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I mostly agree but I find modern software algorithms with "automatic" adjustment on the RAW tend to do a good job for the stuff I'm happy to have a lower quality JPEG anyway. It allows me to spend less time adjusting settings on my Camera, just load it into lightroom, auto-wb and auto-color tone and the jpg is "ready" to send.

I mean you're complaining about an ultra-low cost airline. why would you expect it to have a good customer experience?

I completely agree with this. Throughout my career people have always spouted the same crap about "cost of living" for an area. Unless you're barely surviving paycheck to paycheck, or your household is poor to lower-middle class (which imo should not be a common case for a professional Software Engineer), the majority of your spending should not location specific. Rent/Mortgage monthly payments are often recommended to be limited to about 28-30% of your gross income. It is almost always in your best interest to go for the higher income number (and location).

> The floor I'm on has 25-35 developers, DBAs, and BAs, and I can count on one hand the number of people who could get hired into a junior technical position at my employer. There are people who are unironically counting the days they have left until they can retire and draw their pension when they have more than 5 years left.

This pretty much sounds like the majority of fortune 500s I've worked for. Software Engineers started by being interviewed by non-technical managers, worked there for 20 years becoming 'Senior' or even 'Enterprise Architects', when at most they'd be very junior or intern level developers / engineers at my current employer.

Mostly agree with what you said, but just throwing this fun tidbit out there. The stated nm "size" of transistors are no longer accurate (and haven't been for some time). For example, when a company says it's manufacturing at 16nm or 14nm...that is the size in which the chip designs are drawn and planned, but the physical size dimensions are closer to 20nm. Same will be true when they go down to 10 and 7nm, it wont actually be a 7nm transistor in physical dimensions. And as far as lithography, right now they're mostly looking at "extreme" ultraviolet wavelengths but the problem is mass producing is not currently feasible with with how long it takes the photoresist to react. That being said things like quadruple patterning allow them to get pretty small with EUV wavelengths.

They already use germanium in their manufacturing processes. It's not all germanium because there are challenges that would create. There are also benefits to mixing a different sized atoms into the same lattice to affect the speed in which the electrons travel so modern manufacturing often implants germanium atoms into the silicon lattices. I do agree that material improvements can change everything so the often spouted doom and gloom of stagnation is often unfounded.

It's school. Use what they tell you to use. When you get into the real world at a company, you will get told to do tons of stupid crap you wont want to do. And you can learn to do it, or find a different job. If you want to be able to do whatever you want, become good enough at something to be your own boss (or be good enough to have a great job at a great company). And for you to do that, learning how to program from your teacher is not going to help. Learn python on your own and learn VB.net from your teacher. If you don't have the motivation to do that, you'll be stuck in bad jobs doing shit you don't want to do anyway, and clearly school has yet to teach you that vital lesson.

Oh to be a teenager again.

This was not specifically for showing my coding development but my computer setup. Linux on the left 2 monitors, Windows on the right 2 for VS2010 (dayjob).

http://www.provokedguild.org/images/rig/Pic8.jpg

I did the same. After 2 semesters of CS, I switched to Physics. I still work as a software engineer, but paying to not learn anything is a waste of time. Physics is much more interesting in academia.