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What I've been hearing is companies going mobile first and only adding web later to support a broader demographic. Anyone able to confirm/disconfirm that?

I also had a bad experience with graphQL, or perhaps more accurately the Apollo client for it. I hated the namespaces on the code-generated classes and ended up manually wrapping t…

I agree that salary ranges are needed. I would add though, "leetcode" is also why companies struggle to hire. I avoid outright companies who use this as a filter, and cut the proce…

I couldn't agree more. I recently discontinued the process with a company over the leetcode garbage. Those things test one thing: how many of those puzzles have you memorized the s…

Absolutely yes. I've been developing professionally for almost 30 years. I still love making software and I'm good at it. When I started in this industry, being able to do it at al…

This proves that in the real world, problems are solved by research and thinking. Whiteboard leetcode crap is simply a test for "have you heard the trick for this one or not?"

The dealers brought it on themselves...many of them actively disincentivize EV purchases when you try to buy one. Why? They want to protect that recurring service bay revenue. Oil …

I agree with everything you said here. I've been severely disappointed with the psyche of man - we've discovered a large chunk of humanity doesn't believe in science and cares only…

> I think companies that break out of the leetcode habit are going to do well. > There's a lot of great talent out there that's being passed over by these tests. Agreed. And there'…

I understand your frustration. It becomes hard to find a job you can live with.

I've had some mixed experiences as an engineer without business skills. Some mistakes I've made attempting to go it alone: - Let a client go too long without paying me resulting in…

It’s absurd how huge engineering teams have become. Remember the twitter app was originally written by one guy - I bet that team has 50 people on it now, and it’s not better for it…

I have a similar experience level to your own, and I am equally horrified by today's interview gauntlet. This, coupled with exploding team sizes and heavy-handed process fads, have…

It was an off-the-shelf jailbreak solution, and I sprinkled it in over 100 places in the code. I read people on jailbreak forums expressing frustration that my app was "too hard to…

I was able to dig up the sales report. https://imgur.com/a/xE9UG1B

All those factors are plausible. If I can still get sales reports I will see if I can re-identify the dropoff and look for correlation. I will say it certainly -felt- like removing…

Correct, that was the app. It did reasonably well and tanked to near-nothing when DRM was removed, and to full nothing when TiVo finally released their own.

Kinda clickbaity. I sure own my Porsche EV. I don't have the daily thrills/hassles of the constant OTA updates, because they don't do them except for the radio. Not concerned about…

No effect? My own experience differs. I had an iOS product that was doing well, and it had some DRM to prevent jailbreakers. I had a legitimate buyer complain and after soul-search…

That's stupid. Mame 1.0 should have been the first public release to the world.

And still not version 1.0

I'm just over 50 and I'm finding it harder to stay in programming. Most companies want to push me upward into management (which I don't want to do) - and I feel like I'm aging out …

Can confirm. They don't care, at least my reps in Texas don't. I get form letters loosely related to the issue I complained about, and sometimes not even remotely related.

Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"

I made a Delphi component once. It was immediately modified in ways I disagreed with, renamed, and spread by someone else. The person who did this didn’t even have a conversation w…