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- how much code actually gets read outside of top 2-3 projects?
- how many of those readers can detect security problems?
- why are others inherently better at detecting problems than the author?
Wouldn’t 1000 lines read by 2 people be better than a million read by 10?
> If you're trying to build a business then you must be always be selling and marketing.
Yes. I am only giving marketing advice. Sales is unfortunately embedded in so many other areas of life besides commerce.
I agree there are no ready made jobs for that.
But you yourself know there are optimization problems all over real life. It’s a sales problem. Companies don’t know what they need or who has it.
> there is nearly no career in "applied" optimization
Agreed. But that’s true of all PhDs. The only difference is business guys see “computer science” and have an idea of where it fits in their org. It’s easier to sell. But in reality there is no business for experts in complexity theory or category theory type systems.
Making money involves solving practical problems. Even professors take a two job approach, mixing official research to get tenure with stuff they are actually interested in.
> With a BS "With Honors" in math, I got strongly recruited
This is very unfortunate. Because professors grew up competing in an academic tournament for their jobs they think that’s how the whole world works.
Do you think not learning math would have helped you understand people at a younger age? It sounds like you just needed time to grow socially and in practicality. For most people on this forum, that’s a challenge regardless.
My point is not to criticize your job hunting skills, it’s to suggest that this an undue psychological burden in your life and is perhaps masking other causes and personal challenges.
I am sensitive to your hardship, but optimization has nothing to do with it. People are succeeding with bachelor’s degrees in Latin.
Speak for yourself.
You are also developing a meta skill of being able to read technical material, and a fluency with basic concepts (algorithms, signals, etc)
Also sometimes learning something isn’t knowing exactly how to do it on the spot, but knowing it’s the right thing to look up when you need it.
This is a sign that the software has grown to become its own operating system. They also have to add their own version control… remote editing, etc.
Unix style versions of tools are interesting in their own right (photoshop vs imagemagick).
isn’t it good to have multiple options so consumers can pick what they value?
If they were only financially interested they would play the game with much less status bias.
We are assigning moral value to this? You don’t think EU is a self interested party looking to interpret the law as favorably as they can?
4k also requires upscaling or minimizing work per pixel, which encourages everyone to use similar methods.
But there is also a peak performance achieved by using tools for decades that is not transferable. C experts didn’t switch to Java, they found different jobs.
For your core technology you want a few of those 5-10+ year guys.
The scarce resource here is not high quality learning material, but time and effort.
Perhaps this idea has most value in new fields without established material.