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"An FBI document admitted that billionaire pedophile / intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein had "provided information to the FBI as agreed upon."

Former US government attorney Alexander Acosta also said he "was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence'""

https://twitter.com/benjaminnorton/status/127874391952690790...

Supply & Demand (aka Market Economics) dictates pay rate.

Not difficulty, danger, or years spent studying challenging topics.

Changing a color... that's basic html/css-- that's the lowest pay rung of front end developers, which is the lowest paid occupational field within the occupation of full stack web app engineers. So, you're grossly exaggerating. People who just change colors of a web site might make $15-20/hr in the US.

The folks making $150-$200k+ have skills in frontend development, serverside development, databases, plus often things like data engineering or setting up/maintaining cloud computing infrastructure. From there, add in specialty Security knowledge or Machine Learning or highly efficient massively global scale+speed programs, and you'll begin to understand how they're making $400k-$600k+

For example: Go have a look at kubernetes (combined with Docker, Helm, and a Cloud provider + all the various underlying technologies which involve an OS and 2+ programming languages and/or frameworks) and tell me how difficult it is compared to machining + CNCing + welding a metal part. Not to knock machinists-- I've worked on metal machines and I understand why master mechanics make $100k/year.

But I also see why they don't make $200k/year (exception for luxury vehicles)-- there's only so much to learn and only so many dimensions of complexity, especially in terms of continuing education on new technology.

Can confirm. Making ~$145k salary, with $40k in bonuses.

This is with 3 years of experience in Full Stack Web Dev SWE, and zero years in DevOps (but some basic experience with containers, cloud, and general linux server config).

I was hired as a Web App SWE, but was offered the chance to train in DevOps and took it, in order to grow additional skills. Full stack web apps are mostly CRUD. To learn the ecosystem around them... in terms of Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, and Customizing Containers... I consider that incredibly valuable.

My company needs DevOps but is having difficulty hiring for the role-- it's in high demand but low supply apparently. So, they're letting me become one of their interdisciplinary DevOps/Full Stack people.

I'm very happy as I am learning new things, working with a great team of enthusiastic, positive-attitude people, and upon my first promotion I imagine I'll make around $250k or so.

I don't know of many other professions where this is possible, while working 100% remotely.

Do you enjoy working as a SWE?

I'm not a super great SWE-- I'm just a full stack javascript-oriented developer (With experience in a few other languages). Since I am already familiar with full stack apps, they're getting a little boring for me (since they're mostly CRUD, with some customized processing thrown in).

However my current company is letting me train in DevOps: stuff like kubernetes, helm, terraform. I am really appreciating the opportunity to learn new skills and grow my career. And, it will likely result in a promotion & higher pay.

The reason I ask if you enjoy SWE, is because you might be able to transition into DevOps, or Software Sales for example-- or some other SWE adjacent role, which uses your SWE skills.

If you don't enjoy SWE & the tech industry, then that's another story.

That said, learning trades is a great idea-- for one thing, you'd be interdisciplinary: a combination of tech/SWE experience & trades experience may be a highly valuable combination-- for example, you might come up with new product/service ideas. Or you can consult with trades businesses about their IT / Business processes, for example.

Looking at your resume-- I think it's awesome you have a CS degree. I kinda wish I did-- I don't have a technical degree but I am considering getting one just to improve my career a bit.

That said-- I failed a Amazon interview (for Solutions Architect-- i really wasn't ready for that sort of role without some training) and for a Google interview (for solutions engineer-- but now that I am training in DevOps I felt that the Google Solutions Engineer role isn't technical enough for me, and I don't think it even pays as much as my current role or a potential future role I could have as an Infrastructure-oriented/experienced SWE).

If you want to work in Tech, I'd say two things: 1. keep trying and 2. consider applying to and/or training for adjacent roles

Other than that... yeah, trades could work out too :shrug:

This is a super cool device. Kudos to the founders & company. It's a very cute little mushroom box setup. And it's inspiring that products like this exist, simply because they look great and make me think "Hey, with enough sweat, marketing, and capital I can create a product too!"

To get started, low tech: All ya need is: Pressure cooker, wheat grains, jar, mycelium, a sterile plastic bag or bin, and the right mix of fresh sterile air & humidity.

I've met someone who claims to make about $600k USD per year by managing the chats of mid-level OnlyFans women. He got his start in Los Angeles, California, where he began to realize the need for his service in the marketplace.

He simply chats all day to lonely men, pretending to be women, so the women don't have to.

"Click next to continue" ...I don't see a next button. But I do see the hamburger icon in lower left corner-- so, that works.

This is cool. I remember telling someone I was introducing to web app development how they should follow a similar path: Learn XHR, then jQuery Ajax, then fetch/axios for example.

Just so they can see why the newer methodologies exist.

Psychadelics traumatized me. It took about 2 years to get through it.

