wilhow

I'm not entirely sure I count myself as a successful programmer. I did build a couple payroll systems that was in place for about a decade. Built a web UI for AS400 back in 99. I started this whole journey from Photoshop 4.5 and it kinda snowballed from there.

What drove my "success" was a passion and curiosity. What I could do, tinker, and learn in the programming world was endless. I lived,breath, and sh!t JAVA, C++, VB, COBOL, js, HTML, etc, etc for about five years. My first year I camped in my cube, going back to my apt only for shower, and I wasn't even paid well for it. I made less than 30K/year.

Now I'm a SE in a DevOps/EDR company.I still code on the side for fun, but it's not a major focus of my job.

None yet that I've talked to directly, except of maybe 2. This isn't a brand new market, it is just one that my employer isn't focusing on because the ROI is too low for them.

Never said I subscribed to “If you build it they will come” thinking and it's not the question asked. I have no illusion on what it takes to build a product, then a company around it, and the amount of work it takes to make both successful.

The label "Antiwork" doesn't representation the movement doesn't it?

It's really about fair labour, I don't think most people want to not work. I think most people want to work in exchange for a livable resource, be it wages, work/life balance, recognition, etc. There are plenty of people who are willing to work hard to have a mundane life. A simple car, a apartment/suburban home, an annual vacation, affordable healthcare, education for their kids, nothing extravagant.

The issue is today's corp slave trade their employees and it's at a point where it's not sustainable anymore.

Hence, IMHO, it's less about antiwork, but more about fair labour.

Look at the verbiage of the ad, Facebook lost its way. It needs to be replaced.

Do we have this level of conversational AI already? Could this be driven by human behind the curtain?

I have a workspace separated by a floor mat and a bookshelf that's my "office". I would walk into that space fully dresses in pants and shirts like I work in the office.

After work I step out, change, and "go home". Luckily I have a rented garage space, so some evenings I would work on my bike in the garage.

This is a real need right now. Humio has a fairly novel approach and it searches ~10TB data in subsecs.

I did this 3 years ago and it will improve almost every single aspect of your life. Confidence, focus, energy, and general daily attitude/mood. Few things to note. Technique is extremely important. Don't just lift heavy, get a trainer or join a group class and learn the correct technique first. Then lift heavy, easiest way to start is to do the Strong 5x5, get to know it well, then slowly experiments with other programs.

Just to confirm, Pulsar has on it's roadmap to remove it's dependency on Zookeeper. Is that correct?

Just wanna say that's pretty inspirational. Keep it up.

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Interesting article. I'm not much of an OS guy, anyone can shed more light into the subject? Why the object oriented operating systems was integral to the OS's ability to withstand intrusion?

You are missing the 3rd type of people who remain. Idiots who felt a sentimental loyalty to the brand, who is not giving up hope that IBM just might rise again to the way it was in the old days.

"Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim."

The important disclaimer to such statement is "For Now". There's guarantee that will not change in the future.

Self Marketing. Age is definitely a road block, it might be worse in spain, but it happens everywhere else.

The thing is that if you provide nothing for potential employers to see, then all they would see is resume and eventually your age. Make him get out there, make friends, build connections, show case what he has done online, get potential employers to see past his resume and age. When you provide nothing for them to see, they'll see what's in front of them. That is an older man trying to live in a young man's world.

When you are an older developer, it'll definitely take more work to get hired. You have to do more to stand out. Just sending out resumes isn't gonna do much good in this day and age. Your connections is what going to get you hired. It's true in Spain, London, EU, Asia and everywhere else.

I think this will produce lazier students. This will encourage student to expect instant answers to math problems rather than encourage them to learn to seek answers by understanding the questions, equations and formula.

We really can't prevent anyone from copying a design. It might not be the ethical thing to do, but there no real way of stopping someone if that's their goal. However I still wouldn't shame them. I would call them out in a more gracious manner. Something like a list of those companies and title it "Copying is the sincerest form of flattery" or along the same line.

Why not use them to your advantage, use them as marketing tool and if they refuse then force them to remove the design. Maybe only then, at that point it is ok to call them out and shame them.

Shaming someone just created an adversarial effect and it brings some negative publicity too. If you can show that you are gracious and is able to manage and find a middle ground in such a situation, it'll show a better you. I rather work with a company that I can always negotiate with than one who always take the hard line.

This method does not convey any understanding of the problem. I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. It'll create a class of people who know how to solve a particular mathematical problem, but don't understand why.

So when do we start slapping lawsuits on failing to predict floods and hurricanes?

Does linux users get a lower price?

I agree. Most of the people who works that kind of hours already know and agree with the article. This article should've been directed at the managers who require that kind of hours from the employes.

As the saying goes "show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

For me that is a very helpful feature. I've done installation many times and I've done them to a cheap machine at home so I'm quite familiar with the process. It's the ins and outs of the linux that I was not able to get for a long time. Being able to wipe a VPS with a clean image allows me to quickly start over when I have mess things up so bad.

Solving a problem is the easiest to learn and retain that knowledge. Get an account in development EC2 which I think is free, or something cheap in the cloud like prgmr.com and build a linux server and learn. Deploy your application manually and solve all the issues you face. Linux is so wide spread these days, there are very little that you can't an answer on the web.

I say CentOS or Ubuntu (w/out UI) is a good way to start. Those 2 distributions have many step by step solutions scattered on the web such as stackoveflow and forums posts. Slackware, Arch Linux or Gentoo are great for their target audience. IMHO they provides very little out of box for a noob and it's very easy to get lost in what you can set, break and/or fix. There is nothing more demoralizing that spending 2 days digging around the web for a problem that has numerous answers and you've no idea what everyone is on about.

Books are very useful guidelines, but getting your hands dirty is how you'll really learn.

The only thing strategic about "realigning workforce" and outsourcing your former core development team is to slowly wind the company down to a shell and then make the financial numbers look good on paper.

This way the CEO and board of directors can give themselves huge bonuses for "saving" the company. Then 5-8 years down the road, when no more can be squeezed out of the Nokia brand name, they will look for a merger as the next strategic move.