"Forget about your phone for a minute, look around and talk with people next to you."... I was ignoring those people long before I got a phone. Now I can pretend to look at the phone, and it's less rude.
... the banks can used borrowed money to help you drive the price out of your reach. All that money saved on amazon is soaked up by interest payments on your house.
Then the market crashes, the banks get the houses, and hold them off the market until the next crop of suckers is ready to pay too much for fear of being left out.
Similar experience... switched careers at 40 to game development, am 50 now, not having trouble finding work. I seem to be blessed with extended mental plasticity. I'm good at my work, and can demonstrate it. I've also kept fit, which helps tremendously with the first impression.
I do encounter quite a few people in their 40s that just won't move forward, and seem to have an ever growing list of things they won't do. They'll use seniority to try and justify that, through controlling architecture or just getting someone else to do the work they don't want to learn about. It's been kind of shocking. One assumes that everyone else is fairly similar.
... by that time, you have most likely developed some competence, and you can see the vast array of morons and fakers that surround you. You're confronted with a choice: Scream at them until they do the right thing, or just let things fall to shit. Either choice pays the same, so to shit things will go.
I pay thousands out of each paycheck to keep them from kicking my door down and dragging me off to rape camp. 20 bucks a year to not get probed is good value.
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Since when is "I don't know you, and I don't care to" a psychological disorder?
"Forget about your phone for a minute, look around and talk with people next to you." ... I was ignoring those people long before I got a phone. Now I can pretend to look at the phone, and it's less rude.
It will be blamed on the immigrants.
Speak for yourself. I make games to entertain all the people the other programmers have made idle.
They could... but they won't. They'll concentrate on fucking each other out of the scraps available to them.
Sure... but then the people that had the feature activated could use the fact that they activated it to shame people that didn't activate it.
You should be ashamed of such an oversight.
Why not just cohort all the cheaters together, and let them play by their rules?
... the banks can used borrowed money to help you drive the price out of your reach. All that money saved on amazon is soaked up by interest payments on your house.
Then the market crashes, the banks get the houses, and hold them off the market until the next crop of suckers is ready to pay too much for fear of being left out.
Rinse, repeat.
I want a pony, but I'm not going to get one.
... in terror, but will never be silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
That open plan bullshit is wasting billions. Let's pay people to think, and force them into a noisy fluorescent lit hellscape for the entire workday.
Advocates of open office need to wake up and smell the headphones.
Similar experience... switched careers at 40 to game development, am 50 now, not having trouble finding work. I seem to be blessed with extended mental plasticity. I'm good at my work, and can demonstrate it. I've also kept fit, which helps tremendously with the first impression.
I do encounter quite a few people in their 40s that just won't move forward, and seem to have an ever growing list of things they won't do. They'll use seniority to try and justify that, through controlling architecture or just getting someone else to do the work they don't want to learn about. It's been kind of shocking. One assumes that everyone else is fairly similar.
Free fuckings for all the latecomers!
The invisible hand has become the invisible fist. Asjust your expectations and bend over.
Dude... you missed the boobies!
If everyone is stupid, no one is.
Another one?
... by that time, you have most likely developed some competence, and you can see the vast array of morons and fakers that surround you. You're confronted with a choice: Scream at them until they do the right thing, or just let things fall to shit. Either choice pays the same, so to shit things will go.
Shine a light on them and they'll tapdance.
A trip to rape camp will take the wind out of your sails.
Fucking windows! Keeping whitey down!
I pay thousands out of each paycheck to keep them from kicking my door down and dragging me off to rape camp. 20 bucks a year to not get probed is good value.
Once you hit 45 you're fucked no matter what. Better be banking as much cash as possible along the way.
... you better show an interest in giving people 10% or better raises annually... or you're gonna be surrounded by noobs in short order.
Same as it ever was... except now every time I get a new job I get a 20k raise.