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Thanks a lot for pointing this out so eloquently! Seems like the post really buried the lede there …

And I should keep my eyes more open for those things.

Funny how there's two complementary phrases that should ring the same alarm and are often used for the same (usually racist/classist/etc.) people:

- We've progressed beyond X, thus X is bad (and we're better for not doing X) - We've always done X, thus X is good (and we're better for not doing Y)

(The parenthetical obviously just being an excuse for unfounded hate.)

To me, Loos' argument comes across as some grand rationalisation for a simple difference in taste. I.e. "I don't like it, but to state my opinion as a fact, I came up with this story about efficiency"

"Why do you waste all that effort (on something that I, personally, don't enjoy or benefit from)?" is an argument I read between the lines all to often …

I am also 30 or 40 years old. I'm Schrödingers millenial.

I quite enjoy the delivery of technology connections. A nice change of pace imo, compared to other youtubers that edit out every millisecond of quiet time between words and sentences.

But I'm not watching the videos to learn new stuff either

I think what turned me around was positive feedback. IMO the best way to get positive feedback is by being around the right people. You know … open hearted, welcoming folks, who talk to you and know how to listen and ask questions that get you talking. Once I realised that people can actually be interested in what I'm saying, meeting new people felt way less scary.

Now, it might seem difficult to seek "the right people" out yourself, so maybe ask acquaintances to take you along and maybe make introductions so you don't have to break the ice yourself. Something like "Hey, this is dondraper36, he's into X, you told me something about that last time didn't you" can be enough.

I can't understand how someone would recommend the gym. Just like you, I'm not awkward in the gym, but I'm not interested at all in conversation when I'm there.

Thanks, didn't know about you people until now! Will check out your positions :)

  Location: Aachen, Germany
  Remote: Preferably
  Willing to relocate: Maybe later, but happy to come for regular office visits anywhere between Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zürich
  Technologies (recently): JavaScript, Java, Infrastructure-stuff, …
  Résumé/CV: jpo.dev/f/cv-hn-2022.pdf
  Email: hi (at) jpo.dev

Hi HN, I'm Jonas, and I'll keep it short:

I'm looking for something interesting in fintech or fintech-adjacent (if that's a thing). No blockchain business please. (exceptions possible, CBDC comes to mind, …)

I consider myself a "full stack engineer", but shudder a little at that word. Tech stack is secondary to me, pretty much comfortable with every reasonable technology you throw at me. Mostly motivated by making things happen. I value good communication and would love a role that's "not just programming". Maybe some DevRel? Maybe get a chance to do open source at work again? Just some ideas ;)

Degree in Computer Science and 15 years of experience in software engineering. Mostly in fintech, though the earlier years were "no fin, mostly tech".

Plenty of hobbies besides tech, to keep me entertained.

I don't know. I totally agree on the premise that developers should be involved in ops as well.

But I'm a developer by heart and my heart aches whenever I see what we devs have wrought in the ops space. (Insert joke about the CNCF technology landscape map.)

There's just so many tech/tools/etc. involved that just reasonably "doing the ops stuff" on the side seems way unrealistic. Sometimes I feel that all we've accomplished was job security for legions of consultants.

Also, more about the aspect of collecting, rather than listening to music: discogs.com

If you're a collector, digital platforms like discogs give you access to a way bigger market. (And I imagine there's something like that for pretty much everything one could collect.)

I think I spent more time browsing discogs than any physical record store, even before those were forced to close their doors due to the pandemic.

So, they only use the physical connector not the … uhm … transfer protocol associated with memory modules? Tbh, at least with memory, I always conflated both.

If there are multiple vendors around SO-DIMM SoCs, is there a common standard for how they are using the pins?

Nice, it even works with QWERTZ or AZERTY!

By the time I got through all the pre-selected "legitimate interest" checkboxes I lost interest.

That's odd. I did not receive any notification yet? Is the privacy policy country specific?

I think we safely can read "services" as "monetization of user data" in 90% of corporate communications.