jddil

> I had to maintain it, almost completely alone, for ten years, before it was taken over by a competent team, and I could finally walk away.

No you didn't.

Younger folks reading this, you don't owe anyone free labor. If you want to donate your time to open source that's ok but just know there are thousands of people in this industry that don't care about your mental health and will continue to take advantage of you because you enjoy coding and don't understand how valuable your time is yet.

Thanks, my daughter loves it. She wanted me to tell you she's only 10 and got 2nd on the leaderboard.

Never understood why our industry seems unique in our willingness to do unpaid work for giant corps. Your compression library isn't saving the world, it's making it easier for amazon to save a few bucks.

You have the right to be paid for your time. It's valuable.

I enjoy coding too... but the only free coding I do is for myself.

Use a proper license, charge for your time and stop killing yourself doing unpaid hobby projects that cause nothing but stress.

Alcohol temporarily helps but you pay it back with interest over time.

It sounds trite but exercise and sleeping/eating better is really the only thing we have proof that works. (zoloft can help kickstart the changes but it won't reduce anxiety long term)

Exercise. It's the silver bullet.

Don't.

Do you enjoy playing games or do you enjoying making games?

If you enjoy playing games don't kill your hobby, if you enjoy making games I would expect you'd already have a ton of example projects you could show and discuss, even just game designs scribbled on paper somewhere.

If you don't have that you'll be competing with people that do, and with people that will kill themselves in their 20's to work unreasonable hours for shitty pay because it's their passion. It's all they've done since they were 10 years old and it's all they ever want to do.

This completely made up series of conspiracy-laden comments is what HN is now ... well, that and people getting very confused about what free speech is.

How did this become the narrative? Wikileaks was started by the Russian secret service, so of course they wouldn't leak their own stuff. Assange was a useful idiot to them.

You're missing the point of VC funds. Due diligence doesn't matter, incompetence doesn't matter, reality doesn't matter. What matters is if they can turn their 1 dollar into 2.

Doesn't matter if that requires breaking laws(airbnb) or stealing from naive people(shitcoins) they will do it, full stop. Once you understand that VC funds are literally robber barons who grouped together and gave themselves a new name it all makes a lot more sense.

Ding ding, winner winner chicken dinner.

Quick reminder that we're on a VC board that has participated in this shell game; this fraud that has stolen money from naive people.

And before I get downvoted to oblivion or moderated by @dang I hope a few people read this comment and realize how much was stolen from you so the sand hill gang can play monopoly ... it was a lot.

I hope people read this and really understand what it says. It Crypto had any intrinsic value this paragraph would be ridiculous ... but it's not. At least tulips were pretty to look at.

You're on a board founded by a VC fund to market their investments, I would expect capitalists to be the majority here.