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Your first sentence:

    > I am learning Python. 

Your second sentence:

    > I want to quit my current job and start a business.

Later in the thread:

    > I am not good at sales. Should I learn selling...?

Advice - pick one thing, get really good at it and take things slowly. You can't go from having no engineering experience, no business experience and no sales experience to all of sudden doing all three successfully.

I'm learning Rust because:

1. I want to add a low(er) level language to the ones I already know and use.

2. Though I did some C/C++ in high school, getting really into depth with C++ at the moment seems really daunting.

3. I don't need it for a job at this point so I can afford to learn a less popular language that can potentially have a future and which exposes you to new ways of thinking about code.

Don't put up with it. People reading this will have the rare luxury of working in an industry and in positions where they have a lot of leverage and a choice of employers.

(Disclaimer - it's easy for me to write this from the EU where this isn't a problem at all, thankfully.)

    > It's generally a policy to keep pay and pay negotiations confidential. 

I know that your general point is about the personal relationships, but I want to point out that this policy is bullshit. You can legally disclose your salary with anyone (including in the US). From my experience in the UK employers don't even try to pull any of these 'policies', although often employees don't go around discussing their salaries simply out of courtesy.

It's actually okay for many jobs and workplaces.

Stay away from:

- MOOCs

- Udacity

- Kaggle

I'm not being facetious, this is my honest advice.

As a non-technical manager it will be very difficult - just make sure that the selection process has a technical component. As a technical manager (and opinions here will vary), focusing on linear algebra is a great filter, because it's essential to anything ML but it's rarely taught in most online courses.

    > but I feel like I'm missing the point of this

There is no overarching point - each of the resources that you've listed have their own reasons to share educational content for free, it's up to you to use it as well as you can.

Learn as much about ML as you're interested in but don't worry about becoming a dinosaur at all.

    > There is a way to implement this in an objective way...

No. The post above you refers to assigning value, what you're suggesting is the opposite. So it definitely isn't "a way to implement this". It's a way to implement something completely different.

Can you elaborate on the reasons for this?

Genuinely asking as I don't work in that space - what's the advantage of this location diversity?

I wasn't referring to:

    [you earn more] --> [you pay more taxes]

I was referring to:

    [your job has some positive or negative effect on society] -.--<?><<!>-<>?>---<.. [your income]

The interface really puts me off though.

Microsoft is also getting some love because they've been doing right by the open source community and haven't ruined Github yet, nor does it look like they're going to.

Income isn't tied to contribution to society though. And that's okay.

It's never inconsequential who you employ, regardless or your position in the market.

being opposed != being obnoxious

Being opposed should be encouraged even if it's just a way to internally test ideas; being obnoxious should be discouraged.

You, your team and your manager should be able to make that distinction. If work at a place where disagreement is systemically taken personally, look for another place to work at.

Instead of either their old or their new approach:

1. Don't tolerate jerks regardless of their level of "brilliant". And simply not being likeable isn't enough to categorise someone as a jerk.

2. Give your employees honest reviews focusing on their actual skills, performance and impact. Don't come up with artificially soft language and treat them like children who need to tiptoed around.

It's not possible at the moment. A week or two ago they introduced shinymeta which allows you to save the state of the R environment but that doesn't extend to js objects.

1. Search Google.

2. Go to the Stack Overflow links.

3. If there are none, you go to the Github links.

4. If that doesn't help, you take a coffee break and work on something else when you come back.

It's not about winning - people will complain because that's what people do. Users complain about free products as well, sometimes rightfully and sometimes with too much entitlement. It's not about the monetisation model.

Creating something and putting it out there for free or for a one-off payment is the cleanest possible model.

Upfront sale is not like the others at all because it doesn't interact with addictive behaviour in the same way.