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To my understanding the article clearly does not question the academic research itself but the way the results are published and who benefits from (the money returned by) such publications. Or am I misreading it?

To be more precise - the puritans fled from Europe to the New World because Europe became too modern and less conservative for them, starting with Martin Luther and the following Reformation and Age of Enlightenment. The social effects on the American society are heavily noticeable until today, but I leave this exercise to the reader.

In Germany it‘s even more confusing. In the West people say „Viertel nach Neun“ and “Viertel vor Zehn” which is pretty much „quarter past nine“ and “quarter to ten”, while in Eastern Germany people say “Viertel Zehn” and “Dreiviertel Zehn” which rather means “quarter of ten” and “three quarters of ten”. Even though they are meaning exactly the same times.

Yep. This seems to be the most overlooked part of the article, although maybe the most interesting.

Unfortunately not for anyone who has activated the auto-update feature on his/her Xbox, as the latest system software version seems to include a higher kernel version than supported by the collateral-damage exploit.

I work as an engineering manager at a medium-sized company and my experience is fundamentally different from what some of you describe. I gave up to do any live-coding or higher-level algorithm questions at all. For me the main challenge in a software engineer‘s daily work is product problem solving and that’s what we aim for in our interviews.

Especially with recent advances in AI-assistance it becomes more and more crucial to learn fast, and have the ability to apply knowledge to actual problems, no matter where the knowledge originates from. That, solid bug-hunting capabilities and a good understanding of the big picture and the business problem you are trying to solve.

I‘d even argue that nowadays communication skills are much more important than any memorized knowledge about algorithms or a given technology. Communication is what makes you a successful developer, ironically - even when prompting an AI assistant.

Fun fact: 10 years ago I had an exam-like testsheet that I handed out to candidates and gave them one hour to fill it out, including paper-based coding. It makes me feel seriously embarrassed when thinking about that with today's experience :) ..