Spoken like someone who doesn't ride a motorcycle. While you're not wrong, the thinking is impractical.

Although maybe I don't "need" to, I still print source code and mark it up with a pencil. While archaic, it works for me.

While sometimes there's flooding, hurricanes here are more about the wind damage and consequent power loss. Providing a place to recharge electronics and sit in the AC for a while is actually a useful convenience (and potential life saving for some as mentioned in the article). For all the awful things churches do, this really isn't one of them.

As for relocating: leaving aside the ethics of moving people from their homes, I"m not sure anyone's figured out how to relocate the ports and oil refineries to a more convenient location yet. This is why spending (a trivial amount of) taxpayer money is worth it, the return on investment is non-trivial.

And we don't have basements, so no worries about that!

SQL is hard, no doubt about it. I'd argue the benefits are vast though. Not only for performance but also data security. If your interface to the data are SPs (or perhaps SELECTs on views) there's are many security pitfalls, especially when dealing with attribute level authz, that can be avoided: if you can't get the data you can't leak it. Not only does relational algebra make it easy (well, easy-ish) to reason about, it's also pretty trivially testable. It's rare that I walk into a situation where much care at all has been put into fine grained data access control and that's really a shame. I'd add that with data constraints and authorization embedded in the DB it becomes surprisingly simple to attach new applications *safely* to an existing DB. I'm biased having spent years slinging SQL (+ Erlang) but it's hard to go back.

Those who don't know SQL are doomed to recreate it, poorly. For the life of me I can't understand so-called developers who aggregate by hand in the application code. Alas.

If you've built a lifestyle around having a car your assertion seems correct. However, it's more than possible to live in the US and not drive. I don't -- although I've made choices that support that decision: living in a city primarily but also not having kids, working remotely, and accepting that there are places I can't go without some planning. Those cascading choices have left me in a position where if I were to buy a car (and presumably learn how to drive again, it's been 25 years or so) I'd have no use for it.

(The only point I'm making is that it's possible with the right planning, not that anyone else can or should give up driving. That's not my business.)

Isn't your point that these technologies are beyond middle management's ken?

Now I'm looking forward to reading Peopleware. Thanks for the recommendation.

Well that's not true. I use a Dell touch screen with a Mac Mini to program ETC Nomad (a virtual theater lighting console). With the touchscreen Nomad behaves pretty much like one of ETC's dedicated hardware consoles for a fraction of the cost. I'm not making the claim that this is a generally useful thing for everyone but there's certainly an audience.

Drives, no; but the Studio has no issues driving four screens.

The same thing that prevents hammers from being useful as a screwdriver?

I know it's old and not for everyone but Emacs' dired mode does all this, is completely programmable, and can be driven from the keyboard (in addition to providing mouse support if you're into that). Obviously it's not a terminal emulator (although dired integrates nicely with terms that are available inside Emacs) but it gets the job done. Of course it's not new and flashy and has an actual learning curve, so it's easy to dismiss out of hand.

I'm sorry? This is the same person who's afraid to talk to people at a bar? I don't think you should be throwing any stones from your tiny glass apartment.

Know what? People here have felt kind of bad for you. Sure, you've got some hangups; we've all got issues. Know what we do? Get up in the morning and have fucking breakfast and get on with our lives.

You need some help. Please consider talking to a therapist. It is not normal to rely on work to have social interactions.

In fairness, there's a lot of this going around. Now that cellphones are all the rage getting anyone to actually commit to a plan seems more difficult than it used to be.

I agree heartily with everything else you've said in the thread but here I think you're mistaken. There's not a shred of evidence the poster can imagine a world outside of their experience.

Not one of the techie scum on this thread has any desire to dictate your work situation at all. Don't like where you're at? Find a situation that's a better fit, it's not like employers aren't still hiring office bound staff. They'll appreciate your enthusiasm even. Try not to use the phrase "techie scum" during your interview.