jronsomers

That is awesome and you are able to buy a house like that, especially a brand new build (to your liking). However, I want to mention it seems you are in the right place at the right time. Your case is an outlier in my opinion and I'm happy you are taking advantage of it. Especially considering that it is in a great school zone. I just felt that this isn't normal, even for the Midwest (which is where i can only imagine you are).

That is a neat 'home warranty' thing you have though. I've never seen that before. Whenever I own a home, that sounds enticing to have.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. This could be a good thing by saving celebrities the need to appear perfect everywhere.

However, I feel like this could be a whole new ball game in terms of setting unrealistic expectations (not that they aren't doing that anyway with photoshop). But if it is transparent that these IG models are virtual and not real, maybe that will help kids understand that real humans can't look as perfect as a virtual model and that helps them create realistic expectations?

edit: I suppose they could also use virtual models and fatten them up / give them more acne to make them more 'realistic'

I would assume the compensation for a software engineer with 20 years of experience vs one with 5 years considering the output each of them can do. I would assume the younger software engineer can do as much 'typical' programming work as the older one for less pay.

However, I feel the older software engineers shouldn't be writing as much as the younger guy but should be utilized for architecture purposes, handling requirements with clients or internal product people, and even mentoring while having some programming tasks. I think that is where they really earn their significant compensation and bring much more value to the company.

We just need a death star.

You don't consider real world work experience relevant when hiring? Just side projects or contributions to open source projects?

That seems like you're looking for someone who lives and breathes programming. Do you have something against developers who work 40 hours a week and instead of programming as a hobby as well, they do other, non-tech, things for their hobby?

There is also the PATH to consider if you're going to mention 'one subway ride away'.

You're hitting the nail on the head here. When I interned at Intel, they constantly said that even if you aren't happy in your current role once you are full time, you can always transfer teams and do something wildly different since the company is so large. So you can effectively 'job hop', but within the same company.

Those emergency services are very convenient when it comes to flood warnings, tornado warnings, and even amber alerts. I am personally very glad to have them.