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I'm a senior developer. I'm OK at my job and plan to retire in the next 5-7 years. I focus on delivering quality software that meets the needs of the users that I serve. That's it.…

Should all developers have work that is above average quality? It's OK to meet the standards of the job and not strive for greatness at your day job. The corporation you work for w…

IBM PCjr. Not exactly a regret. It was a family computer when I was a tween. They made the best decision they could based on the information available at the time. But it was not a…

> settled on racist teachers If the population of gifted kids is statistically over-represented by white kids, then one of these must be true: • The test doesn't measure giftedness…

Is this another fake like the Google bot that made reservations at a restaurant?

Forth. I learned it very late in my programming career which started with Java. It just feels like home in a way that no other language ever has. Mostly useless tho

I worked for an international company with more than 100,000 employees. They basically never stopped doing layoffs. It was just background noise all the time. I got laid off after …

My experience with over 25 years as a software developer is that the best way to optimize for salary is to switch companies every 3-7 years. There are risks. You either accept the …

Both of my adult children have foregone career paths for menial jobs (retail worker and admin stuff). So far, they are both really happy. Living their lives without stress or overt…

They did not announce they were working on affordable cars, or at least not a new model that would be more affordable than the models they have now. Musk pushed all questions about…

Thanks for that perspective. I haven't done any MacOS development.

I am an iOS developer and I haven't used ObjC in over five years. There probably isn't any reason to start a new app or library with anything other than Swift. So it's just going t…

These numbers include upward revisions for past months. You make a good point about these types of numbers. It's hard to get accurate and timely data in the field of economics, and…

The "ignorant hipster" comment is uncalled-for. There's nothing wrong with accessible tools. But I agree with all your points. With regard to point 4, if I download a desktop app f…

In the books, each civilization can have a hiding gene and/or an exterminating gene. At the beginning of the story, humanity has neither. The idea is that civilizations without the…

Chess is immensely more popular since Deep Blue beat Kasparov.

As an individual contributor software engineer, I've worked with offshore developers before and always found the experience unproductive. The problem is always management tells me …

I think many companies are anticipating a significant downturn in the economy and are trying to get ahead of it. Layoffs help stock prices almost immediately and management get bon…

I miss the chaos of Obj-C. Swift makes way too much sense.

Fair use also implies you legally acquired the content to begin with. They trained the data on pirated collections of text. If they had bought a copy of each magazine or book – jus…

It's a 50% rise in vacancy rate, which is literally not nothing. It has impacted the market for office building construction. Offices are starting to feel like malls: they exist an…

Son of a Senator hires grandson of a Federal Judge and they are the best investment duo in history. I bet the key to his success is on the bookshelf.

Meta can afford to keep Threads on life support forever. I use Threads daily and it's active and informative for me. It's not as good as Twitter, but much better than X for my uses…

LLMs might hit a wall. Any technology could hit a wall. ChatGPT could be the next Segway. But, like the Segway, LLMs are useful now. I think the impact of "stuff like ChatGPT" on s…