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We just build and test everything every time. Maybe it costs us more $$$ on CI, but it costs far less in developer time. That being said, I mostly work at startups and larger companies will certainly cross a threshold where this isn't feasible.

People on the web take the risk of being misinformed, clicking or not.

The problem is that those people went through their schooling being told that they were awesome and should be a professor (by people who successfully became tenured professors, and who didn't experience failure).

IMO it's still on them if they didn't do the research on what their outcome might look like. I absolutely loved physics in high school and chose to study computer science because I knew it would pay my bills. 8 years later I am not regretting my decision at all.

I have a good manager right now. If that person hasn't had a good manager ever, then it might be one of those cases "if it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your own shoe".

I'm a senior dev who could cross over if I wanted to, but when I see what the managers are doing on a day-to-day basis I realize I'm perfectly happy doing what I'm doing and making pretty solid money while I'm at it.

You are looking to save yourself a week of time a year and then 3 years later for some reason or another you will HAVE to upgrade and good luck making that change when the world has moved past you.

Same experience as you. Thought I would always use sublime but my coworkers were so adamant about VSCode that I finally gave it a try. I don't even know that I can point to any single reason for it being better than Sublime -- feels like everything just works a little more seamlessly.

to do some trivial UI work on the front-end

If that takes you forever, consider that it may also be your lack of familiarity as much as the lack of type system/compiler. Despite my preference for the back end, I have spent plenty of time on the front end and can pump out changes very quickly.

I love this. It's not even a joke really.

suggesting a form of biochemical reaction to the salt water placebo.

I know this was a quote from the article, but... Does it really suggest that? Isn't it possible something else is going on?

Thanks for sharing! Someone in my social circle recently fell victim to a phishing attack. I had similar thoughts that you really need to prevent the email from getting through in the first place. Success for phishing is all about the weakest link in an organization and training only goes so far.

The hundred billion dollar question is where will people alternately socialize online?

It's a good question. Personally, I got rid of Facebook and didn't feel like I needed a replacement. I do use Instagram and Snapchat, but mostly to communicate with family.

Sadly both conservatives and liberals are blind to their own hypocrisy. This kind of shit goes on at both ends of the spectrum unfortunately.

6 years ago I was wondering how anyone gets burnt out from getting to program for a living. How naive I was :)

My team deploys probably 5 times in a given day, including Friday. They are all small deploys, and none can happen at the end of the day. If shit hits the fan, we rollback and maybe people figure out the root cause over the weekend but they aren't sweating bullets.

I am kind of non stop moving. I think it’s a personality thing.

Yeah, I know people who are like that... I'm not one of them. I certainly can get obsessed with an idea or project and go nuts on occasion, but a lot of time I like to "just chill" on the weekend. Play some computer games and guitar, go on a bike ride or hike, etc.

I could advise someone not to jump off a bridge even if I didn't build it.

Sounds like you had a few problems.

I feel like you're essentially saying the same thing I did, just worded differently?

I had a plumber over for some fixes about a month ago, and he saw me doing some coding on my laptop. He made a comment like "I have absolutely no clue how any of that works... it is wizardry to me". I said "I'm watching you fix plumbing issues around my house, and that is wizardry to me". I think we could probably learn each others' jobs if we really tried, but the point is that all things can seem like magic until you learn them.

I agree with you whole-heartedly.

My programming career has gone from "I don't know the best way to write something", to "I know the best way to write something and I'll do it this way every time", to "often it doesn't fucking matter, just get it done and move along to the next problem".

The title is also clickbaity, since the conclusion is really just that "we can't deduce much of anything... yet".

I literally mute every channel except my direct team's channel. If you need me, @ me baby.

This honestly took me a while to learn

Yeah same here. I think I pissed off my manager pretty quickly at my current job by trying to change how they did certain things before getting an understanding of why they did them that way, but I realized my mistake and went into more of an observer-mindset for awhile.

Over time I built up a reputation with reducing friction in smaller ways on specific features I worked on, and then applied that same thinking to larger scale issues I saw. They were much more receptive once they knew I could make valuable contributions, and now I'm one of the main people establishing patterns and architecture decisions at my company.

Learning to establish myself for awhile before making process changes was a great learning experience that I plan to take with me to all future roles.

My personal solution to defuse an argument with the wife is to stick out my tongue and say something stupid. Gets a laugh unless I'm REALLY in trouble, and then it's on to plan B.

I found a loophole to all this madness. I joined a company that was not remote-friendly, moved a couple hours away after about a year, and told them I'd be happy to continue working for them remotely. They obliged :)

Vermont has the best East coast skiing. I’d put it in the bottom quartile of West coast skiing.

Yep. I learned to snowboard on the east coast and when I came out west, I was amazed at how much "better" I was overnight. I really am better now, but it doesn't hurt to have good snow.

One of the things you figure out is that some kids aren't interested. And if your kid isn't interested in thinking about prime numbers, you're going to be hard pressed to change that. Conversely they will have interests that you don't share, and it's going to be harder for you to participate meaningfully in that beyond being generally supportive. They are individuals that way.

I grew up in a family with 7 kids and my youngest sibling is just 12 years old. I remember when my younger set of siblings were born, I was thinking "I'm going to teach them EVERYTHING I've learned at a young age, and they will be way ahead of their peers." I failed to grasp just how much of their personality is ingrained in them from their DNA and that they might not have all the same interests as me. It was a great learning experience though -- when I do have kids, I'm not going to try and shove my interests down their throat. I'm going to pay attention to what they are drawn to and give them as many resources as I can so they can pursue that interest as much as they desire.

And then Facebook will buy it and change it.

Yep I don't believe in free will and agree whole-heartedly with everything you said.

I still believe people make decisions and that those decisions have consequences, I just think the decisions can likely be traced back to the state of the universe and physical processes rather than poofing out of nowhere. Of course, even if quantum mechanics means that there are some random processes at play, that doesn't change much since it is still quantum mechanics at the root of those "poofs".