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Also - he's a software engineer - one of the best paid careers at the moment (and in the US). I also work in IT (not in the US) and get paid 5x times what my former highschool colleagues make. But I don't rub salt in their wounds that I am able to save 60-70% of my income.

I thought you were exaggerating but this guy is the closest thing to what people call "shill" that I have ever seen on HN.

There is still a LOT of value that people can bring to the table. Instead of paying everyone for nothing, why not pay them for creating value (volunteer in various projects, local agriculture, studying, etc)

And what you are proposing for your friend, after all these years of struggle for a better tomorrow - is to make the same amount of money as he did as a welder?

There are 2 sides to this. And the positive side of having something to work towards is usually not mentioned.

I can give you an example from Europe, in a country which is homogeneous ethnically. We all went to the same public schools and we had the same opportunities. At 30 - some of us make more than 10 times than others. There is no system of oppression which caused this. It was simply the market which has imposed this difference. And the market is at an equilibrium - because the people who earn higher wages, pay a LOT of money for healthcare, the social pension system and other social security things. If the gov would increase this further in order to close the "gap" between high earners and the have-nots/less, the high earners would just leave the country (they already do this to a degree).

Why not let the market decide? This is not about privilege and oppression and I am surprised that over the pond people have not learned from Europe's history.

There is also the side that by having a system in place that rewards effort - people strive for more everyday and this leads to prosperity. This country has been under communism and during those times no one was struggling for anything, because they were paid just the same.

Sorry but I disagree. Limit reading and limit learning grammar/spelling?

I use a 2017 Thinkpad at work... The screen is worse than my MBP, the touchpad is crap, it crashes once a month or so. I could have used it as a replacement for my rMBP 15 2012, but I got a 2017 13" nTB MBP for home use and side projects. And I love it - except the keyboard which is a downgrade... The TouchBar is retarded.

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I've seen lots of pros who prefer Final Cut Pro and Sketch

> But those questions remained safely in the realm of the HN servers as some binary pattern in a Hard disk platter. They didn't get out it the real world.

If no one would bother to read them sure. But I fail to see how the fact that information is stored in a 'binary pattern in a hard disk platter' makes it less relevant than it being stored on a slice of fallen tree... Especially in our day and age I would argue for the opposite, the virtual medium has become more important - because more people are using it to get their information.

It can be interpreted either way "Bringing the demise of irrational practices such as religion"

Is it because of the age though? Or because of the cost/value ratio?

A senior dev might ask for a higher salary and the increased productivity (due to experience) might not be required for that role.

If it made sense from a financial pov - I'm sure there wouldn't be an issue...

puts tinfoil hat on There's an avalanche of articles from the news corp lately regarding Facebook. Is this a battle of the titans? puts tinfoil hat down

I'll stop using both reddit. HN is much better anyway. I'll be waiting for the new wave of migration, as it was the case from digg to reddit initially.

You can even deploy your own code, or others directly through Xcode...

There are blunders - but the difference is that there is a lot of scrutiny on iOS and macOS compared to other more niche options. But I guess security through obscurity is not too bad. Apple did benefit from it for many years.

Even themselves. Might makes right?

Well by getting the human race closer to colonizing other rocks floating in space, it kinda offsets SpaceX burning hundreds of tons of kerosene for each rocket.

My main gripe with it - are the closed questions. I think half the time I end up on SO - the questions is unanswered and closed. Delete the thread at least, why waste time of people searching for an answer to get frustrated by your over-zealous mods. Damn I hate when that happens. There were instances where the closed-unanswered question was the only place in the entire www where this was asked... :/

overhyped? why?

I'd take toxicity over censorship any day. The media machine & politicians have been going at it recently.

I wonder when being toxic will become illegal.

Wow... instead of debating the pertinent points raised, you resort to name-calling.

And is that an argument not to plan at all? Of course you can't pinpoint an exact figure, but it still pays off to plan even on a ballpark figure.

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It seems you might be rationalizing your lower-income a bit. Let me try to explain why. I agree about the work-life balance, but at 30 you're in the best shape you'll ever be: physically & mentally. In my opinion there is some sense in sacrificing a bit of the present in order to make the future more palatable. Especially at the age of 30. A bit of extra effort at this age can save a lot of trouble down the road. Granted you can take this to the extreme and be like your brother. But I've seen so many miserable people in their 50s at my workplace, living paycheck to paycheck, buy all kinds of useless trinkets and always talking about their next 'adventure' - a holiday to some expensive resort on the other side of the globe or something. I don't want to live like that at 50. I am willing to sacrifice some of my present time & enjoyment to avoid that.

thanks for this! I had trouble going through some programming courses, and going in parallel with the teacher. But I never made the connection - to just watch it first and try to reproduce it on my own after. Simple and brilliant advice!

Thank you so much for this site! What a gold mine.

just use NodeJS or Go

I think an adult extracts joy from other sources, which kids (or undeveloped adults) can't appreciate yet. The kid shakes the sign because for him it's a novelty, a new experience. He is curious about the world and discovers it through little 'experiments'.

But adults do the same, they learn new things, they have hobbies, visit new places, try out new foods, learn new languages, work on personal projects...

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