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Agreed, I like IntelliJ. I said since I never know if a Java shop will make me use eclipse again, I tend to shy away from java. Of course I do have a price, if we're doing 200k up I'll put up with Eclipse

I nothing but great things to say about Flutter, with Firebase( web hosting and NoSQL like DB) you can deploy prototypes extremely fast.

I'd have no problem paying 1500$ for this. As many of us age , EInk feels much better to read.

I like C# simply due to the tooling. I legit left a job since they made me use Eclipse with Java.

Love it !

Whenever I have to demo an application which uses video, Blender's movies work well since it's free to use!

Given I was going out and meeting tons of people, had 2 partners in 2019 , I guess I'd have a few partners in 2020.

That and I love traveling. Considering I actually increase my income during Corona, I can't really complain all that much. Maybe I didn't have as much fun as I wanted to but my livelihood has been secure.

I'm not exactly sure on how to install this thing, what I just dropped the binary into my path?

Good job Apple, I really do love the idea of deprecating the old x64 architecture entirely.

It's as if we have decades of legacy code wasting billions of dollars of power per year. I strongly believe within the next decade the vast majority of computers, new computers consumers buy anyway, will run on arm( or whatever replaces it). This will also be amazing for servers, imagine a data center that can run off 30% of the power of an Intel based data center.

I really do love my m1 Mac Mini, I only use it for music but so far I've been nothing but amazed by it.

How are we defining programming. As far as I'm concerned if I can create a small game using Unity, even if I don't really understand what's going on, that is programming.

If an intern writes a small Python script to format CSV contacts, that's programming. Programming can be completely visual as well, such as Unreal blueprints. I don't suggest going that route because it doesn't open up many career opportunities, but it still is programming.

Personally I've never been able to use a lower level language to get anything done. And I still have a fantastic career.

Anyway you can create a package for us non-rust people. I'd probably install this on Ubuntu if you had a Deb file for me to use

>I'd recommend every serious programmer to write their own OS.

Um, I do extremely well working exclusively with higher level languages like Python and JavaScript. If we're talking about pure salary, a senior web dev will probably make more than the vast majority of embedded engineers.

I'm totally nitpicking here, but I don't like the gatekeeping of saying you need to be able to use a low level language to be a programmer

As far as I can tell this has been skyrocketing among the general population as well.

I fully blame social media, no where else have I been so relentlessly attacked. I improved my own mental health tremendously by deleting this crap, no Tinder, Snapchat, Insta, etc. In fact I have an easier time making friends and meeting partners now.

Here's an experiment. After work, leave your phone at home and walk around for at least an hour. Give your brain a break from constant NOTIFICATION stimulation!

That you shouldn't really care what other people think about you. Millions suffer needlessly under the imaginary weight of others expectations. Some even end up going completely insane or dying, due to this.

Live your life the way you see fit, and of other people have a problem with it that's their business

Sorry, it doesn't really appear to work. I tested one of the English bots, and nothing happened when I sent in text.

This already exist.

https://www.snagajob.com/ I imagine it depends on your situation.

If I was 19 I'd love it. I'd hate living like this with a family to support

Same reason contracts pay more than salary.

If someone can Doordash, etc, and make more( while arguably dealing with less stress) they'll rationally do that.

Or since this is HN, can you automate some of these tasks ?

Would it make more sense to have hyper flexible hours.

Say you pay 25$ an hour, but it's only 8 hours a week during peak ?

I think with the gig economy young people are used to only working when they want.

This can happen if you just don't read the room right.

Although getting fired for something like this implies you are already on thin ice, and you basically pushed your luck.

All respect to the op though, these companies aren't your friends, and the very second you have a better opportunity you need to take it. By far the best experiences of my early adulthood was getting fired, I learned at a young age to not feel any loyalty to these companies. They don't care if your wife, or your kids are sick. They don't care if you need HealthCare coverage to keep living, they only care about the bottom line

Take care of yourself, and save your money.

LA is uniquely messed up since you need a car as well as paying NYC rent.

Cars add an extra 300$ to 700$ a month . Most people just can't afford it so they live very precarious lives.

Not a single mention of Unity. I'd presume a significant percentage of VS installs are for Unity devs

Brought some hats from a friend. It's important to support your friends if their trying to build.

Second eviction by far.

LA is a horrible place to live , had I been 19 today I'd end up on the streets since housing is so much more expensive now. Stop thinking about what "society" will do to solve homelessness. Garcetti has no real ability, nor will , to fix LA. Leave while you still can. I had to estrange myself from my family , but hell. I went from 25k in credit card debt to 40k saved up. When I moved to Chicago my cost of living dropped by 30% , I had an amazing partner and for the first time in a good while felt hope. I can't express enough how horrible LA is.

Leave now !

Find what you want to build first, then ask again on how to build it best.

Pick an easier language , I suggest Python or Javascript.

No, did order some hats though.

Great article, I don't have a source off hand but I think a major reason most housing in La is so hard to build it's just due to minimum parking requirements. Cars are the absolute worst thing to happen to the middle class, at best you're going to be spending $300 a month on that, at worst you might spend a thousand. Most people probably spend about 500 bucks a month, just to drive. If you're only making $2,000 a month, that's an extra $400 over a $100 bus pass. Plus you have numerous other social cost. You can't get a DUI if you don't have a car and you don't drive, you can't get parking tickets without a car. One of my key methods for getting out of debt has been going car free. America might be too far gone here though, so many are trapped in an extremely nasty pit of needing to borrow money to buy a car, and then coming up short on other bills. Chicago is outstanding in offering both affordable housing and great public transit.

You could probably give a 23 year old a degree from a top school, without him or her actually attending it and still massively improve their life.

If you come from a lower income background such as myself college is needed since you need to surround yourself with better people.

>I would honestly consider the alternatives. I'd probably take it in the end because money is good, but I'd try to flirt with manual work instead, if Java was my only option.

Eh. 150k working on Java enterprise systems vs working at Costco for 15$ an hour. Java isn't great, but it's still much easier than C or C++ imo.

In a perfect world we could all work in Python all day, but that's not life

Yeah, Static typing. In C# I swear this the only reason I can get anything done( Visual Studio's auto complete is nice).

Most people basically work to eat, I've taken Java jobs just because I needed the work. It can always be worse.

>When I want to try a new Java feature and think about writing the scaffolding code, my stomach actually hurts.

Like, if you're out of work for a couple of months and the only way to feed your kids is to take a Java job, I don't think you'd pass it up. I wouldn't pass it up either even though I don't like Java. The whole language feels like it's designed to meet some minimum lines of code requirement.

If you're working on a team, strongly typed languages like Java and C sharp are a must. Otherwise it can get extremely hard to figure out what exactly other people are doing.

You know we got rid of a few of those aircraft carriers we could probably eliminate childhood poverty within 5 years or so. If you really think about it it's far easier to sow seeds of discontent in a population with so many poor. The sheer numbers of American poor, and those who feel abandoned is a security risk. They can be easily manipulated to destabilize the country.

And when I think about it I don't think America has an obligation to take care of every other country on Earth.