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It's become the software industry's equivalent of standardized testing.

I regret not being able to go to any of the Fountain Valley Fry's midnight releases that were hosted by the Blizzard dev teams. I wasn't even in high school yet when those were still being held. In hindsight, I think my mom would have been willing to take me to one if I had asked. It was a ten minute drive from home.

I was really sad when that Fry's closed down. Nearly all of my PC gaming purchases came from there and the ACP Swapmeet up until 2006 or so, when I switched to Steam, so it felt like losing a part of my childhood. I haven't visited the location in a while, but I'm assuming it is still empty and fenced off.

The first dinner I ever ate after arriving in SF was at their original HQ's cafe/restaurant, thanks to some friends who worked there. It was so good! I regret not having gone as a guest more often.

Bankruptcy is temporary. I wish I had been willing to risk it in my 20s.

Hispanic isn't a race.

Probably not true for their front-end positions.

People typically don't agree to anything that impacts them negatively unless forced to.

Those are implementation details. It's difficult to accomplish these things in any taxation system, including our current one.

Granular progressive taxation is the best answer to your question.

Trying to define buckets with arbitrary thresholds is futile.

It greatly benefits the top outliers, since the top bucket will have a huge disparity between its strictly defined lower bounds, and an infinite upper bound.

There's no need to "define rich". A formula without defined bounds (this is the most important part) should determine how much tax you pay, and it shouldn't discriminate between different forms of income. More importantly, all net worth gains should be taxed equally.

I don't have links to back this up, but I believe the following two statements are true in US markets, based on my anecdotal industry experiences:

- The majority of mobile apps that only launch on one native platform (but are eventually available on both Android and iOS) launch on iOS first.

- The majority of mobile apps that are only available on one native platform are only available on iOS.

Twitch is an immeasurably worse place to work at now than it was before the pandemic.

The creep of corp Amazon culture accelerated. Twitch was acquired in 2014, but it was still Twitch, and not Amazon, when it came to culture. That's no longer true.

It no longer feels like a special environment. These layoffs really seal the magic being gone, though they would have happened even if Amazon hadn't acquired Twitch.

Many core employees have left in the past few years.

Amazon managers have been transferring in at a steady pace.

A beloved early employee committed suicide.

Twitch's source code was leaked shortly afterwards.

One Medical would write adderall scripts for people during the pandemic. I think they stopped, but idk I went back to using a regular psychiatrist. Pretty wild to think that nurse practicioners were prescribing schedule IIs.

source: I got all of my adderall through them for nearly two years

I have the feeling that whatever you're talking about is explicitly not crawlable.

You can order takeout.

I barely qualified for a previous state credit within $1000 of the cutoff, right before more than doubling my income during the pandemic industry craziness. I think cutoffs that don't scale or prorate somehow are so ridiculous. There's no reason to make things all-or-nothing. The criteria should still give you something if you're rich, even if it's $1, so everyone else in the band doesn't get screwed.

There's also no advertising relationships that would dissuade anyone from bashing. This is not to say that Tesla doesn't deserve the bashing (it does).

Collusion. Good luck breaking that up, though.

I wish articles like this would reference the antitrust lawsuit over collusion to artificially keep software engineer salaries low in the 2000s.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

I also don't see any references to scale. Your labor can impact the lives of x people as a lawyer, where you're constrained by the amount of hours in a day and geographical location. As a software engineer, your labor can easily impact x^6, or even more if you work for a technology market leader.

And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't. Our salary offerings are very aggressive to the developer's benefit. In my opinion, salary is a sign of respect from you employer.

Let's see your salary range numbers and what tier you fall under.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

Are you in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3?

Are you paying your mid-level engs over $200k total when including stock and bonus? That's the minimum benchmark I would use for my next job hunt. 120k+ for juniors, 200k+ for mid, 300k+ for senior, 400k+ for anything above senior.

I'm not sure what you mean. In a corporate job ladder, anyone who isn't strictly a manager and writes at least SOME code is classified as an IC. That's not to say that there are no managers who also write code, though.

It says that each individual Meta employee had to personally appeal to have her specific Instagram account unblocked. Seems like it would be trivial for someone at Meta to verify. If she's not lying, she just completely threw those Meta employees under the bus (if they're still working there).

I'm going to use an extreme & contrived example here.

How would you feel about a company that pays $200 an hour, but 90% of each new batch of hires are fired by that company within a week? And the 10% who don't get fired have to physically exert themselves through things like holding it in when they need to use a restroom, and operating with less sleep than is necessary. By the end of the first month, that 10% is reduced to 1%.

we already copying them with contactless payments

Pretty sure South Korea invented these, and China copied them.

I was introduced to all of these techniques at some point throughout my childhood and pre-mid-20s life. None of them really helped me. Prescription amphetamines did, though.

It kind of sucks feeling dependent on them to do uninteresting tasks and make it through the less-interesting workdays, but it sure beats being a 25-year-old NEET.

Fortunately, as software engineers, we have the privilege of being able to be choosy about our jobs. Which means I can find a new job or team as soon as things stop being fun.

I sometimes wonder if I would be capable of doing anything but programming work without completely hating my life. I'd probably be using my prescription every day at that point, instead of 3-4 times a week.

"Once a ladder, now a crutch"