>And to make things even more confusing, our engineers were all using the dogfooding version of Asana, which runs on different AWS-EC2 instances than the production version
... That kind of defeats the purpose of "dogfooding". Sure, you have to use the same code (hopefully) but it doesn't give you the same experience.
I just don't think value is only delivered over a 10 year period. It should take a decade (or 7 years) to get your initial 'reward'.
It doesn't make sense to be locked into something for a decade that may not even be the same in a decade. Just personal preference though, maybe someone will be up for decade of vesting.
My fiance works in a t-shirt printing shop and I work as a developer. I enjoy hearing about his work, he enjoys hearing about mine but we know neither of us could do what the other does.
Yeah... like I like this idea. I just don't know how sustainable it is. I am decent with money (Almost 0 debt, almost 1 month of expenses, etc) but I don't really feel like living in self-inflicted poverty.
I have done it before and I know I can do it, but I don't see the point in inflicting abject poverty on myself just so I am vaguely protected.
I understand what you are coming from, but really isn't for me. (Maybe when my income grows / I don't live in NYC...)
>You should save until you have at least two years
It is a little late to be doing this.
I have pretty bare-bones expenses (Fine, my apartment is 40% of my income) but I would struggle to save 24-months of expenses any time soon.
Unless you are making like $250k and living on $50k, I would say it is a little late to be stocking up to survive a downturn. I could do it if given probably 5 years, but I couldn't pull that off in 1 year.
I don't see how someone can rationalize that someone making $100k should have to have roommates.
I am not saying they need more money, but I don't understand how we have gotten to the point of chiding people making six-figures like they work at McDonalds and want a BMW.
>I want to fix something that's manifestly broken. I envy Elon Musk above all others, because he's seen terribly important things that were very broken, and had what it took to break all barriers to fixing them.
Here is the thing though: Elon didn't pop into existence as the founder of SpaceX or Telsa, or being involved in PayPal.
The way I see it is that he didn't just take the steps to break through the barriers, he took all the steps to get to the barrier.
No one glamorizes what it takes to get to being where Elon is (ok, maybe not a lot of people) but you have to start somewhere.
Sure. Writing an app isn't going to save the world, but maybe if you can fix just one little bitty problem (even if it is just other people's boredom!), maybe you can take that little bit of leverage / money / whatever to move on to something even bigger, ad infinitum. :)
First off, I agree. I agree that everyone who continually says "programming" is dying and in 5 - 10 years, "AI" will be writing code (or whatever else they can dream up) have no idea what they are taking about.
Programming is definitely going to get easier and I don't doubt that it will become a common skill.
I just doubt this idea that professional programming is a dying art or something. It is just silly to say that because tools that lower the barrier of entry are becoming more common, that the entire profession will soon be dead.
(Also, I am like 75% sure that it was a sponsored article to advertise for the company named in the article)
Pretty sure Singapore gives the death penalty to drug dealers. Maybe even drug users, but I do know at some point the minimum punishment for any drug dealing was death.
Is that a bad thing or a good thing? Like, have all your previous places closed, exited, what?