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Not OP, but I assume he means the Boris Cherny, the guy who made Claude code and is a micro-celebrity in certain developer circles now because of it.

I’m sorry, but so few of these urban environments are affordable with good schools. I lived in Philadelphia and we chose to leave when our son was young because the schools generally aren’t good (most don’t even have libraries, but this is a whole different topic), the green space barely exists and isn’t maintained, and I’d never feel safe with my kid taking the transit.

NYC and Boston seem like the only east coast options and those are very expensive. What other options are there on the East Coast?

This is so interesting to me, I frequently experience compaction on long running features and still find Claude is better than starting with fully fresh prompts.

Every dev seems to use these tools differently.

They’re being tested in Philly right now too

I just want to say, thank you for writing these every year, particularly with so much transparency into your life, finances, and feelings.

I can’t believe I’ve been reading these now for 8 years. Best of luck with the book!

That was a really nice read, thank you.

Not OP but Nassim Taleb was written a lot about basically this

I’ve been following you on X since your account was randomly shown to me. Your story is really cool, but also is your product. I’m working on my own LLM context problem as a side project (in a completely different space), but this could really fill voids I’m finding when doing it myself.

I’m going to try this today. Best of luck with this!

Are you still building this yourself (and Claude)?

Any rough guess the min income to raise a kid in manhattan nowadays?

I lived in Raleigh and then Charlotte about a decade ago and can’t picture living in those places without a car. That said, I may be out of date on what it’s like there now.

Would you mind sharing what city you live in? If not, no worries, I understand wanting to keep anonymity.

I completely get what you’re saying about friction though. In my friend circles the only parents raising kids in cities are Philly and London, the latter of which is so big at some point you’re basically in a different town anyway.

Thanks, I appreciate your responses here. It’s been a weird realization knowing I hate where I live but not having an exact answer to where we should live that also is best for the kids.

I appreciate the suggestions, thank you.

I actually grew up in Ohio and know the cities there well. They’re just too small and public transit leaves a lot to be desired.

To me, there’s just something different about the cities that got big before cars that the southern cities, Ohio cities, etc can’t capture. It’s hard to explain if you’re not that type of person.

I think we will consider Chicago though (if I can sell my wife on the weather)

Is it possible to get a 3 bedroom place that isn’t terrible on one FAANG salary?

I have a recruiter screening today with Meta. Any tips?

I currently work at a company who is primarily writing in Scala. I really like Scala but assume my next role won’t be in that. Are my two best options Rust and Java if I want to keep some of the typing, functional style, and pattern matching while also moving to a more popular language?

Not OP, but that’s really neat. What’s your process for that? What IDE for the coding? Is C# required? What software for the art?

Sorry to hijack this thread a bit, but I currently work at a Scala shop and have grown to like writing it. I worked at Clojure heavy place previously. This tool looks neat.

Has anyone at the senior level recently moved on from Scala to other languages recently? Any issue finding jobs or learning the new role?

Without more context, it kind of just feels like signaling that the founders can tout to peers and investors. So the the benefit is accreted in a prestige and respect way, now actual development.

Not saying I agree with the practice or the value of the signaling, just kind of speculating here.

I’ve lived in OH, PA, and NC outside of major cities and none were like that

I find the “it’s not fair to service workers” incredibly unconvincing. There’s lots of things that tech workers get that service workers don’t. Better pay, better flexibility with vacations, control over schedules, probably better insurance, the ability to sit all day, etc. The fact that WFH is the line for Musk is because he doesn’t like it. The same for other CEOs. But they know that isn’t an argument anyone will listen to.

Honestly, I moved to the suburbs and hate it with a passion. I miss density, I miss city noise, and I miss the unquantifiable energy I get from a city.

This thread has been an interesting read, city and non-city people literally like what the other sides loathes.

I’ve done this too as someone diagnosed with a lot of daytime sleepiness.

Any worry about longterm effects of nicotine? I’ve tried to find good studies online but most center around smoking, not the gum or pure nicotine.

*young kids lol

Hell of a typo

I’ve had two sleep studies. I have once been diagnosed with type 2 narcolepsy and then later as my sleep hygiene improved that was changed to idiopathic hypersomnia. I don’t have sleep apnea.

At any time I call basically fall asleep within 5 minutes and I’m always tired. Has anyone else dealt with this?

I tried modafinil but felt horrible for weeks as I hoped my body would adjust. I’ve also considered armodafinil, but I fear the same effects.

The doctor wants me to try xyrem but it scares me, doesn’t have a lot of studies on it, and it’s basically a nonstarter because I have young jerks and need to be able to wake up if needed.

So all of that to say, is dementia inevitable for me? My guess is that I just sleep terrible.

Any advice is welcome.