No, I’ve never had to contact support. But I see they have a phone number. As much as I dislike taking on the phone, I feel like having phone support is still actually a good sign. Most of the time when I send emails to companies for support it’s a 2-3 day turnaround time and they ask the same questions over and over. Sometimes I just want to talk to someone on the phone and get my problem solved quickly.
You feel your life is done while you are unhappy, you come seek help on HN because you logically understand that you have much more things to do in life.
Work part time. As a developer, you can make 7-10k usd a month working part time, without much effort, from any part of the world. This is pure luck, we live a time with free money, VCs are pouring the tech with billions and billions, grab the cash.
No western country: Move to a place with sun, parties and good food like mexico or thailand. It's much more easy to make new friends in your 30s in a foreign country because western migrants are always grouping together, in small communities easy to find and to join. Bonus point, go to a place with peaceful locals, no stressed commuters and welcoming people. Learn the local language, make new friends in the new country.
Improve yourself, now you have free time to travel deeply in yourself, understand the whole psychologic movement happening in your brain. You have time to experiment and ultimately learn how peace and hapiness is generated in your brain and body. You will also learn how to understand other people, which will lead to new friendships.
Streamer here.
It makes me sad to see that kind of numbers. There is plenty of interesting and attaching personnalities but the crowd focus on top tier streamers.
I not complain for me, I'm in the top tier of my niche but I see many people with unit viewers while being positive for other people. That's why I systematically send my viewers to smaller streamer when I stop the live.
If some of you wonder why viewers give us money, from my experience, the stream is a comfortable place for them.
But how a 26k people chat could be comfortable? You instantly loose the special link with the streamer by being flooded into the chat. On the streamer side, I can't imagine loosing the special link I have with the community.
With 240 messages per minute, it's impossible to meet anyone. I'm lucky to have made friendships and even working relationship through the stream.
For anyone curious about how twitch and HN can meet, go to the Twitch "software and development" category.
1. Learn to write tests. You will increase your productivity, the fiability of your code and decouple things. Either you go into functionnal programing, either OOP. But write tests.
2. Read other people code. Pick a robust OSS and go through the code.
3. Work in a team, preferably with people better than you. But even juniors can challenge you during peer reviews. If they don't understand your code, maybe it's not clear enough. It will also force you to explain what you do, and thus, find where it could have been simpler.
4. Paper code before writing.
Usually I:
A. Paper code
