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Is there a reverse Moore's law that describes the phenomenon where most forums turn to shit after doubling every x number of years?

Cool idea, wish it was open source.

About to?

Spray and pray.

Kind of overdoing it there aren't ya bud?

Thinking about products is hard. Just count to 10 and follow the sound of my voice.

Billionaires care very little about where their employees want to work.

Thanks dad.

Understatement.

I don't make enough money to view a paywall. Thanks for the call out.

Unfortunate.

Talking to a chat bot is also far superior for mental health compared to talking to a therapist who blows $200k for a masters degree and spends too much money on sweaters and office space. The article has a paywall so I didn't read it beyond the headline.

Microsoft programming language works better on a Microsoft IaaS. Makes sense. Use the right tool for the job is a big part of the job.

Location: Charleston, South Carolina

Remote: Preferred but not required

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/etc, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts

Résumé/CV: wayofthesys.com, also check out my terraform contributions at linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: brian@wayofthesys.com

Eh, I mostly just see tech related content. It's what you make of it.

They don't realize that outside of those festivals the music scene is mostly dead and has been replaced by comedy since the pandemic.

The unofficial motto of Austin has been "don't move here" for something like at least the last decade I think.

Location: Charleston, South Carolina

Remote: Preferred but not required

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/etc, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts

Résumé/CV: wayofthesys.com, also check out my github infra repo of applied examples at https://github.com/autotune/bank-of-anthos/tree/main/aws

Email: brian@wayofthesys.com

Idempotency, testing, readability, and longevity are all too often ignored in CS and tech in the name of speed and simplicity.

"But, you are not Google" - https://medium.com/humans-of-devops/you-dont-need-sre-what-y.... Just an example of what I'm talking about. Practices that work at one org may not easily transfer over to another, be that taking on kubernetes vs standard ec2 instances, on-prem vs cloud, etc. etc. Maybe un-repeatable isn't the best word so much as non-portable?

>- Did I mention read papers? Seriously, the research of the smartest people on planet earth are on the internet, available for your consumption, for free. Take a moment to reflect in how incredible that is. Anyone anywhere on planet earth can git gud if they apply themselves.

There is a flood of papers out there with unrepeatable processes. Where can you find quality papers to read?

Because you can't take the social away out of social media.

https://layoffs.fyi about as granular as it's going to get unfortunately and that is overly broad, but we can at least see it's been happening for mid 2022-2023 so far and it's not just me.

Entirely possible, I have been trying to find what the middle ground is. I have trouble believing my whole career is suddenly over because of a few short term stints during this pandemic.

Edit: https://layoffs.fyi shows 2023 has been fairly rough as well as late 2022 for confirmation. My troubles started around early 2020 so something to consider. 5 years or so of steady employment and gainful experience before that.

My employment history has been a mess of 6 month gigs since the start of the pandemic. I'd say it was just me due to additional circumstances but I did a poll of my LI network to see if anyone else was feeling it, most everyone said they were. Surprised some on HN aren't but these are additional data points to consider.

My current plan is to live with my parents as long as I need to to at least get out of debt, hopefully that doesn't take more than a year but yes you're not wrong. Of course that raises another question of who is going to accept a 70 year old cloud admin/devops engineer/whatever-it-is-in-40-years on their team when the time comes but hey, you never know.

$180k -> $100k -> ??. Not FAANG level salary from the outset, not going to be able to reach a comfortable retirement at this rate while retaining my financial independence.

It got pretty bad at the height of the pandemic in 2021-2022 or so with job switches every something like 6 months due to mental health issues and the pandemic causing the instability that it has. My employment history was stable before the pandemic happened, HM's and recruiters should be able to understand the context of the pandemic at a minimum (most don't).

Did. Did multiple interviews per weeek. Not these days.

Learning TypeScript, Pulumi, and Argo Rollouts and such and reading every scifi book I can get my hands on while waiting. Moved back in with the parents so going homeless isn't an issue it's just extremely embarrassing given I had 10 years of career and financial independence before this. Ugh.