HN is a little interesting, all these blogs always exist all the time. It's just which ones are getting placed on HN doesn't represent all things going on.

Also, it is interesting that people are playing old games and blogging about them. At the time these games were released, we didn't really have the same venues to discuss said games. So why not now?

I just think it's funny how we imagined us using technology in the future (VR and flying cars) and how we ended up using it (posting on social media platforms and discussing these posts in the comment sections).

There's millions of people gaming with VR headsets these days, a lot more than there are reading articles about Ultima Underworld.

We can do both. Why are you upset?

A great game is a great game. How old is Go or Chess? People still study to master those.

Yes you are here discussing this rather than playing VR games.

(I suppose you could be playing a VR game that has a VR computer to access HN, but if that's state of the art in VR tech, give me well written blog posts about 30 year old games)

Are you arguing against the field of history?

Just do it.

In Germany you see things like a single person having to do all jobs at once at a Pizza Hut or only three people working at the same time in a supermarket. A lot of customer-facing businesses are insanely understaffed. If your employer doesn't hire enough coworkers for whatever reason, your life will be miserable.

Isnt there a maximum average hours of work around 40 a week in Germany?

Yes, with a few exceptions it's restricted to a maximum of 8 hours a day on average (and 10 hours max), with 5 days a week.

However, how much stress you can be exposed to in those 8 hours isn't mandated. You can run many businesses understaffed with fairly little impact if you are willing to regularly replace employees suffering from burnout [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout

Sounds about right. EU Working Time Directive is something like 40 or 48, but my German isn’t good enough to read German law.

If it worked real time, that would make for quick accumulation of training data. But I don't think a human can manually solve the queries fast enough.

I just started using a todo app, instead of the note app i used for years.

Now i can give each thing i think of a priority and a deadline.

I sort my todos by priority and make sure i get the important things done, before anything else.

I start the day, by choosing which todos i want to get done today and then i work my way through the list in no particular order.

The problem with only using a todo list is that you mainly prioritize tasks instead of projects. I use a todo list app (ticktick) in combination with a word doc that contains all my major projects. I sort the major projects by importance and time sensitivity. That helps me stay focused on the big picture. From there, I sort my todo list based on importance and time sensitivity.

I use todoist (free plan) which lets you assign todos to different projects.

If i wanted to give each project a priority as well, i would probably just add a number to the project's name.

Here's a nice documentary about foreigners moving their startup to Shenzen, where they can have same-day prototypes built and go into production immediately: https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY

If you can't find a simple solution, you're thinking too complicated.

Check out coil: https://coil.com

100k is completely unrealistic for a German software engineer, especially after only a couple of years.

70-80K € seems attainable just judging by the recruiters' numbers, but most offers of that kind come with strings attached - like moving to one of the most expensive cities (thus being equal to a 50K job in a smaller city) or being a traveling consultant.

That's roughly what Amazon pays SDE3 in Berlin including stock grants and Google pays similarly in Munich.

Smaller companies in Berlin like SoundCloud, ThinkCell, and Simplaex offer €100k+ for engineers with the experience they need.

Even startup salaries are nudging €75k on AngelList and StackOverflow Jobs.