Soberly and correctly said.
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If anything, that might be the best way to identify someone that fits in a large corp like Google. Someone that doesn't mind going thru the drudge of studying esoteric CS problems probably will be more attuned to go thru the drudge of working for a large company like Google.
I'm thinking most of the time spent at Large Corp. Inc. is doing menial work, rather than hot projects where you learn and get to work on the cutting edge.
The classes were small (< 100-200 LOC), they fit together well, and the code was well tested. It was a SyncML parsing library developed in-house in Objective-C.
What helped, I believe, was him coming from a Ruby / RoR background (extensive OOP usage) and the fact that this was his 2nd attempt at writing this, after he wrote a similar library in Ruby.
I think about some code to this day and try to emulate wherever possible. Although I think the guy that wrote it was also a very smart person and experienced programmer, so I don't beat myself up if I can't quite make it to that standard.
There are recipes I sometimes consult online, but otherwise, I have most of the information in my head.
Yes, just like any part of the economy. Scarcity and/or productivity is why someone pays: either something, or more for it.
If it's BTC, the theory is it will be scarce, like gold.
If it is one of the other crypto coins, it has to be productive like e.g. this app enabling sharing internet with others.
Crypto is at a low point right now. If you time it right, it's like reporting that investing in the stock market is bad after the '08 recession.
Yes, I have. It works very well, what's the problem making it hardly worth the effort?
What I mean is that I develop Electron apps on an M1 Mac, and I use Parallels to spin up Windows so I can test the apps on Windows too.
Not the latter of what you suggested.
The use case is bagels or pizza across the country? If you don't eat those within the hour they're not good anymore. Other than that, I really can't think of a situation where I would be willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for cold food.
I work on Electron apps and I've been happy with how it works.
Why not use that?
My managers usually do cringe worthy "get to know your colleagues" events.
If there could be a game where me and my teammates could collaborate, work towards a goal (that is not programming), while also talking, I think that could be fun.
Will he, an executive before, have the required patience and humility to start at the bottom rung again, to e.g. step into a company with 20-year olds that know more than he does? 20-year olds that may not always be as kind as he would like them to be?
If I were in his shoes my answer would be no.
But the solution I would consider: have him build his own product.
He's of a certain age, so he probably has experience to areas that us younger folk have no idea about. Is getting medication a pain? Is there an app he'd wish he had on his phone or on the web to help him with various activities? Something friends of his age would like? Or something he could build for the children of older parents that could help them out?
If you're saying that he used to be an executive, I imagine by this point he's got enough savings to be comfortably retired. So, he can spend some time learning ruby on rails and pick up some front end stuff and start hacking away at a product he would like to see in the world.
Expose it publicly (the "hey I'm 61 and here's my side project" is bound to get a lot of clicks) and then go from there.
But that's what I would recommend. I wouldn't necessarily recommend he learn a stack and apply for jobs.
Also, BTC has been used without a bank since inception – not sure what you mean by "practical".
> Debras highlights that 78.5% of the participants included in the analysis were women
How can you tell that it was the artificial sweetener that led to cancer? And not one of the other hundred things people consumed during the day?
[citation needed]
Like others have said the solution to this crisis might be “drill baby drill” but that’s unfortunately more toxic or an argument than a country getting bombed to the ground. I guess we can stomach the war but not domestic oil and gas production.
Surely this is not going to look good at the end of this war, and it’ll just be more propaganda for the Russian gov’t to use - “look, the west doesn’t care about you”.
Is this just “cancel culture” exposed in a different area?
Happy to read up on this if you don't have the time to type it up.