At a small company, I found a bug in the sales system that was giving away $10k per month by miscalculating customer's tax. CEO of the company essentially pretended that he couldn't hear anything when he was told.
Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, typing information does very little for me but hand-written notes vastly improve my ability to retain information.
The world is not a right place. It never has been and never will be. We won't "science" or vote our way out of human nature. There are cycles of bad times and somewhat better times.
Productivity increased exponentially for many years in line with technological advances. We were supposed to have flying cars and personal robots by now. The least they can do is allow us to reap our meager earnings from our own hovels.
Don't pretend those people are getting work done in the office. The fact is a few of us do the lion's share of the work while most employees, wfh or in the office, are dragging ass.
Until recently I loved my Epson Eco Tank. I discovered that the Epson printers all have an internal page counter that bricks the printer once it reaches a limit, requiring service by Epson. There's a "waste ink pad" that is supposed to be replaced, which is simple. But the manufacturer is required to input a special code to reset the printer once the pad is replaced. It's a forced obsolescence scam, essentially. There are some ways around it - questionable software by third parties that charge around 10 bucks for a code to reset the printer. I haven't decided what to do yet but I damn well am not paying anyone to unbrick my otherwise completely functional printer.
I just traded the distractions of the office for the distractions of home. I prefer garbage trucks to the distress of morbidly obese co-worker without a gallbladder who insists on eating an entire greasy pizza at the workstation next to me and then farting and lumbering to the bathroom a dozen times. Repeat daily for a year.
If I need concurrency these days, I just write it in Golang. My primary use for Python was one off scripts for cloud management / automation tasks. Today I write maybe 70% Golang and 30% Python.
I'm in the same boat as you, thanks for asking the question in this manner because I don't even know how to describe the pickle I'm in. I know I have a lot to offer but I rarely fit a typical job description and my skills are all over the place.
GZDoom. I know that Doom is an old game, but the GZDoom sourceport has enabled all kinds of cool and crazy mods. Doom is no longer a game but a platform. Because of the mostly 2D nature of the engine, creating maps is so easy that anyone can do it. I think it's extremely fun and accessible.
I don't agree because current graduates aren't necessarily well-versed in theory and practice. In fact I've worked with CS graduates that don't understand theory at all and follow the worst conceivable practice. Of course CS education isn't standardized and I'm not talk about Stanford grads here. But I have a hard time believing that simply erecting barriers that require education will improve the situation when a lot of educated people still have no idea what they're doing.
I have years-old Go code that just keeps running. PHP is very stable. I've found Python to be a PITA sometimes. Javascript rots faster than anything else I've encountered.
I've worked with plenty of educated developers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. One of our local universities has a shockingly bad program that's reproducing their own unique little brand of terrible bullshit. I've spent half my career fixing the messes they leave behind at various companies in the area.
Wrong, there are some excellent books that can teach drawing skills very well. I'm a trained studio artist and I've found great value from books. I recommend Bridgman's "Constructive Anatomy". Go through the book and copy every drawing. You WILL improve. Even after years of practice, I was able to take my drawing to the next level. There are lots of other great books out there. Drawing isn't rocket science.
Discoverability for the kind of content I want to see is completely broken. I can barely find anything on the web anymore. Google gives me Reddit, Facebook and a million crappy review sites.
I've found some great use cases for serverless. None of those have involved hosting a backend for a website / web application. It's been a useful solution for automating some cloud management tasks though.
I understand the claim. I know my experience is anecdotal but I think it's common enough that many people can relate. I don't really need empirical evidence for this one.
I also think it's common sense that companies go out of business when there's no repeat buyers because their products last a lifetime.