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Well not every job is well suited for remote work. As a developer, you know if they're not cranking out code. You miss sprint goals. Sprint demoes are a disaster. You don't see commits. When QA or design work from home, it's not as easy to tell whether or not they're actually working. That's been my experience at least.

That said, I think it was a poor choice to abolish the WFH policy.

This would make me anxious. I remember reading about someone who learned from 23andMe that they had a terminal disease or something like that, and it drastically altered their life. I'd rather just live in ignorance.

I don't think it's meant to be a 100% replacement of walking. Personally I think of it as a toy.

25 and giving life lessons eh? That's hilarious.

I'm sad for my friends at Twitter but, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

Is this Reddit trying to take itself more seriously? It's almost like a mask layer to obfuscate the hive mind. I'm curious how the content is created, how something is featured, etc.

That's silly.

I work on a multitude of apps that have huge customer bases. Obviously no where near Facebook but, definitely a couple million users. The largest app has maybe 200K lines of code? And we are always able to find sections of the app to refactor or find dead code to cut.

That's a pretty small app. Sure, it's ready for smaller apps but, things aren't so great on larger scale apps.

Why shouldn't they at least be capable of making that much? I'm not saying all, but some, sure, why not?

Friend of mine leads a team that has a 30 million dollar contract with a government client. It's a team of 5 or 6 I believe. He's paid I think about 110K a year. Personally, I wouldn't be okay with that.

Also, sales staff make commission on all their sales. They're paid based on how much business they bring in. I believe that as engineers retain business and help businesses grow and make more, they should be compensated accordingly.

Uh, I wouldn't say salaries are inflated right now at all. As the other commenter said, doctors and lawyers still grossly outpace software engineers. For whatever reason, I've noticed engineer pay plateaus around 120-150K, which is odd to me. If you have a lead engineer who's building the product that is bringing in millions of dollars of revenue and funding, you should pay them accordingly.

Also even if you were right, it's not just the tech industry that relies on low rates. Anyone who needs capital, which is everyone, relies on low interest rates.

I'll wait for black Friday.

Obviously people still buy them, otherwise they wouldn't continue to sell them.

Not familiar with djbdns. Looks like it could improve my speeds in theory. I'll look into it. Thanks!

Hm, interesting. The HN thread doesn't seem to propose many solutions. Is this something a new modem would fix? Time Warner gave me a (very large and unattractive) modem. I have an old-ish Apple wireless router plugged into it.

Brand new 5K iMac with maxed out specs so, I don't think it's my machine. Happens on all our machines unfortunately. :-(

I'm still of the opinion that you should drop a good amount on your keyboard. It's your hands/wrists. You only get two of them. Once they go, you can kiss your software development career goodbye. The initial sticker price will suck but, if anything you can maybe write it off, assuming it's for work.

I'm kind of a stickler about this because my wrists were in pain for a solid 2 years. Sucked so much.

If you use it all day and all night, it's worth the cost.

I use a Kinesis Advantage. I have two of them actually, one for home use, and the other as at the office. I honestly would not have a job without them. I destroyed my wrists on that crappy Apple keyboard. It's awful for your wrists and gave me crippling RSI. If I use a laptop for more than an hour or two, I'm going to be feeling it later.

I've never tried the datahand. I'd love to but, my understanding is that they're super hard to find and very expensive. Also, there's a stigma that goes with weird looking keyboards. I always get comments about mine. People definitely prefer aesthetics over preventing an RSI.

Developers, protect your hands and wrists and get a GOOD keyboard.

That's a pretty significant price difference between the model 3 and the model S. The car would have to be pretty close in terms of features and single charge drive difference to the model S for me to be willing to pony up the cash for a preorder.

I have like, 3/4 of an MBA from a fairly well known school. Has it helped me personally? Sure, I guess. Has it put me ahead of my peers at all? Eh, not really. TBH, unless it's a top 10 school, I don't think it's worth it, unless you have a scholarship.

That said, I haven't heard of Technion.

Well I don't think he's saying hard to "live". We're talking raising a family, buying a house, etc. And I'm assuming he's saying support both the spouse and the kids. So yeah, in that case, things will be a bit tighter. It's not impossible, but it's not easy street.

Sorry, when you said humanity, it read as being out of touch with all the trials and tribulations of man kind. My mistake if that's not what you meant.

Engineers work their tail off to master their craft, build scalable products, etc. while the firm they work for potentially makes millions off the product. I fail to see why engineers shouldn't try to command a very high salary. Engineers are, and will be for quite some time, in very high demand.

Also, how does wanting to be paid well imply that he's out of touch with "humanity"? Are you comparing the engineering salary dilemma to those who lack food and shelter? That's a pretty silly comparison.

Friend of mine just got hired at Apple to work on HealthKit and he's over 40. I don't understand why everyone is so preoccupied with their age.

Wouldn't a fire in a shipping container be pretty much disastrous though? I can't even imagine how hot it would get.

I liked the idea of a shipping container home, but my brief research into it showed it's not much/any cheaper than a regular home.

Business is closed and the comments don't have anything to do with the business itself. While I don't condone him killing the lion, I have no issue with them deleting the comments.

Looks more like a cool piece of architecture. The "tech" isn't outlandish. Nifty though.

Haven't been following Nintendo very much. If he was so ill why was he still CEO? Not saying he wasn't capable but, if I were that sick, not sure I would want to be running a company.

Best advice in this thread, hands down. I have some co-workers who are heading off to Google, Apple, etc. And while that's great, and I'm happy for them, I would never want anything like that. Why? I love work life balance too much. I love my side projects too much. I'll probably get a remote gig somewhere that pays the bills, gives me some spending money, and enjoy more time with my wife and dog. I could never do that at some big tech company.

If it has anything like "build cool stuff", "rockstar" or anything like that, I'm not interested.

I'm most interested in a place that gives a shit about their employees. Work life balance is huge. Pay scale is huge. Rewarding hard working employees is huge. If the description looks like something that would entice a 22 year old college grad, I'm probably not interested.

Would it not be mutually beneficial for Apple to relinquish their 30% cut from app sales? More developers would focus on iOS (because of the money), they'd make better quality apps, and Apple would sell more hardware.