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1. There isn’t a need and it can’t be demonstrated via handwaving.

2. Investing in the imaginary shouldn’t be peddled by charlatans.

3. Comparing to Airbnb is inaccurate and intentionally misleading.

4. Sentences 1-2 are circular.

I think crypto took a lot of money that would've gone to commodities, along with the speculative money.

True, and improper indexing.

Talking with dbas, I sometimes get the impression that they are managing hundreds of servers

Agreed, I am amazed at how often I hear of a few million rows being considered a large table.

That seems like a job that could easily be remote.

My experiences in offices have generally involved being surrounded by many people who talk rather consistently.

When coupled with surprise meetings that don’t pertain directly to my projects and the inability to multitask, I think that the home office is a net positive.

Also a positive in that it reduces highway traffic.

By singling out Democrats, are you claiming that the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson haven’t influenced the government in ways that are beyond the scope of what citizens should be capable of?

True, but it seems like there would be many better ways to do that...i.e. a not particularly successful simple business mixed with personal funds.

It reminds me a bit of academic papers whereby an author chooses a specific corner-case of a topic and then beats it up in a rather contrived manner.

pbaas, pronounced pbass

I’ve seen json do some powerful things.

And to then provide roi on 93m

Even worse on the internet when the headline obfuscates the info promising something that isn’t there.

I'd claim that retail is such a vast category that it is entirely monopolistic.

I think a fun/useful question would be along the lines of tell me one of the biggest mistakes you’ve made in X language that shows up quite a bit on the resume.

It’s an investment as opposed to a cost to be minimized.

I'd say it solves the what brands can sports venues extract the most marketing money from problem.

My theory for a possible price correction is that those buying places with the intent of becoming landlords will be unable to find tenants that can make the house purchase profitable.

Perfect analogy.

Interesting to me because Parker’s style is so distinct from Baker.

It’s true that there are cool groups within the organization but I don’t trust the people above who can guide via budgeting.

Cotlin?

I appreciate the response and will have to investigate these. My more recent jobs have taken me away from these areas but they are very interesting topics.

I think that there are many valid ways to improve business systems software, but that the current leaders are entrenched to a level that they won’t be replaced, similar to libre office not taking off regardless of its rich set of features. I am glad that open source databases have done well though.

I recall working at a large manufacturing warehouse that switched systems, 2 years into the schedule they had to continue to push out the changeover for a variety of issues.

Personally, I get tired of the apples to oranges comparisons whereby bitcoins and blockchain have the same feature set as currency and banks.

Also get tired of the aspirational rants of how it is going to fix supply chains and offer banking to the underserved communities. And yes, I understand banking, supply chains, and crypto enough to know that that will never happen.

Because having too many companies on a resume prevents a person from being employable

Another ignored issue I see is that people choose the modeling methodology they use, the scoring methodology, and the data that goes into the model.

The reactions act as though the model has a life of its own and that some unlikely error led to these results.

Purchased data/models can frequently be wrong or unhelpful to one’s modeling objective.

Finance also has a number of risks vs rewards with every decision.

I remember that the top person in the math department in college had transferred from dance because it was too difficult.

They always present underwater basket weaving as being easy but I imagine it’d be quite challenging.

Agreed, it's as though all features were organized carefully into a B tree that became polished over the years.

I've had similar experiences with green screen enterprise manufacturing software. It had a remarkable amount of features that were accessed via nested command sequences that didn't take too long to learn, and could easily handle 800 users simultaneously with no lag or interruption.