> why you're not getting the results that a lot of us are talking about?

IMO the problem occurs when "the results" are hyped up linkedIn posts not based in reality, AI is a boon but it's not lived up to the "IDEs are a thing of the past, youre all prompt engineers now" expectations that we hear from executives

I spent the last 18 months unemployed and on WA "Apple Care", wasn't terrible, got me into the doctor for an ultrasound and into the dentist for an extraction at no cost to me.

  Location: Bonney Lake, WA
  Remote: yes, please
  Willing to relocate: no, thank you
  Technologies: Typescript, React, Node (and lots of the associated tooling and libraries)
  Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/3JI3Pq0
  Email: (see resume)

  ~8 years experience frontend development (with some fullstack mixed in)
  ~8 years experience systems & network administration

I'm Don, an experienced frontend developer seeking a role working with Typescript and React/Node. Capable full stack and familiar with servers and networks. Passionate about my craft and personal growth.

fwiw `handbook.flexpa.com` seems down

barely related but I used to commute 60/90 minutes for an entry level tech job in orange county (I lived inland where it was more industrial and was chasing opportunity). Sometimes we'd have client network outages that left us in office until late night/early morning, twice I tried to sleep at the office instead of driving home.

first time was in my car and was kicked out of the parking lot by security, I probably should have protested more

second time was curled up against a wall in our equipment room, and the poor cleaning lady let out a shout when she discovered me haha

on one hand a company hotel seems kind of perverse to me, on the other its cheaper than the super 8 was in 2010, and I probably would have taken a $99 room over the commute every now and then

> I probably would have taken a $99 room over the commute every now and then

Your employer should have done this for you, and paid the bill. At some point there is liability as it’s a safety hazard.

Large employers in Germany will enforce the max 10 hour rule for non-managers not from the goodness of their hearts or because they don’t want to be stuck paying overtime, but because here, they have a good chance of having at least some of the liability if you are involved in an accident.

When my skip-level’s boss spotted me in the office at 7pm during a very serious outage, and told him that I’d been there since 6, he commended my efforts and insisted I take a cab home and have them bill the company directly, no matter how far away home was, and stated that I was under no circumstance to set foot on company property before 8am the next day, and that I needed to have at least 10 hours between arriving home and leaving for work the next morning.

Wonder if it's tsconfig 'strictNullChecks', I think by default it's false, takes a lot away from the typesafety

I worked on a codebase missing it once and when I went to turn it on there were thousands of errors to fix so we left it off

looks like its a website monitoring the subreddit statuses with a handful of them having already gone private

Ah, my mistake. I wasn't aware some subreddits had already started, thought it was supposed to start tomorrow.

The fun has begun ;)

It's also tomorrow in some countries already!

"paid huge money to literally write if/else"

"most programmers are in denial about how complex the code they’re writing actually is"

I can taste the salt

From a front end perspective I think the selling points I see pitched for these new server side frameworks are "SEO" and "speed".

SEO I personally think is a questionable motivation except in very specific use cases.

Speed is almost compelling but the complexity cost and all the considerations around how a page is structured (which components are server, which are client, etc) does not seem worth the complexity cost IMO. Just pop a loading animation up in most cases IMO.

I think I'm stuck somewhere in the middle between old-hacker-news-person yelling "lol were just back at index.html" and freshly-minted-youtube-devs going "this is definitely the new standard".

I think your interpretation of "free as in beer" is the opposite of the mainstream (where my understanding is it means "free of charge")

It is - but the mainstream “free as in beer” makes no sense. Who gives away free beer? Beer is free as in libre, not free as in gratis!

But you’re correct - the mainstream meaning of that term is the opposite - which I find bizarre.

I think it makes sense in the "beer is tangible" and "speech is not" sense (to my brain anyway). If I saw a "free beer" sign in a window I'd probably be inclined to think (albeit suspiciously) that there might be a frosty mug inside at no cost to me. Whereas if I saw a "free speech" sign, I'd assume they support my right to say whatever I want (or I suppose maybe that there's a lecture going on inside with no admittance fee).

We all got different brains though, shoutout learning from others perspectives, ty for sharing yours.

There's nothing to learn from his incorrect perspective. It means available at no cost.

> It is - but the mainstream “free as in beer” makes no sense. Who gives away free beer?

The quote references it because it is (or was) a cliché promotional offering.

Try this on for size: "open as in bar".