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I mean this is quite literally what happened at my current firm. We forged our own path for good reasons, it all sucks, and the firm pays millions of dollars a year in dev salaries to maintain it.

My coworkers are very smart -- smarter than me -- so I'm low confidence anyone else could have done significantly better or avoided the pitfalls we fell into.

No, but that's the point. They don't want long-term residents, they want short-term labor. This has been the goal for a long time, and if you move to Japan expecting anything else you'll be disappointed.

One thing I learned from consulting is if you position yourself as the "fix your mess" guy you have to be very defensive. Ask for more up-front, and bail at the first sign of underpayment.

Be pleasantly surprised when a poorly run project is being run by nice, honest people. Prep for the opposite.

According to levels the pay band caps out around $250k and a principal title. It's good but probably not enough for most to put up with the culture long term.

Outrage about what? I know people whose hobbies cab generally be summed up as "drinking alcohol". We already decided prohibition didn't work once.

Yes but the context of the thread is OCaml being "almost there". Having to build this stuff in-house is pretty good evidence.

Short ETFs are usually leveraged and make for a really good way to lose money.

Realistically, timing is the issue. "This is a bubble" is worth ~nothing. "This is a bubble and it will pop in late December" is worth a lot if you're correct.

Usually not, because shorting a broad chunk of market is very hard. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

I was going to agree with you until the implication that it's learning the nitty-gritty details that's important.

I can teach someone the details on the job. Give me a new grad with strong fundamentals, a love of programming, and an interest in the domain and I'll teach them in sixth months whatever they missed in college that's relevant to the job.

However I've noticed that the fundamentals are so watered down, even at top-tier schools, that young devs like that are harder and harder to find.

Maybe it would be simpler to just impose a nominal tax on the total number of job openings a company creates throughout the year. Maybe as a % of the role's salary. You could even rebate it against employer payroll taxes so they get the money back when they actually hire someone.

Maybe Jane Street succeeds because of the people who are good at finance in spite of the people who like OCaml.

Yeah, and I'm not anywhere near as distressed about it as this article implies I should be.

> Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.

I've been writing React professionally for over a decade at this point. I don't know what this guy's on about.