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What do you know about the differences between the 3 main OS (windows, mac, linux) as they relate to your question?

I agree. I don't like receiving more than 1 voice message per week from a person. It's terrible when they start sending voice messages as 50% or more of their messages.

- Text messages require brevity.

- Depending on who you're talking to, Voice messages ramble on and on, without getting to the point. As a result, it can take minutes to understand a main point, rather than seconds as in the case of text message.

Just learned via another comment that playback can apparently be sped up to 1.5x or 2x. That's good, I'll have to look into that.

Oops, I meant to say:

"But if you have a small dream and a *big grind*, you're much more likely to get it done"

Where is the user "dang"?

Dang deletes posts just for saying something simple like "yes" -- b/c apparently an upvote is supposed to serve that purpose.

but i suppose such rules are selectively enforced (and probably entails some bias, such as political view, etc.)

I certainly shall, now that you mention it. Hopefully it will help me put my mind at ease.

(I look to Lao Tzu on this... on maintaining internal peace and intention towards abundance "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future.")

About to be broke again. 35 years old approaching.

I do not recommend living in a tent, but it's doable. And I may be living in a tent again in 2-3 months. No worries thoguh, it's up to me to pull me out of that predicament, and I know it can be done. It's largely a matter of online presence, a decent resume (even if partially BS as a matter of necessity in terms of... surviving), luck, and strategy.

A former marketer, so I am used to marketing myself strategically, with sprinkles and even dollops of BS if necessary, in order to literally survive and afford food.

As they say-- Necessity is the mother of invention. And this situation is largely owed only to own previous decisions and misjudgements.

nah, look it up on steam.

it releases a free expansion pack every season or so.

I think acceptance and comfortability with error messages (i.e. small failures nearly every step of the way) is the basis of one's career as a developer. We start knowing almost nothing, producing tons of errors as we go (which reduce relative to experience). And learning what those errors mean-- they guide us into proper development.

Errors are good given that they lead to learning. Frustration is fun.

Note the difference between the below two items:

1. Title: A 29-year-old marketing expert used a weird resume to ___get 30,000 interviews___ in a week

2. A subheader bullet point: Vidal's bot was used 30,000 times, and he ___got 14 online interviews___ and 11 job offers as a result.

Does 30,000 somehow equal 14?

(Answer: only if you equate 30,000 self-service chatbot conversations ("interviews" as claimed) as as meaningful and valuable as an actual human-to-human interview. Basically, this article has a deceptive clickbaity title.)

(I emailed BusinessInsider's corrections account about this. [email protected])

Diablo lovers... check out Path of Exile II. It's continues in terms of UX, where Diablo 2 left off.

Yep. A year ago, I worked 2.5 months, and quit, and the cash I had from those 2.5 months kept be afloat for about 9 months after leaving the company. Granted, I am super frugal, minimalist, and don't have kids/wife.

Now though, I had to take cash out of savings due to vehicle mechanical problems + not landing job as quickly as I hoped-- I've also not interviewed a ton, so I need to play it as a "numbers game" again.

The summers in Juneau are super comfortable.

In the area I set up my tent, I found many tents from previous campers-- transient laborers and fishermen I imagine.

Meals: Had fridge space at company's lunch room. I'd arrive early and have breakfast there, and lunch as well. For dinner, a Trangia camping stove and simple meals (canned soup; mixed vegetable & sausage soup; instant noodles, etc.)... or sometimes splurge and buy decent fresh, ready-to-eat food at a grocery store (such as a chicken/vegetable meal).

Showers: the local indoor public pool's locker room

Bathroom: At work. Train yourself to systematically drop #2 in the morning like clockwork, and everything else is a breeze. Disposable wet-wipes to reduce the need to shower.

Dating: I actually met a rock climbing/wilderness medicine instructor lady at a bar who was interested in checking out my tent and she even spent the night. Whereas, a different women, when she heard I was temporarily staying in a tent, lost all interest in me (I don't blame her-- totally normal).

All in all, I suffered some depression, social isolation, and general lifestyle inconvenience. But looking back, it sure helped me get through my graduate statistics course! "If I can live in that tent in Juneau on the mountainside, I can get through this stats course"

I actually failed many times. I just kept trying.

After that trip to Alaska, where I studied some JS (ember, knockout), I went to Oregon, interviewed for frontend web dev jobs but failed, and just went back to working in corporate marketing. But I kept studying JS. I quit the job, went to grad school, graduated. Got a business analyst/programming job. Got laid off within a few months. Then, started building a full stack app.

While building it, I stopped, applied to Jobs. Failed to get one. Then traveled to california, camped on the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz for about 3 weeks, going to cafes daily to applied to jobs. Still failed to get one (had interviews though).

Then realized "Why dont I just go rent a room in Mexico rather than camp in California?" drove to Mexico, rented a place for about 4 months, built most of web app. This, while about $15k in student debt from grad school. Luckily one of my parents gave me cash to pay off my credit card & student debt interest each month.

Then I moved to my home state and lived at friend's property (doing landscaping labor to pay my rent) for 4 more months. Published the web app. Got my first 100% programming job. Then a few months later got an even better one.

And then... burned out after about a year as a full stack dev at a digital marketing consulting agency, and went on sabbatical.

So, I definitely failed several times. But I knew that once I had demonstrable skills & showed them via a website and open source full stack app, that I would succeed in landing a SWE job.

compensation on psuedo-homeless adventure: $13/hr in Alaska, fish smokehouse, age 28. (previously made $20/hr in digital marketer, and afterwards $25/hr in general marketing management)

total compensation 5 years later at age 33: $180k/yr (includes 2/3rds salary, 1/3rd equity)

current total compensation: none. quit the above job after just 3 months b/c I didn't like the management culture. Down to about $4k to my name, uh oh! luckily doing some interviews now... And the winter is coming, so down here in the South, if I need to camp again, I know what it's like-- it ain't so bad :D