tastyham

Find a counselor to talk with about this. Ask your doctor for recommendations if you don't know who to talk with.

Human lifespan hasn't increased very much. Life expectancy at birth has increased significantly due to reductions in childhood disease and accidental death, but life expectancy at 50 and 60 have barely moved over the last 100 years. People have a much higher chance of making it to old age, but all the issues you cited will still hit them once they get there.

Sweet, I've always wished my worms would live longer!

Requiring registration screws over small time producers.

Sounds like there is a miscommunication about what your role is and possibly what each of you mean by "devops".

I made about $75k when my last company IPOed. I had worked there for 2 years before and had a relatively junior salary and not many options. I had a range of options at different strike prices, they averaged out to about 100% gain, but some were more and some were less.

People who had been there long had both lower option prices and more options and made quite a bit.

> arcane in-house proprietary stuff

Just like any other successful company that does something interesting and has been around more than a couple of years.

My experience hiring lots of engineers is that people with comp-sci or other stem degrees are on average much more successful at software engineering. Yes, there are great self-taught and code-schooled engineers, but on average they are less successful. Plus even the great ones seem to get started later with their careers instead of getting hired straight out of college like comp-sci majors.

I imagine it will also be difficult to network and build relationships in the industry without attending a 4 year school unless you are very outgoing. Who you know is often more important than what you know.

My take is that WHAT you do and WHERE you do it are much less important than WHO you do it with. Building strong family, friend, and romantic relationships is all that matters.

Nothing in your example is being "leveraged". "Use" is the word you're looking for.

Quantum Computing

My advice to 25 year old me would be to spend more time on relationships: romantic, friends, and professional, and less time on other BS.

Some thoughts:

1. Talk to a therapist about your stress/anxiety issues. This can totally kill an interview even if you're qualified, and is probably a bigger issue than your perceived lack of skill. Xanax or other anxiety drugs can help a ton for interview days, but talk to a therapist first.

2. Keep trying. It can take a surprisingly long time to land your first job.

Wool

Because low cost smart phones is not their market.

I love some foreign authors like Murakami, but I always wonder what I'm losing in the translation and how much is the translator impacting the writing.

I worked for a moderately successful startup that got acquired and I had both options and grants. All vested options and existing shares were paid out as cash. Unvested options and grants were then paid out as a cash bonus on the vest dates if you were still working there.

Options were valued at sale price - exercise price. I had grants at different prices, but on average the cash value was about double the original grant values. I had been working there about 3 years. Also got a two year retention bonus worth 60% of my salary at the time of acquisition. Didn't make me rich, but it was a nice chunk of change. People who had been there longer had lower grant prices and made a LOT or money.

There isn't really anything you can do besides exercise early to try to get long term cap gains, but that's more risky than it's worth IMO, because the shares could end up valueless and you're screwed.

If there is one thing I've learned, it's this. It goes past money too, the same applies for open source software libraries, language choice, and even "design patterns" that developers use.

Also applies to people. Your hireability and salary are both mostly related to how well you market yourself. Marketing is everything.

Keeping cash is a bet on inflation staying low, which is a very, very bad bet historically.

Denver area.

10-15 years experience coding, ~3 years experience in leadership/management. Currently in webdev, spend 50/50 time coding vs management work.

$165k base, ~$190-210 total comp depending on year. Work 35-40 hours a week.

Mostly feel that I got here by being in the right place at the right time (luck), and being able to evaluate opportunities and accept a little risk chasing promising, but uncertain companies/positions when they become available. Also learned the importance of self-marketing and how to make yourself valuable.

It was a stupid idea, although remnants can be seen in html5 with elements like address and , nav, and section.

Turns out that keeping presentation and data separate is much, much easier. Hopefully HTML 6 will get rid of everything except for div, span, and form elements.

Shit, they were my go-to page for signing into hotel WiFi. Where can I go to now?

Start-ups suck. I guess they're ok if you're really motivated, and I spent some time doing that, but I much prefer easy corporate 9-5.

Sure I'm not changing the world, but I get paid a fat paycheck and get plenty of time off to use it.

Startups expect you to buy into whatever promise they're selling, while corporate knows you're there for the paycheck and that you'll leave if they piss you off, so they generally treat you much better.

I've hired so many people burned out from startups and looking to take it easier. It can be good experience, but it's easy to get burned out after even a couple of years.

Say you took a sabbatical? Lots of people take sabbaticals. I'm surprised anyone has cared. I'd maybe explicitly put "sabbatical" on your resume so people know it was on purpose rather than that time being due to being unwillingly unemployed.

There was a big project call Diaspora to do exactly this several years ago and it fell apart.

I usually start by reading either the docs (if they are good quality) or a book (if the official docs aren't great) and then I code something trivial after that.

If I'm using it for work I will likely be reading and trying to understand co-workers pull requests, and then progressively more complicated PRs of my own.

Python has at least 4 ways to define a function: you can have a plain function, a bound instance method, a bound class method, and a lambda, which is similar to the same options js has.

Python's type handling is much better, but that can be mostly avoided in JS by understanding and avoiding the cases where js typing sucks.

Other than Python's superior type handling and standard library they seem like very similar languages to me.

What is "PL"?

I find it kinda funny that you compare to Python as the way you want webdev to be, since Python and JS are very similar in my mind, aside from minor syntax differences and JS keeping more warts from it's early days, they are very similar environments.

I like Python and have been doing some Tensorflow recently, and one thing I've definitely noticed is that Python docs really suck compared to mdn JS docs.

The biggest problem with JS on the other hand, is it's lack of a decent standard library so you have to use a lot more 3rd party libs, and setting up a modern babel/webpack/linter/test tool chain is a pain in the ass with so many different options to choose from.

I keep reading online about how remote teams are so great, but in real life they are tough as fuck and require 5x the discipline and communication skills of in-person teams.

Luck