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I agree wholeheartedly. I have a dualboot setup, Windows mainly for games / Linux for dev and games. KSP is super nice to play. Funny enough, I spend most of my time playing Dwarf Fortress and Factorio.

I'm also a big ran of ramnode and pelican. I've had a host there for the past 4 years

As someone who's written / taught a CS intro class in Python. This is a nice addition to my tool belt. When I taught labs, we used a really crappy Python IDE that consistently froze and would delete student's code.

I'm pretty partial to the VS Code and command line approach, myself. It teaches you basic command line stuff, which is good for anyone learning CS in the long run, and it teaches you how to NOT rely on an IDE for most of your syntax and semantics which is enormously helpful for those starting out (even though the learning curve is a bit steep).

As a newly graduated Site Reliability Engineer who's working in the Bay Area. I'm living and working in Sunnyvale, my expenses are way lower than expected, I was able to get a house a 20 minute bike away from work. I get a free caltrain pass, so I really don't need a car. I think the "cost of living" adjustment here is unfair. Sure, living in SF proper can cost you upwards of 8k-9k a month but there are MUCH more reasonable apartments where most of the tech jobs are in the South Bay area.

I completely agree. Having more data points on whether or not a fully diverse work place is more effective is great.

It's a neat site. First thing I noticed when I made an account was that they already have a place to setup a Payment method. Is it just me or is that a bit strange?

What happens if you don't have a webcam? Do they just deny you the position? I don't have a webcam or mic on my desktop currently... I guess I'm never going to work for Amazon :/

I love MapD. I got to see a demo of their tech at a meetup at Nvidia's HQ this summer. I thought their graph / chart rendering backend was pretty neat.

Or that they didn't mention cost for performance. They equated 4 Xeon Phi servers to ONE DGX-1. The DGX has a 140k price tag.

Shots fired, wow Nvidia is pissed that Intel is trying to edge into the market with their Phi series.

They have to, they're still trying to nail down advertising customers. Nobody wants to advertise on an adult platform

I appreciate that he acknowledges me at the end. Thanks Rob!

Uber is really strapped for engineering talent. Especially when it comes for SRE. Myself and many friends working SRE at various Bay Area companies get consistently hit up for free lunches and interviews. It's really weird considering that their stack doesn't NEED to be this complex....

That's exactly the issue. If you go into the field of software development thinking that you can just "exploit" your way to the top you'll find yourself falling short. That kind of mentality leads to poor deliverable.

I'm not sure about anyone else but this guy's cocksure tone came off as really arrogant. I applaud him for being able to land a job with little programming experience, but playing that fast and loose isn't a good tactic for anyone in my opinion.