Employed 16 year old here who has intentionally chosen not to buy a car. My job is three miles away, it's healthier to walk, and my other work is all remote. I'm using the money I could have spent buying/maintaining a car to travel Europe with my two best friends next summer.
My main question would be salary. You really can't reasonably expect your employer to pay you the same salary as someone working more than twice the hours.
Are you comfortable making less than half the salary of a programmer working 40 hours a week instead of 16?
If you can work remotely you can move somewhere far and cheap and live outrageously well on half an American engineer's salary. Plus you now have the free time to actually enjoy it.
I'd gladly work an 11 hour day at a company that provided food if two of those hours were meals (lunch and dinner) and another hour was time spent in the gym/playing games. That's 8 hours of work, and three hours of free recreation that would have cost me a non-trivial sum of money elsewhere. I just wouldn't want that to be expected.
Yes, but factor in all the activity and opportunities and life of the city, and it's worth moving there. Besides, it's not really higher cost if the wage of the industry you're working in scales nicely with the cost of living (true for programming).
I live in Manhattan. Within some 2-digit amount of minutes, I can experience the Tribeca Film Festival, I can visit some of the best museums and galleries in the world, I can get involved in the thriving nightlife, dozens of top restaurants, hundreds of huge retailers, and a massive tech scene. Whether we're talking conferences or weekly meetups or user groups or opportunities like Hacker School, there's just a higher chance it's going on in NYC than in a smaller city. Obviously when it comes specifically to the tech scene SF+SV+Bay Area is the juggernaut, but comparing NYC and SF to some small town is comparing some top college football player to some NFL players to your local middle school's quarterback. Yes, if I lived in the Midwest, I could get a McMansion and slightly larger numbers in the bank account if my industry's salary doesn't scale well between city sizes (again, programming does), but is it really worth it to give up all the other opportunities and stuff in bigger cities?
Yes, it is definitely a good feature. It's part of their security architecture. They figured out a way to allow developers complete freedom in distributing their software directly / outside of the App Store while still offering users protection against malware.
The point of the killswitch is to disable malicious software that someone tricked you into downloading off the internet and installing. That is the only thing it would be used for (and I'm not aware if it ever has.. maybe because it's a good deterrent).
It is not the same as the broader App Store approval guidelines. This is specifically for disabling malware, e.g. a bad actor tricking 10% of Hacker News into installing a malicious fork of brew.
I also want to make it clear I have no reason to believe this developer is anything but trustworthy. I just am curious why they decided not to sign it.
No, OP is saying installing an unsigned binary that is a package manager that has access to all of your system files is uncomfortable for some people.
I'd gladly fork it and replace it with a signed binary, but I'd want to ensure there isn't anything suspect in the project.
And seriously, I've never even heard of the kill switch being used for anything that wasn't malicious. Especially if it's not distorted in the Mac App Store.
It's like a job application filter. Start working for a .int company, only pay 10% income tax (but still get all benefits everyone else gets, sometimes more).
Employment doesn't require a car, even for teens.