It all depends on your own work/life balance requirements, where you are in your life and how much you might learn/enjoy at this company.

I've had to make career-altering decisions this year due to family obligations. Was shit tough to make the decisions and lo-and-behold, my own flavour of "Plan B" is still in place and I enjoy my ACME work.

Apologies if this comment sounds like it's coming from a grumpy old fart, but if you're under 30 at all, choose the craziest option!

So much time to re-adjust your trajectory still and much to learn.

Been working for myself for 2.5 years. I guess it’s not for everyone, but definitely worth considering for those that feel they can pull it off.

Taxes suck a bit, but its not an every day affair - and you can delegate a lot of it.

Also no one dictating hardware, software, task management, .etc

Angular & Typescript

@nothappy one of these legacy projects was the undoing of the perfect design/dev team at my previous company. At least 4 key employees left/were fired predominantly because of that project

@nam17887 wait what?! The client shouldn’t even have IM contact. If there’s no other way, allow IM and revoke when “progress requests” come through.

I can imagine ( and I did the same ) that you want to seem “readily available” while still building client base, but it should only be temporary and avoided as soon as possible.

It only means it’s the wrong client that doesn’t appreciate professionalism. Any client that expects you to work in such a way that the client-self wouldn’t appreciate ( being bothered at night ), isn’t an ideal client at all.

Do what you need to do to get business, but aspire and work towards a cleaner/better client environment every day.

Starter at 30 and Im 36 now - solid career and learning more every day.

Can totally relate. I dreamt of the privilege of raising a child years before I thought I stood any chance of getting married.

We’re almost through the first year now and my experience with it is mom’s and infants have a biological need to ( almost exclusively ) spend the first year together.

It’s been lovely to “be there for my wife” so that she can “be there for” our daughter, but I was very unprepared for my “spectator” role. Yes I realise I don’t have breasts ( 😜 ), but they don’t drink 24/7 either.

Nothing wrong with missing your work - I would have had a really rough time if I couldn’t dream about or play around with some code this past year. Can definitely hear your heart is in the right place.

I agree witht @gthathol . There are a few gem super coders out there. The rest are doing great work and making a good career by being DISCIPLINED developers.

If you had a shitty day, remember to take more breaks tomorrow, favor abstraction over lengthy flows and keep reading stories, articles and rants about your chosen language/principle.

Deserves a medal

I have an above average level of patience. If I was a senior dev with ( even mildly talented ) junior devs I had to mentor I reckon they’d excel pretty fast

Wow, guys just don’t get it 🤯Dumbfounded. Sorry @aerfromenes

@calmyourtities Yeah. When I’m building/viewing in Chrome while coding, Safari is the one I check least because it almost always matches up with Chrome. Then Firefox and IE/Edge each has a bug or 2.

But lately it’s very little difference.

4 South Africans in this thread 🤘🏻

@dontbeevil hehe.

I can however connect my Macbook to any screen, keyboard or mouse tho.

... but ... but ... you’re running Windows tho. * Ducks and dives the imminent OS war *

I’ve gone through the “Can I move over to another machine?” exercise every year since I’ve started using Apple machines ( buying them second hand though ) and the answer is always no 🤣

99% chance you're better off

🇿🇦South Africa

At least my wife knows to only buy Apple gear.

/me dodge bullets

Been coding on JBL Synchros E-40's for the last two years. Bit tight fit in the beginning and they have to settle in, but none of the bass bleeds out due to bad/loose design.

Not silent next to colleagues though...

Loving the general consensus 💪🏻

But now you first have to define professional 😜

Feeling you @puerto

@rusty-hacker Trackpad, build quality and keyboard is on the MBP is great. One of my biggest things is the text sharpness and quality on the MBP screen. Specifically on the text! Don't care too much about photos/movies and needless to say... games.

Have unfortunately not seen the same quality on any other's... with that said I don't see many others. I work from home as a freelancer. Just can't justify spending most of my day on a screen that I know isn't as much of a pleasure to work on as the MBP one. Definitely going to go have a look at the screen of the XPS at the computer shop. Most probably they won't have the 4K in stock though. Bah!

Just watched a review on the XPS 15 and the issue of windows scaling and text sharpness at 200% came up. Then checked Linux's support for 4K scaled and didn't really get too much info.

Any opinions?

@philcr The one that matches the criteria is around $1900 right?

1TB SSD?

... should actually rather be 16 GB for comparison. Also 256 SSD

@FitzSuperUser apologies, mac sales are down 14.4%

iPhone sales are down however, yes

"Revenue grows 24% to All-Time Quarterly Record" - October 25, 2016

Latest quarterly update. I doubt there's more recent figures available?