ExDeveloper

If you make your employer look bad, you lose your job. Remember James Damore? His free speech embarrassed Google, so they threw him under the bus. Pride protests are no different.

The dollar is already worthless. It because fancy Monopoly money after we scrapped the gold standard.

I paid off my loans over a decade ago. I'd rather see a war on student loans than a war against Iran. It would be a better use of tax money and a massive economic stimulus.

How is this worse than the US tech industry? Silicon Valley loves autistic people as long as they're the right kind of autistic, the kind who will routinely get obsessed with their work and not mind being in the office 80+ hours a week.

Free (as in beer) tools from Microsoft like .NET Core and Visual Studio Code are too little, too late.

Why are corporations like Equifax even permitted to exist in their current form, and collect data on individuals with whom they have no direct business relationship without their informed consent? These breaches will continue until we learn that data is more dangerous to retain than nuclear waste.

I bailed because I realized that every tech job I have ever had was what David Graeber called a "bullshit job". I've since come to suspect that the vast majority of jobs are bullshit jobs, including my current gig as a sysadmin for a local hospital.

However, I have nurses and the occasional resident doctor actually telling me that I'm making their actually useful and beneficial jobs easier, which does wonders for my morale. The pay is pretty good, I get excellent health care, and as long as everything works as required nobody tries to micromanage me.

Leave development for the college kids who haven't figured out that being passionate about coding is a good way to get exploited. Become a sysadmin outside the tech bubble, and live a fully human life.