Posts by johnribbon@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #1082420 by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2018-11-09T18:30:00Z
       
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       @baldur Terrifying that the macs seem to be less and less loved. Where's my "it just works" desktop going to come from in the future?I'd love it if it were Linux but... no love for UX, a fetish for dependency tree package management...
       
 (DIR) Post #1342607 by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2018-11-20T08:22:44Z
       
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       @archillect That's a freaking work of art. Halfway towards the sinews of a new type of organism.
       
 (DIR) Post #9i0bklEtTa5IpUHuLI by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-04-20T18:13:48Z
       
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       If aliens were planning to invade (and they happened to tell us beforehand) and there was only one political party in favour of doing something about it. I'd like to think we'd all vote for that party.But experience with #green parties around the world tells me that people continue to put nonsense non-issues ahead of world ending crises.Don't be an arsehole. Vote green in whatever country you're in until climate change stops being the biggest problem.
       
 (DIR) Post #9iFVew9L0gCw9ko6sa by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-04-27T20:54:34Z
       
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       @deshipu Usually, those people want to be paid a lot of money, are poor value as engineers and become managers or similar.
       
 (DIR) Post #9iFVewYVV6LBPoaD6u by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-04-27T21:45:07Z
       
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       @deshipu Poor value not because they're not good, but because they are too expensive. People in the later careers tend to want to be paid twice as much as younger engineers, but there are few applications where those engineers can deliver twice the value.After all, it doesn't take someone with 25 years of experience, including knowledge of assembly, C, etc, to knock out a few nodejs endpoints.
       
 (DIR) Post #9iFVews0Kbw8OHhmV6 by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-04-27T22:15:37Z
       
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       @deshipu Just my own experience and a kind of concensus among other people who have been in the industry a while.It is certainly true that older professionals want to be paid a lot more. It's also true that much of software development is routine and not demanding of that level of experience. So there are fewer principal level roles because you just can't justify them from a business perspective.That's all I got, no source as such. 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #9l4gG5xlS5H0QrgPDs by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-07-21T12:33:33Z
       
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       @fribbledom Patrick Stewart there with some extremely shiny young people.
       
 (DIR) Post #9l7AmaCLoWhvMW11vs by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-07-22T17:25:00Z
       
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       @fribbledom sounds like an arsehole to me. And you're right, you're using best practices.
       
 (DIR) Post #9l8n3VPoq9X0rrlu9w by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2019-07-23T12:08:33Z
       
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       @jwildeboer Here's hoping!
       
 (DIR) Post #9shnZbdunCkaSxmHOy by johnribbon@mastodon.social
       2020-03-05T18:33:40Z
       
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       @jwildeboer And then there's Russia. What's going on there?