Boston does not require a car. Got rid of my car 10 years ago.
Only problem is that rent is more expensive near the subway. But we have buses and many many international workers and students. Very livable without a car.
Get out of their job for $5k? I agree I may be used to an area with a higher cost of living, but folks don't win $5k on Wheel of Fortune and think "now I can finally pursue my dream of becoming a poet."
I don't use it all the time. It takes extra effort and energy to set up and 'get into' a VR game that sometimes I just don't want to expend. And it's a very singular experience.
HOWEVER, without a doubt it has provided some of the most amazing experiences I've ever had in gaming. Get your VR legs and play through Resident Evil 7 and Skyrim VR and tell me that it's just a gimmick. No way.
And don't forget the chicken-egg problem. People see it as a fad because the majority of games are smaller 'tech-demo' types, but of course very few companies will invest much money in something available to only 5% of the gaming market.
Resident Evil 7 is the exception, and my God is it an amazing experience.
This really comes down to what you expect from the product and what your use case is.
I don't want something to select music for me. I listen to whole albums. I want to be able to search or an album or an artist and listen to one of their albums. Not a playlist that might feature them.
I hated Spotify's UX because it felt like it was hiding all of its music and trying to force me to listen to what it wanted me to hear.
The entire iTunes catalog free for me to listen fits my needs exactly.
I've never worked for a company that said "we are going to use technology that takes twice as long to implement new features."
Even when I worked in a boring industry like advertising and banking they expected things to be done by next sprint and were very accepting of the instability tradeoff.
I'm not saying that they're thesis is wrong: boring but stable software is a Very Good Thing, but it's not just us devs wanting to use the latest and greatest that's driving such quick tech adoptions.
Whoa! Whoa! Are you suggesting that the end experience with a programming framework might depend on the details of your specific project and should not be inferred from general blog posts? That's insane! /s
Ohhhhh, now I understand why that one ex-coworker that 'follow' stars about 20 projects a week. I always used them as bookmarks and I couldn't believe that they ever were going to use that many things.
This American Life did an entire episode about correcting one of their earlier episodes when they found out that the individual had made up many of the details. Honestly, the retraction episode was better than the original one:
I try my hardest not to do any 'grading' based on someone's github, but instead use it as a reference of what I can expect when the candidate gets to the interview. There's always a feeling out point at the beginning of the interview. I don't want to waste time hashing out things they clearly understand and likewise I don't want to throw them something over their head. Looking at their Github helps give me a starting point.
Yes yes yes. It never made sense to me that our ticket sizing was supposed to be an estimate and yet the planning that used those estimates was considered a commitment. Totally insane.
The most important thing is to communicate how you were able to add value to the company. Translate your role into the services and value it added. Think about any big projects or major impacts you had and highlight them. Even if it's fixing some big bug or rewiring something, focus on what the effect was.