Just in case don't force anything, it could be he isn't interested. That curiosity should be on him, but sometimes you have to throw reeses on the floor to attract the ET.

My son is also into gaming and started with a juvinile course creating roblox games. Say what you want about Roblox (you are right) but it is a fantastic introduction to basic development in a game environment (remember, reeses) Two years later, now at 14, he started a python course and comes every Thursday excited to show me what he learnt.

My daughter on the other hand, will throw up just thinking about it xD

Guidelines, best practices... Every company and every developer team has their own way of doing things. Start from there. If nothing is written down, be the one to do that and make it roll.

The comments I've read here are great, take them in.

I would add to be very picky with very junior or sloppy code, don't let that shit pass. For senior stuff just gloss over and check for glaring issues.

Me thinks this is funnier where universal healthcare doesn't exist

As an old time computer nerd I have uncountable examples of deprecated knowledge. There is no use in knowing how to use the reserved upper memory in autoexec.bat and config.sys, nor how to use Napster or Kazaa.

But all these skills do shape your brain and way of thinking.

Assembly language taught me to be precise and think before typing. Flash taught me that nothing lasts forever, as big as it might seem.

Eventually, all this adds up and creates a profile that is very demanded in my career.

That said, my mom taught me to thread a needle without looking. And I can't sew, so that's that.

Vote to leave Europe and then complain that you lost all benefits living in Benidorm

Some easy examples you can relate to:

• do you work overtime, even for a minute, and don't get paid for it? Wage theft!
• does your company make fun of people using their allowed days off, making you not use them? Wage theft!
• does your company make you buy tools required for your job, because the ones available are shit or non existant? Wage theft!
• does your boss call you during your days off, holidays or vacations? Wage theft!
• are you assigned tasks that are more suited to a higher compensation level, but don't see a dime? Wage theft!
• are your coffee and lunch breaks interrupted early or entirely canceled and not compensated? Again, wage theft!

I find it pretty telling that my kid and his friend where at home playing on the almost 20 year old ps3, with the ps5 right next to it.

To be fair they do fire up the 5 for that soccer game, but I have soo many games in the cabinet for the 3 that it is a goldmine for them

Tell them to wait and save resources, earthlings are doing a great job destroying themselves.

37.5 hour work week

Teletransportation is just killing and recreation of a new being.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox

Last year at this event organized by a friend we were sat at the table along some radio and tv personalities, not famous, but clearly managing a step up in income than the rest.

Right from the start one of them started to show off his new Ray-Bans that recorded video. Common among rich people to brag about something expensive..

My wife asked, what are you recording? he answered without shame.. "I've been recording everyone and nobody knew" with a grin on his face.

I used an Ubuntu Phone as my daily for about 6 months.

Yeah I have the same impression. In one of his last videos, the one about Pompeii he advised against kids watching because a cartoonish dick showed on a wall. I'd agree, kids shouldn't watch, not because the dick, but his sickening puritism.

In Valheim it was quite real and comfy at the same time. Weird I know.

No doubt the hardest was the first one. I recall it was slackware with kernel 2.x around the late 90s. Having to recompile the kernel and configure manually the scan line freq for the monitor made it challenging. Ah yes, the man pages I printed them at work, that was all I had access to. No internet.

Something I learnt from very early age. If a corporation wants you to do something, for your own good, don't.

Doesn't happen as much, but family and non tech friends would present me to other people that "worked with computers" thinking I could take new job opportunities. They were always wildly unrelated to my field.

I know I know,.. they acted in good faith, and probably could have adapted a bit, but like 30 years ago there was a lot of overlap and systems where somewhat similar, but now somebody trained in Linux kernel maintenance isn't going to learn how to create SharePoint SPFx webparts. Development is very specific now!

Pre-teen is the worst age for this. Just try to get your kid past this the best you can. Happens everywhere, eventually they will mature and learn.

Heck, this is always the plot in school movies.

It's a known tactic. Someone wants a portion of land for mining or development but it's a protected forest. So they handout big cash to the locals to take care of it. And it becomes dangerous to first responders because they aren't only fighting the fire.

In fact those pictured were really good friends, and even got their own tv documentary showing their everyday life.