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> I'm a 26 y.o. ... I am crippled by the feeling that it's "too late".

> CS degree from a top-10,

> nough savings to last a few years

> and he's half a decade younger than me! How will I ever be able to catch up? Experience-wise, I'm still a junior dev.

> ...

Dude, are you joking? ... and who the heck contributes to this waste of HN frontpage screen estate?

This is a whiny humblebrag post about 1st world problems by a spoild teenager in his twenties ... are you kidding me? Come back when you have interesting problems.
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> And when I visit two or more clients in the same day, how many shirts would I end up carrying?

Carry two shirts, one for cycling in and one for working. Before getting on your bike, change into your cycling shirt, then switch at the other end. The one for cycling obviously doesn't need to be ironed.
Haskell was the first language I learned.

There is tremendous depth to it which I am still exploring but to start and do the beginner kind of things I was wanting to do it is not hard.

Maybe not as easy as Python, but there is a huge gap between "not quite as easy as" and the "you need a CS degree and a Phd in Category Theory to even get started" rhetoric.
Great points! Yes, "critical thinking" a great phrase for it.

I agree with a lot of your points. The "don't go to university" / "dropouts are successful" meme is particularly alarming to me. Unless your achievement are stupendous, most employers, even startups, judge you based on your level of education, your Uni's ranking, etc; Why discard that data?
I'm on the fence about mob programming tbh, but kudos for bringing it up.
Awesome. Thank you for posting this.
> Our society frowns on people who set out to do really good work. You're not supposed to; luck is supposed to descend on you and you do great things by chance.

This is so true. It's odd that we celebrate butterflies and crush caterpillars. I think it was Les Brown who said something along the lines of– if you want to achieve uncommon, unreasonable results, you have to be an uncommon, unreasonable person putting in uncommon, unreasonable amounts of effort.
So is a plate full of pasta or a few slices of bread or even worse juice.

Carbs from sugar and non-sugar are used exactly the same way in your body. Heck people say that soda has so much sugar you would vomit if it wasn't for some additives, but apple juice has more sugar per oz than soda and it doesn't have additives to make you not vomit. Just like life you have to have balance in your diet (I have to much sugar) but it doesn't really matter what sweet you drink or carb that you eat. They all turn into glucose. Now fruit and vegetables will have some other nutrients but in terms of too much sugar people over simplify.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-...
Its a bit bizarre, considering Teslas are mostly coal powered for the time being.
Of course nobody can say for sure, but their chances didn't look good.

Ignoring POSIX compatibility. You have to remember that this was still Mac OS classic time, and a lot of Mac developers were interested in and porting to BeOS. I used R4.5 and R5, and there was already quite some interesting software for it from former Mac developers, such as Gobe Productive, the Pe editor, and if I remember correctly some AAA games around the same time Loki existed.
PHP is here to stay. Haters gonna hate. Here is some tonic for the haters; http://www.cloudways.com/blog/php-advantages/
Why "will start writing [...] meaningful [...] code"? They already did, right? Just two examples are Wordpress and Facebook. There are many impacts made by PHP tools.

(Btw I'm one of the guys switching from PHP to Python, so this is not advertisment from a fan)
There will always be someone greater or lesser than yourself. Don't worry about it. You hear about the successes but not how they got there. Half the time it was a lucky break; being in the right place at the right time. Other times they worked 100-hour weeks for a year, got divorced, and their kids hate them.

Then, next week, you never hear about them again. Well, maybe a couple of them you will, a year later, but not the others. They're forgotten.

Do what you want to do and quit relying on other people's stories to make you miserable. They aren't you and there are plenty of people, here on HN, who wish they were in your position.

Strive to be happy.
"Do whatever you want", yes. Whatever you want can involve not starving, being able to afford health insurance and a mortgage, marry a desirable person, have children, etc;

Now, are we still in disagreement, Sven? :-)
>The problem with bicycles is that they don't respect road signs or traffic lights

The problem with Paris would be more that it's full of parisians.

It's very cliche, but sadly true. People are smart and educated but undisciplined, behave unresponsibly, and think about rules as mere guidelines. Being "human" and super lenient is mostly a quality, even when it comes to street rules.

Drivers are really bad, bikes don't care about road rules nor surrounding trafic, and pedestrians can strike conversations in the middle of the street if they get to stop the cars around them. There is an intersection in front of a subway station in the town I live, there is a trafic light, mirrors and road marking, and still every two months someone runs through it and gets hit by a car.

