Age is also something that matters here. Are you middle-aged yet? I ended up pulling the brakes on my career to get a better work-life balance, but it ended up stunting my career trajectory a bit.

Once I had more free time and realized I wanted to earn more, I had to hustle to get back to a top-of-market position.

In short: there’s always time on the future to pivot to Option B. If there’s more value to extract where you are, milk it for all it’s worth and then exit before it goes south (as all jobs do).

I always feel like the features I’ve worked on become my coworkers or like pets. When a specific feature breaks often, I’ll think “damnit Frank! One of these days I’m going to patch that edge case once and for all!”

Then I patch Frank and he quiets down so I can focus on the next thing leadership wants.

You get to know these things and you put care into designing them (if you didn’t put care into them, you’d likely be a hack of an IT person). It’s always hard to see them go.

Sorry for your loss.

EY! I’m swimming’ ova here!

The payback is knowing that one day their kids will do the same to them, right ;)

The “slow mornings” one is my favorite.

I can’t even share this in the boys chat, but this shit made me cackle

One of the people briefed on the situation, a consultant advising the United States on encryption matters, said Apple would be barred from warning its users that its most advanced encryption no longer provided full security. The person deemed it shocking that the U.K. government was demanding Apple’s help to spy on non-British users without their governments’ knowledge. A former White House security adviser confirmed the existence of the British order.

Bloody hell - I’m encouraged by this because it means that Apple’s encryption actually frustrates governments, but anyone using iCloud for storage or backups is pwned.

Is this true? I thought it would be mushrooms because it’s hard to overcook them.

Likewise, shouldn’t you put garlic in before onions?

Edit: I feel like I’ve learned a lot today.

Yes, “Does this look the same to you?” Is strikethrough.

Couldn’t agree more. Good message, but pontificating as hell.

Gotta start the day early with some data scrubbing. One of our ETL processes is fucked and I’ve been tasked with figuring out how to fix it.

It reads as strikethrough text on my browser :(

Lemme see and judge too!

Maybe that’s her marketing plan to get more fans?

After the announcement of tariffs, world markets saw Canada and China’s markets drop a couple points and the US’s surged a couple of points.

If you knew that market shift was coming and had a few billion in international markets and sold while the US surged, you made a shitload of money (at least, “shitload of money” from my perspective, because I’m a poorsie).

And the bugs were (usually) reliable, so if you found a workaround on your own or just avoided causing the bug, you would get a consistent experience.

Now it feels like each deployment ends up breaking something new.

Yeah, the convenience of everyone having internet has shortened development cycles and meant everything is shipped with less testing and is available for constant rework/improvement.

It’s really nice sometimes to admire early software because of how cobbled-together it was and would still work well-enough.

A lot of people here say that your bother’s son is too young for a Switch.

I’d like to take a different approach and point out that you do a comparison between childhood when you were young and childhood for your brother’s son. You show (rightly) that you and your brother grew up well-adjusted even though you had video games in your life.

I would rebut that “growing up well-adjusted” probably isn’t the biggest concern of you brother. It’s probably more about how much harder it’ll be to get his son to engage with other things that are important to the family if the boy has the Switch as an ever-present alternative.

I actually think you should buy your brother a beer and ask him more about it (out of curiosity, rather than looking for an argument). The beer will probably help your brother limber up and you’ll get to hear him complain about what a pain in the ass it is to try and wrangle a kid.

But all of that doesn’t nullify that you’re trying to be a good and fun uncle, so thank you for that.

I don’t really know anything about China, so I really can’t say.

Yup. It’s phuckin awesome