6 years?

As an LP, I would be excited for liquidity in 10 years at this point.

It seems like even for successful companies, there isn't a clear path to an exit for many of them. Add to that the increase in late-stage investors, and there isn't much of an incentive to exit.

A bit hyperbolic but yeah. It also depends on the industry / stage. I’m always looking for creative ways to get liquidity out given the exit issues you mention.

I wasn't trying to be hyperbolic actually. I really would be happy if an exit would happen in 10 years.

Thankfully, I can be patient, but I wonder sometimes if some of these companies will ever exit.

Sorry, I meant my statement was a bit hyperbolic at 6 years.

Waiting for a few as well, good luck!

> or stuff I need long periods of time without interruption.

This is every day for a developer though.

Many smaller companies are what you describe.

The pay will probably be less, but it is a trade-off.

Parent commenter helped implement async in JS, they know what they are talking about. JS has threads locked behind semantics. Web workers run on separate threads. I do a lot of heavy parallel processing that never blocks the UI with them all the time.

I stand corrected.

It looks like web workers is the way for JavaScript to do multi-threading.

Async has always been enough for what I need to do in the front end, as most of my long running processes are just calling a back end.

Edit to add: for context, I am a full stack developer and know what threads are... I just never have needed them in the browser.

Web workers are great for local compute and isolation. Unfortunately it's a hassle managing sane pooling because different platforms have different worker limits.

On the other hand, the isolation guarantees are strong. There aren't really any footguns. Messaging is straightforward, works with a lot of data types and supports channels for inter-worker communication.

This is not meaningfully true in 2024

*2025 (although still true of 2024 and several preceding years, heh)

Do you mean corn?

Most American food has High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of Sugar.

It's still sugar, and the reason it's bad is because it's sugar rather than the exact composition.

I think they're saying it is the corn lobby, not the sugar lobby, that distorted our diet guidelines so much.

Corn = huge "real American" industry

Sugar = not

Corn is the US sugar lobby.

Pretending they are different things is mostly just marketing at this point.

“I hate what the sugar lobby has done to our country but damnit I’ll come out swinging against anyone coming after our corn farmers’ subsidies!”

- a reasonable misunderstanding to have when people speak the way you’re suggesting

Saying it's really the corn lobby is fine, but "corn syrup instead of sugar" is not the right way to describe things.

> During this time I hopefully remember to take my medication.

I have a recurring reminder on my phone and find that it helps keep me on track for this.

I'm not used to taking medicine and only started a couple months ago, so found that I can easily forget without it.

It's not about you.

Exactly. It's a classic magician's trick (and featured in a Columbo episode!)

Maybe if there is a way to see all predictions made by someone, it would be more compelling.

Thank you for the comments!

I've been thinking about introducing auth and coupling quotes to specific accounts. If this is high on the wishlist I might need to think about that!

Again, thanks!

Very fun. I played all the levels. Thanks for sharing.