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On the other hand, a family makes you much more dependent on the job, which is what employers want too.

Did you notice a dip in your job performance?

In-demand devs do contracts instead, which pay very well.

If you don't aspire to be a pro player and just want to have fun, you can compete in limited only. I have friends who do that. I myself chose phantom sealed deck tournaments on mtgo, which, provided you don't suck, are basically free.

That is only true for constructed (I've known people who made a living out of playing 8-4 drafts on mtgo). And even for constructed, it is only pay to win up to a point where everyone has access to all the cards (by either buying or borrowing), which is where most competitive constructed players are.

Only in constructed formats (where you build a deck out of your entire collection). In limited formats (which are hugely popular), you and people you play against build decks out of a common pool of cards. There is an entry fee and there are awards for finishing in top spots. So, in the long run, if your win rate is high enough, you can play for free or even make money, but if you suck, you're going to spend a lot.

In Magic at least it's not pay to win - the better you are, the less you need to spend.

That's one of the points of code reviews - as you get feedback on how you should improve tests in your commits, over time you learn what "well-tested" means.

I though it was a short way to make a clear point. Let me write a longer version then:

Is it barbaric? Maybe, but, whether we like it or not, the world has a defnite component of barbarism to it. There are wars going on as we speak, and there are threats of much bigger wars constantly hanging in the air.

It not impossible to eliminate physical danger out of our lives and to dismiss it (because one does not witness it first-hand at the moment) is not very mature. I'm not even mentioning the natural calamities, fires, car crashes etc., where there's room for heroism as well.

> "In harms way"? Doesn't that seem rather ... barbarian.

Was your grandpa that fought in WWII (assuming for a second you had one) a barbarian?

I didn't listed to the podcast. Is there a high chance of being killed? Maimed?

These are not battles. These are just people/companies having careers and making money. Even the researcher is usually forgoing the well paid job to do the research because the research is interesting to him - he's just trading off one for of payoff (money) for another (job satisfaction). Meanwhile, there's no payoff in volunteering to go to a war with a high chance of getting killed or maimed.

Re: battles. There are still real battles in the world (Ukraine, Syria) where there's plenty of heroes.

To sum up, I'd say that it's a blessing that a lot of the world is so peaceful now that the meaning of the word 'hero' is getting washed down to literally 'people doing their (maybe slighly unpleasant) jobs'.

A hero is someone who puts himself in harm's way for the benefit of others. A guy in a desk job is not a hero.

There's a ton more variety in the US tech jobs. If you want to work in an interesting niche, such as computer vision, rendering, self-driving cars etc., I think US is the place to be. Not only there are many more positions, but they also pay decently (whereas in Europe if you want to do interesting stuff, you'll be making a third of what your Hadoop friends make).

Didn't he have something like 17% support? That's hardly minor.