I think the best system would be close the streets that already effectively dominated by pedestrians, reserve the most busy streets for professional vehicles (buses, taxi, delivery vans etc.). This would tip the balance to use private cars for very specific reasons only, and switch to public transport for the more casual trips.

Road mortality would be down, people currently wildly circulating on the street would have full areas reserved for them, public transport would have a boost in use justifying more investment in the infrastructure and modernisation, and pro drivers would also have dedicated lanes and streets.

It feels like a clear win for basically everybody.
> You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have.

I do hope this is an extreme case of misdiagnosis: it's implying that the OP is not an achiever, and lacking ambition - just because there are a few small hurdles in the way of his getting things done!

Here's an alternative diagnosis: if you focus too much on your peers, you're poisoning your own motivation. Of course you'll spend all day on HN, if the alternative is staring at an editor with a voice in your head scolding you for not being a success. Fix that and you'll have fixed your procrastination (easier said than done, probably, but still). A reading tip: Mastery, by George Leonard.
The common refrain of "hey why do you people need your own silly subgroup"?

I guess viewed charitably this could be taken as "From my perspective there is no division between any of us so I don't understand the need for a subgroup".

But if that were the case why would does no one question groups based on geography? If these guys heard of of a new club called Downtown Pythoners, I don't guess they would have joked "hey, why don't we create our own group called Uptown Pythoners, ha ha ha".
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Developers, developers, developers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
One straw man argument after another... We're talking about a bank robber. We're talking about crimes committed during the robbery (preventing his accomplice from getting medical care, which resulted in his accomplice's death) being added to his list charges.

And I don't disagree with you! I hate injustice like you're referring to as well. But injustice is not some exchangeable capital. We can't correct one by neglecting to punish another.
You mean in ATM's? I'm almost more concerned by them running a full Windows XP, but that's just me.
Maybe what you are really interested in is counting days?
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Yesterday, Hawaii Gov. David Ige put a temporary hold on construction of the TMT to address concerns by protestors.

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You don't deal with getting older, getting older is the great part. What you have to do is deal with not getting younger.

In other words, time passes and before you know it you are 50 and you don't get those years back.

So how are you going to spend your life.

Worry about that before you worry about other people.
No sarcasm. Cool to read about!
> when it rains you get super wet, much more than on a motorbike, because you have less protection and you don't carry special rain trousers with you at all times

As a cyclist, I always carry waterproof clothes at all time (I still haven't found a way to protect my shoes though...).
Apples and oranges. Guns have no victim unless they are used and the vast majority of them, illegal or not, are never used to hurt anyone.

Our society fetishes guns enormously. I know some people who would be uncomfortable being in someone's house if they new they had a gun, even if they trust and know everyone in the house. Those same people are never scared by steak or hunting knives in the same house.
True, but there are 7 billionish people, so that's only about one person in 2000.
Also in the Seattle area (Tacoma, really). There does seem to be a lot of activity up north there, I get calls from recruiters all the time, but I just can't swing that commute at this time - or work all of the hours above 40 I'm assuming I'd have to work. It doesn't surprise me that the labor market is pretty ridiculous for developers though. It's pretty awesome that you picked up coding and got a job that fast, it's pretty good news for my sister if she decides to go that route.
ahah, so that's where R's paste() function comes from...
Try an strace?

strace -e trace=network ./run_my_unit_tests
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TTL is involved when dealing with routed networks. The farther the destiny, you normally get more hops on the way. If the starting TTL is low, you won't reach the destiny. So, TTL values cause problems like this, although the radius wouldn't be so precise. Damn statisticians!
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Having kids is taking on a huge responsibility, I don't understand why people are so quick to suggest it as a panacea for everyones' personal problems. Feeling insecure (like OP) is a really bad reason to have kids.
OP– I'm about your age, and I haven't completely solved this problem for myself either, but I've thought about it really hard for a really long time. Let me address your issues / statements / concerns one by one.

> I find it very hard to sit down and work on a project without an external motivator, and on many nights I end up vegging out in front of the TV or aimlessly clicking around on the internet.

