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Yes, I'd like to know what components it degrades into. Microplastics might look better, but they enter into the ecosystem very easily.

The Voodoo was, very literally, a game-changer. The difference in quality between Quake and GLQuake was astounding.

Just a few seconds of gameplay was enough to get someone to make the purchase.

I wouldn't stop doing development work, especially if you enjoy it.

Doing the other roles is a way to learn about some business. By doing them you'll have a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes, and will interact better with those roles.

Do you think your scrum master is done after the stand up? Oh no, there's a lot more to do.

Learn about business.

Ultimately, the job of a developer is to write code which achieves a business goal. If you have a better understanding of those goals, and can anticipate them, you become more valuable to the people writing the checks.

Hundreds, thousands even.

They don't show up on HN, they aren't doing anything glamorous or cutting edge. Just small to mid-size businesses building and selling products that people use.

If you haven't found any, it's because you haven't looked in the right places.

I used Enthought before switching to Anaconda. I don't remember exactly what got me to try it, but I found the experience a lot better.

Maybe the Windows support? I'm not sure. It's been a couple of years.

I hadn't even thought about Enthought until I saw your comment.

I'm paid exactly the same as everyone else. No more, no less.

This. Check out my username, this is what I do, and I've been doing it for far longer than a decade.

The mid-range jobs have always been vanishing. Many times, I'm the guy automating them out of existence. It's always replaced by something else.

It depends on the circumstances, of course, but there is often more work after the automation than before. It's just different work. It requires reskilling.

The article mentions some new product AWS is coming out with. No matter how "simple" it makes things, someone is going to end up being an expert at using it, and will probably be paid well to do so.

Really, the toughest and most crucial part of this career has been keeping up. The work stays steady, though.

I agree, the protocol looks pretty neat. I wonder what the hold up is on Linux support. I love me some FreeBSD, but Linux is better supported.

The note-taking app seems more like a proof of concept than any kind of category-killer, though.

I'll be keeping an eye on that protocol, though.

I've had a lot of success with having Github projects to answer that question. "Look for yourself" is a great comeback.

It doesn't even have to be original, or particularly useful. Just something that shows that you understand what modern development is about: neat code, good docs, unit tests, regular commits. Use modern libraries and idioms.

Heck, I don't think anyplace has even tried the code.

Hm. Yea, the content for the main page is requested and loaded, but none of the supporting content (CSS, images, etc.) is requested.

Copying the URL into another tab loaded the whole thing.

I don't really have time to dig into it further...

Pretty safe bet, since that's what the article says.

- QGIS, for quick sandboxing and ad hoc visualization - PostGIS, for the actual parcel/zone computations - ogr2ogr, for inserting Shapefile data into PostGIS

I agree with their assertion that hourly employees "prefer the predictability and immediacy of cash to RSUs."

$15/hr still isn't much. $30K year. Sure, it would be nice to get a fat payday down the road. People living on low wages have much more immediate needs.

Why wait for a (maybe) payout, if you can't feed your kids today?

I will upvote just about any project that uses the phrase "you don’t even have to build the compiler anymore."

I just started getting into FPGAa and Verilog, so I appreciate these kinds of writeups.

Thank you.

Yea, I saw a few in there that I didn't think required anything special. Maybe it's a hangover from the last recession when employers could be choosy like that.

A lot of the others fell along the same category. No, you don't need a degree to be a developer, and you never did. But now you can get a job because employers have no choice but to acknowledge that fact.

Overall, it's a good thing, but it shouldn't have taken this much pressure for it to happen.

I tend to agree. He's been fantastic at getting the impossible to happen, but he's not as good at just running things.

There was a bit in time when he offered to help Flint, MI with their water. It turns out they don't need the help.

However, if he were to turn his fantastic energy towards helping under-served communities, I think he'd find that there's plenty to do, and very satisfying.

This is a complete mis-match for my use case.

I have cats.

It doesn't say "well planned".

People posting alternative solutions probably haven't watched a dog run through a forest. One of my favorite parts of camping is taking a short hike, while the dogs take a long run all around me (BC and a Britney).

Dogs will run through gaps drones couldn't dream of, and go through underbrush where a drone simply couldn't go. They can carry a much larger payload, longer. The distribution pattern will probably be more random, which is appropriate for a natural environment.

Versus human power? I know some people who could probably knock out 30km in a day, over very rough terrain, at altitude. Only one or two, though. I doubt they could do it every day, or even a few times a week.

It would be hard to scale, though. While I think I might enjoy attempting to teach hundreds of BCs to go on a hike with me, I'm not sure it's practical.

I've been through a few of these, and I disagree with everyone else. It's a game. At least, it's a lot healthier to think of it as a game.

Life is full of ups and downs, some of them economic. Yes, this is just another one. Don't despair, things get better. Value your family and friends, and everything will be okay.

Here's one that may have been mentioned, but wow, there are a lot of comments.

Founders: get over yourselves. I understand that you have to have a lot of faith in yourself to do what you're doing.

At the very least, try to have some humility, and maybe understand that what you're doing may not be world-changing after all.

How many good employees were passed over just because they didn't appreciate your "vision"? Furthermore, why should anyone care?

I like this. I'd be more open to lower compensation if it meant that I would have opportunities to open my own shop.

It isn't being asked to brew coffee, though, so it's a mis-use of the spec.

You've to appeal to their spreadsheets. Generally, lower costs.

If Oracle is well-established, it's going to be tough. It isn't just the cost of Oracle and doing business with them, it's the cost of all the work associated with making the transition. Code-rewrites, retraining ops, and so on.

If there's an opportunity for a greenfield, small project that would benefit from having a distributed backend then try that. Be prepared to show that it's not just low-cost, but it is easier to implement.

Oh. I was going with "Dirty Rotten Imbecile", from my youthful punk days.

I can think of some cases where it would still fit. You seem okay, though ;)

Ah yes, the old "I have a great idea, and if you do all the work, I'll be rich!" pitch.

Hm. Yea. How about you just pay me?

The intent seems to be "how to get a job in this area", not a comprehensive map of everything out there.

It's pretty messy, as it is.

> because reading was not a common accomplishment

This isn't true, not even in his lifetime. In 1870, the illiteracy rate among whites was 11%. It dropped even lower after that. 89% seems pretty "common" to me.

Blacks were much higher, but slavery had only just ended. That group hit 11% about 1947.

https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/lit_history.asp

Another "me too!" for MobaXterm. Sessions in tabs, easy file transfer, built-in and automatic X forwarding.

I like PuTTY, and have used it a lot, but MobaXterm has been great.

Exactly. I've worked for a couple of charities at a discount, because I was working with people who wanted to help others, and it showed. Nobody was raking in the big bucks.

If I was offered a position somewhere that actively took "hits" for their customers and/or employees, I might stick around. As it is, everyone above me is looking for a payday, and paying me less makes theirs better.