I think we're doing pretty good:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-1990-vs-201...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-across-wes...

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Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

But why would anyone... I mean at that point learning emacs might be actually worth it, no?

At this point I think it's more worth to learn Vim.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Isn't that the default editor in the emacs system?

There is a shortcut to do it

Hmm... I might have spent 6000 hours on Emacs. It is a slightly illuminating experience, I'll grudgingly admit!

>Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

But have never made anything, just played with the menus they put there for you.

If you're playing the game and recording content, you are "making" something.

If you can get paid to livestream twiddling with Visual Studio menus then more power to you.

What's your point? I don't think I understand

At a big telecom we had an employee that maybe closed 10 tickets in two years. He was the highest paid team member (as reported by our director) and worked remotely from an RV in Oklahoma. When he was finally discovered by our director, he was fired and his immediate manager was fired.

How much do you want to bet that he also had one or two other jobs that he treated the same way?

He was a long time employee with a legacy job title "wintel engineer." A transformational ex-IBM director was finally brave enough to PIP and fire him. I think he was mostly retired while putting in 8 hours of work a quarter.

My family member who runs a company in China avoids bribes by pretending to be a dumb American.

I worked with a guy who was previously a big state university buyer/administrator. He said that Oracle charged around 1% of retail prices to the university.

I had the same deal at a big telecom 7 years ago. The offer lasted one month. I moved to a better position with better pay/responsibilities.

I also saw this at a different SV company in 2015. Nothing new under the sun.

I spent half the prefab cost for land and a 3600 sq ft house.

Do you mind sharing where you got the prefab? I’ve been looking for a reasonable one and it’s always good to have more information.

I think the parent says they spent bought a SFH house with land for that cost

I bought a house last year that was originally built in the 90s. Buying and fixing a house is just way cheaper.

I lived through EMC's VMware tightening their grip, killing off our vendor "reflex firewall" by restricting their use of network APIs (to boost their Nicira acquisition which became NSX), then making us pay the vRAM vtax as part of the VSPP program (public cloud), and launching project Zephyr (vCloud Air) where they directly competed with us.

RIP VMware. Been getting Novell vibes from them for the last 10 years.

Novell... Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time