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Throwaway8588

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Throwaway8588··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
True, most transitions won’t be permanent but it really sucks to miss the ones that are (Angular and React eating everything).
Throwaway8588··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
Except the most employable technology keeps changing every few years.

TypeScript and Go and Rust are the hot ones now and they were barely on the radar a year ago.

Ofc I am inserting them into work projects as I need to learn them.

Throwaway8588··on Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
The impact of this is going to be extremely bi-modal.

Working class people are going to be decimated. No income and the cost deferral cliff.

Middle class (office workers are least) and upper class people will do very well. They still have their jobs and their costs have collapsed.

I am no longer paying for gas, childcare, bussing fees, car insurance, and all manner of other things. I can shop at Costco now that I have more time, saving me even more. Nobody is buying lunch out as we now have tons of saved time to make food ourselves. I used the crisis to squeeze by suppliers of internet and cell phone and whatnot. We now save 40% of our take home pay.

Personally the crisis has been great for me.