I was going to buy the Lego Star Trek enterprise, but it was sold out before I got there. Oh well, they saved me from myself with artificial supply restrictions.

Instead, I didn’t buy anything.

This is in a country with very high youth unemployment (19%) and still moderately high adult unemployment (8.3%).

God forbid the poor business owners hire a few more people.

Yeah, it is pretty great!

I’m building software to bridge an in house legacy system and a CLI program. It has 1 partial restful API endpoint (no delete, no patch/put). But it does have 3 cyber security suites including one that wraps the runtime. It is not a public API.

I have 4 meetings a week.

Did I mention I work from home?

Going on 22 days waiting for a firewall rule change so I can pull containers from the enterprise GitHub enlistment.

I’ve had discussions with 4 different OUs. Not one of them has been able to tell me why the firewall is different for this VM. There is no way for me to see the state of each and compare.

Yes, the bubble is a pure speculation (growth) game. As long as the new shiny makes more people want in on the stock (public or private) continually, share prices grow and the company has continued runway.

Eventually, private equity exits with an IPO and the public gets a chance to be left holding the bag too.

AI product pushing, absolutely. I actually fairly shocked there isn’t more. Probably because they can’t actually predict the output.

“You can do get the most efficient results at the lowest TCO with [insert vendor’s product]!”

But you get ai answers with Google now so… It’s basically the same.

An hour of ideal developer time. Too bad there’s only 3 of 4 of those per quarter.

It’s perfectly representative of the opinion asked for.

Getting down voted is hilarious, because we’re admitting “fuck you, this is actually awesome.”

I agree. I don’t need the truck part very often, but when I do, it is so nice. I got a BEV truck and it’s also stupid fast, especially for a truck. And it has outlets everywhere, 4x 110V 20A in the back plus a 220v 30A, and more 110V in the cab and the frunk! 130kWh of mobile power.

The suspension is sloppy, the tires are squishy. But I don’t mind that most of the time (I do wish the dampers were a just bit more aggressive).

Our first official date was opening night for the Nic Cage movie The Family Man. Married 3.5 years later.

Just remember that actual profit isn’t important to investors. They’re only here make money on the growth of the investment.

Goddamn parasites.

5B run rate explains the wild 183B valuation better. The calculus is usually a solid return after 3 years and double or better by 5, so they’re being on something like a 500B valuation by 2030.

And they very likely won’t be profitable in the real sense even then.

I see. That definitely makes 13B way more sane.

If it gives you any solace, we’re not in the device software group and don’t even interface with them.

$500 million in run-rate revenue

Absolutely astounding that they can raise $13B on a sixth round of funding on that.

For the less finance jargon savvy, “run-rate revenue” just means projected annual revenue.

All this means they spent 3 years of revenue to make this go away.

Absolutely not a profitable business lol.

I was a platform engineer for a cyber security company for 6+ years and had worked in another ramshackle garage-based startup before that. I was burnt out and angry all the time. On call for a week out of every month.

I recently got a job writing software fully remote for a medical device company with a single 30min interview with a non-technical manager.

They don’t even know how to use my skills well. My “mentor” can hardly write an Excel formula. My boss has once seen an excruciatingly simple app I made at someone else’s request. I built it in a couple hours. It has a file chooser button and a run button. Blew her mind. Multi-platform builds are now automated via CI/CD. I seriously over-deliver and they won’t ever know it.

I actually put in about 30 hours/week and bill 40. I have 3-4 short meetings a week to interface with a couple vendors. None of them, even my 1:1 with my boss is on camera. It just isn’t done. I get maybe 2 chat messages and 2 emails a day.

Easiest $150k/yr ever. And my spouse has great benefits through work.

Why the hell would I ever go back to “tech?”

Curling is probably a tough one to include for someone with a lung issue, at least as a newbie, and without significant modification.

It might work with the right team at a casual club level (I’ve done a “no sweep Saturday” team before). I don’t imagine OP taking to running up and down the ice most of the game while putting in some effort to sweep.

Using a stick delivery is another good way to reduce physical effort. Throwing takeouts alone can wind people.

And then there’s the yelling.

You might get away with throwing lead stones with a stick delivery and skipping for maximum reduction of physical effort even at a more competitive level.

Mongo DB popularized the “document DB” model which is just storing JSON in a database and offering a way to interact with it roughly like you would data in a traditional relational DB.

7ish years ago, they got fed up with the major cloud providers offering their free software as a service and changed their license to one that is more restrictive.

Of course this is sort of the inevitable outcome: a cloud provider builds a competing product and then “open sources” it in a way that will allow them to grab mind share and eventually erode the company that dared to demand compensation for a “free” product.

Microsoft added a middle finger by announcing it just before mongo released quarterly financials too.

The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…

Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.

But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.