mclightning

I am a lead frontend engineer. I am in the very high salary percentile, probably top %2-3, excluding CEOs. I can barely save.

I don't have a car. I don't have any expensive hobbies, gym subscription or anything.

I am paying %50 of my salary to rent & bills in Zone 1, Angel, Islington. I keep looking for alternatives, but rents have gone further up since I got in 6 months ago.

>> On the other hand, there's lots of work to be done deploying the stuff that works. Solar. Wind. Batteries. Electric cars. Desalination plants. Automated manufacturing. Electrical transmission infrastructure to get power to where it's needed. All are profitable. None has either huge margins or monopolization potential. This discourages the Silicon Valley funding model.

Honestly, this should be in all caps, and heard by everyone. I am regularly disturbed by this fact.

I am lead/senior software engineer working with frontend development. I could easily do embedded software engineering, automation or any other more pressing field for humanity. But economics are simply not there to justify. I would be getting a %60 pay-cut if I chose to work on anything that actually matters.

Engineers be like, "Can I lint the codebase please?"

Some headlines could really use capital letters. I am not a native speaker, and I struggled to understand this sentence until I clicked on the link, and realised it is actually a headline-style sentence...

I own both a sodastream and resin printer. They can't sell anything to me. Too late :D

I am experiencing the same across the board. I buy something, and X platform starts showing me ads about the very thing I already bought.

I got a question. I started doing that about a year ago. One thing that worries me is how it looks on the CV, that you quit a job after a month or two.

Even worse, when you have more of those in there.

Don't you agree it is easier to set up a business through blockchain, and get paid for running some service?

I am building a side-project that runs on Google Cloud. I think most tricky part for me, will be setting up the payment system without breaking any tax laws...Should I just put a Paypal pay button?

I could easily get paid through a smart-contract, verify transaction and run the given CloudRun job all without any 3rd-party involvement, or any worries about tax/business account setup.

It is working fine for me. (browsing from London/UK)

I am totally with you on this. I've been a React dev for 5 years. When they release new stuff (like hooks), I just wait until it becomes unavoidable, or I need to take interviews for a new job.

I was hesitant to switch to Hooks, or Context. I only studied them when I was preparing for a new job and interviews for it.

I still feel queasy when I encounter obscure Typescript features (e.g. Omit/Pick, Generic Type Templates <T>) used in a codebase. Frontend simply does not need this much complexity....But I just google and find out. I don't personally go out of my way to bring new features into my codebases. Perhaps, only time they become unavoidable is when you're interfacing with a library or building a library to be interfaced.

I have done seriously complex computer vision stuff, 3D game development, embedded electronics. I have seen complex code where it had to be. People make frontend development more complicated than it needs to be most of the time. They just end up plastering everything with newest/coolest tech.

Why are we even entertaining the idea? Just stop taking this guy seriously.

That could be actually funny with a better delivery.

You can actually! Just move to N.Korea, Saudi Arabia, Russia. It is pretty quiet there.

I have been a programmer since I was 13, and now it has been 17 years. I am totally with you on this. I think techies tend to overestimate their experience outside of their immediate area to a degree that I would describe as arrogant. As a person who adopted the tech sphere, as his community, it is extremely sad to start to notice this.

Techies tend to be good at tangible, measurable, immediate facts. Not so much when it comes to any social situations, let alone bigger concepts like social evolution of trends and their impacts. Hence you get sorry attempts at apologies from big name tech bros for terrible influences on society.

That was the most convoluted admission of ignorance.

>> make them quit

I just moved to London from Sweden, and I miss these european gym prices :(

In London, I can't find a gym/pool combo that is under 120gbp a month, and even at this minimum price; they're 1.2 meters deep and filled with sand, band-aids...and I am not kidding I saw a menstrual cup in one of them once.

I haven't been swimming since then.

I don't get London.

I am in the same boat. I miss class components so much, but because of the trend it is hard to fight for it. It is just so verbose and easier to read. It is more in line with the majority of graphics/ui frameworks in the whole software engineering ecosystem. It reminds me of render loop in many game engines, along with special event triggers (mount, unmount etc.). It makes me feel like an actual programmer, rather than a "view orchestrator"...

On a side note, never let past salaries dictate your salary negotiation. Always stand your ground, and sell your pricetag. Your past low salary or lack of successful negotiation, does not warrant them a discount. Negotiators always try to talk down your value, even when you're already paid high. You need to own your pricetag.

Not gonna lie, I thought of this becoming possible with advent of AI & constant stream of social media posting.

You could also the reverse and find social media posts from the CCTV footage, to capture some passerby's face at a higher resolution.

We are living in dystopian times.

no.

We are already living at a gatling gun level of content, from any individuals perspective into the web.

We are way past that. If anything, trivialising and democratising the generation of fake content, will educate the masses. Perhaps, bring back the trust for science, which we need a lot.

Please send $100 each time you have a bug in your code, to following ETH wallet; 0x17C489878E89136cd399D162ECCed25924749822

You're welcome.

Want to found a startup? Just become great at your craft. Dont waste time with success stories and their advices, because it is all survivor bias. Just keep building.

Adding "site:reddit.com" improves search results by 10 folds in many topics.

Scrum and Kanban ways of working, work for different kinds of people/roles/goals.

Neither are silvet bullet solutions to a problem.

But scrum has a well-defined method, that works for everyone. It is managed top-down to deliver items for individuals to do.

Whereas kanban needs the individual to take on whatever the work throws at them, including total failure of the deliverable by issues outside of their control. In this situation, the individual has to be empowered and trust should have been settled between managers and members of the team.

Armenia invaded the said land for some time. You may be unaware but West (NATO) has been on Azerbaijan's side on the disputed land, at least officially on paper.

Turkey IS one of the core, long-time NATO nations actually. Check the history, numbers, involvement and contribution.

Indeed! Ukranians mention Bayraktar drones in several of their videos. Many of the convoy hits were done with them, I read earlier.

Adding onto this; Their 360 cameras are rendered useless after an upgrade last year. They havent fixed them ever since. I am talking about a camera from 2017, that is basically completely useless now.