This is okay. Sometimes it's all you can manage. Honestly I've been going through a bout of something for about a year.
I'm fully functional 5 days a week at work but not when I am home and not on the weekends. At the moment, my apartment is a mess. I keep saying I'll get to it and at some point I will.
The thing that I had to learn to do was to not punish myself for failing to meet my own expectations. It isn't helpful.
As in another post, I’d suggest buying any router, taking it apart, identifying the flash chip, find the write-enable line in the data-sheet and MITM that line with a flip switch to block updates at all times.
That's actually a really good idea! I would love to see this built-in to future router models after something widespread like this. It's fairly reasonable to force users to be physically present to update. Plus, you could force them to flip the switch back by not working until the write-enable line is disconnected again.
There is another way to look at this. In the current economy, anyone who wants to can get IT and programming skills and get a pretty good job. In fact, IT in general is a pathway to wealth, which is open to anyone, and leads to more wealth than many other career paths. You can be a 17 year old Javascript expert a get a $200k job without going to college. All the training materials you need to do this are online, for free. You need a $200 Chromebook, a Wifi connection, and some kind of ambition or drive.
A 17 year old JavaScript "expert" with a $200k job is such an outlier that it, quite frankly, is not worth mentioning.
Those "experts" are generally (statistically) not born, they are created. From strong education systems and strong social safety nets. If those are public and available to everyone, those "experts" obviously become more prevalent than if they are only available privately to a few.
Yeah, not any more. Maybe in 1999 you could come in as a high school dropout and make an easy six figures since you truly were better at this "internet stuff" than the vast majority of the older IT folks.
I doubt we're in for another massive technology shift like that though in our lifetimes where toys turn into business tools exceedingly rapidly. AI is about the only one I could think of, and the barrier of entry there is far higher than the $150k/yr 17 year old webdev job of olde.
They were outliers, but they certainly existed within my friends group. Those that built independent websites/marketing/etc. did even better, and built rather good careers out of them over time. Many are now retired or semi-retired in their 30's.
Those doors have since been firmly slammed shut though by those who came afterwards, now you are gated by the HR dragons from most jobs.
It was a unique point in tech history I doubt will be re-created, but it's easy for those who lived it to think things are still like that. I got lucky to experience that and "come up" at the right time being interested in the right things. Today I'd have zero chances being unable to afford college. The competition is much more fierce as well.
I have CS degree, I interviewed recently in Chicago burbs. Junior income is around $60k to $80k......where do I sign up for these $200k Javascripts jobs?
You're not getting hired if you don't have a minimum acceptable grasp of writing and communication skills, which are sorely lacking in most of the US unless you were raised by parents who taught that to you.
It's not really open to anyone. You have to be pretty smart to do well in IT. Not a genius by any means, but definitely in the top half of the IQ distribution.
And it applies to other fields in the so called 'knowledge economy' as well. How many people in a given developed country really can actively participate because they have the required aptitude, geographical luck and resources for education? 30- 40%?
The Atlantic addressed this in an article a while ago. Just waving away the disenfranchisement of large parts of the population because they're unable to work mentally tasking jobs erodes human worth.
au contrair -- people who control financial contracts get paid to pay others less.. people who monitor and exert management on others, get paid to monitor them more.. and, there is always someone in this Big Big World that is willing to work for less money.. people get paid to find those people
To really get my respect he needs to kill off ads in the Windows start menu and the pervasive Cortana surveillance.
To really, REALLY get my respect: I would like to see Microsoft be a pure, best-practice software company. Do GREAT things independently of Windows. Make native Mac applications that are truly great. Make a better Mac application than Apple can. Make better iOS apps. Be a champion of Linux. and so on. Strive for greatness on every platform, embracing that platform's uniqueness.
I wasn’t aware that this was an old school Apple vs Microsoft debate. But alas.
I don’t know if you’ve actually used the latest Office for Mac. It’s better than the older versions, but it’s still obvious that MS isn’t fully proficient in macOS development. For starters, the interface doesn’t respect the scaling settings on my 5K iMac. I’d expect that sort of shoddy UI from Steam or something.
The fact that iTunes for Windows is trash doesn’t change this fact at all, so I don’t knkw what you’re getting at.
I think Microsoft IS doing great on other platforms, and even open-source stuff. Of course I'm blinded by having a fanboy level love for them.
Except Windows 10. Reading Raymond Chen's blog, I was always led to believe Microsoft wanted to give the user the power, no matter what, even if it mean shooting yourself in the foot. Windows 10 seems to be the end of that. Stop taking away my power as a user Microsoft. I paid for the damn computer, don't act like it's your property.
