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I used one who has since retired. She was pricey but worth it. Also she had no programming experience. At first I was in denial of her feedback, but after applying it, saw immediate results.

Anyways unfortunately no, but look on LinkedIn and ask for references.

> I never earned above $120k per year (USD). Even after 10 years and being the top dev in every company I worked at.

If your skills are as strong as you perceive them, then there is at least ONE valid reason you haven't landed a more profitable job, especially if you were applying between 2018-2022. I recommend paying for a reputable third party to review your resume, and your "about me" statement. They don't even need to be trained in cs. You'll also need to do so with an open mind and not be defensive about criticism. Good luck!

+1 . Specifically the SW airlines ones don't allow for me to type on my laptop comfortable, while the other planes in their fleet do. Between that, and the increase in boarding/sitting on tarmac times, I've been avoiding flying and trying to vacation in places I can drive to.

My father majored in Journalism, despite having a much more mathematical leaning mind, and small business career. He swears it was the best decision with similar arguments. I'm not 100% convinced it should be the one and only major as he did, but a dual major/minor does sound great.

I can only give you an antidote of its dangers in a different category.

My significant other, an otherwise very intelligent women, will ask ChatGPT health questions. She knows it might be wrong, but does it anyways to debug her health. I try to point out that even getting suggested a bad diagnosis is very dangerous. The advice it gives has way less nuanced than say the healthMD which has it owns flaws. And unlike coding questions, you can't assume health advice is right until you prove it wrong.

> it's well-known that it's mostly software differences to make it the performance version.

Do you have a source of this, news to me

Yeah that seems closer to my experience. From my perspective, 2016ish was peak. At least thats when I had to to argue the most against trying to needlessly break up services.

I don't think so. CNN America isn't a Chinese product as far as I'm aware. Therefore I think /u/chaud is trying to say that TikTok is just giving the people what they want.

Me too! To add to that, whenever I see good visuals of global energy markets, and traders in a room full of screens, I get excited in a way I use to get excited seeing a terminal being used before I knew anything about coding.

Plausible deniability is my non professional guess

Not OP, but I noticed around the same time an increase in focus of looking at every issue through the lens of racial inequities, which got worse during covid and the BLM protests. That being said, they sent out a survey a year ago asking specifically about this, and I think theres been an effort to not have so much tunnel vision.

Source: me, take this all with a huge grain of salt

Edit: Upon reading which podcasts were cancelled, I feel my theory is somewhat validated.

I think I agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, the video game industry is struggling to monetize their work.

No one wants to pay for games anymore, no one wants a pay to win system in a game, and cosmetic items seem like a waste of money to most. The result is the gaming industry pulling out all the tricks to try to separate the consume from his or her wallet to pay for content.

> Senior Christian Sanchez, executive vice president of the Associated Students of Stanford University, the student-government group, said the system is necessary and important. Mr. Sanchez, who describes himself as Chicano, said he has bristled in the past when another student has addressed him as “G,” short for gangster.

Is he implying this is a reportable offense? I've never heard "G" used in a derogatory sense, rather always endearing. Do we not allow language to evolve?

> beyond some hand-wavey "collaboration" answer that companies are giving

I'm confused what the alternative is that you would like. I'm sure they can link a bunch of studies that show its more productive to work in office, and I'm guessing those that want to stay remote will show a bunch of other studies that say its not; which continues ad nauseam.

Spread some of that tribal knowledge, what worked for her?

Even as a linkedIn hater, I'm confused what the problem here is. Priyankaja just wants to connect and continue the conversation on a platform that's tailored to connecting professionals.

Your source has no mention of white/caucasian women, do you have something to back this claim up or are you making racist and sexist generalizations?

Ouch, I have a similar anecdote where they signed me up for a completely incorrect account when I was young. Some 100k minimum trading account when I was a broke 19 years old looking for the simplest type of bank account possible that I could access from hometown and college. Saw $15 monthly charges, went in, found out the problem, took my money and business elsewhere and haven't looked back.

My experience with Wework in downtown SF has been pretty good!

Community? Ehhh not in my experience. As a social person, I'm pretty good friends with the employees there, security, and the neighbor office, but overall its just another office with a little more up to date styling. We like it a lot and it works for us, but its not worth anymore than a traditional rent an office.

Oh the dog friendly part kicks ass though! And many of us have use the essentially free (because they give you hella credits) hotdesk credits while working in remote locations. Was SUPER awesome in new york when we had 4 hours between checkout and flight. Snuck my gf into the nearest one for clean bathrooms, coffee, charging, ect.

100% agree to all that. But I think every game being released is considered disappointing at this point. I'm trying to hold off judgement until PvE comes out ... hopefully this lifetime.

Anyways my quote is "enjoy playing", and sounds like we both fall into that category. The game engine and polish with the original is often overlooked IMO.

> What's left for Activision Blizzard? What can they do with a company this gutted?

Amazing IP! The loud minority hates every new game/expansion with a passion everything, but the majority of people I talked to enjoy playing overwatch 2, enjoy the new wow expansion, and most importantly we'd all (begrudgingly) buy any new warcraft/starcraft/diablo/overwatch game.

Unfortunately the game of cat and mouse between marketing teams, and potential consumers simply trying to research, continues.

> The only downside to all of this remoteness is the non-programmer workforce going remote.

I'm sure you can think of many other downsides than that. This topic has been discussed adnaseum, and there are many pros and cons of remote vs in-office

As an ex fanboy (or fanboy lite) who has circled into hater section of recent, I can give you MY reasoning.

For starters theres the whole "we're not evil", and slowly becoming evil with obsessive data mining. But it's a huge company, so only strike 1.

They haven't released any useful innovation in my eyes, despite hoarding all the smartest people. Strike 2.

And the biggest strike to me is the significant decrease in product quality that I use. My google searches suck now, maps has become bloated with ads, and I don't even know what happened to messenger, but its pretty unusable for my friends and I that even the ones that work at google now text. Maybe a lot of this is the fault of companies aggressively marketing irrelevant things to get clicks, but to me, it's a platform problem. Strike 3, I'm a hater.

Again YMMV, but this is my reasoning.

> People can be very irrational and will look to blame someone in charge when bad things happen.

Isn't that what you did?

> Even though the company eventually did go under due to bad investments the owner made.

> All you can do is fight to get them the pay they deserve

You can also be honest with them so that they can make informed decisions for themselves. The best CTOs I've worked for have been honest people who give you the bad and the good news together.

> However its usually more like 2-4 weeks that the people in charge even know beforehand

I'm guessing you're not referring to public companies with significant revenue. There's almost always warnings well before the 2 week mark.

I'm anti car too... but your argument about maintenance/tax money is heavily flawed. Both systems need government assistance. Also heavier vehicles pay a significantly larger portion in registration for this reason.

> Whilst if one is working for a hos, pital or a stopping-online-manipulation department, not good for society, right

Oh definitely. I'm under the (maybe wrong) assumption that the majority of people are not doing this. I believe most my peers in the silicon valley bubble I live in aren't really moving needles that benefit humanity.

My millage is that it's not absolute "dead weight". It's more wanting limited responsibility and tasks that require limited scope/time spent, but does actually contribute, just a much smaller scale than others.

> The fact that they needed these excuses tells me they felt what they did to be morally wrong and didn't really want to be dead weight.

My guess from your comment is that you judge them for being slackers, and the feel obligated to explain to YOU that its not morally correct. Personally, I have no qualm with those that want to drift around megacorps while collecting a nice paycheck.

> If anything scientists have been abundantly cautious with their messaging

And then new's outlets take that cautious wording and turn it into extremely alarming headlines. It's exhausting.