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This is a reckless opinion piece and it's going to leave some unfortunate soul with a bill that absolutely wrecks their financial situation.

I'm billed $1M annually for my health care (Stage IV Cancer), and yes, I likely could get that dollar amount lowered through different tactics, but for a measly $9k a year (premiums + deductible), I don't have to deal with any of that nonsense. $9k for $1M in health care is a deal.

Dev.to is pretty good at promoting a constructive community, but you still have trolls who will double down that their opinion must become your opinion

Don’t try it.

You underestimate my power

You can take any position you like with your career, but I suspect you’re gonna be limiting yourself on available companies with this stance. A better position would be to improve how you evaluate a company prior to engaging in a coding test.

I'm surprised this is sitting so high in the board given it's not really anything new, shocking, or... coherent.

Welcome to the exceptions, population you

Lifetime licenses are the pyramid scheme of software sales; it’s not a sustainable model and generally they’re offered for the lifetime of the product, not the purchaser.

Rolling your own blog still requires time & effort to start/maintain, without any of the organic reach of publishing platforms.

My business partners and I had a satire book published through Amazon's platform for a couple years. This past spring the book gained some viral traction thanks to Unilad (or similar site - I forget which), but that attention led to copycats submitting a takedown notice on the book before republishing our book as their own.

The appeal process was a complete joke; we had to get a lawyer involved to get Amazon to release the royalties it withheld because of the take-down.

It’s been 18 months since my company (non-founding engineer) was acquired, and in that time I’ve watched the majority of the team I spent the last 5 years around depart. I was engineer #10, and today only 2 of that original 10 remain (besides myself).

Of the team we had at the time of being acquired, 2/3 have left. Some of those departures were voluntary, others because their roles were eliminated (replaced with different skill sets).

The monolith we built over 6 years continues to live, but its days are numbered, as we’re shifting new development off of the project in favor of an updated stack.

The P/E firm that acquired us implemented a different type of equity system going forward: much like death, you can’t take it with you if you leave before the next exit.