Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?
I've been looking for a job/contract for 6+ months but last week I was evicted and lost mostly everything I own except my laptop, a few pairs of clothes, and a few Raspberry Pis. I was working at a nice company but I got "poached" after one saw my AGPL project, I decided to leave the nice place since new place looked like a better fit. Turns out they wanted to take advantage of my open-source work that I've poured my free-time into for 3+ years + seen interest from investors/VC firms. They tried to build their product from it and I wasn't able to tolerate that so I screwed myself by not continuing work with them + not having anything else lined up... I've been trying to get "social support" through Alberta's online social services for over a month now and I even went so far as to walk 5 hours (round-trip, I have no car/license)
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I've been looking for a job/contract for 6+ months but last week I was evicted and lost mostly everything I own except my laptop, a few pairs of clothes, and a few Raspberry Pis. I was working at a nice company but I got "poached" after one saw my AGPL project
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- krowfooten
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews