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FWIW I feel for the OP in most of what s/he says.

Luckily there's a lot of hybrid arrangements now where you can have your cake and eat it so to speak.

1. A few friends of mine had kids with woman being over 40. Not unusual.

2. You can adopt.

3. Do not be too sad about it. I for one look at the state of the world around me and feel guilty for having kids. Guilty about bringing them in this mess.

Good luck

> gets too risky when trying to deliver use value at every sprint.

I disagree. To me, being afraid of new code or refactoring code means you're working with a code base that has a lot of tech debt and also no serious continuous integration infra.

Thanks for sharing.

Agree 100% btw.

That's the foot at the door. Third parties is some steps down that road.

Ubuntu/Canonical has been erratic for quite some time now. Time to get back to a non-company backed up distro.

So it seems that the entrenched powers in IBM are winning over. Sad but expected TBH.

IMHO remote desktops (cloud or DaaS) is a terrible idea with even more terrible executions. I never tried one that could measure up to a local environment.

Nope. Last company I were where it was followed was a trainwreck of productivity. SAFe was a contributor to that. Excruciating long and boring procedures that made the bureaucrats and busy-talkers happy and everyone else miserable.

The problem with that is that it finds you (if ever) too late to be of any use.

Not the OP but in a similar situation.

> I have no doubt whoever launched [project name] got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether [project name] was a success long term.

Same story in every company I've worked in. It's like the time horizon only goes as far as the next quarter.

You'd expect so (and I'd hope so) but nope. Drivers become even more reckless. Driving huge, noise-insulated cars seems to put them in the mindset of total control, detachment from actual speed and "I'm not gonna hurt myself anyways". Depending on the country you can add a less than perfect driver education (if any) to the mix.

How about crystal?

https://crystal-lang.org/

European here. We mostly get what you guys have in terms of cars and politics lagging just a few years or months back. Usually with narrower roads and worse infrastructure.

wow

Saw it for a min. Nice.

Then I bumped into the car in front of me which was changing lanes. Not nice.

Shouldn't at least this section be cordoned off?

> Perhaps Thiel sees Facebook as a place to contain unbounded Mimetic violence. It simultaneously perpetuates violence and prevents it from happening. After all, if people fight on social media, they won’t fight on the streets. Like a boiling kettle, we have to let out steam somewhere. Better to cool the pot on social media than in the streets. In the words of Thiel, “social media proved to be more important than it looked.”

This just sounds wrong. If anything social media have poisoned or killed almost all human relationships that I know of. It is now almost impossible for any group of people to even grasp the idea of consensus or meeting half way. In other words FB and the likes have created a huge number of cold-conflicts waiting the smallest chance to get real...but the writer (and Thiel?) thinks it's just the opposite.

Yet I think the observations in "Millennials: Young and Yearning" are really spot-on.

Good explanation but not what I'd perceive from a post asking for grit. FWIW I'd think what the OP thinks (and shy away).

"as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades"

hasn't that happened already?

I wonder how much the contributors are being paid...

So Rust is now old enough for people to talk about "Modern" Rust?

I'm either missing something or words don't mean what they used to...

what have we learned from a decade of dating apps?

Basically to not use them. Same thing we learned with a lot of other "social" services.

Does what happened seem just to you? That form of passion that you disapprove comes from failing to serve justice in the first place. Do you have any better proposal than to just keep going like this and be sorry for the observers that end up at the bottom of the sea? If yes I'm eager to hear about it.

Also, unless I'm very rusty with the legal system, if you're the captain, by definition you're responsible for anyone on board. Coming back to port with anyone missing should be a HUGE problem for you. I don't get that impression here.

So, everybody knows that almost certainly the crew killed him, and the crew and their company and their vessel just walks?

And that keeps happening...

I'd propose in any subsequent event of a missing observer captain does time, ship seized, company closed and that's done even before police starting asking questions. I bet there wouldn't be any missing observer after that.

I'd call them recession-prepping but not apocalyptic.

"In physics terms, the world economy is a dissipative structure, just as all plants, animals and ecosystems are. "

This reminds me of (spoiler alert)

"Origins" book of Dan Brown.

Not sure I follow. How are they prepping? Can you say a few things more or past a link or two please?

It must be fun living in China.

Given that most of the companies/bosses are just not worth any loyalty it is the wise move to move on the 2 year limit. It's not only the salary increase -almost impossible to achieve by staying. To me more important is the job security by ensuring employability. As long as I can be hired elsewhere I know I'm still in the game. Another big plus is I can ignore a lot of the usual b..shit that I'd have to pay attention to if I was in for the long run.

Gosh. Lately I find it terribly difficult even to hit 1 yr mark. Companies and bosses whine about how difficult it is to find skilled people but they do whatever they can to drive them away on first chance.

plus:

* Put them oncall on Xmas when they are new to the team (because teams are like army where the newcomers must suffer)

* be pedantic and hysteric in code reviews

* have meaningless processes that drag for hours. E.g. iteration planning that goes on for 2 days

* enforce nebulous "principles" (e.g. anything by RC Martin) because manager that hasn't touched code in a decade went to a show of him and was "impressed"

* have clueless architects design systems and processes. Specially anything microservices-related.

* have lesser engineers run the teams and processes. The kind that is good in Public Relations but have little or no real skills

* have id-politics matter more than anything else. E.g. most important problem this week being why women employees got a pink promotional cup and how is that discrimination

* do not allow access to web mail and a gazillion other sites because "security"

* do not allow local code (if you see this - run) and instead promote "dev" in remote controlled envs

* foster a blame culture (who did that?)

* foster a toxic culture where politics run the place

* fire good engineers and keep the above mentioned Public Relations ones

* have and promote managers that are good in gaslighting and not much more

* work for managers and with colleagues that you'd advise your kid to stay away from because they cannot be trusted

* hire titles with no real experience and many ego issues and push them hard through the ladder. Classic example PhDs straight from uni.