It does seem like a US-centric thing. I've faced several interviews here in Australia and the teams care more about how the candidate will fit into the team. Most them sort of assume that what's written in the resume is correct. So the interview process is basically just trying to validate those claims. Also, it's really important to get your references right. But it depends a lot on the companies. Some of them have take home projects and white board problem solving sessions. We don't have anything like the H1B here. Either you're a permanent resident or an Aussie citizen. The only difference being the ability to vote and jury duty. Sure, some of the govt jobs are out of reach for permanent residents. The work visa holders are generally transferred by a company from another country.
Yeah, absolutely. IOS is very restrictive in terms of what you can achieve on it as a developer or a power user. But it's an amazing device for artists and content creators. Packs enough CPU power for their needs. My wife has been considering buying one for illustrations etc. Now with the new iPad Air supporting Pencil 2, the choices are even more confusing. She is torn between getting the pro or the new Air.
hey.. thanks for the comment. I didn't mean marijuana usage made my friend sharp. They just happen to be intelligent and interesting people. Yes, I do understand why it's better to decriminalise it. But, you're absolutely correct, it shouldn't be promoted either. As responsible adults whoever wishes to dabble in Marijuana, it's their business. It's just that, I don't use and I don't think I've the right to judge anyone who does it.
I know what you mean. ThinkPads are definitely chunky and are in the similar price range as Macs. If I didn't have the Macbook pro (16gigs with core -i5) from work, I'd probably buy a Macbook air. I feel that the Air series offer a lot of value for money. I have the touch bar Macbook pro. It's great. I use the touch bar sometimes but all I really want is the finger print sensor. Great feature. I'm wondering if Apple will ever open up the iPad OS a bit and allow terminal access and enable installing compilers and dev environments like the Mac OS. I wouldn't mind switching to an iPad in that case. The ARM Macbooks are going to be just non-touch iPads with MacOS X on them anyway. I don't do a lot of gaming. Mostly play casual games on a Nintendo Switch. So my desktop PC has been barely touched in the last three years.
Fair enough. You've my upvote. I live in Australia. While, it's not legal, it's pretty common here. Yes I don't live next to someone who smokes all day. I do know someone who smokes and bakes cookies. Their house smells pleasant though (from the butter I reckon). I could be wrong.
I'm sure there are thousands of rock stars and musicians and artists, who have "lame personality" from marijuana usage. How do you even define "lame personality"? I personally know a few people who're extremely sharp and have very engaging personality. Some of them have master degrees in advanced engineering subjects. I don't understand this argument. Sure it's probably not totally harmless. It's still a lot less addictive and harmful than tobacco and alcohol.
That's utter rubbish. It has a distinctive scent and I'm sure many people would find it pleasant. Fine, don't make it legal to smoke it public places, just as cigarettes.
very true. I've used several other brands of laptops, mostly because they're cheaper. None have lasted more than 2 years. I've had Compaq, Fujistsu, HP, Asus and a ThinkPad. Only the ThinkPad still works. I had one of the early Intel Core 2 Duo Macbooks and it lasted 6 years before I sold it. It was still working. My wife's Macbook Air is 6 years old and has only 4 gigs of RAM and it still supports the latest OS and works. Even the battery last 4 to 5 hours easily. I've tried working with Linux on some other laptops but I'd to deal with a lot of support issues. Macs just work. I'm using a 2017 model Macbook Pro with 16 gigs RAM, from work. The keyboard is not the best so they gave me a Magic Keyboard. It's just a stress free computer.
I must say that all the Apple products my wife and I have used so far, have been very reliable. They're expensive but when you consider the quality and durability they usually have better value. But their repair service can be utterly rubbish sometimes. A few years ago my wife spilled some beer on her MacBook Air and the keyboard stopped working. She took it to the Apple Service centre and told her that it was a faulty motherboard. They asked for nearly 60% of the price of the laptop. She then took it to an independent repair shop and they did it for a fraction of the cost.
Let me start by saying that my comment might be downvoted. However, I'm just wondering if the device justifies the price tag. For a little more I could get an iPad Air, which can do a lot more. Granted the battery needs to be charged everyday but it's probably not a deal breaker for many.
I'm not sure if WhatsApp's chat data is accessed by FB too. I thought it was impossible after they implemented end-to-end encryption. A friend of mine recently bought a mattress and talked about it with other friends in a WhatsApp chat. One of those guys didn't even look up the mattress anyone on the web but still got an ad for it on FB in a few hours. Could be just a coincidence. All of them are on Android.
I used to work on an IBM AIX system as a data warehouse developer. That was on Power architecture but unfortunately I didn't know much about this architecture back then.
I don't understand why my comment got down voted. But yes, as one of you have pointed out, it's just my opinion. And I don't think the original draft of this law as much to do with giving your data to the govt, but more about Google/Fb being more transparent with the conditions under which, our data will be used by them. I'm not a legal expert and I may have misunderstood some of it. It's my opinion that big monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon should be regulated in some ways and be held accountable. I honestly don't have an answer to the question "What if govt loses your data"!
