Agreed. See this paper for a reputable reference in this space: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056
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Case in point: Our startup has been quietly flying a similar technology demonstrator since early 2018. While we don't get nearly as many headlines, occasionally something comes out: https://www.wired.com/story/beta-ava-flying-car-aviation/
PS: We're hiring :) If you are into hard software problems and want to join what could be the next Tesla but for aerospace, send me your resume: artur@beta.team
Kudos!
It's also not generally true that managers (even those with fancy titles) are more financially successful than engineers. By definition, there are far fewer VP/Director level positions than there are engineer positions, so everything else equal, as an engineer you have a lot more opportunities to pick and choose where you want to work, and that can be very financially rewarding.
I personally joined Twitter over a year before its IPO, and the financial reward there transformed my family's life. I am also incredibly proud of the products I've built over the years, whereas most work done by Directors/VPs at smaller companies wouldn't even come close to the reach and visibility of the work me and my fellow colleagues have done. (Take a look at my resume for added color: http://linkedin.com/in/arturadib).
One could easily imagine an opposite article written by someone who was a VP at several not-so-successful companies and never had anything to show.
Above all, choose what makes you happy. And if you're so fortunate as to have several equally fulfilling choices, and if financial reward matters to you, pick a company that is high-growth, hopefully pre-IPO, and negotiate at least a market-average stock compensation (glassdoor.com is your friend here).
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I have been living in VT for the last several years, and I'm pleasantly surprised by the sheer scale of unicorns this state has produced over the last 10 years: IDX (sold to GE Health for $1B+), Dealer.com (sold to Dealertrack for $1B+), and Keurig ($10B+).
Let this be an inspiration for entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs!
They just keep on delivering on out-of-the-box functionality, compatibility with 3rd party libs, and more importantly - on a very solid architecture for real-time transport by guys who really know what they're doing.
Kudos everyone.
Would Apple ever let an app do this? No, probably not.
As Jack Dorsey said, Echo is the future.
I still think we're missing the point; we're focusing on the wrong benchmarks. We're putting too much emphasis on JS speed, when in reality most web apps are behind native because of lack of (perceived) graphics performance.
The shortcut out of this requires a greater variety of GPU-accelerated CSS transitions/DOM changes, as well as easier computations and DOM manipulations off the main thread, which cause horribly noticeable UI hiccups. Web Workers are still too primitive (e.g. no DOM access whatsoever) and slow (e.g. no shared memory).
Not saying it's unimportant to improve JS's CPU performance; just saying that we're focusing too much on the wrong battle in the war against native.
Next up: Local package installs.
Searching for a new CEO is a huge distraction, particularly at this crucial time when they're trying to prove a major pivot and work out commercial deals with device makers.
I'm sending positive vibes to my former colleagues!
JavaScript is full of flaws, but its monopoly in the browser space has brought about one intriguing and welcome side-effect: a VERY efficient market for both employers and employees.
It's easy to overlook how important this common denominator has been for everyone involved. Employees have a tremendous amount of mobility within the industry: don't like your current JavaScript job? No problem - just about every dot-com needs a JavaScripter. Similarly, companies can today tap into a tremendous pool of JavaScript developers.
In today's fast-paced development environment, the ability to hit the ground running is key, and I worry that fragmentation will introduce unnecessary friction in the industry.
http://documentup.com/arturadib/node-five
Glad to see someone had the same idea for iOS :)
> “The biggest advancement is our buoyancy management system that allows the vehicle to operate autonomously - without the hundreds of people that you saw grabbing the Zeppelin type airships”
or this:
> The system gets around a major drawback of traditional airships [...where] ropes and docking stations are needed on the ground to stop a vessel floating off.
Ha, it's an inverted submarine!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Submersion_and_trimmi...
I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor - someone who wants to become a company owner, as I explained above, and not yet another hacker who couldn't care less about the long-term health of the company I'm buying.
My point is that if folks care about liquidity on the order of seconds/sub-seconds, they are themselves falling into the short-term trading BS (and consequently continuously distorting company prices).
Please stop perpetuating this insanity. Here's a timely article by Mark Cuban fresh out of the oven to help clarify my point:
http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/21/what-business-is-wall-str...
Also, I have done more than "a bit of research" on the topic (I'm ashamed I was once so innocent as to make money with stat arbitrage, now I know better).
> but algorithmic trading is a net positive for both the market and society
Oh yeah? How exactly?