The reach of culture. I hadn't thought of this, but it makes sense.
And yes once it's pointed out to you, it becomes quite obvious that actively resisting temptation is not worth the effort when you can simply avoid the conflict.
This is one of the most cleanly straightforward and mature posts I've read on HN in awhile. And quite practical too, particularly that last portion. Also, agreed.
As an arts/law graduate, who has since moved into a senior, highly technical IT role, I can honestly say that had I not moved into the IT field, my existing and already large university tuition debt would never have been repaid within my lifetime.
There is such a huge glut of humanities graduates in Australia now, that unless you are graduating within the very very top percentile, you are guaranteed to have wasted both time and money for no return.
Rust is much too low level for most glue/web services. Unless you have a specific high performance requirement (and Go doesn't meet this), there's no real strong case for migration here.
If you remove the specific technical choice from mind (a great engineering team can move mountains with any data layer, something I've also learnt working in numerous contract teams at multi-billion dollar companies) - the simple act of rewriting and consolidating huge amounts of data/infra (and stacks) can yield enormous gains.
I will be tracking their technical reporting more closely over the next year.
For me, it's half half. I actually do love the aesthetic of the open office, the large clearing space and the beautifully connected common areas. It's so vast and 'open'.
But I do hate the lack of productive areas. Although, I did once work in a tech giant that really spaced out some individual desks, and positioned many of them next to beautiful open windows.
At least Trump is scared enough to act differently than how he might truly believe.