Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

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10 months, 2 weeks, 6 days and 12 hours since I was saved and accepted the one true language (not)

Probably some of both

Actually this cost a lot of time and money. Even today I have to take an extra step to see if master or main is use . Before it was standard.

Curse this

Because the argument is stupid. Much like pointers not being a good term to use because it’s rude to point. Or man pages being sexist.

This tech we all use is advancing exponentially.

And we must be ready to embrace the dizzying changes in the next few years so that we can improve our lives and have better governments.

Your very welcome!!

Sounds like a long term issue that will not resolve itself. The only relevant advice anyone can give here is tips about job searching or sympathy.

You have my sympathy

I agree with that other comment which argues to set it as the users expect. I think the 1 based is logical here

Noo…!

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Yes, although I still worked on my own projects.

I have drifted from professional to other for many years.

Now that I have coded for two generations now, I often think I should have chosen some main occupation that was not a sit down job.

But it is what it is, and I will probably program more than anything else for the rest of my working life

Been coding for decades: burned out several times. I always return later after other jobs

I think the most job satisfaction I ever had was demolishing a house, another good thing for me was delivering pizzas.

This is nothing to worry about

That does not have to be a contradiction