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What a fucking nostalgia trip. I remember seeing this video in high school.

I know that for a while economists overwhelmingly used to think rent control was a bad idea. And honestly I used to believe them and be against rent control too. But at this point they need to just admit they were wrong. There's been empirical studies showing that rent control doesn't cut down on supply like they used to think it theoretically would. Rent control provides much needed stability to people looking to seriously move long term to a new city. Tokyo pretty much wrecks every western city when it comes to housing and they have rent control. Obviously rent control alone won't fix the housing crisis, but getting rid of it has only hurt tenants and provided literally 0 real world benefits except if you're a landlord

Economics is the only field I can think of where they're expected to be taken seriously even though they've basically been wrong about everything. https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2023-05-16-economists-hate-rent-control/

This aged like fine milk... might as well move the Mexican flag over too given Biden's disgusting turn on immigration. Also why is the BLM flag there? Biden is constantly calling for more funding for the police lmao

I got the more important part right which is to use a logging library and not raw dog print statements 😭

If you want a serious answer, the three big areas to focus on are web (front & backend), mobile (ios and android), and devops. For each of these areas I’ll list the most popular tech stacks. If you study any of them I would say you will pretty comfortably be able to find at least one job listing for each of these stacks pretty much anywhere in the country. And each one will virtually pay the same. Pay differences is much more dependent on the company than the tech stack

1. For frontend, the king is currently and will most likely remain React. Second place would be Vue and then Angular in third. Svelte looks very promising but it’s still very new and immature so I wouldn’t focus on it just yet.

2. For backend, the major players are going to be Java/Spring, C#/dotnet, Javascript/Express, Go, and PHP/Laravel. There are also some more niche jobs in a few different functional languages (Scala, Clojure, Elixir, Erlang, etc) but I wouldn’t count on those.

3. For mobile it’s super easy. Swift if you’re iOS and Kotlin if you’re Android.

4. For devops, I don’t feel I’m qualified enough to give an answer so I will refrain.

I will echo the other serious comments that you shouldn't overly focus on specific tech stacks. Most of the knowledge between these stacks is interchangeable as long as you have a solid CS foundation. I just wanted to give an up to date list of a few stacks that I know are going to remain popular for the foreseeable future.

If you hadn't moved to the new hcol area I would have said definitely keep your current job. But since you've already moved it's down to how much you value remote work. For example, I'm someone that very highly values remote work and personally would not switch with that offer. But if it's less important to you then I think it would be worth considering the new offer.

Started off at WITCH for my first job out of college in 2018 and worked there for more than a year. Then got another job for 2 years. And now I've been at big tech for more than 2 years. It's definitely not career suicide lol. Just take the job if you have no other options

Oh wow I did not realize that. I just remember watching a video a while back about how the primitive videos are fake. I just rewatched the expose videos and yea they're talking about pretty much every other primitive channel. Well shit that makes me want to watch a bunch of primitive technology videos now

I hate to admit it but I REALLY love copilot. It's basically just a really powerful autocomplete and it helps with saving typing a lot of boilerplate code. I never use it to generate code I don't understand though. I only use it to autocomplete code that I already knew I wanted to type that it was able to predict correctly.

For chatgpt I only very rarely use it as an absolute last resort. 99% of the time it's completely wrong and useless. In a rare 1% of cases it actually ended up being really useful. Google, stack overflow, and official docs are still my bread and butter

Sorry to break it to you but those videos have been proven without a shadow of a doubt to be 100% fake. You can look up expose videos on youtube about primitive technologies

There is no paragraph on earth you could generate to justify that title. Without even looking it’s going to be something stupid like how young kids don’t remember anything anyway so it’s not that big of a deal if they die.

I'm not talking about FAANG only, I'm talking about any globally competitive software company like Uber, Gitlab, LinkedIn, etc... Look at the 3rd graph on this website. That's the salary distribution for new grad programmers in 2015. It's honestly way higher than I thought. It looks like a good 15% of new grads are making at least 200k fresh out of school. And like I said even for the total average from the bureau of labor statistics the median dev salary is about 20% higher than electrical engineers with 6x the jobs.

Ok if you want to go with just the average then we can look at the bureau of labor statistics. Electric engineers make a median of $104,610 vs $124,200 for software engineers. The no name dev is still making more