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100% this. Already happening (I moved all of mine from London to Frankfurt last year, fully expecting this to happen). DCs in the UK will suffer.

> I am also completely clueless how to switch jobs as a manager. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

I share my own (humble) insights right here, its a huge topic but I post regularly, you might find some of those posts helpful: https://techleader.pro/

> it just doesn't feel the same in terms of pride in technical achievement .. i.e. my coding days are over

Same for me, I had to learn to take pride in building successful teams and individuals, and not code anymore.

As an ex-engineer, the key "eureka!" moment I had was when I realized that management != leadership, and leadership > management. After that, I started to study "leadership" as a formal topic, everyone from Marcus Aurelius to Steve Jobs, as if I was learning a new programming language for example.

The combination of technical chops + great people leadership skills is very rare, if you nail that many opportunities will open up for you during your career.

Wish you well on your journey.

My mistakes contributed to those hard things.

I did not "claiming that is unavoidable" on this thread, if you care about being fair.

Did I?

You can't "manage observable people behaviours", they are complex human beings with unique emotions and motivations, each one behaves differently.

If you try to "manage" that, they will resent and resist you.

The best you can hope for is that they like and respect you enough to follow your leadership. But that's their choice.

I'd always recommend you try it! The really brilliant part about engineering leadership is mentoring, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing one of your teams succeed, or growing your own leaders and watching them thrive autonomously.

If it does not suit you in the end, your technical skills will still be there as a fallback option.

Wish you well.

Yes and I could go on! Engineering management is brilliant and rewarding, but also very demanding.

I have made plenty of mistakes over 20+ years, and learned the painful way.

All of your problems are people problems, the tech parts are much easier to manage.

Wow that's a pretty easy going list. Just wait until you have to fire a bad hire that you made, have an entire team quit after a bad crunch, or have to lay off an entire team due to that exciting startup just you joined going bust.

LOL it's a deal!

If I go and buy an Apple M1 (speaking as a Linux guy who never owned a Mac...), will you guys promise to stop posting benchmarks here? Pinky promise?

I would "start to have a point", really? I will try harder next time.

In my experience, the latest computer I buy is always "the best computer I've ever owned". They get better every year, why is this still surprising?

Thanks for the tip, will try that where appropriate content relationships exist, but suspect it's minor occurrences (when you blog for 20+ years, your output varies considerably in terms of topics over time!).

Google does not like my new topics it seems, starting around 2012, but thankfully unlike the OP who I have a lot of sympathy for, my blog is for fun and not livelihood.

We write for bots, so they can decide to share with our fellow humans (or not), such is our lot...

For me, Google only sends organic traffic to my posts that are 10-20 years old (no joke). My newer content, while verified by me as indexed by Google, receives zero traffic.

For my old content, I have started to place warning banners for my users that they are reading old, and sometimes outdated content, that I only leave online for archival reasons.

It makes me wonder if Google is doing this with my little blog, is it doing the same more broadly? I don't believe it is providing a good search experience to its users anymore.

Pretty big "bugs" they have in the UK, judging by that drone:hand ratio in the pic.

Mine are accepted by Gmail so I am good. Considering how dominant Gmail is, that's all that really matters.

Regarding getting a bad IP rating, normally that's due to having an insecure config, like acting as an open relay, or not having DKIM enabled. There are lots of tutorials online about this, if you know Linux it really is easy.

Same for me, mainly for privacy concerns. And I back it up daily to my local NAS. It's so easy to configure and run your own mail server, that I'm surprised we are the minority in the tech community.

Nailed it. Most managers are executing a process or strategy defined by somebody else, they are not leaders.

An org without a leader is rudderless. Can't think of a real, successful example either.

No personal responsibility?

As a long time nano user, this makes me happy!

"To make the default Fedora experience better, we’ve set nano as the default editor. nano is a friendly editor for new users. Those of you who want the power of editors like vi can, of course, set your own default."

I can only imagine the mailing list discussion around that one :-)

Looking forward to upgrading as Fedora remains my daily driver, so thank you at all involved.

I agree with you that it will be one of the last jobs to go, but it will go. Fast-forward 15 years, and hypothesize about "GPT-15" or whatever, running on a quantum computer, just as a fun thought experiment, then put your kid up against that in the jobs market.

I think people will always learn math, programming, and natural languages for fun and intellectual growth, but I don't see those being paying jobs in 2 decades, when AI will be vastly superior to us.

For example, think about how many millions bugs are because of the most basic of human errors, time and time again, and the huge costs associated with that.

I'm curious why anyone would think programming is an essential life skill, considering how many successful people are alive today who cannot code.

Another thought: when ML starts getting applied to solving programming (see recent GPT-3 demos for many examples), do you think by the time that 5 year old is 20, programming will still be a viable career for humans?

What a strange set of conclusions. The author also misses out on one important point: many of us read books for pleasure, NOT because we feel pressure to read from society. I have a large collection of physical books in my TBR pile, and not one cent of guilt about that (even their presence on my shelves makes me happy).

For me, wearing a tie is about beautiful symmetry: when the tie is exactly centered with a neat knoth, a series of elegant angles are created under the wearer's face. There is something very architectural about that.

By the way, a women wearing a neck tie to complete her business suit can be very attractive for me (a powerful encroachment on "male" attire), so the tie really can be universal.

I really don't understand the angst. Wear whatever the hell you want.

LOL I am sure you are right, I was joking of course :-)

That is exactly what they shouldn't do. Firstly, what is the agreed definition of a tax haven, and secondly, which countries belong on that naughty list? Thirdly, when many of those countries are EU members with voting and even veto rights to block such reforms, how exactly do you think the EU is going to put pressure on itself?

Are you sure we benefited from that "massive influx of liquidity in their banking system"? That was loans not gifts, my income tax as an Irish person has never been so high, as we will be repaying that "massive influx" for a generation, the burden we must bare to stop that bank system failure from spreading through the eurozone.

Sure! You just need to form a company, then declare your assets as belonging to your company, and not yours.

Well in a court of law, it is the letter of the law that matters, not how we feel. So it may be immoral but is not illegal.

The legality I believe. I don't think the Irish Government or Apple tried to hide anything, so the facts are out there in the public domain (Apple is a public company). More about the EC implying it was illegal, but that has now been overturned so all parties legally (if not morally, depending on your point of view...) vindicated.