No shame in getting your freak on in telnet chat rooms or NNTP newsgroups.

I think mine are the best there is.

Likelihood of teenager.

I do have a problem with objective judgment though

Evidence of self-awareness, personal reflection, and confidence enough to admit personal shortcomings: Definitely not a teenager.

My hypotheticals got you to think about more than just money,

Sigh, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I had already thought though all of those before.

which is my point: there’s more to a job than money.

I’m perfectly aware of that. You’re getting close to my ultimate point, which ultimately is: There’s more to life than a job

If I could get a wage to live a minimally comfortable life with the occasional semestral luxury and the job were a dream, you couldn’t pay me enough to work at any shitty employer.

Sure, but those jobs/employers are increasingly rare, and when the need exist to find a replacement like that it is even more rare. Unless you’re within perhaps 5 years of retirement right now, the likelihood you’re going to find your described desired job that will last for the rest of your working life looks very unlikely to me. If that’s your plan, I wish you luck.

With that out of the way, since your hypothetical is purely about money and nothing else, no job satisfaction, no evil deeds of the employer, no questionable ethics, no seeing the kids for 1-2 years, no functional relationship for the same amount of time, no work life balance, no travel distance, no in office mandate, no sense of belonging with my current employer, nothing but money and I somehow fell on my head to ignore all of that…sure, I’d be a selfish capitalist pig and switch jobs.

That isn’t what I asked. You’re changing the hypothetical I posted, then answered your changed one. With our handful of interactions, I believe I have a good understanding of your thought process and how you approach an issue now. I have heard what you believe and you have heard a part of my argument. Thank you for conversing up to now.

Great hypothetical that doesn’t translate to the real world, so I’m not sure why I should consider it.

Its not supposed to be a real world example. Its an exaggerated hypothetical to prove a point. You should consider it because its an exercise in isolating one specific element to measure your own response to just that element without distraction of other (possibly relevant) points.

I can make hypotheticals too. What if the dickish employer leads to burn out 80% of the time that most people take years to recover from. Would you take the chance?

If you’re extending my hypothetical, hell yes I would! I would work 2 years earn enough money to never have to work again. The future “years of recovery” would be doing whatever I wanted.

I think you may be making the assumption that if you didn’t take the dickish employer position, that you’d be guaranteed 20 years of non-dickish employer employment. If you’ve been watching the job market over the last 10 years, I think you should know that isn’t likely.

The result of staying with non-dickish employer is that you may be 6-8 years tops at non-dickish employer getting simple cost-of-living raises, but never advancing beyond your position, and possibly not allowing you to save enough for retirement at the lifestyle you want to live. Then some year in the future your non-dickish employer gets bought out by private equity or put out of business by a competitor multinational company. So then you’re back in the job market with a very high likelihood of only having dickish employers to choose from for future employment for the next 8-12 years.

Meanwhile, your former co-worker worked for dickish employer for 2 years, cashed out, and travels the world with his wife studying history while his wife paints because thats what they like to do with their time.

What if 2 year is guaranteed to give you a lifelong trauma. Would you take the chance?

Depends on the definition of trauma in your specific hypothetical. I’d argue all employers cause some level and type of trauma. So it would be a discussion of degrees and how it manifests.

Or hey, what if working at that employer means you have to do things like write code that kills humans and they are then used in your country? What if earning 10x means your kids will never know privacy again and you contributed to it. Worth the 10x?

That doesn’t meet my definition of dickish employer. What you’re describing here is far worse. You’re proving my point with my original hypothetical that was isolating just pay.

I’ve answered your hypothetical would you like to answer mine now?

Perhaps the specifics of your example are different. Your quality of life still going to work everyday is better than your friends who retired comfortably 20 years early? If not these specifics, what were the ones you and your friends had in front of you?

Same as always: treat them well, pay them fairly, don’t be a dick. It’s quite easy actually.

How about a hypothetical:

Take your current paycheck amount, now multiply it by 10. That’s the pay offer from the other probably dickish company. If you last even just 1 year at dickish employer, you can take the next nine years off and still be ahead financially. If you last 2 years, you may be financially set and done working for the rest of your life.

