The last bit is very true - companies are making money for the owners _and_ to pay the programmer's often relatively high salary.

It's a general rule in life that the more 'fun' or 'fulfilling' your job is, the more likely it is to pay peanuts.

This feels like the author simply went for the entirely wrong jobs. It sounds like what he wants is to make decisions, and those you can only make in small teams, small companies, and in lead positions. Going for any sort of FAANG or corporate job is the opposite of this - and that is not specific to programming jobs in any way. Nobody is 'free to just improve the world' in a large group.

I kinda felt the big red 'Download package' button gave it away?

Also: `brew install --cask red-canary-mac-monitor`

I don't have a big red 'Download package' button. The only large red button I see on the submitted article says 'Get a Demo'.

Sorry, my mistake, you were referring to the blog post and I was thinking of the product page...

No worries, I was wondering if we were being A/B tested!

In the case of Jira, how much of that is related to frontend code, compared to backend code / inefficient queries?

I find performance suffers mostly when media assets, advertisments, marketing and tracking scripts etc. come into play. The frontend rendering rarely makes a dent at that point.

The FE is like 5% of the slowness if that. You have a 2 second query and then 50-100ms to render.

Netflix did that for a long time with the very right item in the suggestion list where I could never see the details because it would instead scroll to the next page, making the item I was interested in disappear to the left :) Seems like they fixed that though

I might just be getting old and cranky, but I get the feeling we're re-inventing common sense, but replace sense with technology. Can I get an app that tells me to stop letting the water run while I brush my teeth as well?

Mhh, I don't know.

Yes, you could also do this without any technology.

On the other hand, I can cook rice in a normal pot yet all of Japan uses rice cookers. So why not?

And blazingly fast. Don't forget how blazingly fast it is.

No. And I sold all the VR devices I had over time rather quickly again. Once the novelty wears off, they just became supremely impractical. For gaming it required the shuffling of furniture. For anything else, neither the resolution nor comfort are there. Even worse if you wear glasses. And in the summer time... think diving goggles, only inverted.

If you do require glasses for VR, for anyone who wants to stick with it, I strongly recommend getting prescription lenses for your headset.

The most common form is just another lens that clips on top of the VR lens so it's not something that will require disassembling your expensive VR headset.

This solves the fogging up problem in my experience, along with light leak from thicker arms on glasses pushing foam covers away, scratches on lens from glass/headset contact and also the fact that I broke a pair of glasses wearing them inside a VR headset.

Alternatively: look into contacts if you want a more general purpose solution.

Fair, I've my own reasons for not wearing contacts

Is anyone actually making those? A Google search doesn’t come up with anything you can buy…

https://vr-lens-lab.com/ is where I got mine.

> For gaming it required the shuffling of furniture.

Depends on the type of game, I play flight sims, elite dangerous, no mans sky and project cars 2 - no need to shuffle furniture with those.

There are actually no quality games that really require you to stand.

I have a dream that we'll see a good quality dungeon crawler I can play coop locally with the kids, that's immersive enough to warrant standing, but I don't see it happening.

Honestly that's true, the closest I've found is PavlovVR which is a lot of fun but it's not an AAA quality game.

That said as someone who loves space/flight and driving games VR is an unalloyed win for me.

Beat Saber?

Haha, no. Half Life Alyx, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Thrill of the Fight, Beat Saber, Audica, Dance Central VR, Fallout 4 VR, Superhot VR, and so many more.

There is also VTOL VR which is a flight sim/game that uses the VR controllers and put all controls in the VR space so no need to have an HOTAS lying around.

For other sims I have to set up the HOTAS on my desk which leads to a little bit of shuffling around.

That right there. Failing impossible tasks is not a personal failure and nobody should waste their personal life on these tasks out of some sense of 'pride' or 'loyalty'. The failure lies purely with the person who made those plans. They are the ones who failed _you_, not the other way around.