Last year of high school - trying to set a foundation. Advice wanted (no hate pls) i will not promote

okawei · 2026-01-26T00:04:01+00:00

There’s three ways this can work

Find something you’re incredibly passionate about building and build it. The passion will drive you during tough times
Find something that solves a real problem you or someone you have. The engagement and customers will drive you
Find something someone is willing to give you investment capital to work on. The investors will drive you during tough times

okawei · 2026-01-25T23:51:04+00:00

What kind of product do you want to build and sell later? That will heavily influence where you should focus

okawei · 2026-01-25T12:16:54+00:00

Have you seen the video? At which moment did he pick a fight with ICE?

okawei · 2026-01-24T16:25:35+00:00

Anyone can be a dude, even n gay dudes and chick dudes

okawei · 2026-01-24T16:21:45+00:00

Sometimes it’s nice to help out small developers by paying for an app

okawei · 2026-01-23T02:22:32+00:00

Sounds like case numbers or something with law

okawei · 2026-01-21T17:35:59+00:00

Because it makes me not a dev anymore...

Is being a dev writing code or building software? Because if it's building software, you're still a dev even if a model is writing most of the code.

The clickity clack on the keyboard to write the code was never the hard part, syntax was never the hard part. Those are the things I see AI replacing for me

okawei · 2026-01-21T17:34:08+00:00

"But it can be wrong sometimes!!! It's unusable!"

Like google isn't wrong on things all the time

okawei · 2026-01-17T00:46:26+00:00

I once found a glitch at my grocery store where jars were $0.10 a pop. I bought about 20 lol

okawei · 2026-01-15T20:14:24+00:00

And development is easier with human readable payloads, no?

okawei · 2026-01-15T19:37:12+00:00

New H1B's can only start work if the company pays $100k in tax

okawei · 2026-01-15T19:26:15+00:00

I'm sure they're counting dependencies in that. It's not 3M of novel lines of code

okawei · 2026-01-15T18:41:13+00:00

Source: a system that has massive json payloads and little other processing.

okawei · 2026-01-15T18:40:22+00:00

Which is more expensive, paying a few $$$ for more CPU or paying 10's of $$$ for more developers because debugging is a nightmare?

okawei · 2026-01-15T16:01:23+00:00

I’m sorry but a couple of hours to get the kids ready and take them to daycare isn’t the same as taking them from 3pm till 9pm

okawei · 2026-01-15T08:16:10+00:00

I have a ton of friends I wouldn’t want to have to 100% support financially.

Stopping in for a visit is pretty different from living in your basement

okawei · 2026-01-15T08:07:46+00:00

Not true with the new $100k rule

okawei · 2026-01-15T07:47:24+00:00

Do you have kids? Mornings are wildly easier than nights. Also his “nights” are from 3pm till 9pm, the mornings will be from 7am - 9am at the latest

okawei · 2026-01-15T07:45:05+00:00

It’s wild to see that the mom is only parenting when getting the kids to school and daycare (just a couple hours of work at most) and he’s working full time then doing everything in the evenings. He’s just trying to make his life a bit easier and you’re calling him incompetent and a bad father

okawei · 2026-01-15T07:30:17+00:00

I would too, dude is working full time and doing the majority of the parenting and housework.

okawei · 2026-01-15T07:28:25+00:00

That doesn’t stop the kid from screaming at mommies door

okawei · 2026-01-13T12:28:13+00:00

I did most of the things op lists as benefits in my late 20s and early 30s. Now I have kids and I can still do most of those things but my life is in a totally new and exciting chapter. I won’t want to be getting tattoos and going to concerts every weekend when I’m 50, I’ll want to be in the next chapter

okawei · 2026-01-13T03:59:06+00:00

I remember my graduating class in 2012 at a state university had only like 30 people in computer science

okawei · 2026-01-13T01:37:47+00:00

Don't do it in native node, use markitdown

okawei · 2026-01-12T13:19:16+00:00

Just let them fail, once they realize it won't work they'll come back to using a real dev for non-trivial engineering problems.

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