Would you stay at your current employer?

Full disclosure, I’m not a senior developer, but a senior elsewhere in IT facing this exact same situation.

Like the author, I’ve also identified our cannibalism of our juniors with the obvious future consequences to this if continued unabated. I’ve struggled with how to combat this, and I really give the author lots of credit for producing actual actionable plans on a path forward.

The main failure mode I see for the proposal is organizational self interest. Investing in juniors made sense in the past because the junior work (grunt work) was needed completion anyway so the exercise of training produced a useful result while also freeing up cycles for seniors to engage in higher level work. The result is that the training of the junior became partially subsidized by their output. Today that isn’t really the case. A senior with an agentic workflow can likely produce the same result as the junior with only a rounding error of effort. This shifts the organizational incentive model significantly to the point were training the junior is purely a cost sink with only a negligible return to the organization.

The author points out properly that systemically across the industry cannibalizing juniors eventually means cannibalizing future seniors, but wrongly assumes that training juniors inside the organization means producing seniors long term in the organization. Unless the entire industry adopts the new system to train juniors there will be organizations that simply poach juniors that have been trained up. Money is fungible. If it takes money to train the junior an org could take those same dollars and offer relatively obscene salaries to trained juniors.

From my view, seems like it will always be more expensive to train than to hire those trained. What am I missing here? How can an org that trains up its juniors (using the author’s good suggestions on how) guarantee they keep their trained juniors (or at least retain enough to make the whole exercise worth it)?

Besides speeding, records indicate Fultz did not have an endorsement on his driver license that is required to operate a motorcycle.

What’s the phrase? “Never commit two crimes at the same time”. I guess we need to add “…unless you’re a cop, and then its all cool, bro”.

I remember one of the hardest transitions for me from scripting in Ruby to Python was the whitespace indent was larger by default in Python. With Python, I ran out of monitor width and would have to be constantly scrolling right and left when visually parsing the code because the nested loops were so deep.

I wish there was a search engine that only searched text based websites or at least sites that don’t have ads.

When you use Lynx Browser, everything on the internet is text:

Ohhh nice! I could see replacing dozens of nested if statements with dozens of nested case statements!

If it helps, I’m from the other side of networking and infra. You could swap the labels and make the meme accurate for me.

In the mid 1980s I learn the BASIC programming command GOTO and fell in love for a lifetime. If you look any anything I used to write in Ruby script or today in Python you’ll see my love affair with “if” “elfi” and “else” continues. My universe is nested “if” statements all the way down.

In 2026 Republican trump’s Department of “War” starves our deploy troops.

In 1943 Democratic President FDR during WWII had an entire ship that just made ice cream for sailors and deployed soldiers/Marines. This would circulate around the fleet of deployed troops to give them comfort and calories during their wartime deployment. This was in addition to larger warships that had ice cream creation facilities onboard.

“This one ship was capable of 1500 gallons, five tons, a day. The American navy provided ice cream as a morale boost. In addition, all ships larger than a destroyer had ice cream facilities. It is reported that after the USS Lexington issued the order to abandon ship during the Battle of Midway in 1942, sailors on their way off, rushed by the ice cream bar and scooped some using their helmets. In another instance, in 1944 aboard the battleship USS New Jersey, two newly minted junior grade lieutenants pulled rank to cut into the ice cream line. Unfortunately for them, they tried cutting ahead of none other than Admiral Bull Halsey. Despite his rank, he was waiting in line with everyone else. The two officers got reprimanded in a way only Halsey could. Ice cream had become the great equalizer.”

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Simpsons did it:

“Given Sen. Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars,’” Fauci said Wednesday. “Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion.”

This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:

…a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:

… Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:

…and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)

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These shall be the variable names until the heat death of the universe! Blessed be! So say we all!

It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don’t have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don’t think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.

I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn’t require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn’t need an internet connection.

That pretty well describes 1st generation robo mowers: lawn roombas.

Thankfully they’ve evolved significantly since then and are on 4th generation tech now.

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