sosodaft

noble but futile

The 10,000 year is very convenient for Discordians.

I was going to suggest that the author was in marketing and didn't know the difference, but the article seems too in-depth for that. Maybe it's hybrid and devs wrote the more technical sections.

When I lived in London roughly 40% of my salary went to rent. London was actually more expensive, at least for a 1BR with roughly the same distance to the city center, as NYC.

Why do you want to replace everything with Javascript? Because a huge number of devs already know it, so you can have your web devs work on your mobile application.

That said, my company tried Fuse out around a year ago and went with Ionic instead. Partially because adapting Angular to Fuse was a lot of effort, and partially because at that time Fuse was not nearly release-ready.

Things like "The bad news: joining Stripe is still a risky proposition." also make me cringe... don't tell me that anyone reading that sentence doesn't realize it's meant to entice them.

Maybe it's not a fair comparison, but contrast with the Valve new employee handbook, which makes it clear what it's actually like to work there and how their culture impacts the workplace.

I'm a currently-employed web developer (bootcamp grad) and I'd love to see a part-time (nights and/or weekends), cash up front offering to deepen my CS knowledge. Just throwing that out there in case part-time something you guys have thought about. I'm sure I'm not the only bootcamp grad that could use an in-depth CS program.

This is another area where technology is hugely beneficial. Not everyone can move to a city, but people who drive to work could work remotely one day a week. Hell, let's make it Friday, who wouldn't like that? There are few office-type jobs that one just CAN'T do remotely at least one day a week, so you've cut a significant part of the emissions of a significant part of the American population.

And this can be instituted as an economic incentive; employers could get a tax credit or something in exchange for the proportion of work they allow employees to do remotely.

What we really need is WWII-style, society-wide action on this count--remember the days of Meatless Mondays, saving your cans to make bullets, mailing your binoculars to the Navy. Even if it's confined to the parts of society that actually believe global warming is a serious threat, making pro-climate living a social norm could have a tremendous effect.

I think if drag and drop builders find an audience it will be in a sweet spot between engineers and clients, maybe used by support engineers or customer success to build and modify applications to client specifications. Technical users will always want more control and in my experience clients are happy to pay for someone else to do the work, even with DND (I've worked at two companies that have built DND form/app builders, neither caught on much with clients).

I'm an effective altruist ;) https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Online photos of oneself in foreign countries have become a fashion accessory. Bonus points if you spent cash to travel to help the poor in a developing country instead of donating it to people who could use it more effectively.

Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...

Off of Morgan Ave stop on the L

TOS acceptance box and "you can send me emails" box combined. Classy.

All I wanted was a bacon egg and cheese icon...

You're a bit low on the salary front. I started at £44k (including bonus) with no experience; Senior dev roles here that I've seen seem to be around £65k.

Of course it still doesn't compare to a Silicon Valley or New York dev salary.

London is as expensive as New York, where I'm moving. In fact, I will be paying roughly the same rent: $950 before bills in NYC, £850 including bills in London. In both cases I'm around 30 minutes from the city center.

My company is providing health insurance. I will be working the same hours. The biggest difference benefit-wise is that I get ten days less paid vacation (15 vs 25)--but I mostly used my vacation to visit New York.

A dev job in Indianapolis (or anywhere else between the coasts except Chicago) would pay what I make in London and the cost of living would be halved.

Anecdotal: I moved to London for my first software engineering job nine months ago. The week after I signed my contract, the country voted Leave and my salary was literally worth $15k USD less overnight.

I'm going back to the US in two weeks for a new job. I'll be making roughly 66% more. Sure, part of that has to do with the fact that I have experience now. But dev salaries in London weren't great compared to the US even when the pound was strong.

Honestly, Europe's best hope for keeping tech talent from going to the US may be Donald Trump cracking down on visas.

I'd love to know how it became popular, which the article doesn't really address. It seems like a fad, which would just be dumb (bad) luck. But if Hasbro, who had decided not to produce it, intentionally sat on it for eight years then manufactured and marketed it, that would be deplorable.

This, exactly. I use Huel to replace the meals I eat at home. As a consequence, it is the only food in my apartment. Removing the possibility of eating junk has helped me improve my diet a lot, and I still get to have a takeaway meal for lunch to sate my cravings for real food.

Looks great. I've been using Huel, the British Soylent knockoff, for 1-2 meals per day (much healthier than the 4oz bag of chips it replaced), and now that I'm moving back to America I'm looking for local alternatives.

I shortened it from a three minute read to a one-second one: Someone will find it.

This is why the only startups I'll work for are B2B. Trying to sell an "app" to the masses? Uber is losing money and they're a household name, good luck with your Tinder for dogs or whatever.

Reminds me of James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State", which chronicles how various attempts to make complex, organically developed institutions organized and intelligible has historically made things much, much worse, from planned cities to collective farms. If it ain't broke...

If you think mech keyboard prices are outrageous you should see what nice keycaps will run you. I'm pretty sure they're worth more than gold, by weight.

Alphabet as innocuous is ridiculous. Guess their elementary school name and bright primary colors are working.

You realize that your search results are topped by people who pay Google right? That they use your browsing activity to sell things to you just like everyone else?

Relevant (a statistical look at internet stories): http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/12/might-people-on-the-int...

(Autoplay is the scourge of the internet and sites that autoplay audio or video should be treated the same as, say, sites that use the blink tag)

Well said. It always pains me to see people criticising capitalism for easy points, when despite its flaws it has brought us an age of unprecedented equality and prosperity. That's not to say it's necessarily the best "system" for the future, but tearing it down because it is the Establishment and tearing down the Establishment is cool is counterproductive.

Seconded. I found his style genuinely delightful.

People are more likely to comment about things that piss them off though, right?

It's excerpted from a book. I do think that it would be better if he altered it a bit for this article.