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by topkai22 4y ago
I like Uncle Bob’s writing, but that number is just wrong. On the same BLS site you can grab the numbers: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000 In 2000 there were 1.2M people working in programming
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by topkai22 4y ago
As plenty of others have said, they see just reporting actual findings, not pushing anything. The stackoverflow developer survey, which is completely unaffiliated the government as far as I know, suggests >80% of professional developers
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by topkai22 4y ago
It is relatively cheap to upgrade the infotainment systems on most cars. Apple and android compatible systems start as low as $350. I did a self install on a 2010 ford Escape after my kids killed the radio (by inserting pennies into the cd
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by topkai22 4y ago
My company has a deal with spectrum business- employees can get “business class” internet for $50/month. In the rare case it goes down, I have a hot spot on my phone. If that’s also down I could still get touchdown space at remaining o
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by topkai22 4y ago
I ran numbers from the BLS on occupation data a few years back. If you look at the number of programmers 25-35 in 2000 and the number of programmers in 2020 aged 45-55 you see a real and substantial decrease in absolute terms. The decreas
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by topkai22 4y ago
Why not both? You've got a long career in front of you. I started out a straight software dev, stumbled into being a "DevOps" expert before the term existed, ran a team for while, and am now sliding into "architecture.&q
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by topkai22 4y ago
Columbia is $85k/ year. Do 4 years undergrad plus a 2 year masters and you are past $500k. I’m sure people get in to that much debt, but it’s going to be rare. The largest number I’ve known of personally is $320k from undergrad, law sc
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by topkai22 4y ago
Bachelor level psych degrees also pay worse than most humanities. https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/interactive_embed/car... My personal take is that humanities departments should be aggressively courting 2nd
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by topkai22 4y ago
From the UC system budget doc: student tuition and fees are 39% of “core budget”, state general funds are 46%. https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2022-23... The overall budget gets weird wit
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by topkai22 4y ago
At the large tech company I work at, we get two machines- one for day to day dev work and one for sensitive tasks. I get full admin on the day to day dev box and can do all sorts of email and collaboration on it, but I can’t do certain admi
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by topkai22 4y ago
The difference between productivity and wages is not fully explained by increasing benefits/health care costs, but it is something like over half the difference. Benefits costs do a better job explaining increasing wage inequality, but
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by topkai22 4y ago
More like the Amazon package was left, opened, near the neighborhood book sharing drop where people customarily leave things to be taken for free. A person should be able to recover that package, law enforcement might help recover the packa
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by topkai22 4y ago
I was thinking the same. It being published on GitHub makes it especially difficult to claim damages for reuse, as I think it’s fair to say the very act of publishing to GitHub implies a desire to share the code. The real issue would be if
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by topkai22 4y ago
49 or 50 is the average age when kids leave the house today. Average age of the mother at last birth is 31 in the US: https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/ca... . That's as of 20
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by topkai22 4y ago
The big flaw here is the assumption that pay scales directly with hours worked. It doesn't and generally shouldn't. To start with some data, https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/a-comparison-of-hourly-wa
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by topkai22 4y ago
Oh plenty of us figured out how to get out and have fun/cause trouble.
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by topkai22 4y ago
ACOUP’s series on subsistence farming had a great exploration of why for most of human history investing in social relationships was an import survival strategy: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-brea
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by topkai22 4y ago
Years after his passing, I was going through some books I inherited from my grandpa and a picture of him and myself as a little boy fell out. He’d used it as a bookmark I guess, but I felt profoundly loved and grateful. I miss him.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Other big tech platforms have chosen to do full refunds when they shutdown. I'm thinking in particular of Microsoft- when they shut down their eBooks division, they issued a full refund for all their books and when they shut down Kinec
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by topkai22 4y ago
This was the most glaring flaw of the post. They almost got there when they started talking about the “transaction costs” but failed to acknowledge idle times. To drive this home to software development, if I’m blocked on a requirements cl
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by topkai22 4y ago
I’m not sure where there is a large demand for natural light amongst people who both can’t get it otherwise and are in a position to do something about it. Every home I’ve had (including starter apartments and a basement bedroom) was well
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by topkai22 4y ago
If iPhone cases are a waste of money, then Apple should feel comfortable including a 4 year warranty on the screen and case that includes physical damage, no? Oh, they don’t and even their premium $80 add on warranty includes a $30 deductib
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by topkai22 4y ago
Mostly because it gets it installed. I’m vaguely attached to a utility scale deal trying to happen. The land owners are interested, the utility is interested, and there isn’t much around the site. Still the details might kill the deal- they
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by topkai22 4y ago
Hockey. I always wanted to try it, but never lived near an ice rink till one opened up down the street. I’m having a lot of fun, although still can barely control myself, let alone the puck. I’m also spending some quality time with software
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by topkai22 4y ago
Good luck and enjoy! I truly believe that parenting has made me a better employee/worker/person. It’s taught me patience, the importance of saying no (and continuing to say no), empathy (and how correct or challenge someone even w
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by topkai22 4y ago
I used to commute by bus rapid transit. It was great. The buses were every 5-10 minutes during peak times, the stations and website gave spot on updates, the air conditioning always worked, the buses were clean, you had internet the whole w
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by topkai22 4y ago
This doesn't match up with my career. The worst manager I ever had was one of the better writers. One of the better managers I've had rarely wrote and when he did it was solidly mediocre. The difference between them was what that
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by topkai22 4y ago
Yeah, I was going to comment the same thing. I’ve lived in multiple regions where there is plenty large, owner occupant lots where the structure is a mobile home. The mobile home park/ground rent model is definitely not the only model
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by topkai22 4y ago
That assumes a perfect, friction less economy. I'm going to make some assumptions here, but to hire a baggage handler you'll have to 1) pass a background check 2) Receive training on airport safety, 3) be trained on how to load an
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by topkai22 4y ago
Lots of good advice in other comments, but a couple things I didn't see already that I will point out: Your work from home situation might be too isolating. Asking to move to more contact with others might give you more satisfaction, o

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