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Alternatively, given that the majority of the planet is water and we kind of can't really imagine a biology without it, the universe could be full of fish planets.

Check out the new LET function.

SF's city budget is 14 billion USD?.

I think he's thinking of East Hastings in Vancouver or Kensington in Philadelphia. YouTube will likely shock you if you're not familiar with this subculture.

OK, so I am late to the party, but I have some thoughts.

One, if you search for the word complicated on HN, the top hit is the same complaint from 2019. This isn't getting better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637849

Two, from the discussion in February, web development is literally the worst job in the USA for degree of change in complexity / lack of ability to build career capital over time. This is (and will in the future) driving talented people out of the profession. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24910949 https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers/

Three, I have a pet theory. Indulge me. We have noted before that there is a lot of overlap between software engineering contracting and, say, carpentry. Key difference: once a cabinet is done, it's done. There isn't any need for follow up, enhancements, new requirements, changes. However, if you make a software project so complicated that only you or someone with very similar experience can make changes to it, you drive up the likelihood of capturing the benefit of a future income stream. This is also the impetus behind very complicated frameworks: the more people adopt your complicated solution, the more likelihood they drive business towards you.

Lastly, this crowd isn't going to like this, but the solution in other engineering disciplines is standardisation and opinionated off the shelf solutions. It's that or wrestling with complexity forever.

It's also literally the first / biggest university on this list in the table at the end of the paper.

Can I just sidetrack this conversation? I've seen this new neologism "2 times less", which I infer from context means "half as much", and I don't like it.

I didn't want to edit my original post, but this is also relevant to this discussion and came up recently. It echoes your observations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31724942 https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers/

Thanks, updated my post. I'm usually logged in in the classic site so I didn't think what it would be like for others.

Which is an excellent book, thank you for pointing that out.

You are describing the hedonic treadmill. Essentially, you become used to your surroundings, and while they are objectively great, from the perspective of inside your own head, this is now normal and you / your monkey mind wants more.

There have been a lot of post floating around the internet with various solutions, the most popular being Stoicism > Positive Psychology / Happiness research > Buddhism / Meditation. I've dabbled a little in all of them and they all have something to offer.

Essentially, you are experiencing a disconnect between how it feels to be you and how you expected to feel. As someone only a little older than yourself, I would say this: your job will never love you back, and especially in the software realm, it may not be as fulfilling as something like woodworking or therapy. It does pay the bills, though.

The above mentioned happiness research / positive psychology suggests that having multiple, meaningful social roles that you can fulfill outside of work will allow you to shoulder more responsibility and find meaning in your life.

What I'm trying say is that in the second half of life, it is our job to give back. So start there.

Also, this is in my morning bookmarks to revisit: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/so6e8h/engine...

Further to that : https://brilliantmaps.com/half-canada/

The Egyptian billionaire CEO had some choice words about the Canadian business climate as he was in the process of divesting of wind mobile: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1013522

Look, I'm not here to judge, but the Coursera + UC Boulder Electrical Engineering OR Computer Science Masters will take anyone, regardless of degree status. There are also some UK universities that will as well, notable Oxford's Software Engineering. Just my 2 cents doing the research.

Speaking as someone with direct experience maintaining Access databases that should have been SQL Server from inception, yes it absolutely does. If you need to force feed 10+GB through Access artificial 2GB constraint and your programming language (VBA) is both single threaded and interpreted, if you aren't clever then you will run into performance problems, just as you would if you were doing something similar in Javascript or Python + SQLite.

You should be able to do this with Git, Git-XL and a function to Export / Import BAS files from within Excel

Ah, yes, exponerated.

Biggie-er.

My worst interview was some middling Canadian software shop that wouldn't let me use a Python IDE to implement a pagination function; like others, they wanted to do it in Notepad / Google Docs. I complained repeatedly and their defense was that "Amazon was using a similar process to find engineers". I asked if they were paying in Amazon stock. I did not get a call back, and, in retrospect, it was for the best.

Canada says... hello.

Canadian telecom is a racket.

When Wind was around, the Egyptian billionaire owner gave an interview saying that if he could take his entire investment out of Canada at a 10% haircut he would do it in an instant. Wind operates in 170 countries. He compared Canada to China and North Korea.

More here if you're bored. I would also say to Americans looking to move to Canada in light of... recent events, be prepared to be frustrated with the lack of choice in banks, telecom, grocery chains, and doctors. https://financialpost.com/telecom/tight-reins-leaves-our-tel...

Fat people hate and the Donald both fit his narrative.

I am not going to engage with most of this topic, nor am I disputing that Bill Gates had advantages most of the world didn't : mom on numerous boards, dad a successful lawyer, got into Harvard, etc. However, I will dispute that Warren Buffet knew Gates as a child. In a YouTube video Gates describes his first meeting, as an already wildly successful tech entrepreneur. https://youtu.be/VBIiy5CnTiY

NYC? San Francisco? Boston? DC? Not every city is Houston, bro.

Citation?

> Renting is pound-for-pound far more expensive than owning.

Come to Toronto and say that to my face. I'm going to laugh, and laugh, and...

Care to elaborate?

All of the examples are currency because they can't be counterfeited. You can't print gold, silver or seashells.

Just to play devils advocate isn't this happening right now with the US army's dependence on aircraft carriers vs the Chinese and Russian supersonic missiles?

This is and is not true. The implicit value of a currency is backed by being able to tax the citizens. This is why there are federal but not state / province level currencies as the friction of conversion is a dead weight loss.