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  • Buttons@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlwhat u actually signed up for
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    2 months ago

    Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.

    If I’m a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I’m a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone’s money and is essential to the entire nation, I’m paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.

    If I’m a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.

    (Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)







  • Buttons@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlEven paper glows
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    3 months ago

    It’s weird that when it comes to security companies are like “we got too many important things to be doing, like adding this quarters new shiny feature, we don’t have time to encrypt user data”.

    You would think that when it comes to adding obscure tracking codes companies would be like “we don’t care what people print, it’s not our problem, we aren’t going to bother with tracking watermarks”. But, no, every company has tracking watermarks while cutting every other corner possible.

    I mean, half the companies out there are barely able to get their software to work, meanwhile printer companies have this robust watermark system that never fails. I don’t understand these priorities.

    Where’s my tinfoil hat?


  • The people I know all seem to understand the “after a certain point” concept. Up to a certain point, money is directly connected to happiness, and I my group understands that.

    Still, a good meme (or whatever it’s called). A reminder that most thing we want to believe are more important than money are only obtainable with money.


  • I worked in an office building that had a dot matrix printer on the 4th floor. You could always tell when it was printing because the whole building would vibrate as it laid down characters with power and authority. If you moved an HP printer within 15 feet of the dot matrix printer the cheap plastic parts on the HP printer would spontaneously break which would cause HP to raise their monthly fees.