This is a classic environment type problem. If you're committed to creating great work, then you have to carve out time for yourself. This means having a specific routine. Talk to people who train in sports and they'll tell you– they don't rely on any particular sort of motivation (external or internal). Rather, they have a routine where everyday at 6am they lace up their shoes and go for their run, like it or not. Read Stephen Pressfield's The War Of Art– he talks about Going Pro. You don't wait for motivation. You do the work every day. Sometimes inspiration will come, sometimes it won't.

> Every day, I read an article by some hot-shot young dev who has a handful of fancy projects behind his belt

These folks are exceptions. They're exeptionally good and they're exceptionally lucky. You'd be better off not reading any articles at all.

> It's a constant, irrepressible gnawing in my chest.

I experience this intermittently. IMHO, I experience it when I haven't been doing work. The solution is literally to sit down and do work. The gnawing is a reminder that you are working, not doing.

> even though I still end up on HN half the time

Turn off the Internet?

> I have so many great ideas, and knowing that the main obstacle between them and me is only myself keeps me in an endless state of panic

This, together with your vegging out / aimless clicking, suggests to me that you're framing the problem too broadly.

The main obstacle between you and your goals might be you, but it also might be, you know. One quant of work, followed by another, and another. Baby steps, man. Do one thing at a time.

> I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me

This is the venomous, compounding problem about obsessing about sunk costs. Listen– life isn't a linear thing. Some of these folks younger than you will get into car accidents and die. Others will get distracted, end up in horrible marriages, all sorts of nasty things will happen. Life doesn't progress nearly as linearly as you think.

What you need to do is really sit down and go, "Yes. I have burnt a decade. I have some unknown amount of time in front of me. I have today." What are you going to do with today? Why do you want to spend today agonizing about yesterday?
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There has yet to be a better technology to win in the desktop OS.

Examples
1) CPM was so much better than DOS

2) Amiga was 7 years ahead of its time (Though the OS had a ton of bugs the first 18 months)

3) BeOS

4) We still deal with a corporate IT that is 90% Window shops for corporate desktops. (Though Windows has gotten MUCH better)

5) Gnome and GTK+ gained more mind share than KDE :) Okay that one is personal opinion but :)
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I bet they're also writing in English, but that doesn't mean you can just use 7 bit ascii for everything everywhere.
You raise a good point. I strongly suspect that Certify, like other expense SaaS providers, almost certainly skews to smaller companies and possibly to tech companies. Expense reporting at larger firms is typically tied into things like Oracle Business Suite--i.e. internal.

Given that, I suspect that some amount of trending toward Uber from traditional taxis is real but that this data probably exaggerates it.
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There are already a couple of companies hiring purely autistic people as they seem to be amazingly accomplished QA people.
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Here was about my first experience of Haskell. I don't mind admitting I bounced fairly hard at first. I've since done a bit more, but find it too limiting rather than freeing.

Prelude> foldr + [1,2,3]

<interactive>:14:9:
Couldn't match expected type ‘(a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b’
with actual type ‘[t0]’
Relevant bindings include
it :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b (bound at <interactive>:14:1)
In the second argument of ‘(+)’, namely ‘[1, 2, 3]’
In the expression: foldr + [1, 2, 3]
In an equation for ‘it’: it = foldr + [1, 2, 3]
This is an excellent comment, and I hope more people listen to your advice. I especially agree with the XP restarting at 0. I've wondered if it's possible to get people to learn to start at 0 again and still succeed, or if it's an innate lack of motivation.
Wait until every cop in America has a video camera running at all times, and lack of video footage implies they have something to hide.
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I think this and @vijucat's life lessons are huge - don't play someone else's game.

Choose your own parameters for success (suggestions: joy, self-betterment, improving humanity's situation by your own standards. Money or fame is just a means to an end - focus on the end and not the means for maximum flexibility and quickest success) and then work out how to achieve them. Here's where your critical thinking skills (the most useful thing I learned at my top-10 university) come in handy.

Recall that skillsets are supposed to be tools towards achieving an end. Choose your own adventure, sharpen the tools you care about & think will be useful, and set out. Try not to be daunted when circumstances force a detour, a tool turns out to be less useful than anticipated, or your path (goals) literally change underneath you. That is living, and that is what we all must succeed at.
I think this can be connected to the recent work (more like a side product of the main paper) on the ABC Conjecture by S. Mochizuki.

[1] http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...

