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Off topic: The pandemic has been wonderful for my gi tract. Constipation driven by office bathrooms problems where a regular concern. I would really try to time bowel movements so …

I picture the peak when the moons of Jupiter are full with a thriving civilization. One trillion strong under one government. Building the ships that take humanity to other stars. …

I can't see the US ever adopting a single payer health care system. However I do think they could adopt a health care justice system. The US cares a lot about justice, and free mar…

The quote here is the main point. "But if you want to engage with 20+ exchanges, to go to market quickly, and implement continuous performance tuning, you'll choose Java." The amou…

I just wanted to add an another perspective. I had a great private office with a door that closed, and a quiet work environment. My home office is also a nice dedicated room and we…

Frameworks make hiring a bit easier it's true. I'm amazed at the number of developers who can't seem to cope with working with custom in house frameworks. I'm talking about fully w…

I think I understand your point. It's more back to the mainframe model of software development. I did this back in the 90s and I never had to think about scaling. Granted these wer…

As a GenX in the 90's my money went to: - Going to the movies - Going out for fast food - Renting movies - Renting video games

Any developer worth their wage tests. After writing any code I run the program to test the change I have made. I make sure the code is exercised either by logging, debugger, or cle…

I feel the change that has happened is that managers _had to_ figure out managing remote workers. Before when remote work was not 'working' you could fall back to in person. That i…

47 here, coding professionally since I was 24. No management, and no plans for it. While ageism exists in some places, I don't find it to be an industry wide problem. At the end of…

I would like to add, automation comes in stages. Some jobs are eliminated, then more, then more. I just don't see any of that happening in software. Yes the tools change, but the n…

I've been maintaining a complex web client for 14 years. Every single time we have used a framework it has made development harder, and more fragile. In addition within a few years…

To me I simply have never seen this before. I remember SARS, and H1N1. There was a big media blitz about both, but that was it. With this I am seeing cities / countries on lockdown…