Tehchops

Oh I totally agree. I'm doing this very thing: SF salary, live in Western MI.

But that's really only available for a small subset of the population.

There's very few places where there is an overlap of "jobs that pay $100k" and "homes that can be afforded at $100k salary".

My total comp is ~250k, in DevOps.

My HQ is in a tech hub, but I work remotely from the Midwest.

They are out there, you just have to find them. Truly talented DevOps engineers have a niche mix of skills, and are in high enough demand they can ask for(and get) these types of salaries and work arrangements.

Yea. Also affordable housing on that salary means you will not be living near anything desirable.

Essentially means country living and car ownership... not the cheapest thing in Michigan.

An interesting take on the other side of this issue.

There exists a crucial distinction between supporting "war" and supporting "service members".

That being said, it feels like the author is ignoring non-trivial aspect of this issue: growing the military industrial complex is almost certainly a long-term net-negative.

If a growing number of powerful corporate entities find war profitable, we may find ourselves in a growing number of wars.

>It wins over the Mac experience in a fair competition.

Define "fair", because I feel like this inevitably means stripping away legitimate use cases.

Arch Linux teaches skills like:

- Knowing what happens if I have the audacity to update my computer without reading 3 different forum threads

- Understanding how to fix hilariously bad font rendering issues in a terminal, a software paradigm that's almost as old as computers themselves

- Tempering expectations that incredibly obscure apps like "Spotify" will "just work".

I think to imply Arch teaches much beyond the skills needed to deal with Arch Linux is a tenuous premise at best.

> Also, in case you didn't know, there's been a lot of thought and effort expended over the decades about the philosophy, morals and implementation of ownership with regards to hardware and software. I recommend starting with a resource like http://www.gnu.org/philosophy

I'm very aware.

Also, in case you didn't know, to imply morality or correctness of a philosophy simply because some n individuals spent y time thinking about it is a logical fallacy.

The GNU philosophy is great when you want to wax poetic about a technological utopia, but it simply falls flat when you try to apply it in reality.

In the modern, interconnected world, it is technically trivial to compromise and marshal many thousands of devices to use in co-ordinated attacks. I simply do not trust other users, regardless of their technical aptitude, to maintain a secure posture, and they have no obligation or responsibility(outside of a tenuous at best philosophical stance) to do so.

I trust companies like Apple to utilize their economies of scale and collective engineering acumen to deliver a safer UX far more than I do their individual users in a freer ecosystem.

One could argue there is already a "live" experiment with a more open mobile ecosystem. Android is far more lax than Apple's walled garden, and this is my shocked face that it is rife with malware.

I understand there is some small fraction of the population that will cry foul at whatever egregious transgression Cupertino commits against the utopic vision of our lord RMS, but at the end of the day most of us have other things to do with our time and want to know, generally speaking, we're protected against all the other idiots.

How do you reconcile that when it's very likely allowing even a small population of "owners" to install unverified software ends up directly harming the majority of the other "owners".

I think, inevitably, the saying about work not being a good forum for discussing:

- religion

- politics

- sex

still holds true, regardless of how progressive the workplace.

Sour grapes on the part of anecdotally having a non-ideal living space != "remote work sucks"

I still vastly prefer the flexibility, cost-advantages, and productivity gains from remote work.

That being said, you have to invest in it. Have a separate room with a door. Spend some money on good ergonomics. Have a good, stable internet connection.

If read/listen to MA or BH at any length, they heavily emphasize the value of relationships and a network.

This behavior seems absolutely anathema to their stated ideals.

Even if you hadn’t called it out specifically, you’re checking every box for “new finance bro”.

Strangely always devolves into a length measuring contest around things like clothes and income.

Even stranger is how quiet that space gets when the firm hits a couple of red quarters.

Nothing like underperformance to remind the plebes where they sit in the hierarchy of “sweet cash money” versus partners and investors ;-)

(Also if you know a tech company that will install a slide and a barber at my house, could you PM me their name? First I’ve heard of that)

Do you really want to burn a bridge with a16z/AH in the tech industry?

They may say "well played" in so many words, in public. Privately? They may be marshaling their bottomless war chest to unmake you.

Wow. uBlock registers at least 50 unique blocks, and my laptop still churns trying to load all the extraneous ad content ZDNet tries to jam down the pipe. ZDN stopped being journalism long ago

>I wonder why tech people aren’t more interested in those jobs.

For all the hobgoblins and stories of bad-faith intent by big tech companies, they are still far more progressive than financial companies when it comes to things like hours, working arrangements, tenure, schooling, organizational hierarchy etc...

Find me a finance job that lets me work 100% remote and doesn't care I didn't attend $prestigiousCollege and... I'd suspect it'd end up being a tech company instead :-)

Oracle poached a lot of AWS employees when it was first getting its cloud offering off the ground.

Looks like cargo-culting has its limits.

>I'm sorry, what?

"Of a number of different solutions, Amazon has consistently delivered the best UX for streaming, shopping, and wireless music playback. Why would I switch?"

I view shows on Prime with multiple seasons all the time.

I tried that in the past. Unfortunately shopping and multiple FireTV apps would break due to non-trivial data being sent from multiple domains.

Of a number of different solutions, Amazon has consistently delivered the best UX for streaming, shopping, and wireless music playback. Why would I switch?

How do you deal with it breaking things like Amazon-based UI(Fire, Mobile shopping etc...)?

I think being judicious about the source of your base images goes a long way towards safe usage.

The high-achieving SF market may be more likely to select against it.

IME it's much more common in 3rd-tier/mid-market tech companies, or even higher-profile companies where tech isn't the primary operating vertical, and locale != Bay Area.

Companies that can't compete on engineering culture or compensation are naturally going to attract less talented engineers, and there will be a wider variance of skill across the engineering org as a whole.

> But, if you look at some of the latest dev surveys, you'll see there's a ton of fresh talent entering the work force and it's only a matter of time before they become mid-level and senior (5-10 years). At that point, the supply of engineers will far exceed the demand and the same thing will happen to engineers as any other white collar profession.

While I don't disagree we could see a demand contraction, I think your assertion is based on a tenuous premise at best: tenure == competency.

I've had the misfortune of working with many "senior" engineers who struggled with basic technical concepts and even more basic reading comprehension.

The demand for great engineers will always be there. What the market will be flooded with is mediocre ones who have improved nothing but their title in the 5-10 years of their career

> "He then went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder."

So:

* Get degree

* Struggle to find steady/career employment in a job market still rippling from a massive recession

* Decide the best ROI is to go back to school for a Master's in Comparative Literature

While I'm totally cognizant of the systematic and pervasive failures of the modern college lending system... I don't think the system is totally to blame for this one.

Four years of college AND working experience and you still can't make a basic CBA for how you spend your time?

This is a good call out. Nonetheless, it seems to be endemic to older generations.

Is all "code of code" inevitably destined for a Lisp dialect?

This. The first season at least dabbled in a more honest take. Season >=2 went with whatever was palatable and popular enough to get more viewers.

ZDNet has to monetize their low-effort content somehow.