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I'm pretty sure that computers were around 30 years ago, including in banking. While smartphones are a newer development and I do use mine all the time, I can't say that it has any serious impact on my work that would not be achieved with my laptop and a dumb phone.

I think you need to look at the phrase 'truly profound' that you're using and consider what that actually means in context: the world wide Web has had a truly profound impact on human development contrasted to promote media. Colour TV, for example, hasn't (given radio, cinema, black and white TV already existing)

My Mac is provided by my work. I work in finance doing infrastructure for retail banking. Tell me again how VR is going to help me for deploying networks and clusters and turning off my camera in video calls whilst I go on Reddit

It's always 'about 5-10 years away' isn't it?...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0...

Why do you "need the servers to be in very close proximity" in a retail store? It's not high frequency trading

So you'll still have all the adverts, they just don't update?

You know that some devices essentially "require" network connectivity for initial setup? E.g. https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/smart-tv-set-up-witho...

Tldr: "society advances one funeral at a time"

So I'm an engineer at my org. I'd never want to work for Facebook. If I'm interviewing you then yes I will ask you why you chose to work there when by definition you had other options.

8=months !

A little but I wouldn't want to dox myself. Essentially I'd been doing some related stuff as a byline in my previous career as well as some enthusiast stuff and private freelancing. I cashed out and did some dedicated study to fill in some gaps and then started jobhunting. Overall transition took 1 1/2 years, plus a further 8 to get into my current specialty and pass income parity with previous career

To be honest, if you don't have some external driver meaningful to you then it can be pretty hard to absorb the knowledge

Platform engineering lead

I'd put a slightly different spin on it- sure, junior positions will be automated and commoditfied, but I don't see senior salaries going down. There's a key difference between software engineers and doctors:

No matter how good a doctor is, they can only treat so many patients and/or train so many juniors. A software engineer can scale almost infinitely in some respects. In this they are more like the investment bankers you mention, indeed in some circumstances interchangeable

I did this early 40's

Don't focus to much on certifications or qualifications. Do focus on a portfolio. Find things that scratch your own itch to work on and learn

My resume is 9 pages but I only supply it on request. Potential employers find me on LinkedIn. Automatic keyword matching leads to longer resumes. I'm afraid your approach is very much in the minority.

Financial services are already all over open source software. What even is this article?

AWS heavy open source base: https://aws.amazon.com/financial-services/ Gcp, same story: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/financial-services

From the link it appears to be available in the Microsoft store. If you're on Windows already, is that a problem?

So Berg became a literal embodiment of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

I suspect that AWS is 'losing money' on this in the same way that Apple are 'losing money' on their high Street retail shops.

Working at a place with AWS enterprise support by contrast, for the second occasion, I would suggest that many of the places paying $15kpm don't cost that to support.

I've tried to actively go against the approach described in this article when I'm interviewing candidates. We allow thirty minutes for live pairing on a pretty generic task. Candidates are using their own device, so whatever OS; IDE etc they like, with desktop shared by video. The idea is to match the work environment as closely as possible, so all resources are available to them- Google; stack overflow; other people's public projects etc. We don't expect candidates to complete the exercise in the time available but we do see how they tackle it

I don't think it's that simple:

Here's an example of an AWS open source project, written in Go and hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-control...