I'd probably trust the Australian govt to protect my data better than Google or even worse Facebook. The way the article has twisted the words in Google's favour is commendable though. Marketing really is everything.
Thanks man.. I know. I've an old Asus laptop/netbook with an Atom processor. Quad-core I might add. The travesty! It's slow as hell. I bought it because it had an 11 inch screen and I wanted something small. I bought it for AUD $300 back in 2015. I haven't used it more than a month. It's just part of my electronics junk collection. Now a days I'm a lot more careful before buying these things. That's why I've been holding on to the idea of buying a bunch of RPi 4s or Jetson Nanos. It's probably a better idea to get a proper GPU for my Ryzen desktop.
Hey mate. The rig looks awesome. How is the performance output compared to a regular desktop with Ryzen-5/7 or Core-i7 processor in it? Can it run Spark? Apologies if my questions are irrelevant. I'm not sure if Spark/Java works well on the ARM platform yet. Although it'd be foolish on my part to expect too much performance from something like this that costs around $600! It'd be an interesting setup to test parallelism and learn how things work.
hahahah.. True indeed. Ignorance is bliss! :D Yes, the Switch is pretty neat as it is. I guess serious gamers would consider a PS Pro or one of those fast Xboxes! :D
yeah, I'm sure. Someone who is passionate about these things will go the distance to use advance features like these. I know that the Switch isn't capable of running at 4K. I play it at 1080 on the telly. It's relatively large at 60 inches but I rarely notice any frame drops or low fps. Even if it did, I wouldn't be able to notice! But it's good to know that I could theoretically use 4K, with a powerful enough PC. I've a Ryzen machine and might buy a GTI 2070 or something like that for Machine Learning purposes in a few months. I'll save this link in case I want to experiment.
That is true. I have bought several games and I don't even play that much. I don't know much about Pokemon. I read somewhere that when the Switch first came out it was just a Zelda machine. I've seen my colleagues play it at work. It looks great. I'll give it go then. I've been mostly playing Asphalt 9 recently.
Although I don't play much games, I like to read about them for some weird reason. I was browsing the eShop today and saw Crysis listed there. Isn't that notorious for being very heavy on computing resources? I wonder how that'd run on a portable device like Switch.
Thanks man. I honestly had no idea. I'm not a gamer. The reason I like the Switch is because it offers some fun cartoonish sort of games. Nothing serious. I can barely beat my wife in Super Smash Bros Ultimate! :D I like MarioKart and Rocket League (I suck at it too). I'd probably be more interested in running Linux on the Switch! It will probably brick it. hahaha.. I reckon I'm part of a very small segment of "gamers", even for Nintendo!
I find this interesting. But I'm not sure if I follow why I would want to do it. If I own a Switch(which I do) and the games, I'm perfectly happy playing on the telly! Sorry, just wondering.
Hey mate.. the probability course was really rigorous and I found the difficulty to be hard, especially with a full time job. I failed the first time, but mostly because I didn't have enough time to study. It's awesome deep dive into the world of probability and lays a solid foundation to get into statistics. I'm currently taking the "Data Analysis for social scientists" course right now. It's ambitious and has a lot of content. However, the material only covers the subject at a very shallow level and expects a lot from the students when it comes to home work exercises. Also, make sure you learn R before you start the course, that'd help a lot.
I completed my bachelors in Electrical Engineering 14 years ago. I'd been looking to get some formal education in Statistics as I work as a data analyst. The course has been really good and I'm learning a lot of the theoretical aspects of Data analysis that I otherwise would never have learnt thought DataCamp or Udemy or others. I'm glad to have started it, however, it's not practical and it won't help you get a job immediately. It's very much academic in nature, however you can learn the practical stuff from other sources if you need to or learn it on the job. Depends on what you're after. I'm not doing it to get a job, rather doing it to get into academia. Hope that helps.
I agree with this. I'm currently taking the Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters from MIT on the EDX platform. When you see a course titled "Introduction to .... ", it's never really an introductory material. They go really deep. I've taken the "Probability and the uncertainty of data". Granted, it starts with introducing very basic concepts, however quickly delves deep into very advanced topics. I must admit, Prof. John Tsitsiklis has done an awesome job in the course and even a beginner can take it. It's not an easy course to complete under deadlines.
I'm an immigrant in Australia. When millions of citizens and residents are out of jobs, I think asking the govt to provide free money to international students might be asking a bit too much. I don't think any other country is doing it. From a humanitarian point of view I can totally understand, but for policy makers that wouldn't be a high priority especially after the catastrophic bush fires this year.
I'm taking the Micromasters in Statistics and Data Science from MIT. It's awesome and now I want to continue studying and probably get my masters after this. It's very rigorous though. I'm not doing this for job prospects. I already work as a data analyst. I'm looking forward to learning the theoretical aspects of the mathematics and of course its applications.