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Caramel Brulée Latte, Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frap... Damn, that sounds nasty. I'm sure they are calorie bombs as well. Can I recommend a nice cup of coffee-flavored black coffee?

I even used that on a piece of software last year to extend the trial period. It was good software, so I brought it afterward. But I was surprised that the old trick still worked.

We use unrestricted Mac's at my company, heck many use their own laptop. But we have very restrict access rules for sensitive information. The majority does not have access to company or user sensitive information. We are trying to strike a good balance between security and just letting people do their job.

If only it was funny

Not a direct answer but more career advice. Can you combine your degree with programming? It seems like a waste to throw out a good degree. Start programming as a hobby before throwing your hat over the wall?

There are few jobs in low-level programming, but of course, if you are very skilled, you can always find work. There are plenty of books and websites where you can learn it. If you genuinely regret your degree, then there is a way.

Is this not just Good Notes? https://www.goodnotes.com/

I wish I understood electronics

I don't know the American market, but they are screaming for qualified developers in Europe and Asia where I work. I have been around long enough to know that if you are a good developer there will always be work for you. Especially if you are not super specialized and open to working with people.

It's possible, but you are limited in the roles you can take. Some companies don't want or are allowed to have their data in China. This is true for both US and European companies, I don't know about Australia.

There are lots of great developers in China, no problem there as long as your English is good. But it can be a pain to jump The Great Firewall all the time.

You can run Linux on iOS, so I guess it's possible, but the performance would suck I think. Of course, you would need a dynamic DNS as your IP would change all the time. If you connect to local WIFI, that might be blocking your server.

https://ish.app/

Set up a VPN server at home instead. You could buy a cheap Raspberry Pi or a secondhand computer. It will be much more practical and stable.

Ha, you're right. I never thought about that lol

Samantha Fox Strip Poker on C64. ohhh yeah

What kind of "better"? If it's for my mom then Word any day of the week. If it's for a math student, LaTex any day of the week.

Ha ha.. I don't have it anymore, but I also went through ML for the Working Programmer. At my university, some web apps were written in ML, but then our principal was Mads Tofte - He is a good guy, learned a lot from him.

I'm a generalist that also knows business and UX. It does cut me off from some jobs, and I am fine with that, I would probably get bored by those jobs anyway. Follow your interests where they may take you. The IT industry is vast and needs all sorts of people, might as well go with what makes you happy.

I have not used a floppy in maybe 20 years but this is awesome. More power to him!

So many devs are just aiming for that FAANG job, no thanks. There is a whole world of awesome and interesting companies that are not FAANG.

If you don't feel you can program anymore, then you can move into management, UX, or analytics.

That's what I plan to do, I'm not 50 yet but I am starting to feel tired of programming, or at least the kind of programming I do at work.

I am starting to move into management and focus on people both our developers and our users. Going that route also pays better if that is important to you. So there are many options even at 50 and beyond.

100% - you also have the other group ( at least in my company ) that basically does not care about the user. That is a real problem, but hopefully, they see the light someday.

I wanna see The Big Lebowski with the profanity filter on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2ZgaQ_H-Y

> this is my first comment here in HN. Little by little.

Here have an upvote!

I don't know of any other industry, where (I assume everyone here is connected to IT) IT people have such a hard time paying other IT people. Slack has to pay salary, servers, networks, devops, health insurance, rent, etc etc. And people just expect them to be able to send out a free service to everyone, and yet they are even keeping their free tier. They are just changing it a little.

The same would be true for Zulip. I assume their developers need to pay rent and provide for their families. But it's open source, you might argue. Okay, if you have contributed to the project you get 20 free accounts for life. The rest of us can pay a small fee every month, so their developers can pay rent and actually focus on making a better product for us.

If you are a company, then you have to move everyone over and they have to learn the new software, and Karen from accounting and others needs a lot of help switching and what the app on her phone. "The old one was much nicer", "I don't know Markdown". Now Karen hates the new system.

If you self-host then you have to pay for a server. That server needs updates and backups so that is even more time. A server on AWS can just disappear overnight, so you need to prepare for that.

And yet people still go to Starbucks and buy expensive coffee without thinking.

It's $6.67 per user. Just get a paid account. But no... people will spend hours or days switching to an alternative, and then they have to maintain it which will be even more time. I guess it ends up with: what is your time worth?

It's true and possible. I worked in e-commerce before and you could argue, that I was optimizing our conversion rate, so more people would buy more shit they don't need. They should spend their money on their kids instead. That is a valid point of view but that is just most business.

In our case it's certainly the whales.

I work in a vilified industry (gambling). I work there as they pay a very well, excellent medical insurance for my family, and other benefits. We mainly make our money from rich people, so if they loose money gambling. I don't worry about it much.

Raise chickens, grow your food, as you get tired of chickens, you can start selling them. The only way you have to live off $500, is if you are not doing anything.

They will hire you - there now it's your problem.

I think this is absolutely true. If discussions on Twitter were like this one here on HN, then I'm all for it. But.. well Twitter can be very toxic.