[2] http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=ABC_conj...
I'd just like to say that 10am is still too early for me. After lunch is more like where I'm at.
Are you saying there was no merit in the original complaint? It sounds like you are using SJF as a pejorative term.
Translation: "Tunnel Vision" and "Lack of diversity"
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I remember feeling same way when I was 26. I remember envy when I saw a guy who was 23, had his company with many employees, successfully built stuff for the archiving radio broadcasts (which I kind of tried to get into with "company" that we've set up with two of my friends).

To add insult to an insult he was good looking, he was surfing and his website displayed in IE chromeless window which before that I wasn't even aware to be possible. And I though of myself as knowing almost all of the tricks.

The way I removed myself from mentally competing with this guy was thinking that this guy probably had a father, rich one probably, probably entrepreneur while I was raised by single working mom and a grandfather who was a tinkerer.

That softened the blow enough to just work out an acceptance of the fact that, at no fault of mine, world is filled with a lot more awesome people than me. It is. If you are one in a million, there are thousands of people like you or better on this globe.

Now I'm 36 and I'm feeling way better now. After years of bummming around as a lone wolf I got hired by corporation few years ago. It turned out to be much more profitable and way easier than freelancing. I pumped up my self esteem and my account by showing me how high rates I can demand for my work and I stopped feeling pressure to strike gold.

Surely everybody would want to be Marcus Persson but people like him are so lucky that you can't compete with that in any capacity. It's as if you'd compare your salary with somebody's lottery win. "This guy made a 10 million dollars in a day and what I got? Few hundreds?"

If I at any point in my life get this combination of luck, opportunity, skill and time to launch me way above everything I could build myself then great. If not ... that's perfectly fine. I'm perfectly satisfied with gradually moving towards places that earn me more and bore me less and in the off time playing with whatever I find interesting without thinking whether it's profitable in any way or not.

On more practical note... Try to pick jobs that pay the most. Try to stay on those jobs only as long as you are surrounded by the people you learn from and you are forced to learn. But avoid long hours.

You'll notice that that your brain will be more awake. Instead of watching TV or reading internet you'll be prototyping new technology in your free time, just because you'll feel like it.

If you start getting bored you'll see yourself to be doing in your free time more and more mindless things. Most mindless is TV so the only way you can go from where you are is up.
And Spacemacs (https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs) is a good way to have a nice Evil integration. The only downside I found is when you have to install your first new packages, Spacemacs forces you to integrate it in a configuration-layer because it deletes all orphan packages. Now I think it's a good way to organise your packages, but it's definitively puzzling when you try to figure out why your newly-installed packages got deleted for the 5th time.
What you're writing doesn't make much sense. You say CO2 is not the problem but yet link to stuff about it. Coal plants in Germany are really clean though and CO2 is the only real problem of it. NO2 and PM gets filtered out.

Usage of coal stayed roughly the same in the last 10 years [1]. If you directly compare it with the amount 10 years ago it's a slight decrease.

The real issue for pollution lies in different sectors. For instance around half of the PM pollution in Germany is caused by people using wood for heating. Cars are one of the biggest polluters in cities.

[1] https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm click on year: all, annual, all sources
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Genuine question: how did you come up with $3/month? Is that a rough estimate of expenses (maintenance etc) over a year divided by 12, or is there some Paris bike permit required?
> as long as they would persist in history and influence other people.

This used to be my main motivator– the idea that you can transcend death through legacy– until I learned about the heat death of the Universe. Turns out that nothing actually persists indefinitely. The Universe itself will eventually die out.

Optimizing for legacy at the expense of living well day to day can be a miserable existence.

It's as valid a path as any other, but you'll want to really look in the mirror and say "I choose to struggle and suffer and be frustrated and anxious in pursuit of this legacy (that will eventually fade into nothingness anyway), out of all the other options available to me."

Anyway, it also sounds like you're framing the problem too tightly here– it's not like your only options are great, painful success and limited success. It's possible to work on something you care about AND sleep well at night.

Indeed I think the way to a good life and a good death can and should be broken down into living good days, weeks, months, years.

Also there's the whole thing about how... people don't create great things by TRYING to create great things, they tend to create great things by following their curiosity and then allowing an opportunity to consume them completely.

The best way to achieve greatness, in a paradoxical sense, is to stop worrying about it and focus goddamn hard on a problem you desperately want solved, over everything else.