You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup.
I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo it on a dot com startup.
The sports clubs were bought out by private equity and charge large fees.
The local park is rented to the same private sports teams 7 days a week.
The local elementary closed it's playground. (been open for 40 years, installed gates 5 years ago)
Only scouts at the church remains, and it has become oddly focussed on getting fairly rich kids into college.
The cuts include workers in senior director and vice president roles, as well as managers, product developers, product managers, program managers, software developers, site reliability developers, technical analysts, user experience developers and others.
They are in no-way laying off call center employees, they are laying off tens of thousands of the most highly paid US workers.
And yes the numbers of H1Bs granted in 2025 is relevant. You don't layoff 20% of your 100,000+ people workforce all of a sudden 'cos March went badly.
The schools studied in that paper are free, or close to free. Not $50,000 per anum
And I don't think OP was suggesting it's the quality of education that affects outcomes in attendees of expensive private high schools.
Yeah, I think the first mistake is thinking 'large software project' is specific enough to have any good advice at all.
Large software projects could include AAA console videogame, or banking mobile app, or embedded vehicle entertainment system, or airport baggage handling system, or hundreds of other totally different domains.
The only good advice I can think of is given a large software project try to hire someone (or a whole team) that have built something pretty similar before.
The grocery bagger on a zero hour contract needs to be able to survive when not given 40 hours.
Also the 5% unemployed people in a 'full employment' economy need to be able to survive when sacrificed to control inflation.
Monorepo very often means bazel for tooling (rbe and caching tests) and that means one WORKSPACE with common versions of libs.
Monorepo also means a team 'vetting' new thirdparty libs, and a team telling you your CI takes too long, and a team telling you to upgrade your lib within 23 minutes because theres a security issue in the korean language support...
in this context 'your boss' is usually a level or two above your direct manager on org chart
Take it as the most senior person you can get regular face time with, this also needs to be gamed.
We got along better before all these managers arrived, could ship huge projects with 100 people and one ceo. And the ceo wrote code and didn't do any of the nonsense most managers fill their days with.
Then when you need to buy a house you have to leave.
Net migration to London from the rest of England and Wales is only positive for those aged 20 to 27
There's plenty of great experienced people outside London, but all the rich (business owners) are openly prejudice to everywhere else. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cwy57v07gn2o
This sounds far more real to me than the original post. All the technical issues in the world don't bother me unduly, it really is the managers who make you hate work.
Money wise these corps are a system of their own, they pay enough to make you not quit. The more they pay, generally the more they suck.
Just need to wait till my 401k doubles one more time, my kids finish college, and the house is paid off.... just 10 more years
I believe the conclusion is correct in 2025, but the article in a way just perpetuates the 'misinformation', making it seem like finding if your code will compile to a dynamic branch or not is easier than it is.
The unfortunate truth with shaders is that they are compiled by the users machine at the point of use. So compiling it on just your machine isn't nearly good enough. NVIDIA pricing means large numbers of customers are running 10 year old hardware. Depending on target market you might even want the code to run on 10 year old integrated graphics.
Does 10 year old integrated graphics across the range of drivers people actually have running prefer conditional moves over more arithmetic ops.. probably, but I would want to keep both versions around and test on real user hardware if this shader was used a lot.
"it will almost certainly double in value in 7 years" implies 10% is an almost certain long term return. It is not.
10 years is a common rule of thumb to double your investment, this is a good guess since after adjusting for inflation, the real return of S&P 500 is about 6.8%. Which is about 10.5 years to double your investment.
(give or take S&P 500 being one of the best returns you will find historically)
I see an over-reliance on automated tests recently. Often suggesting just passing the CI tests is enough to approve a change. In ancient code it's just as important to limit the blast radius of your changes, and have a good reason for making them. Not changing something is the ultimate way to prevent a regression.