Programmers refusing to move to management is not unreasonable. I like being a developer. It's what I studied in school and it's the job I applied for.
Yup. The guys with their names on the door still write briefs for a living. So to with doctors. Head of Surgery at a hospital still cuts people open for a living.
It is if you expect career advancement. If you want to stay in the same role making the same salary, plus a minor bump every year for 30 years, by all means don't push yourself to try to figure out how to manage more parts of the organization you work for.
But programmers want their companies to indulge their lofty career ambitions while still being exactly as useful to the company. They want to be like doctors without taking their work half as seriously.
You really think that your productivity has risen more than 10% every year? Do you have any numbers to back that up? I know you use a ticket tracking system. You can add up all your completed story points, by year, pretty easily. If you're really getting 10% better every year, consistently, it should be easy to ask for a bigger raise.
My experience is that developers don't increase their value as fast as they increase their pay.
It is interesting the thought about moving to management - I often see that developers have to become project managers or managers of some sort as they get older.
I'll hazard a guess that the prospective employer (if looking at other potentials in the same demographic) will need to turn a blind eye if they want to hire anyone at all. They'll all have something stupid on there. I'm curious to see what happens when my generation starts running for office.
Given that we've seemed to reach a stage where most US politicians seem to match the profile of what one would clinically call a sociopath, I'm going to hazard a guess that they will not really care.
I'm speculating, but there seems to be a trend among service providers to provide a native experience for the big 2 (android, iOS) and let the rest use their service over the web. So perhaps they will continue to support i.reddit.com for users outside of the big 2 ecosystem
I'm also probably in the minority, but I just use the desktop site in mobile Safari, despite being a heavy Reddit user. It's an information-dense design, and I can read the small text without a lot of zooming, so it's probably more efficient for me, or at least I never saw a reason to switch. I should test out Alien Blue, though.
Why? It seems common that if you can supply the email you signed up with, you can recover your username and get a password reset. Especially true if the website is not somewhere you go to very frequently like the original comment seems to be insinuating and you are using different passwords for every account you make.
Yes, it's being able to use a password reset function. I have different passwords for all sites and with some more strict password rules, I know I'll struggle to remember it.
I do use a password vault, but only for really important accounts.
So the root cause of this is similar to that of the broken Bumbeebee upgrade script [1,2]: a typo (missing quotation marks or unintended space) caused far more data than intended (a whole volume or /usr) to be rm'd.
