mattsfrey

IMO no degree is necessary or worth the money today for doing software/computer related things, there's virtually nothing you'd be taught in classes you can't learn with an internet connection.

The assertion that restaurants failing in the wake of the government mandating them to close in response to a once in a lifetime pandemic is evidence of them being unviable as an industry is utterly laughable.

Keep code as simple as possible, shun abstractions until the refactor stage, adopt a language / toolchain that enforces a modular / functional discipline. EDIT: also, reading the comments here - absolutely shun DRY, be very explicit with code and don't try to couple anything until its absolutely clear that is the way to go. This in my opinion is the true mark of somebody experienced with codebases that grow unmanageable vs the less initiated -- the latter are always trying to reduce code by coupling things into abstractions, the former wait until it absolutely makes sense.

People will likely not flip sides but might be disillusioned enough to not vote or vote third party

Game development is exceptionally fun and engaging as far as software goes, so the supply/demand ratio is much more skewed. I would agree people are likely aware of the worse working conditions and pay etc, but are just passionate about it enough to do it anyway. I was an amateur game developer that always imagined a career in game dev but after learning about the economics of it went with more general commercial software as a career, but I still envy game devs for the work they get to do and their overall satisfaction with that work.

--EDIT: It's also worth noting that if you are on the digital content side of game dev like modeling and mapping there's not a ton of alternative options for practicing those skillsets professionally, unlike programming.

Dynamodb

It would go a long way to package this such that somebody on a mac can just download it and run, or install with brew. Also after disabling security, chmoding +x, and attempting several patterns on the command line I could not get this to run, each time spitting various errors i.e. "Could not find notebooks in .: Error while looking for notebooks: skip this directory", "Could not find notebooks in /Users/mfrey: Error while looking for notebooks: open /Users/mfrey/Library/Application Support/CallHistoryDB: operation not permitted" etc.. maybe I'm just an idiot but at this point of dysfunction in a program I'm experimenting with for kicks, my capacity to continue futzing with it is exhausted, just FYI.

A lot of cynicism in the comments here, but having an optimistic outlook has been a boon throughout history in almost all accounts. It's definitely harder today with all of the mass media and the constant negativity, but in my opinion it's hard to argue with the logic.. positive energy yields positive results.. at least more so than negative energy

It's the hard truth. As it is, there's just no way to solve the problem without some sort of global cataclysm. I think people in power have the logistics to know this, which is why I'm so skeptical about the political movement today in western nations that largely revolves around consolidating power over world energy even further into the hands of a small group of elites that more or less exist beyond the reach of any one nations political process.

Anyone read the updated article? Clinton applauds twitter for banning political ads and encourages facebook to do the same.. All this does is shift all of the power to those that can buy the mainstream media outlets

What industry do you work in? I do software and can quit and find a new job within a month no problem, 10k is more than sufficient...

Would likely be 100 if you remove all factors keeping somebody from quitting a job.

An outrageous misquote ignoring all surrounding context.. you're good at this outrageous thing