People have already given you practical reasons why you're better off keeping it public. To answer your question as to how to get over your fear, you need to ask yourself what you're afraid of. You've mentioned you're worried about someone ripping off your hard work and claiming it as their own. If you can understand the root of why the idea of that pisses you off, you will probably find it's an artificial construct of ego. Understand the root and the fear will loosen it's grip.
If it were that easy, the norm wouldn't be blowing the wealth on gambling or pet sharks lol.
If he has successfully assembled a team of bankers that has been as successful as his portfolio suggests, while allowing him to be completely hands off, the man clearly has talents beyond the basketball court.
Having gone through a bit of a crisis of meaning personally lately, this article resonates deeply. I would encourage the author to look inward and question the beliefs that got them here.
I'd argue you didn't lose the joy of coding, you lost the illusion that coding made you real, that it made you you.
I came to the same conclusion after 40+ years of programming: better if you come to that realisation earlier. Still love coding though, but I leave the paid work to my colleagues and llms: I just code for fun these days. I also write for fun and find it pretty similar, feeling and satisfaction wise.
But, what about the graduating senior who, yeah started because they love the craft, but also need a way to pay the bills for a few decades of their life?
There definitely are times that I lose the "joy of coding" and it has nothing to do with any illusions, it has everything to do with the kind of programming tasks I have to work on. Greenfield projects are the best, tech debt is the worst. Working on fun stuff is just fun.
I'm not suggesting that the joy of coding is tied to illusions for everyone, just appears to be more to the story in the case of the author based on his framing.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm not suggesting there's no value in the act of creation.
I think the author has been telling himself that he derived joy from the act of creating, but his comments suggest otherwise, he was deriving joy from a false belief of what being a coder meant, about what it would provide him. There's a mismatch between what he believes he's getting out of coding, vs what he's actually getting.
Put another way, reality is reality, there is no right reality, or wrong reality. Perceiving it as right or wrong is just our ego trying to bend reality to match our beliefs.
He was willing to put some percentage of the 650SOL into the risky project, we don't know how much he intended to invest/gamble, but it seems doubtful to me that he intended to spend his whole wallet on it.
It is worth also noting that it may not be wise to store your entire life savings in an experimental, possibly illegal alternate currency backed by a permissionless blockchain. Banks may be incompetent at times, but at least you have options. Lessons learned the hard way, but it’s not as if nobody was warning folks.
Solana is the 5th largest blockchain by market cap in the world, has a ton of investors and ongoing development by a lot of talented developers. Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not a legitimate project.
HN user comments on a simple phishing website that happens to use a blockchain, as an indictment of all the unrelated wallet developers, all the unrelated protocol developers, and all the unrelated consensus developers just because they never heard of the 5th largest cryptocurrency on the market before.
Surely they would conflate the entire internet infrastructure for any non-blockchain based phishing attack? Stay tuned!
I honestly agree too having worked in enterprise, but see it more as an inevitability as an enterprise product continues to be supported for years and years, as the original talent is churned, and multiple generations of engineers come and go. It's why I don't want to go back into enterprise ever again lol supporting legacy huge overengineered products is rough.
Please reflect on the circumstances in your life that lead you to this belief. In my experience this is a very toxic viewpoint and couldn't be further from the truth.
If anything I'd argue that more than ever both women and men are searching for authenticity in a partner. Something increasingly difficult to come by in our social media fueled world.
Sure, there is a subset on both sides that has been completely sucked in by this culture and measures each others worth by the number of followers on their instagram, but I'd actually view this as a positive. It's really convenient to be able to identify and filter out these vain individuals early on in the dating process.
Keep your head up nodejs_rulez_1, there are still plenty of good women and men out there.
I 100% agree, but I was curious so I went through a few pages of hacker news posts, looking for some other scientific studies to see the general sentiment in the comments.
Far from scientific, but there seems to be a general acceptance of the study in the comments of that article. I cannot say the same of this one. Now obviously the sample size and statistics of the studies are not identical, but it seems to me we're seeing significantly more 'critical thinking' in this thread than that one. I would love to drill into this further and see if this trend holds in further comment threads, but I'm late for a hike.
Studies that blame a large demographic of malicious behavior is likely to be received with less acceptance than one that does not.
If there were a covid study that said that Americans was more likely to become sick because they don't care enough about they fellow beings to follow recommendation, even with great sample size and statistics, most would look at such conclusion with skepticism.
Right? While I think it's important to have open dialogue and discussion in society, the comments here are making me sad. Based on everything we know about American society, the claims this study makes don't seem terribly outlandish, but lord some people really want to refute it.
This is true, like anything, you need to build up to it. I lived an entirely sedentary lifestyle for the first 30 years of my life, hated all sport and physical activity. Dated a girl who taught me the joys of exercise and movement and I've been hooked on running for the past 4 years.
Takes some time to build up a base, and of course you need to be careful if you are quite heavy initially like I was. If you just listen to your body and don't overdo it, it all comes together pretty naturally. While bad form is a risk, a lot of what I've read seems to indicate that your body will naturally find a running gait that is optimal for your body and minimizes impact. Running without headphones also helps, just listen to your footfalls and adjust your stride to minimize impact. (I can't find any studies on this, but I can't help but feel that a lighter footfall is likely minimizing impact on joints somehow)
> lighter footfall is likely minimizing impact on joints somehow
Simple: less stress (impact) => less damage (impact).
Listening to you body helps a lot. You body will (usually) tell you when you're doing something wrong, but it can be hard to understand.
I wanted to warn, because misconceptions like: I'm running => running is good for body => I'm doing good for body, even though my knees hurt every time; they can ruin many knees. Usually it won't get far, but there are always those who push.
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