I feel you... Web development is geared towards the "next hot thing" and can be very exhausting. Could it be an option to change your career path into a more management type role? Are you good with people? You might be a great mentor for junior devs?
i'd like to get into engineering management, but not sure how to transition, since these roles often require many years of experience as an engineering manager.
i tried to propose this where i am, but as a contractor, there's no need for it. i'm basically just here to follow orders.
There may be 10 year old, but most people didn't work in React in 2012. 10 years ago, people were working in things like Ext.js or Backbone.js. Then, they had to learn Angular. And later, they had to learn React.
That doesn't subtract from my point, ie. that React and Node have been mainstream for many years and continue to dominate in the jobs market so how anyone with these skills can say they're not keeping up with front-end tech doesn't quite add up.
Especially front end. Backend is a bit more sane, I'm thinking of getting some Java/C++ job and becoming an expert. Hopefully having a decade+ in Java or C++ will keep me reasonably employed when I'm 50.
As a European: this is extremely funny. America has been doing this for years. Apparently only when it's not America doing these things it becomes a problem?
America being an ally only really makes them more dangerous to me as an individual. If I were in trouble with the US government there is a high likelihood my own government would extradite me. There's very little chance of that with the Chinese government, and the chances are they wouldn't be interested in the first place*
* Not that the US would be interested in me personally either. But they do take an interest in citizens from other countries.
Well, you could certainly see why the situation changes when the service is controlled by an adversarial government. At least the US services are only clandestinely influenced by the US government. TikTok is practically a Trojan horse
Kinda. Many Americans run around with a notion of some kind of noble entrepreneur who provides the bounty of endless choice in consumer goods, even if it's a corporation. The fact that many different brands come from the same factory tends to be overlooked. Americans are also unique in their tolerance for constant advertising where other cultures would consider it gauche and intrusive.
TikTok is imo goddamn scary. It is explicitly set up to hook people with gamification techniques, showering likes on new users so they come back for more. Only the subject matter is often politics, activism and intertribal warfare.
That sounds like my twitter experience. They are trying to show me .5 kb of text but given 500 mbit it takes 6-8 seconds to load a twurt. What a hilarious joke.
edit: 3 min later it is still loading things. Its now at 4.59 MB 102 requests.
