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My 16" M1 Pro MacBook with 32 Gigs of RAM is still going strong. Not going to upgrade till this thing dies.

I can ride this puppy for the next 10 years. Say what you will about Apple but their hardware is top notch and it is a great value if you can snag some OG hardware in M series.

FYI, international students have to pay often significantly more as turion fee alone.

Smart local students go to in state public schools to avoid crippling debt.

So no one is going to talk about how the Model is a mathematical model which follows Bayes Theorem in it's core. It updates it's priors based on new evidence presented every day.

The whole point of the Model is to detect things which are uncertain by nature. Being wrong is not bad, it's good TBH.

CMIIW.

CS requires a lot of practice. Both in terms of theory and practical aspect.

Without it is difficult to make connection between theory and actual stuff you can run on computers.

And the subject is vast, making it difficult.

I call BS, that's not even possible. Even the legendary "tourist" cannot do it, in his own words. He programs like 2-4 hours on good days.

Did some Program Manager needed a promotion at Google? Looks like it.

I personally dislike such changes, which no one asks for. Either people are just pushing their BS through Google higher ranks or they have no clue how their users actually feel and use their core product.

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Hey man, why you have to burn someone so hard that they curl up in their bed crying tears of agony like a little pussy?

Slow clap

I can speak 3 languages and can understand close to 3 more.

And I think I am the dumbest person at work, damn why is my Brain so slow? :(

The amount of wastage I see in online store returns is mind boggling.

I recently ordered something from a manufacturer on Amazon. After couple of days, they dropped price on product by $20. So I called up Amazon for price adjustment. I was politely asked to return it to manufacturer and order a new one.

Seriously, Amazon cannot work with manufacturers to just refund price difference instead of returning the product and ordering it again. It is wasteful at so many levels.

You do realize people do not run through their luggage like yoga pants or sneakers.

Most people use the same luggage for years, I use mine for atleast 10 years. Where is the logic in your reply?

Wait this company makes luggage? And has such high valuation, how?

Not sure why are you correlating unrelated reasoning with MS deal with US Military.

You seem to suggest that MS is poor at Cloud game, which is not exactly true. They are cost effective compared to AWS and catching up.

Maybe military wanted to save money. May be this is all about a better deal after all.

For you it isn't. But for a lot of us it is cumbersome and just plain complex.

Oh... Tell me more why being not multithreaded is a failure for Redis?

Well it does makes sense because this is the ground reality, not all startups make it. Engineers never get preferred shares no matter how hard we try to think so.

Class shares are a thing to protect investor money not engineer interest.

No they are not, speaking from experience.

One debt financing round and your golden stocks lose 90% of its value. It's worse when you have exercised your options.

Plus you won't get class A stocks, class B or worse, which means you won't make much unless company goes public and goes big like FB or Google.

This article reminds of my coworker, touts Haskell all the time, ends up writing shitty Java code which is difficult to understand and performs like molasses.

Real world is not perfect, it is immutable with plenty of side effects. Using Haskell for day to day messy work is not trivial and should not be considered IMO, u nless you have Haskell gurus all around.

I would rather take a dumb language like Go or Java over Haskell for work code.

It is trivial to write both of these on your own, why do we need unnecessary abstraction for such a simple task.

Only one question - Why?

You are a product or sales guy, aren't you?

Looks like you did not set your expectations correctly with your engineering counterpart.

Stockholm syndrome is strong with this one.

On a serious note, problem seems to be extremely long product cycles for Apple Hardware products with "my way or highway attitude" from Apple.

These 2 make for a disaster recipe. Putting form before function is a fallacy which is bound to boomerang sooner or later.

E.g The monitor stand fiasco speaks volumes of either a disconnect or ridicule raised by wrong audience.

The latest MacBook pro is a bad and good design both depending on audience.

Last Mac Pro was laughably form before function for a fortune.

Not sure why people are bashing Go because of it's choices.

Looking forward to shit storm once they introduce generics in near future. I am sure people will still complain that this is not how parametric polymorphism should be implemented.

What a terrible advice.

Does author has trouble with discipline?

You don't get anything by learning more and more programming languages. Programming languages are tools, be expert at 2 or 3 languages and that should be enough. Learn anything more to solve a specific problem.

You understand the crux of a language by being expert at it not by "me too" novice at it.

I see the same age my Startup all the time.

It is go go go all the time. Except, it is not a plane.

Isn't most of these standard text in CS undergrad courses?

What's so special? And there are better alternatives too.

For me evil is not what I consider. Its pure business, if other party don't need for my skillset, I aint gonna put my time to change my skillset to suit theirs.

What is important to employers?

1. A candidate who can solve puzzles but is not willing to do the dirty work with team, solving production issues, doing debugging, bug fixing with usual stuff. 2. Another Candidate, who is willing to learn, is ready to work with team and do the dirty work.

I am on a hiring committee as a Tech Lead, and I always try to weed out 1.

Works great, we hire as interns and then assess them. Someone from Google who we hired full time, was detrimental to team's morale, grunting, complaining about code, complaining about food and what not.

Another experienced smartass was self centered on his skills and didn't want to teach junior engineers anything or willing to admit he needs to update his skills. The moment he realized his skills have no values, started attending pointless conferences. Now his LinkedIn profile has "aware of block chain technology", "attended machine learning seminars".

I said not to interviewing at Google and FB because I don't have cycles to spend months on leetcode. Did I erred? Perhaps. But I am sure neither can provide me same work quality I execute in my current mid size company. I regret nothing :).

God bless my Mazda 3 2012.

I spent a total of $1200(wipers, tires, engine oil) in 100k miles and still gives me 39 mpg on highways.

Love the car. My next Car is going to be either Japanese or a Korean.

I hate being called a Tech Lead because I know dirty work I do in my current Job holds no value when I start looking out.

No one cares that you took one for the team. Principal Engg or not, recruiters are trash these days and they suck. Every numbskull keeps repeating "So, what are you expert in?". How about none, because if I was a expert, I would not be talking to you.

So are cloud APIs which lock you in. E.g tensor flow, Aurora and all that shiny jazz.

Hate it, it is useless once you change provider or go bare metal.

Cloud computing is Vendor lock in of 21st Century.