There's no hidden knowledge or special secrets you learn about life from psychadelics. It can give you persistent/permanent hallucination disdorders.

In fact I recommend staying away from them and focusing reality-- improving yourself, your community, building something useful/interesting, etc.

If you do choose to waste your time and do psychadelics: Be very careful. Don't overdo it.

Eh, considering its popularity I suppose it is a "least bad" if one chooses a cynical yet realistic perspective.

Personally, after working with vanilla JS, then jquery, I looked at angular and react. I liked react so much better

"A decade ago"

Attaching a time horizon on things which evolve causes many things to lose meaningful perspective relative to the discussion at hand.

The fact that things evolve does not negate my opinion that DevOps is a meaningful term.

Heck, I am currently watching the "That DevOps Guy" youtube channel (~50k subscribers) in order to learn about Helm Charts (related to kubernetes).

Clearly, people use the term DevOps to meaningfully communicate today. 10 years ago? This is a post from 2022, not 2012. So, you're referring to a discussion from 10 years ago... Yeah I don't know that its very relevant in a discussion of "DevOps actually does mean something [implied in today's age]"

a little over a hundred years ago a barber was a surgeon ("Up until the 19th century barbers were generally referred to as barber-surgeons, and they were called upon to perform a wide variety of tasks. They treated and extracted teeth, branded slaves, created ritual tattoos or scars, cut out gallstones and hangnails, set fractures, gave enemas, and lanced abscesses." [1] )

and a farmer was a soldier (WW1, US Civil War, & previously)

[1] https://brainblogger.com/2011/05/06/from-haircuts-to-hangnai...

It does have, in my opinion, quite clear meaning as a term, otherwise it wouldn't exist as a term.

Obviously it means setting up & maintaining application-ecosystem infrastructure:

Servers/Containers/VMs, CICD, monitoring, logging, integration/production testing, permissions, and various automated jobs/workflows <-- that sort of stuff. So that developers can just focus on programming.

Try Mermaid. It's a pleasant experience. And it can be used as a stand alone diagram editor, or integrated with software programs.

https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

I think the skill depreciation concept is a bit exaggerated. Especially in the context of the newness of computers relative to the engineering field in general, the latter which has been around, arguably, for thousands of years.

For example, SQL & Unix have been around since the 1970s.

Linux since late 1991.

Javascript: The end of 1995. NodeJS: 2009.

Sure, there's a ton of churn in the JS Ecosystem, but all it takes is a bit of wisdom, skepticism, and patience to avoid the hype-cycle.

Also, once you learn to build certain things with a programming language you learn the paradigms of the system you build.

For example-- Web Servers. Looking at ExpressJS vs Python Flask documentation, there are many analogous pieces, because they follow the same standards for protocols.

Another example-- data engineering / statistical computing: Checking out R vs Python packages, there are a lot of the same concepts, just in a slightly different format/language.

HTTP/1.0: 1996 (RFC 1945)

TCP: 1974 "In May 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn described an internetworking protocol for sharing resources using packet switching among network nodes."

"TLS is a proposed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, first defined in 1999"

Considering all of this... I don't think most major things actually change that much. Sometimes a popular new framework takes the world by storm, but that's pretty rare compared to the output and churn of the ecosystem.

I'm renting a 2 BR/1 BA house for $1300 with a backyard and views of nature, a mile from a hiking trailhead. In a college town between Austin and San Antonio.

For the same price, I could get a small, mediocre 1 BR/1 BA apartment in Austin with views of... another apartment, and a wall.

In San Jose or Seattle, I imagine I'd get just a bedroom for $1300.

Crew missing? Or evading justice/capture?

Feature idea for you and OP: add the visual swatch of color which the hex color represents. Makes it much more meaningful

Boring? That's a funny assumption. The presence of politics is required for work to be fun? Sounds like a nightmare to me.

I love the lack of politics at work. It really makes it more pleasant-- almost an escape from an otherwise over-politically involved society. I can't turn on the news or open the browser (sometimes even IRC) without politics seeping in.

It allows me to stay focused on work, not on what people think about/how I might be judged on my non-work related opinions. Nor that there could be favoritism based on such things.

It levels the playing field.

There are numerous articles discussing any non-liberal voices resulting in people being let-go/fired at various California-based technology companies.

I'm so glad no one at my current technology workplace discusses politics anywhere-- not in Slack, Email, nor Conference calls. I literally haven't heard a single political opinion at work, and I freakin love it!

I previously worked at Unity Technologies (3d game engine company) and as well as a CRM Consultancy, and I was amazed by how much time people spent arguing their political agenda. It was a major contributing factor of why I left both places. I had this feeling of "Why are these people chatting about things irrelevant to our work, while I am working? They should be working too-- they're paid to work, not chat & check their slack feed for 30-60 minutes a day about politics"

Obligatory "Do you have 1. a Website containing at least a small portfolio of two or more projects, and 2. a Github and/or Gitlab profile with some small open source projects, and 3. a LinkedIn presence, and 4. Your Resume on multiple resume sites frequented by Recruiters (Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice, Workatastartup.com , etc.?"

