It takes a lot of engineering and design to make complex customization easy with intuitive defaults. Kinda antithetical to the scrappy startup nature of matrix

Yeah we do no-meeting Thursdays.

Problem is when SLT decides they want a demo of progress and see all this “free time” called focus time on our calendars and stick a 30m meeting about 1 hr before lunch.

I make good money and just really, really like building things in code.

I’m the son of a programmer who is the son of a programmer…

At the end of the day I’m often tired but not burnt.

I’m compensated extremely well. 0 complaints.

It depends on how “efficient” the company is (ie how much work they can squeeze out per person).

If I was paid less I’d definitely work slower.

It’s vanishingly rare that I need to do that but if something breaks or an emergency happens I’m senior enough that I need to step up.

I get time off in recompense. Usually an entire day once the 14hr crisis has passed.

Not everyone is like that tbf

Not my experience working salaried.

Coding is something you can do for longer stretches as you get better at it. I struggle with 3 or 4 hours straight out of college. Now I run 7 hours no problem.

The dichotomy is that the more proficient you are at coding, the more meetings you need to be in to give engineering input… So the less time you spend coding. As a staff SWE I’m rarely able to get more than 3 or 4 hours straight to sit and code. Rather it’s an hour here or there broken up my meetings.

I relish my no-meeting days to sit and actually get concepts out into code.

I’m spent at the end of 7 hours coding though. I’ve crunched to 14 before… But the code I wrote was shit for 5 of those hours.

I have an office job and I work 8 hours a day programming. It’s nice to be able to clock out consistently at 5 but I really don’t get much down time. I rarely get my full hour for lunch.

It’s not bad work and I like my job but working 3 hours would get you fired here.

That represents such a miniscule population that it’s not really worth talking about.

90% of your homeless population is home(less)-grown.

I love affordable housing but I’ll settle for market rate.

It’s a national problem but it’s definitely more pronounced the more a place has grown, and Cali just keeps growing.

The amount of Californians who blame everywhere else doesn’t help.

90% of the homeless in California were there when they lost their houses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_California

And the problem is y’all refuse to build housing or shelters. 2/3rds of them are unsheltered. Housing costs are why they’re homeless.

NYC has the other concentration of the homeless (and a lot of problems with the housing market as well) but at least 90% of the population has shelter.

As a very left leaning individual who does not like California my reasons basically come down to all the benign neglect of the homeless (leaving people to rot in the streets with their fentanyl addictions isn’t progressive, assholes) the militant oppositions to building housing anywhere (progress is being made but it’s like pulling teeth) and the huge focus on performative laws that effect 0 actual change.

… Notably these are all problems in other states too. Most of them just use police to lock them up instead. Not better.

But California rubs me the wrong way because they act smug about it.

It should be like that in more places. Too much of America is built around the requirement to own and operate an expensive piece of heavy machinery just to participate in society. American cities should all go back to how dense they were prewar, when they were walkable and don’t have interstates bulldozed through their downtowns.

Thank God I don’t own a car

My brother in Christ, LineageOS is still Android.