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'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm a software architect, though even when I was just a senior java developer I was making 130k, software pays well even in the fly overs.

'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I live in Nebraska, and all comp included make around 155k per year salary + bonus. You can make that kind of money even here in the "shit"

What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why? in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

My favorite project was around 6 years ago when my former employer was looking to modernize the customer service automation experience with AI, it started with a round the US tour of going to the HQ's of 4 big tech companies in the space(IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Google at the time) as part of an investigatory team. We were to select what we thought would be the best engine to run conversational AI in our applications, during that time we were also given greenfield to write a modern framework apart from our existing technology to leverage it. Over the course of a year and a half we went from ideation to the creation of an omni-channel conversational framework that netted me and the team a patent, and allowed me to flex architecture skillset that lead me to my current role as a solution architect working with some of the same people at another better company. Definitely the most fun, exciting and rewarding project of mine to date.

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've run into this twice, both times I've had to deal with Microsoft Support for around 2-3 hours to resolve, shitty for a paying customer.

Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend who has been moderately successful in the game creation space and he is saying he wants to just give up at this point because of this change.

[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The CenturyLink fiber plan is pretty nice, me and my brother in law are on it and it runs as advertised and I've had maybe 2 outages in the 3 years I've had it, unlike my previous provider where it would be like 1 per quarter

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I think the origins of this was back at the inception of Android when the default keyboard didn't have slide technology, so at that time I think it made reasonable sense that you could bring your own keyboard app, now that Gboard is full featured it probably wouldn't hurt to lock it down, but it also depends on if every vendor doesn't provide their own keyboard app that is horrible to use and sets that as the only keyboard option.