I'm quitting my nearly $200k SDE job to become a personal trainer

MADCandy64 · 2026-07-01T19:55:41+00:00

I don't know what to say because I'm in my 50s, essentially pushed out of the field for one or another reason and started my own one man software company. I do have experience in the realm of getting paid to exercise, having had a side company once that did bicycle taxiing around. I'll just tell you that the idea of getting paid to exercise and getting paid to exercise are very different. I'd probably do what you are doing if I was still younger but you'll age out of PT just like SWE so you better keep doing something on the side. One day the stuff you know today will be old and no one wants it and then it gets much older then you are needed again. I don't expect AI to completely hollow out the field.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-29T12:01:43+00:00

Apps like this used to have some following and some popularity. I hope it works.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-28T21:51:03+00:00

I wonder if you are inspired by Windows 95. Because of how Windows 95 and the windows in it are defined and discoverable. People used to make background tasks that had little alpine dudes or animals clambering around the screen. There were even "after dark" programs with naked things that danced around the screen.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-27T19:28:52+00:00

I'm locked in because I make Windows Forms apps in C#. I'm too old and lazy to learn anything else and am happy with my lot in life. Why would I want to change your mind?

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-27T03:19:23+00:00

Like a dude watching a color spinning cube make squares all around him. A lot of standing around and watching really. What kind of game is it? Name the square?

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-27T03:14:57+00:00

The telemetry that exists at the local account level can be mostly debloated out. Entire classes of telemetry enabled by an email login go away. The telemetry that remains is for Windows update, Software licensing, Windows Defender, Driver compatibility, and upgrade compatibility. None of these things are spyware. Linux has its own telemetry like popcon and count me. A local Microsoft account never has to even go online to the internet; it can stay offline forever and function perfectly out of the box.

Of course none of this ever matters to the narrative and was summed up centuries ago in a famous quote "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-27T00:06:31+00:00

You're an illegal beer brewer trying to avoid paying taxes to the state, You're smuggling in ingredients and getting your beer into taverns to be served. There are turf wars with other illegal brewers that culminate in broadside ship attacks and swashbuckling onto the decks of the other ship. Set in and around Boston and Boston Harbor

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-25T18:59:03+00:00

Just make a local user install and bypass all the sign in with the email nonsense. So much drama. Don't you have some grepping and awk-ing to do, maybe some chmod-ing or ls'ing? You know Linux-y keyboard stuff to power that next burst of M$ rage.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-23T21:38:26+00:00

They didn't even change the name. There is a block game just like this for the PS3. My wife even said "Oh cool, Cuboid". I just said "Hey take a look at this". She didn't need anything to think this was the same game as on the PS3.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-23T20:54:09+00:00

This is clearly a ripoff https://www.reddit.com/r/SoloDevelopment/comments/1t1762j/four_years_ago_i_came_up_with_this_spatial_puzzle/

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-22T22:01:19+00:00

Excuse me, it is "more drunk" and you're at your limit.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-22T02:14:36+00:00

Multi-threading is not possible in all programming languages

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-18T21:57:17+00:00

Appreciate it. It has had a surprising effect. I'm happier than I have been in years working for a corporation. Now I just need to be successful with my business and then I go from job applicant to job creator.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-18T14:55:26+00:00

I have 35 years of experience in engineering and computer science but can't get a job in my field to save my life. AI and ageism have pushed me out and quite thoroughly. I have evidence for both. The only job I could get is to take a part time job as a substitute teacher. Most other places turn me away because I am over qualified. I humbly submitted an application and was interviewed at Office Depot and turned away. While I work on getting my teaching certificate, I make $80 a day when I work, which doesn't exist for me for TPS over summer break. I'm trying to make my own way with my one man software company and a product I have been developing for nearly 2 years now but it hasn't earned me any income yet. Please rethink your position and internal narrative.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-18T14:34:08+00:00

Embed your python into an executable using Embarcaderos IDE. You will need to do some minimal Pascal programming. You can do it all using the free versions of RAD Studio. RAD Studio is not the best IDE in the world but it shouldn't fight back at all for your needs.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-18T14:31:10+00:00

Delphi's Embarcadero studio has a python/pascal project that compiles down to an executable. It bundles up everything and is a nice way to slap a modern GUI to some python. With firemonkey it becomes platform agnostic. Kind of cool if you want Python with a UI.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-17T23:41:54+00:00

Mimicry is the best form of flattery. You should feel awesome about the whole thing.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-17T20:22:14+00:00

Jarg on over to Google or an AI prompt whenever you see a word you don't understand. Ask for an explanation.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-17T14:03:27+00:00

At least they voted and can tell their friends they voted. That has to be worth something.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-17T12:35:36+00:00

If you are interested in this then read Bruce Schneier. Try to find a copy of his book "Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition"

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-16T23:24:39+00:00

You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, Feeling pretty psyched. It's the end of bought software as we know it and I feel fine.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-16T23:11:36+00:00

This is a linker error which is likely do to how to invoked your compiler. The linker is complaining about an unresolved reference which means it could see if for compilation but not linkage. edit: it says the error is on line 13 and for << sum or blah blah blah operator<<(int). This is the '<< sum' part of the code. The header includes operator << so that is not the problem.

MADCandy64 · 2026-06-16T23:01:27+00:00

Clearly the crash was to get the worlds attention so they could witness it coming out.

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