For some reason reading Talin's article made me really enraged.

If you read it you will realize quickly that she is ready to blame everything else but herself.

Unfortunately she will be used by the media to portray the wrong picture of Millennials.

Whatever attributes she has - is hers and hers only. It could be due to parenting, it could be due to her environment, etc. But please do not use her as a picture of the average Millennial.

Maybe she is complaining too much but when I was in my twenties people actually were paid OK money even for "low-end" jobs (even startups offered better stock options compared to now). I think it's just disrespectful when a company pays its people starvation wages. I guess this is another side effect of inequality: Companies want their workers for free while spending insane amounts on offices, executives and buying other companies.

Together with student loans, sky-high house prices and employers wanting them to work for almost free, I understand that people in their twenties are down on the system.

"Maybe she is complaining too much but when I was in my twenties people actually were paid OK money even for "low-end" jobs "

I suspect I am a lot older than you, and I don't remember any period in which an entry-level customer service job paid enough money to support a roommate or relative-free apartment, much less in one of the most expensive cities on the planet.

I am talking about the 80s

Curious how you define a "low-end" job, and what year this was.

I've lived in the Bay Area my entire life, and at her age, over ten years ago, I never had to live with less than 3 roommates. Things like saving for retirement, vacations, or emergencies were laughably impossible. And the kicker is: I made more than her, about double minimum wage ($15/hr, full-time with benefits, circa 2004). By no means should you assume I am complaining -- I didn't know anyone my age who wasn't in a similar situation.

Now I made nearly twice that, and I still have to choose between renting a room in a house with 5 other people, and being able to save money for retirement/etc by living at home.

Somewhen in the 1990s and 2000s I noticed a trend that even companies with tons of VC money wanted to get labor for free. I started freelancing in the 90s and back then in general companies accepted that they had to pay some market rate. Then slowly a lot of them started lowballing like crazy.

The latest trend seems to expect that job applicants spend hours, days or weeks working for them for free before being hired. That's what probation time is for.

Unfortunately tech people are OK with being exploited. I don't see too many lawyers or MBAs working at minimum wage or working for free to "get exposure".

She lives in one the most expensive cities on the planet. I would love to live there but I don't, even on an engineer's salary, because the cost is ridiculous. If she wants it easier, she should move to the Midwest. I suggest Minnesota, we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country.

How dare she complain about the meager scraps she's been thrown. The nerve! If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice. You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage when there are so many desperate people who will take her place after all. That would be unamerican! AmIRight?

> You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage

Some jobs pay more than others. Some jobs pay less than others. Unless you are arguing for completely equal pay then some people are going to have jobs that pay less than other people.

There have been times in the US when fewer people got paid shit wages than do at present. This isn't economically inevitable.

Unskilled phone-answerers have always made shit wages.

I see a lot of people in this thread suggesting (or at least hinting) that there was some mythical Golden Age in which a telephone jockey got paid something other than the tiniest pittance allowed by law and/or market forces.

That... is not the case.

I doubt that the wages of unskilled phone-answerers have stayed constant with respect to the cost of living over the past few decades.

"If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice"

Nice straw man.

There is nothing I can do about sushi.

But you can buy manufactured Omega 3 and 6 from plants.

I alternate between them to minimize the damage I am doing to the planet.

I was kidding. Of course I eat walnuts, pecans and other low-water tree nuts; fish, not so much.

This tells me more about how dysfunctional the EU is then Google being 'evil'.

> This tells me more about how dysfunctional the EU is ...

Exactly, the European Union was originally conceived as a 'common market' but individual countries can set their own corporate tax levels.

Google have had a lot of bad press here although most of it is badly misinformed. The bar for accuracy of reporting is generally set quite low for American companies operating in the UK.

...awesome at naming what, the industry standard term "Secure Enclave"?

Its not about the world - but who has the money.

Ghanan kids prolly wont have the money to even afford Uber.

you'd be surprised at the pace of growth of the economy in many African countries.

One problem I notice with both RXJS and even this one is that in reactive programming a lot of (filter - select) is used.

Doing (filter - select) for large views seems an inefficiency - no different than the old way where we walk the DOM trees.

Incremental DOM updates cause layout thrashing which, when comlared to making a few additional passes over a set, is a couple of orders of magnitude more expensive.

The point is, walk/filter the data completely prior to updating the view.

Immutable sets may also 'seem' inefficient but compare-by-reference works a of a lot faster than change propogation with compare-by-deeply-nested-values.

In CompSci terms, multiple passes are still O(n) and the data sets aren't large enough for micro-optimizations to matter. Compared to O(holy shit) of triggering many cascading DOM updates, it's a huge improvement.

'Seems' isn't a good enough metric to justify optimization.

I am curious to know what you mean by Incremental DOM updates.

Are you talking about changing values of DOM elements,etc.

Or are you talking about destroying elements in DOM and creating new ones ?

Why is parsing JSON a problem in 2016 ?

It's not if you use a language that comes with its own JSON parser.

I don't know why anyone would bother writing their own, though.

Does Swift not have its own JSON parser ?

(IMA non-swift programmer)

The Swift JSON parser is written in Objective-C. So kind of.

Beginnings of a Swift one in the corelibs version of Foundation: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/mast...

How sad. Apple has 80 billion dollar in cash - and are unable to pay someone to write a standard JSON parser - for a language they want other developer to adopt. Do they expect unpaid developers to make one for them ?

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As a recent graduate with a cushy programming job in london - I have been thinking strongly living in a van !

Its not because I cannot afford it etc. I hate handing my hard earned money to entitled baby boomers who couldn't get past grade 5.