difference to GCHQ who are probably collecting as much of this data as they can; and have exemptions written into existing laws; and etc etc.
I was just thinking what a pain it is to have to use VMs/ssh in order to get access to containers from my Mac OS machine. It made be (semi-seriously) consider getting a Linux machine as my next laptop. I'm still a bit skeptical but it is a start to think about it.
I had played with this idea some time back and gave up after some very specific flaws came became clear.

The good probability that a 5 digit combination is found in Pi will be in the range of locations above 10000, for example I once located by 6 digit phone number in position 685214 which was not actually helpful at all.

Further we are not sure if Pi is normal hence the better idea would be use a simple computable normal series.

It was just yesterday I uploaded a paper that presents a idea for Compressing Random Data to -> https://www.academia.edu/7620004/Advanced_Compression_Techni...
which proposes an Idea to push multiple bytes represented by a positions in a computable number series into small representation and generate them on the go when required. (need lot of improvement to actually apply)
Hate fighting with Outlook? There's a better way to build emails
We've just launched Mail Designer 2 – a Mac app that lets you design emails and newsletters that work with MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Apple Mail etc.

Sure, most of us could build these by hand, but who really wants to mess around with Outlook 2003 background fixes?

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If you have any questions, let me know!

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I think you mean the URL in the ledger creation command, e.g., 'hyperledger ledger register newcoin https://newcoin.com'. This would just be the official site of the asset or company, like bitcoin.org is for bitcoin. Currently, this is just used so people can get extra information, but it could be used in the future to remove spam currencies if there is no official site (although we would not be able to do this ourselves, it would require the consent of the entire consensus pool).
Giving a speech to the House of Commons today, the UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, made it clear that, in her view, the powers in the new legislation are still inadequate — saying they “will not tackle the wider problem of declining communications data capability” – bringing back the specter of a more wide-ranging ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ being introduced by a future Tory government.

In other words: They're just warming up.
you didn't have the ability to selectively shutdown the mobile network to allow only those emergency and Telco employees with with dual sim'd phones to access in an emergency?
NSA approves.
Interesting. I like the idea, but I'm not fond of the chaotic layout. I'd prefer that the hype dimension be color or text size rather than x-dimension of text location.

Also the word hyped has a negative connotation in my mind, in particular that of exaggeration and b.s. As you mention perhaps this meaning is optional but for me the connection is strong.

I'd prefer another word. I thought the word hyper, for example hyperHN, might be better but anyway something else.
OK, but in all those cases the primary developer compiles and signs the app with their developer's key, which is restricted by Apple.

What I was thinking about was (simplified):

- The primary developer distributes a non-runnable version of the app. Say they just dump the source somewhere and declare it public domain.

- A user registers as a developer with Apple, downloads Xcode and the app's source, and then builds and signs it themself and places it on their iOS device.

The user pretends to be debugging the app he just compiled. No compiled or signed code is distributed, nothing is placed in the app store, etc.