That is awesome and you are able to buy a house like that, especially a brand new build (to your liking). However, I want to mention it seems you are in the right place at the right time. Your case is an outlier in my opinion and I'm happy you are taking advantage of it. Especially considering that it is in a great school zone. I just felt that this isn't normal, even for the Midwest (which is where i can only imagine you are).
That is a neat 'home warranty' thing you have though. I've never seen that before. Whenever I own a home, that sounds enticing to have.
As far as being an outlier, it's not that our case is just an outlier, so is our house. We had to move further out into the suburbs to get that price. It's not a bad commute.
I'm not endorsing this particular provider. It's just the first one that comes up when you Google "Home Warranty"
When I was a landlord and owned three rental properties they were worth every penny.
Let me emphasize that buying one is statistically not a good deal and it usually makes more sense just to "self insure" and save for repairs. But it is more of a convenience thing.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. This could be a good thing by saving celebrities the need to appear perfect everywhere.
However, I feel like this could be a whole new ball game in terms of setting unrealistic expectations (not that they aren't doing that anyway with photoshop). But if it is transparent that these IG models are virtual and not real, maybe that will help kids understand that real humans can't look as perfect as a virtual model and that helps them create realistic expectations?
edit: I suppose they could also use virtual models and fatten them up / give them more acne to make them more 'realistic'
Instagram celebs are either hot girls, or guys with lots of money to pay for promoted content.
They dont take their own photos, they use professional photographers. Anyone without the professional style or not willing to play facebook's algorithm game loses out.
The internet is getting very specialized and content quality is skyrocketing.
Why bother when you could have normal people too? I mean I guess the main thing why you'd want a virtual model is to give them an unnatural appearance, like the Miquela character mentioned in the article, or err, the one with the huge eyes in a recent or upcoming movie.
I would assume the compensation for a software engineer with 20 years of experience vs one with 5 years considering the output each of them can do. I would assume the younger software engineer can do as much 'typical' programming work as the older one for less pay.
However, I feel the older software engineers shouldn't be writing as much as the younger guy but should be utilized for architecture purposes, handling requirements with clients or internal product people, and even mentoring while having some programming tasks. I think that is where they really earn their significant compensation and bring much more value to the company.
You don't consider real world work experience relevant when hiring? Just side projects or contributions to open source projects?
That seems like you're looking for someone who lives and breathes programming. Do you have something against developers who work 40 hours a week and instead of programming as a hobby as well, they do other, non-tech, things for their hobby?
I don't consider work experience relevant at all unless I can verify the work done or hold a particular recommendation in high esteem. Not getting fired for a length of time, while a skill, is not often what I care most about. Without knowing a company's policies, culture, and tech leads I cannot accurately judge whether someone spent 3 years playing ping pong with the CEO or was responsible for programming a successfully delivered system. In a perfect world, I might try to suss out each candidate's strength and then decide based on the totality of data, but I don't often have that kind of time. I look for public or provided code first, and if it's reasonable, will use that to begin a pointed conversation on our trade.
I was asked about that kind of "programmer universe" stuff during my interview process with my current employer. I said I didn't have a GitHub, never been to a programming conference, didn't participate in the local dev scene, and didn't really program on my free time. I said in my free-time I like being outside, hiking, camping, and fishing...It didn't hurt me because I got the job, of course, I'm working for a utility company and not some flashy SV/NY tech startup...
You're hitting the nail on the head here. When I interned at Intel, they constantly said that even if you aren't happy in your current role once you are full time, you can always transfer teams and do something wildly different since the company is so large. So you can effectively 'job hop', but within the same company.
Those emergency services are very convenient when it comes to flood warnings, tornado warnings, and even amber alerts. I am personally very glad to have them.
That is a neat 'home warranty' thing you have though. I've never seen that before. Whenever I own a home, that sounds enticing to have.