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That’s because you’re already above where money would constrain you. The vast majority of people are not. I suspect you know this.

ok, but why?

Well then,

I can write a tiny C compiler in bash...

Found the PM

Boston has "Allston Christmas" on Sept 1st each year. Tons of people move. There's lots of nifty stuff on the sidewalks waiting to be discovered.

>Perhaps people shouldn't have started paying nerds a good amount of money to do super nerdy things.

I've got discount pitchforks. Get your pitchforks. 3 for $5.

FreeNAS (open source, ZFS, requires ECC ram) Unraid (paid license for connivence that wraps open source mergerfs and snapraid) OpenMediaVault (open source unionfs + snapraid) Drobo (appliance) Synology (appliance)

There's a lot of near brain dead point and click options.

You've never been given a free meal?

Did you buy your copy of the book?

Ever been given a complimentary slide deck?

Ever had a publisher give you suggested questions for tests?

Ever seen a student have to use "online resources" that does the teaching and grading for the professor?

The publishers are doing professors jobs for them, and the students are paying for it. The bribe is you don't have to do your job.

I'd like to see more professional, terminal (doctorate) degrees that aren't PhDs. Run them in parallel. For instance, I feel there should be an M.Eng. equivalent for comp sci that requires mastery of existing theory instead of development of new theory.

The CEO is the CEO because he makes profitable decisions. You have to replace her with someone / something that makes at least equally good decisions.

Those same users are probably benefitting from the other thing I did that delivered value to my company. It has value for the company because it has value, directly or indirectly, for the customer. Eventually, it'll sort itself out with competition.

Ultimately, my work is dictated by what the customers whine about. If they make more noise over missing feature X than slow feature Y, X gets my time.

Hackathons happen on the weekend? Every company I've worked in has done them on weekdays. People tend to work longer on hackathon days than regular ones, but that doesn't seem so bad.

Most programmers probably enjoy what they do. To my mind, my employers aren't so much paying me be build stuff, I'd more or less do that anyway, they're paying me to choose what I build and to have control over the result.

If I work longer than a 7-8 hour day, 9 times out of 10, it's because I got wrapped up and lost in what I was doing.

Inflation moves money from the rich (who have assets) to the poor (who have debt). Can't have that...

It's targeting what is easiest to automate. This happens to be mostly low skilled workers.

Software engineers constantly cannibalize their own jobs, but there are so many positions for software engineers available (or potentially available) that we (software engineers) don't feel the affects.