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I still use my System76 Gazelle Pro laptop I bought in 2014. The battery lasts for barely an hour but the machine still works great and is still my daily driver for my personal use. The plastic feels a bit cheap but it has held up just fine.

To an extent, I agree. At the same time, Karen may be in a similarly desperate situation. While the morally correct position would be to stand up to what is obviously wrong, Karen may need the paycheck to feed her kids. Karen herself is a row in a spreadsheet that the powers that be could replace in a heartbeat.

I'm not suggesting that this is any reason to support evil policies but I try to be sympathetic to struggles I may not be aware of.

Sure, the USA is in the top five in terms of median income. They are also tied for first for having the highest cost of living.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-l...

Tetris-clone in vanilla JS with some interesting game modes I haven't seen before.

https://www.openhab.org/ is a pretty established one (written in Java). Although if you're interested in one that isn't established and is very open to tweaking I've just refactored my home automation system and if other people were interested it would help my motivation to keep working on it (written in Go): https://github.com/alittlebrighter/igor

My apologies, I'm in Pittsburgh in the USA and currently making 90k just for front-end work. According to the research I've done, 120k is on the low end for senior devs across the nation and perhaps just right, maybe a tad high for my local area.

I'm mostly looking at remote jobs (There aren't a lot of openings at the smaller companies I'm applying to in Pittsburgh but of those I mostly haven't even gotten past the resume screen). I told them I was shooting for $120k/year although I was flexible. I've probably submitted 50ish applications so far.

Ah, so disappointing that I need a Facebook account to read this. The joy of missing out.

This, I've gotten pretty fed up with my current company because management just hands out work with no real explanation. Even more frustrating is that any significant technical design work is done in closed door meetings where the only people invited are development and product managers.

I've stopped giving feedback and I'm nearly at a point where I've stopped being interested. It frees up my mind and motivates me to work on my own projects on nights and weekends so I can actually have a say.

I've found that most people are friendly enough to engage in light conversation. I agree that going any deeper than that has become much more difficult due to people becoming used to the barriers social media provides. In my experience though, I have to be willing to be authentic, and in a way vulnerable, before anybody else will open up. That is the only way to create real relationships IMO.

Good education should teach fundamental principles and theories that apply to every real world scenario within a domain. Unfortunately the push for "real world" education seems to have won in a lot of places. So you get people educated in how to solve very specific problems and are completely lost when any of the parameters are changed.

Thanks, #1 has been what I've been doing so far. I'll have to think about how #2 and #3 would work in my context (fairly small company).

This was my experience with the job I'm at now. I was hired as a "full stack" developer and when I got here I learned I was the only one on my team comfortable working on the back-end. The team is small and very much the opposite of the ideal scenario he talks about in the article (people have their specialties and are only willing to pick up work within those specialties). This has actually given me an opportunity to create a niche for myself where I am able to jump into just about any project at any point in the stack.

As war1025 noted, this is not true. People in tech are the most likely to have access to remote work that pays very well. I bring in the only income while my wife stays home with our two boys (6 and 3). I live in Pittsburgh, PA and worked remotely for a startup based out of SF until they ran out of money late last year and picked up a job in downtown Pittsburgh pretty quickly after that. I wouldn't say we're swimming in money but we are comfortable and don't have to check our balance for most purchases.

I'm not entirely sure but the mechanic I trust said it was probably a bad master cylinder. That or just needed to change the brake fluid. It was definitely freaky because I like to think I do a decent job of keeping up on maintenance.

> Maybe the bad drivers can be given feedback that will tell them what things they can do to minimize their accident rate based on the GPS data

The issue here and my concerns with GPS trackers in general is if they are seen as providing valuable insight to how a person drives. This simply is not the case because so much of driving is context dependent. A few weeks ago, my brakes gave out briefly and I swerved sharply into the shoulder of the on-ramp I was on and finally came to a stop in the median between the on-ramp and the road I was trying to merge on to. Purely from GPS data that looks like erratic and dangerous driving when in reality I saved the insurance company money by managing to avoid hitting anything with my car.

I've not used those two but have always had success with

- https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr

I like that it allows you to `go run` without changing any code.

I'm the author of coach and I'd love to get some feedback on the tool. In the process of building both the tool and the website it has been enormously helpful to get small reminders to save various commands I'm running so I can search for them later. Once they're saved and I start using them I usually end up turning them into full-blown scripts that have saved me a ton of time.

I've used https://github.com/stianeikeland/go-rpio to control my garage doors and this library https://github.com/kidoman/embd has some more advanced features which I've used for a thermostat solution.

Project: An open source home automation solution. Currently, I have code for a thermostat (https://github.com/alittlebrighter/thermostat), garage doors (https://github.com/alittlebrighter/rpi-garage-doors, android client: https://gitlab.com/igor-automation/garage-door-remote-androi...), and a bare bones webcam (code inside of the garage doors repo). Planned features are a unified client for each service and then remote control via encrypted configurations stored in Firebase.