I am a C# developer. I don't like that the number of features and frameworks is increasing with every new release. It's overwhelming.
I tried Go, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know why. I guess it's like leaving prison. You can't go anywhere. Then suddenly you can go anywhere you like, but you feel paralyzed. The freedom itself is also overwhelming.
> Across 89 shuttle missions from 1981 to 1998, US astronauts had over 1,800 in-flight medical events; less than 2 percent of these were related to behavioral health, largely stemming from “anxiety and annoyance.”
well realistically you only need to get the governments of the UN to agree which is a little less daunting. I can easily imaging taking the Sahara, Siberia, the interior of Australia, and the steppe would get us a good chunk of the way there. Adding on the amazon might be possible with effort.
Of course, these areas have substantial mineral/oil deposits that make the current political situtation difficult. But it's not outside of the realms of possibility that this may eventually stop being the case, such as how Britain's one ubiquitous coal mines are all closed now.
I actually make it at home as Kefir isn't sold in my country :). I couldn't yet take a call on whether its a placebo or not. My partner says its placebo effect too but I don't think so.
Don't worry about the interviews if you're able to have a conversation in English. The interviews are there to weed out the people that can't communicate. There are some technical tests that can be daunting, because they're a bit skewed towards algorithms. I had to take the tests twice actually because I simply wasn't able to pass it the first time, outside of the US people aren't as fixated with algorithms but I still think it's a fair test. You can retest in x months unless you really painfully screwed up some part of the hiring process.
Make sure you're properly prepared for the tests, have your environment set up. My mistake was to use a Playground for a live coding test that would completely screw itself up once the code I entered became more complex. Very painful.
I don't think they only hire the best of the best of the best but anyone that gets through their hiring process is definitely a useful programmer, no doubt.
I tried Go, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know why. I guess it's like leaving prison. You can't go anywhere. Then suddenly you can go anywhere you like, but you feel paralyzed. The freedom itself is also overwhelming.