Report back on how it goes at Amazon! We'd love to know :)

Also congrats and fuck those guys for not promoting you.

@grumpyoldaf too late. I went full 3b

@Nanos In the Open Space, everyone can hear you scream.

try{
...
}
catch(Weasley ron){
print ("haaaaaaarrryyy");
}

The first computer *I* owned, that was *mine* (because all the other teenagers were buying cars and trucks and I just wanted to surf the web) was a beast of a 486.

The guy that built it was a local dude that didn't put a cpu fan on it, so my computer would slow and slow and crash. I read a bunch online and figured out the issue, and was so proud of myself that I was DOOMED to play with computers the rest of my life.

This is cliche, but get exercise, especially cardio. I have the worst brain fog, and running solves it (and and I use to hate running).

The rush of oxygen is a bonus, but the body reacts to cardio with increased production of endorphins and dopamine. It's not something you can actually quantify, but I swear my cognitive ability increases to at least 400% after a good 20 minutes of exercise.

I could call in with a case of the "too many ice cream sandwiches flu" and they would give me the day off.

They do this because I work hard when I'm there and deserve the human respect of some flexibility, because I've earned it.

If they asked for a doctor's note they'd get my letter of resignation instead.

I'm so disappointed in Apple. The touch bar isn't optional, which means there's no 15" MacBook pro with an escape key and F keys, which means they've lost my business indefinitely

The Null Terminator (obvi)

@Commodore I have good news, you can have both! I am enraged by all of these things and more. :)

@alexbrooklyn it added about two minutes, and it's C#

Congrats! You've been given the opportunity to find something better! :D

... which is probably not how it feels now, but I bet you land on your feet just fine. :)

This is amazing thank you so much

Patching software is definitely a challenge.. but man, Ubisoft has some clams don't they? They can afford to wrestle with the big problems.

My favorite is, "why two days? It's just a button."

Yes, I understand what you interact with is a button. That button sequentially calls eight entirely new rest services, in sequence, and starts a CRON job and fires off a new Docker container which returns it's response after the entire machine stands up and the endpoint returns a 2xx success message.

So.. yeah. "One button."

@iAmNaN I don't think ageism is as big an issue for good devs. If you're good and can convince them of that fact there will always be a position for you somewhere.

@broseph I use to think of jobs as either winning or losing, and now I think of them as winning or learning.

You're stronger and wiser now. :)

Congrats man! Hopefully it was at least a good learning experience?

Offensive AND spam, wow

Where are you looking? Flexjobs.com and WeWorkRemotely tend to have a lot of great leads... also stack overflow's job postings.. indeed.com

You'll find something, just keep looking :)

maaaybe I can keep the peace, let's see if I can find some middle ground.

Apple is expensive shit and Samsung is slightly less expensive but more shit.

Am I doing this right?

Awe you caught me

Take up a job as a JavaScript developer. You will have to use the jungle of npm modules.

Bury your face deep into the bosom of madness.

C# is pretty great. I miss it now that I do Java 8 things.

Short for Felix?

I have never really worked from home full time, and it sounds like my dream job.

You have my sympathy, I feel similarly incarcerated.

I'm not saying these aren't useful. Team chat is a powerful tool I would never want to live without. If people used it exclusively for that purpose (and also sharing cat memes) I would love it.

It's the whispering about each other that bothers me.

@FrodoSwaggins oh good point... Let's omit that one from the record 😅

The dark side of this one is...

Developer: this is a really bad security vulnerability we need to fix.

Business: that sounds time-consuming and expensive, just work on the features you were assigned.

Six months later...

Sounds like you have no product management staff. They are a critical component.