Let me guess. You're one of those the article talk about, who doesn't know what homeopathy is.

Just in case: natural products, herbs, and all kind of old school medicines are not homeopathy.

Homeopathy exclusively refers to some absurd ritual involving diluting a tiny spec of something into water until its so diluted there's virtually not a single molecule of the original left.

There has never been an homeopathic remedy that ended up as a "standard" medicine. All it is is distilled water. Nothing else.

If you live further out you usually want to work remotely though. If you work for a local company, salary just matches cost of living, so you may not make significantly more.

Live in the middle of nowhere while working remotely for a company in a big tech hub, and getting the same salary as they give locals though? CHACHING!

Except burning taxpayer money and getting as much budget as possible to do it is one of the hidden goals here. Cost cutting need not apply.

The time your devops will take to setup that stuff, unless they're way underpaid, is almost not worth it. Github also has brand recognition.

Regardless of whats worth it or not, a TON TON TON of companies are using private github repos or github enterprise. Maybe it doesn't make sense, people still do it.

Company i work for does it. And its not that we don't do VPS. We spend more money in hosting and VPS than we do on payroll (a few hundred employees, mostly engineers). Even if you just go and dump git on a host (thats what I do at home), you don't get all of github's features. You -can- easily get all of it with free tools, but thats work, and its debatable if its better (its better in some ways, worse in others).

The enterprise plans aren't cheap, and private github repos are pretty popular with startups (of which there's a bazillion of them now).

Of course they aren't going to get 222/user per year. If they did, their valuation would be 5-10 billion, not 2. No company makes their entire valuation in revenue every year.

Significant to have scientifically sound data, yes.

Significant to understand the problem, no. I just have to take a look outside to realize that even adjusted for muscle mass/body fat percentage would be an insignificant ripple in the data.

There's a lot of companies that shouldn't exist, or some that are artificially inflated. The demand for engineers is absurd, so companies, even the big ones, are hiring countless pseudo-engineers with little experience, no degrees (not that you can't be good without one, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt... I myself am doing fine without), or just bad.

They don't get fired because companies want every hands they can get.

When things get back to reasonable levels, those people will be without jobs. Just be better than them and you'll be fine.

Of course, in places that DONT want it, restaurants, apartment buildings, condo associations....people will STILL do it. People smoke leaning on no-smoking signs all the time.

This is why these things never work. It would be so beautiful, if it was as simple as "I own this establishment, people can do whatever within my set of rules, as long as it doesn't affect people outside". But people never, ever follow those rules (in either direction), and its very hard to do things that stay within your place (MJ smoke reaches fucking far and leaks through everything).

Thus why its so damn much more complicated. People for it will often do it ANYWHERE, accepted or not, private or public... people against it will be affected no matter where they go. Everyone's losing no matter what.

ie: I live in a condo community (a couple of buildings) on a private street (as in, a fairly long stretch of road that we have to pay to maintain, the city doesn't touch it). Hundreds of people a day go through it even though its a private area, no amount of signs or barriers stop anyone, the city/cops won't do shit about it. And because I'm in an extremely liberal area, a huge percentage of the trespasser are smoking weed as they do. And since the smell has such an insane range, the whole area constantly smell like pot.

NOT FUN.

Just get a certificate and sign the script. If you're gonna be distributing it to users who: A) aren't on a network you control (else you'd be able to change the policy via the network), and B) aren't technical enough to run the command (thus, definately not good enough to make sure your script isn't malicious), you really owe it to them to sign it.

No, its not expensive. Don't pretend it is.

Hmm? I feel there's a permanent, continual pull toward management as you gain experience, mainly because all the newbies need some guidance, and with the half-life of the industry being about 7 years (that is, by 7 years half of people in software just drop out for something else), there's very few people who can do it.

That also has the issue that GOOD senior engineers are impossibly rare: of all the ones who didn't drop, a big chunk become managers, team lead, etc. A few do both at the same time. Those are the best, but they're rarer than rare.

At every company I worked at (about 15, from tiny startups to some of the largest companies in the world), it always took a "I stay a dev/architect, and you're going to compensate me for my experience, or I quit" deal to not be given so many direct reports or products to own that I don't have time to code anymore.

The design and usability field in general is going to hell. Once upon a time, people actually sat down, did usability studies, thought about how humans deal with computers, how our eyes, ears, and hands work.

There was strong science behind some of these user interfaces, how the icons were shaped, how things were worded... It wasn't perfect mind you, but people tried.

Today, so called "usability specialists" are generally only interested in how shiny and pretty things look. It sucks.

To be fair, all of those VPN softwares are pieces of shit and barely work in a perfect setup.

The vast majority of Vista's issues came from 3 fronts:

1) Shitty hardware that never should have been sold with Vista

2) the videocard drivers (there's stats about how nearly a majority of crashes and instability issues came from early Nvidia drivers)

3) OEMs trying to quickly patch up/upgrade XP machines to Vista, but not doing it properly. For example, Dell would sell boxes with a ton of incompatible software and Vista slapped on top. That was a nightmare. ie: machines sold with versions of Nero that hosed Vista. You just had to upgrade it and things went fine, as the compatible version had been released months before. Why did the OEM bundle the old version? Who knows!

If you built your own machine, installed the OS yourself, and used video and sound drivers that actually worked (which was hard in the first few weeks/months), it worked perfectly fine. Since thats not how most people got Vista though...it just crapped out in everyone's face.

There's no such thing as air tight walls, even if you seal the joists, shoot insulting foam and sheets of loaded vinyl in between.

Some are just better built than others. And every country in the world, even Sweden, has shady inspectors. If it wasn't this, like you said, it would be sipping through the windows from downstairs. You're breathing it wether you like it or not.

The one thing you may not have as much of, is asshole neighbors.

And you think Canada's climate is nicer than Sweden? :)

I don't know about this case, but on this side of the world, it wasn't that simple.

These Uber and Lyfts didn't go and bully themselves in the taxi industry. They originally operated differently: You never needed a medallion to run a car service. -You needed a medallion to pick up people hailing you in the street.-

That is very different. What these new startups did, was use technology to remove the need to hail a cab. I could always just go and call a non-taxi car service with a phone. No one needed a medallion to pick me up after i called them.

Since hailing a cab is now obsolete, medallions are obsolete.

If your engineer needed to pay 100k to do work that isn't pre-arranged.....blah, the analogy falls apart so hard I can't even fix it.