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Yea that's scary. I was in a similar situation, but thankfully they just interrogated me for 5 hours and then sent me back to Canada.

My name was marked from that point, so everytime I re-entered US I had to get pulled into secondary.

Maybe it's time to move to open source solutions (*nix), with custom security/audit measures.

Might be very expensive initially, but then they'd have complete control.

It's called payoffs. Not much we can do when the system is corrupt.

I don't think we'll ever have a perfect system, unfortunately. Just makes it that much harder for startups.

Agreed. This article is one persons misguided opinion.

Makes me wish I didn't just buy the 12.9 iPad pro with the overly priced magic keyboard.

Very disappointed in apple.

P.s. I use an Android phone.

Right, and who do you think will pay for this new tax? It's definitely not the importers and exporters - it's the end customers, because everything will go up in price. They're not going to absorb those fees.

The only ones making money here is the EU governments imposing this.

I'm starting to think that's my go-to now - I need to either focus on smaller companies, where I can feel like I'm contributing to actual change. Whereas in the bigger companies I worked at, it felt like I wasn't actually doing anything, just because it was a constant struggle with politics and 'how' or 'what' things should/can be done.

If I can find a company that will just let me program and be where I want to be, in my own element, that may bring me back to my original point of happiness.

You're absolutely right - the pure excitement that I felt at the beginning was mainly because I could do all the hacky, simple things. Nowadays you have to write 3 million tests before you can write any real code. I just feel like the red tape involved in doing anything is ridiculous.

I mean, I don't want to completely dismiss testing, but it was a big part of the reason I started moving away from development, and more into the DevOps realm. The other big problem is working for medium/large companies, which require so much administrative overhead to get anything done.

I have actually been on a sabbatical now for about 5 months, and I feel the same.

Yeah, I started building camper vans (from cargo vans) for the past few years, and I've really enjoyed it. I got the same excitement I had when I was really enjoying technology.

Carpentry was a huge part of the builds, so it's something I have strongly considered doing more professionally. I actually thought about building my own lumber mill as well!

That movie would be a hit!

I don't really care about the 5g phones. The difference is that I can choose not to buy them, and it won't affect my life at all.