pdr2020

You're right, it can't simply be because Muslim country ties to China are economically huge/vast... oh wait.

This is one of the most cleanly straightforward and mature posts I've read on HN in awhile. And quite practical too, particularly that last portion. Also, agreed.

They don't understand the original tradeoffs that led to client-side only applications.

Let them experience the pain of rebuilding that old wheel :)

I used to believe this too. You've acquired/developed negotiation skills, you should reap their rewards, etc.

But then I consider, I've seen many individuals who are such strong engineers AND communicators, and deliver amazing work.

Yet, I was constantly paid higher than them, simply because of my more aggressive/arrogant attitude.

Time has given me a different view. There ARE pay discrepancies that shouldn't exist, but do simply because of lack of information.

And companies fuel the idea that it's something we need to protect, from our fellow colleagues because we worked/earned those pay discrepancies.

But in the end, it's the company that benefits the most from those discrepancies. Not me and not you.

Well that's completely wrong.

Attractiveness is a trait that signals health, not intelligence/social skill/etc.

That's why we evolved to desire attractive people.

It has nothing to do with being a marker for intelligence.

I agree wholeheartedly.

As an arts/law graduate, who has since moved into a senior, highly technical IT role, I can honestly say that had I not moved into the IT field, my existing and already large university tuition debt would never have been repaid within my lifetime.

There is such a huge glut of humanities graduates in Australia now, that unless you are graduating within the very very top percentile, you are guaranteed to have wasted both time and money for no return.

Agreed.

Quite genius.

Rust is much too low level for most glue/web services. Unless you have a specific high performance requirement (and Go doesn't meet this), there's no real strong case for migration here.

If you remove the specific technical choice from mind (a great engineering team can move mountains with any data layer, something I've also learnt working in numerous contract teams at multi-billion dollar companies) - the simple act of rewriting and consolidating huge amounts of data/infra (and stacks) can yield enormous gains.

I will be tracking their technical reporting more closely over the next year.