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> Doesn't this just open every job up to insane amounts of competition with the lowest price of living areas in the country

Remote jobs will have a much bigger pool of applicants to choose from, but likewise applicants will have a much bigger jobs to choose from too. So the two should cancel each other out.

Is this an eons-long form of "it was better in the old days"? Just look at primates and other wild animals today to see brutal violence.

> I programmed server-side web forms in ASP.NET and JSP for years before switching to SPAs and React.

I don't think that comparison makes sense? ASP.NET and JSP are server side languages while React is client side.

Backend devs do this as well. You could just as easily start a thread called "Why use MicroServices/Serverless/Kubernetes/NoSQL etc.". Just like SPAs, those things all have a time and a place but unfortunately devs often push for them to be used in order to practice resume-driven-development and so they can play with the shiny new toy that everybody is talking about.

Personally I think SPAs have a time and a place - highly interactive web apps like google docs, facebook, slack etc. should definitely be SPAs. But using React to create a blog site is just ridiculous. Indiehackers.com is a perfect example of a site which would be so much better if it was a plain old statically rendered site. I remember a podcast where the founder of indiehackers said that he used React to build the site because he wasn't happy that the indiehackers business is not technical enough - so using react was a way making it more "techy" even though it actually makes the site worse (he didn't admit that part though). And thats fine for him as he is a solo-entrepreneur, but when developers working on teams take on that mentality it be extremely frustrating for the developers who would rather produce value than produce overly-complicated solutions in order to gain bragging rights.

Scrum.

Sorry I'm going to be contrarian here but if "people can't afford kids", then why is it well established that poorer people have more kids while richer have fewer? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility).

Answering my own question.. I think the reason people are having fewer kids is more to do with urbanisation and all the social and cultural changes that come with that.

Financial independence comes down to simply earning as much money as you can while spending as little as possible.

As to how to earn the most money you can, I think that depends a lot on your personal circumstances. But if freelancing hasn't worked out for you then I guess the other options are to get a permanent job or to start your own business. Its impossible for me to say which one is the best option for you though.

I am a developer with a CS degree and think you hit the nail on the head with that observation. There are also plenty of other things developers have to know about now that you didn't have to 20 years ago - security, privacy concerns over data, devops etc.

It's very lazy thinking to resort to a "kids these days" mentality of modern software development.

No, bullying is just a US (and UK) thing. Everything in the US and UK is bad. Everything in Europe is good. We don't have bullying, or smart phone addiction, or family breakdown, or populist leaders, or racial tensions or drug and alcohol problems. We all live harmoniously in Europe, you guys (Americans) can learn a lot from us. </sarcasticcomment>

No, I have not ever seen it work well. I was so frustrated by its prevalence in the industry that it was one of the main reasons why I decided to leave software development and work in cyber security / penetration testing instead.

I have since returned to software dev because the fact is I love coding and development but I try to minimise the time I spend working for companies by only working short term contracts while working on side projects inbetween jobs. If one of my side projects becomes successful and I end up hiring developers then there is no way in hell I will be forcing the horrorshow that is Scrum on them. Yes, yes I know "thats not real Scrum", but that doesn't change the day to day reality of working in teams that follow Scrum, or "Scrum".

"for me" is the key part of the sentence you quoted. If he had said "for everyone" then yes that would have been survivorship bias, but he did not.

Though if you are trying to point out the fact that we might get a skew towards success stories in this thread because those who actually made a success of the dot com crash are more likely to post about it then those who failed then I would probably agree with you.

I think this might be what you're looking for?

https://www.browserless.io/

Is using the word "pussies" trying hard to offend? It seems like a pretty legitimate post, I know many people that think like this guy, only most of them don't read hacker news..

You forgot to add "Well actually" at the start of your sentence.

Call me a pussy but your new job sounds a hell of a lot worse than most software Dev jobs to me. Each his own I suppose.

But when do you find time to meditate?

Just wondering, what don't you like about rails?

The pearl-clutching is strong in this post.

I think you are taking my post far too "literally" (can't think of a better term sorry). I can't blame you though, the internet does not really convey the implicit nuance that I intended with this post.

Yes you are right, my point was more to respond to the increasing culture of "sleep obsession" these days which I think is more often than not resulting in even worse sleep due to the anxiety it causes.

If you want to buy a weighted blanket, go buy a weighted blanket. But these products don't exist in isolation - they are part of a broader trend which is what I'm criticising.

Weird this is getting downvoted. Its true for my own experience - my life is much better since I've stopped with all the sleep gadgets and panicking when I get less than 8 hours sleep in a night.

Its also a view backed up by professionals: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/17/why-sle...

And there are books written on this too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456492543/

The best thing you can do for sleep is to stop worrying about it so much. Ditch the weighted blankets, the sleep trackers, the obsessively strict sleep hygiene routine, the meditation, the mindfulness, the blue light glasses etc.

It depends what industry you're in. If you go to work for a boring corporation that doesn't do anything interesting then you will find it boring and unfulfilling. Or you can work for a company that has some kind of ethical mission and you'll probably find that better. Its the same as any job really.

I agree with most of what she says about being a software dev, expect, for the long hours - how many companies has she worked in? I have worked in 7 companies over the last few years (mostly as a contractor though a few were permanent) and in not one of them had employees working more than 40 hours a week.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic but you sound exactly like the religious people we're talking about. And your response still doesn't answer the question - at what point does Agile stop being Agile?

Are you saying that any team that "ships products earlier, more often, and with more direct feedback" is following Agile? If thats all that Agile is then why do we need whole books on Agile, coaches, training seminars etc. if it can be summed up in one short sentence?

EDIT: Your definitions is also a tautology - nobody is going to argue that you should ship products late and with little feedback from customers.

Its true the examples I gave are probably a bit exaggerated but I think the general point still stands. I think you have even demonstrated that contradiction yourself although in a much more eloquent way?

If Agile lets you inspect and adapt freely, then at what point does Agile does stop being Agile?

Another way in which agile is like religion: its evangelists always have a jargon-loaded answer to every possible criticism of it.

They really remind me of being a kid in Sunday school and asking the teacher questions like "but if god created all of us, who created god?" or "what if somebody was born and raised in the middle of the amazon and never even heard of Christianity - will he go to hell?". There was always some bizarre logic-twisting response to those questions which didn't really answer them but was enough to try and shut you up.

Similarly, if you say "Agile doesn't work because X" - they will say "thats not REAL Agile...". But if you say "Agile is dogmatic" they will say "Agile lets you do what you want, its not a dogmatic rule based approach".

So there is simultaneously one "real" way of doing Agile and also no real way because it is not dogmatic.

Risk free, until you buy drugs from "undercover" police who arrest you the second you pick up that soda can in the woods!

But for the dealer, it can be quite close to Risk free if they are careful enough.

It doesn't, some people just like to get offended by things.

Its funny to see how liberal Americans (I'm might be wrong but I assume you would call yourself that?) seem to have adopted a kind of reverse-patriotism where everything non-american is always better and foreign countries are looked upon with rose-tinted views.

I am from central Europe, but have travelled in America and have family over there too, I can tell you that women being attracted to loud, boorish, extroverts its not at all specific to white Americans. This is pretty much a universal human trait.

Its also interesting that you say that immigrants in America are not like that at all? Because in my experience, at least in the black and hispanic communities - they have far more of a macho culture than most white Americans do.

So I guess you want immigrants but not Chinese immigrants then? Otherwise they would bring their cruel culture to America?