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Breaking news by award winning journalist JON BRODKIN -

Google customer service does job, resolves rare scenario that computer did not handle.

In other news, utopian future not yet achieved.

You should really insist on a review. If you don't get feedback on how you're doing in your career, it's at your expense. My company has no formal process, I still force a review every year.

Also, I believe you should ask for a raise every year. Even if you've completely stagnated professionally, your salary is decreasing continuously with inflation.

Companies seem to take advantage of introverted people who are too afraid to speak up about perfectly reasonable requests, like clarifying your performance and goals. It definitely sounds like you're in that boat.

I second this, it's a nice story that programmers belong to one of these two categories, but I haven't seen it so black and white in practice.

It's also the most subjective; people drastically vary in what they value in their city. It seems like more money is the most universally uniform factor which is why it's treated as the main value focus of all these surveys.

Are you a bot? The comment you replied to made no mention of Waymo or stealing.

Languages like Scratch really shine in the 9-12 year old range where the goal is to get them playing with the core concepts of languages and inspire them to pursue computer science further on their own time. The end goal isn't to make them ready to work in the industry, and it definitely isn't to teach them typing and syntax skills, as those things become what "programming" is to them. Some people really only think of computer science as black magic, but Scratch helps them see the problem solving and joy of creation; the other parts can come once they have the drive to continue.

I don't think Scratch has much of a place in a high school classroom as a "beginner" language, and it won't help an already impassioned programmer who has his or her heart set out to pursue it, like the author. Production languages work better for that.

I started learning C as a kid and I was hooked, Scratch wasn't for me (and also wasn't around at the time). But now I teach kids in a volunteer program and they have trouble paying attention for long periods of time, they have trouble typing, and most of them haven't chosen programming as their career. They will either see the light or move onto other things. Fast-tracking them to the important concepts hopefully better informs that decision.

Unity has already developed their own AOT compiler.

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/06/an-introduction-to-ilcp...