Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by CharlieDigital on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:16PM (#42795837)

Some of the advice thrown around in this thread is so out of touch.

    "Just get a high paying job". 
    "I never worry about healthcare because of my employer". 
    "Just put $7,000 away into a retirement account and $10,000 into a 529 every year.  What's the problem?"

And even if I'm in a position to do that, the problem is that there are millions of fellow Americans (the majority) that don't have these "luxuries".

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:47PM (#42797874)

Your on hackernews, maybe you confused this place with Reddit?

This site's guidelines include "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. "

Generally speaking, that points to software devs, which points to a high paying job.

So when op said they don't know how their kids will save money, most commenters are replying with the assumption they're talking to a software dev.

Also please by all means toss out your own solutions.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by CharlieDigital on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @07:51PM (#42799273)

I like a quote from Stephen Dubner when he closes his episodes of Freakonomics podcast:

    > "Take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else, too."

I'm on HN. I work at a Series-C YC startup. I previously worked at another VC-back SV startup. I've even tried numerous startups of my own. But I'm also a part of a broader community of Americans and I want all Americans (and all people, if possible) to do well.

It's really simple; I'm human first.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by ra0x3 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:14PM (#42805839)

> It's really simple; I'm human first.

Thanks for that. It seems as if over the past 5 years or so, the tech industry in particular has completely lost the thread on this.

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