I’m shocked at what an unpopular thought this is. Like… If you go out in public, there’s a very real risk that people in public will see you. If that’s a concern you have, then you should take steps to not be seen in public. To me, that would mean not making my presence obvious when visiting a bar.

Camera or not, if people are looking for you, they will find ways to look for you in public places. You should always assume you’re being watched, because you probably already are.

I could do without most of Oregon too

• 7 felt like it was mine

I remember that marketing campaign. Windows Vista had a shaky launch, because the hardware manufacturers hadn’t polished the Vista-compatible drivers yet. 6 months later, they had caught up, but people still had a bad taste from it.

So when service pack 1 came out, Microsoft made a reskinned version of it and started an ad campaign with “customers” claiming “Windows 7 was my idea!” and the public ate it up.

I have such bad things to say about recruiters. They generally don’t have a clue about any of the skills related to the jobs I’m after, and they take a huge cut of the pay the entire time I’m working the job.

On the other hand, the two best jobs (highest pay and best working environment) I’ve had in my career, I got through recruiters, so I acknowledge them as a useful business when it works out. The last one has led to the company buying my contract and hiring me directly for the past 12 years

Right, that’s really more of a Steam issue than a Bethesda issue. I get why Valve and Bethesda don’t want to provide customer support for old versions, but they don’t have to. People have been figuring out their own problems when using obsolete systems or software for a long time.

I have no issue with Steam pushing the updates and encouraging you to take them, but giving no way to decline is a pretty poor user experience. Especially when we already know they keep old versions on their servers, as people have made guides on how to downgrade with Steam

The mods that weren’t backwards compatible were primarily the ones that depended on the script extender. This was an unsupported executable that expanded on the commands available to the scripts in the mods.

Not to say unsupported is bad, but everyone was well aware that if they depended on the script extender, they would break if the game updated at all. The biggest mods avoided that dependency for exactly this reason, and really didn’t have any trouble. (Sim Settlements still worked the entire time, for example)

And like usual, the community stepped up and updated their unsupported extension quickly, ready for this outcome.

If you made a mod that depends on the script extender and then quit playing the game or supporting your mod, that was a choice you made as a modder. Meanwhile there’s mods that haven’t seen an update in 8 years that continue to work without issue.

The mods that updated for the first update were already updated within 24 hours of the next one.

The only mods that are still broken now are mods that were made and maintained by people who have stopped playing the game some time ago.

And even most of those still work, if they didn’t rely on the script extender

Eh? I thought we had the date of this update a couple of weeks in advance. I don’t think any more notice would have helped get the mods updated faster when many of the modders just don’t play anymore

I couldn’t imagine tying myself to a single category for my whole career.

I’ve done front end, back end, database, web, Windows, and Linux development. If the job calls for learning something new, I’m on it. These days I’m making datacenter software for admins to use to manage their distributed applications. Before this, I was doing the same thing for factory automation at the edge.

Specializing has its value, but the more flexible you can be, the more useful you will be when the landscape changes and your boss suddenly asks you to set up an AI system or something.

Ah right, the “how about we compromise and just have a little genocide” option

I don’t understand how you got that from the image.

Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments

COBOL is a good example, you can’t just learn the language and expect the high paying job offers to pour in. If you can land a job, it can be good, but generally it’s not the language you need to be proficient in, and more the entire legacy system.

But really the point isn’t that Java will die, but more that programmers need to be adaptable. Sometimes you just won’t find the jobs in your niche and you need to show you can do something else. Sometimes your methodology grows out of fashion and companies want to try something new. Sometimes, competition is just plain stiff and you need to demonstrate that you’re good for whatever the next project will be.

For most of my job interviews, they were far less interested in my proficiency in a given language, and more interested in my understanding of the design concepts, or the technology we were trying to make use of.

But hey, if someone does manage a whole career in one language, it’s a sweet spot to be in. I’m not knocking it, I just don’t expect that to be typical.

Generally speaking, I think pigeonholing yourself into one language or technology is a bad move. The technology is changing all the time, and Java isn’t always going to be in demand. In my last 12 years at my company, I have gone from PHP, to C#, to C++, to Java, to Go. At some point it’s not about the language, because languages are easy to pick up.

This sounds like a great chance to learn new things and grow in your career as a developer, rather than just staying in one specialization.

But if you really don’t like the work they have for you, then that’s reason enough to move on. Looking for a new job is always better when you don’t immediately need it, so it can only help you to start now.

Not quite this, but I did have a validation team that didn’t know when to quit.

The project was a Windows service, and they would be constantly opening bugs saying “program crashes when we deleted xxxxx.dll”

Like… Yeah. If you delete necessary libraries from the installation directory, the program won’t run correctly.

While Calvin in a Crowder meme is better than Crowder in a Crowder meme, maybe we just don’t use a Crowder meme at all?

There are several others that convey basically the same message

I feel like I was watching a very different situation than the rest of you were.

First off, the antiwork subreddit didn’t actually accomplish anything. It was mostly people complaining about bad/illegal practices at their jobs, and literally nothing changing.

Second, things didn’t die after that mod appearance. It drew attention to many users that the mods had a different goal than they did, but that didn’t change the atmosphere of the posts for very long. The work_reform sub did become more popular, and antiwork still kept getting just as many people complaining about bad practices.

And neither sub got people organized, neither sub changed attitudes, and neither sub made a difference.

I’m a programmer, which is in a pretty bad spot if you’re looking for work right now.

I was laid off in January and had to start looking again. While it’s important to be able to demonstrate your skills, the only way I got an interview for my new job was by being referred by an old colleague. Turns out maintaining relationships with people who can vouch for your work is a very big part of the process.

Mine don’t fit, but they both try just the same.

The younger one uses it as a means to tell me he wants attention or food

I was laid off this year. I’m a 25 year veteran programmer, and not to brag in the sea of tech folks we have here, but I am rather proud of my skills I have picked up over the years.

My first interview this year, they set up an online development environment and had me solve a fairly simple array sort problem, and I completely choked. Something about being watched and judged while I worked broke my brain.

I managed to ace my next interview, but they didn’t bother with the programming exercise at all.

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