I'd start with:

1. What do I want to learn?

2. Regarding that particular topic's community: on which online chatroom platform is it most active?

For example, Discord hosts official communities for: Strapi (headless CMS framework), NestJS.

Whereas IRC (Libera server) hosts official communities for: NodeJS. I don't recall if other IRC channels I visit are official-- but it has many other great chat rooms.

Some are on both. For example (Note: I am not sure if this particular site represents Linux officially)--> "This is the official site for the Linux.Chat community, namely #linux on Libera and Linux.Chat on Discord" [1].

Note they list IRC first, Discord second. That's my approach in terms of prioritizing the two, as well: Personally I prefer IRC for its simplicity and old-school history & philosophy.

[1] https://linux.chat/

... this should just be called "how to set up a terminal with oh-my-zsh". It has nothing to do with data science.

And there are tons of articles on this.

Just google: oh-my-zsh powerline10k

nothing newsworthy here, no offense to whoever posted it.

VS Code -> Line Note extension

https://github.com/tkrkt/linenote

>Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with

This is a gross over exaggeration.

I'd say about 50-60% of companies do a programming test.

Others are happy to look at your open source code and discuss it with you. They might pepper you with some programming language trivia questions.

That has been my experience.

Thanks a ton! Good to hear-- that's something I sometimes worry about. But then I also think "Well, technology is more important than it used to be, so based on that, the future seems bright, career-wise." But great to hear, just to turn off any worrying voice in my head.

Thanks a ton! I appreciate the encouragement! Great point on treating it as creativity rather than engineering. I totally agree-- makes it more fun and interesting for me.

As a 35 year old developer who started at about age 32, just want to say: I am glad to see folks in their 40s doing well as a developer.

sometimes i get burned out on it. but, ultimately i am still interested in programming and the creativity that comes with creating products.

so, just glad that I can keep being one for at least 10, maybe 20 more years.

Put on motivational music & motivational speeches

Using music/engaging speeches to help change your emotions will help you to feel better and more positive about the work.

>I get spam from Recruiters** on LinkedIn

Spam back. Recruiters contact me-- that's 95% of the reason I am on LinkedIn: So potential employers can find me.

Now I've had Amazon, Meta, and Google contact me. Amazon I worked with as a consultant so I was in their system. a Meta recruiter found me on LinkedIn. and I applied to Google and a few months later they reached out.

In call cases, they've viewed my Web portfolio, Github profile, and LinkedIn page.

This is "Marketing".

It's one thing to have "Skills". But if no one knows you have skills, then you must market yourself in order to use the skills in the course of working for others.

Skills + Marketing => Get job => Be productive => Build career & Make money

But you can't do it efficiently without both Building Your Skills and Marketing Yourself.

** Regarding Recruiters on LinkedIn: I simply use a text expansion tool like Espanso ( https://espanso.org/ ) to paste a message to them, usually something like this (Note: this is a "strategy" just like marketing. For any problem/challenge, develop a strategy to tackle it.):

Thanks for contacting me! Unfortunately since I am contacted by <insert some number here> recruiters per week it is not feasible to meet with them all.

Before we meet, could you please tell me:

-> Who is the company? (optional)

-> Is the role 100% remote & am I permitted to live outside the USA?

-> What is the salary range?

-> Is the role for a Full Stack Javascript (NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS --> my areas of expertise (Learning React-Native currently))?

-> What steps does the interview process involve-- How many steps, What is involved in each step?

-> Do you have a full job description you could send?

Here's my resume.

Thanks, MyName -- https://www.MyWebsite.com/ https://www.github.com/MyProfile/ https://www.gitlab.com/MyProfile/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/MyProfile/

Simply go to google image and search: "skeletal racial differences".

subspecies are found across species-- they happen based on geographic dispersion and geographic isolation, which humans underwent for tens and hundreds of thousands of years.

Welcome to the sciences of anatomy, anthropology, and forensics.

other differences:

- slow twitch vs fast twitch muscle

- teeth shape

- shapes and colors of various parts

- genetic susceptibility to & advantages against specific diseases

Just like Darwin's finches of the Gallapogos, humans faced geographic dispersion resulting in genetic, diet (e.g. hunter-gatherer vs farmer & malnutrition), and geographical (e.g. altitude) differences which over the course of millennia affect anatomical differences. We can see this effect across all biota: bacteria, plants, animals, and yes, humans.

help keep politics out of science.

fancy, with useful plugins. my top pick:

zsh + oh-my-zsh + powerline10k on iterm2

alternative, less fancy, but nice if you want something simple yet decent:

zim on alacritty