I have a couple of those old Airports gathering dust somewhere. They were replaced by mesh routers that worked infinitely better.
If they want to head back into the router game, they'll also want to throw in some BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, and Matter support (with mesh repeaters) to act as universal bridges to home automation.
Traditionally, there have been a few classes of companies in the U.S: C Corp, S Corp, LLC (Limited Liability Company) aka partnerships, and Closed. Most companies in the U.S. are organized as one of these, with their responsibility toward shareholders, who want to see their money grow.
If you wanted to work for a company that didn't necessarily have infinite growth as its mission, the only option was to find a Non-Profit, but they may not have the kind of funding to spend on legal visas.
These can be for-profit, but have to have a stated mission in their charter to provide a benefit of some sort to the public.
The links above point at some examples, but you may want to do your own research. Those companies may have the resources to pick up your visa, and may better align with the values you're looking for.
Ideally, and when able, your best bet would be to start your own business and set it up just the way you want.
Some may remember the dotcom days, where everyone was trying to latch internet onto something. You ended up with online pet food and hosiery. When it crashed, it took out a whole swath of companies and a lot of people who had come out to Silicon Valley for the gold rush.
A few years later, it was mobile + X. Just add mobile to coupons, or wine, or car shopping. Then in 2008, we had the housing crash and it took out most of the mobile companies on shaky ground.
The common thread was that a lot of questionable companies dropped out, and many bathrooms were lined with worthless stock options. But we also ended up with companies that had a sustainable business model and survived and became large.
Now, we're in the mid-stage of the same trajectory. AI + whatever. There will be the inevitable shakeout, lots of companies will go out of business. But we'll end up with a few strong ones that will solve real problems.
Not sure which ones, but if history is a guide, it will be those that solve sticky, real problems that people are willing to pay for long term.
I saw the security article, but that sounds like it needs to be tackled by MSFT, the way Google has to handle Chrome extensions.
Have been a paid Jetbrains user for years, especially PyCharm. But recently, I had to do some front-end web development with ionic/Capacitor and Vue, and ionic only had a VsCode plugin. A few weeks later, came across Cursor which is a fork of VsCode with LLM support, and all the same plugins worked.
Still keeping my PyCharm subscription, but am wobbly on whether I'll re-up next year.
You all realize pretty soon no human is going to update an existing code-base?
Who wants to spend their time understanding 10 year old legacy code? They'll just feed it into an AI and tell it to add or fix a feature, then generate tests, and file a PR.
If it ends up having an airplane do a loop on take-off or sending your paycheck to Antarctica 🤷🏻♂️
Pretty funny seeing what is after all, a 'romantic' venture (dating apps) broken down in a completely utilitarian analysis. Also helps to have a brook-no-shit writing style.
Years ago, was asked to do dev work on a clone of a dating app. Ended up looking at all the things these kinds of apps did to get people to pay. Two features I remember were giving new users option to buy top profile placement for a limited time, so they showed up as a first choice for everyone for the next hour.
Another was sending paid 'virtual' gifts, which turned out were badly ripped off clipart of flowers and jewelry. This was when Tinder was first starting so none of the fancy retention methods described here or AI filters.
I passed on working on the app, but made sure my wife knew exactly why I had installed all those dating apps on my phone. It really was for research.
Tried it in Cursor (paying for both). 3/4 of the time get an error that says 3.7 is overloaded. Toggling back to 3.5 works. Will wait till the novelty wears off.
I once saw pool fencing where the base was weighed down with water or sand, like those 'children playing' signs. Easy to move out of the way when not needed.
