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Dijkstra is supposed to have said something like this though the origin is disputed.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Yes. Good point. This is my intuitive feeling as well. An extreme example of this is Paul Erdős (of Erdős number fame) who did not care about any material posessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

Check out Montreal. It has a great downtown and decent public transit. It is also very walkable about 9 months a year.

I think once the first high profile cancellations (LG, Ericsson) came in it was just a matter of time. We were prepared to go still but one by one everyone we were supposed to meet started canceling. The domino effect of the first cancellations doomed the event.

I work at a startup where we invested quite a bit of time and money for this show. It is a big hit for the smaller companies since it eats away a large chunk of your marketing budget.

I think he answered with his take on the reddit thread. He thinks that current universities don't push the students far enough and this workload is similar to what they will experience in their first job. Seemed convincing to me.

I had to turn in the Macbook Pro at the Apple store and it took them more than a week to return it. They had to ship to a centralized repair center. I doubt anyone got to watch.

Yes. There will be some impacts due to cosmic rays. A bit more detail here

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-earth-magnetic-poles-flip.html

Thanks!! That was certainly useful and something I would have never found using regular search terms.

If you are interested in the background for this work I would greatly recommend the following two articles from ACM queue

BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? - discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798

Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet - Jim Gettys & Kathleen Nichols

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2071893

Don't work for Tesla but I always found these (forced team photos) to be interesting to look back to in the future, especially for the projects I was involved in. They bring back good memories!

They have gone on an evolutionary path and this followup paper ("Jupiter Rising") summarizes the changes over the years

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183...

Kind of reminds me of this old HBR article on a similar topic

https://hbr.org/2012/02/does-it-matter-where-your-top

which had a link to this interesting paper

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

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