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I hear stories around me and it seems like the remote is ebbing atm. More and more companies are cutting down on it increasing the needed presence. At the same time they just don't have the real estate capacity to do it…

Say you had no need to make a living - imagine you win the lottery or something like that. You don't get to have millions but you don't _need_ to work. Now imagine that you still _want_ to work but now you can select to…

Given the looming crisis imagine you having a decent role in a rock-solid company/product. Now, would you take on the opportunity to a scale-up for double the salary? There will be no fall back to your previous role if…

I work remotely so a lot of interaction is done via online meetings. In some cases though I just don't feel like sharing my camera and I have to fend off such requests. And that does not always go very well. Am I weird…

There's a lot of news regarding copilot and openAI and what have you. I'm not familiar with AI so I cannot really tell hype from substance here. Should I worry? Do you think that some form of AI will be able to do the…

I have an offer from a consultancy for projects in EU public sector. The salary increase is not bad and the title is a move up (I think). I'm getting to an architect role up from Senior Dev. WLB will be a bit worse…

Second workplace in 2 years that advertises itself as agile. Yet here's how they do it. Minimum CI. No CD. Features that are designed through a long waterfall stage in the beginning of a quarter (how the heck can you…

Just curious. Is there specific brands/models laptops that are more consultant/contractor-friendly? What is your preference? Thanks

Hi, I don't see much about clojure over past 2 years or so. Same goes for other industry functional languages (e.g. elixir, scala, F#). Are they just in later stages of hype cycle or are they dying out the same way perl…

Hi! As far as functional programming goes I'm a newbie. But I'm willing to put some energy there to change that. Which language would you suggest me to start with? Specifics follow. * Been on this line of work for about…

I'm in this line of work for almost 17 years now and having yet one more of these days where I'm measuring how much time I am in my current company to see if I'm ok to start looking. And I remember that every single…

And how do they earn that much? I'm looking at the results here https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-top-paying-technologies and see that clojure is the top paying tech with almost double the pay from java.…

As I'm getting a bit old (mid 40s) I'm thinking about getting an AWS certification in order to bump up my employability and better my standing in job market. I'm wondering though if there's any tangible connection…

If you had time for 3 books this year and you'd like to focus on last 5 years or so, which would they be? They can be technical, theoretical, management-related or in any other way related to IT.

Hi, I'm a senior dev who currently found himself working with C. On one hand I love it as it is familiar to me and I "get" it. OTOH I'm afraid it is regressing my future prospects as many consider it obsolete language…

Hi. Not sure if HN is the right place to ask this but would you quit a job three months in? The job per se is not too bad but the immediate bosses are insufferable. Put another way if I was past the 2 year watermark I…