Yeah that's cynical ;). I for example am with my current startup for 5 years now and can hardly find anything to complain about. Previous job was 4 years and was also ok although there it was a bit too much management…
True. If you got two kids (I do) one can just look for both while the other one can have their shower/toilet/sleep whatever. Actually we are often taking turns sleeping.
Yeah Python culture is generally pretty "direct". I did mostly python the last decade and got so used to "no problem to read the source of pytorch or whatever" that I meanwhile really feel challenged when I look at…
As I've been mostly using Python for the last 10 years I forgot how nice this dot thing can be ;). True that vscode and pycharm can give you something but I found that it's very often crap. I am writing a little bit of…
Recently seen some statistics (if I could just find them) where clojure was one of those languages with more people wanting to work with it than jobs. Compared to something like Go where it was the other way round
Teaching second semester CS students atm I unfortunately see that many students just can't handle it remotely. Although I admit that I'm skeptical if students unable to do some work independently are... a good fit. I…
Well, in Austria you can get up to three years paid leave and freely choose between parents, so not sure if the article is correct. Question is how much the payment is, we get less the longer we take it. Alternatively…
Most I know take off 2 weeks. Many companies even Full close down for a week or two. I'm in Europe so YMMV but still I'm currently working for a US startup and will be gone for good starting now
I work 25 hours a week remotely as freelancer (although I'm available in slack more or less all the time) and earn nearly twice as much as during my PhD. Only that in more than 3 years I never really got into…
Read that article couple years ago, but still I just have to look at the quality of all the electric devices around me... It's not all bridges and hospitals. Heck, even my electric toothbrush from Philipps can't make it…
Right ;)
From Gavin Belson we know that you can never ever trust your blood boy.
Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it. So much time wasted just by stating over and over again why their top down…
Only that basically every right winger I've left didn't call himself right but center. Might be a European thing because they'll quickly call you Nazi otherwise, but still... "I'm not a racist, but...". The other point…
Most gamers will object to the last paragraph. There are really a lot of strong friendships without ever meeting in person. Back then eben without ever hearing each other's voice. I've been working for a startup at the…
Well, apart from the US in most western countries you have a strong social safety net so you don't have to marry because of financial worries. Actually it's sometimes shocking when you see some being better off…
Well, apparently being good at college is not a requirement for becoming professor... But I don't get that US GPA system. If B is the second best grade from 5 available grades, and GPA goes from 1 to 5 with 5 best,…
That's unfortunately true. I found people in research to be much more open-minded than in sw development (at the same time they were always a bit too outgoing for me :)). But not sure if it's much better in most other…
I haven't read the whole thing but I'd briefly say: true, there are many codebases where you have to jump through a million strangely-named onliner functions (+5 lines for parameters, braces, modifiers etc... sometimes…
I feel it's the other way round.. Everyone is advocating Javascript, python etc. JS webapps are more and more developed directly in the browser in the dev console, CSS interactively modified to directly see the results.…
+1 for cmake. It works so well, in my latest C++ project the cmake file is more or less just a listing of source files and it does it job on windows, Mac and a few different Linux distros without any platform specific…
tl;dr
I had to take a few of those courses but I doubt they make much sense. I felt that you are mostly discussing "don't so bad things" all the time, captain obvious stuff... There's the one type of people who care about…
AFAIK in most of Europe you have to do a master before the PhD and typical (theoretical) numbers are 3 years bachelor, 2 years master, 3 years PhD. But that's theory, usually it's more like 4 3 4, but obviously there…
Right, seems many companies like that "SF/SV/whatever"-company label. That's sad. Goes so far that we have really small, local startups doing pretty impressive stuff... With a more or less empty "office" in SF and then…
Yeah that's cynical ;). I for example am with my current startup for 5 years now and can hardly find anything to complain about. Previous job was 4 years and was also ok although there it was a bit too much management…
True. If you got two kids (I do) one can just look for both while the other one can have their shower/toilet/sleep whatever. Actually we are often taking turns sleeping.
Yeah Python culture is generally pretty "direct". I did mostly python the last decade and got so used to "no problem to read the source of pytorch or whatever" that I meanwhile really feel challenged when I look at…
As I've been mostly using Python for the last 10 years I forgot how nice this dot thing can be ;). True that vscode and pycharm can give you something but I found that it's very often crap. I am writing a little bit of…
Recently seen some statistics (if I could just find them) where clojure was one of those languages with more people wanting to work with it than jobs. Compared to something like Go where it was the other way round
Teaching second semester CS students atm I unfortunately see that many students just can't handle it remotely. Although I admit that I'm skeptical if students unable to do some work independently are... a good fit. I…
Well, in Austria you can get up to three years paid leave and freely choose between parents, so not sure if the article is correct. Question is how much the payment is, we get less the longer we take it. Alternatively…
Most I know take off 2 weeks. Many companies even Full close down for a week or two. I'm in Europe so YMMV but still I'm currently working for a US startup and will be gone for good starting now
I work 25 hours a week remotely as freelancer (although I'm available in slack more or less all the time) and earn nearly twice as much as during my PhD. Only that in more than 3 years I never really got into…
Read that article couple years ago, but still I just have to look at the quality of all the electric devices around me... It's not all bridges and hospitals. Heck, even my electric toothbrush from Philipps can't make it…
Right ;)
From Gavin Belson we know that you can never ever trust your blood boy.
Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it. So much time wasted just by stating over and over again why their top down…
Only that basically every right winger I've left didn't call himself right but center. Might be a European thing because they'll quickly call you Nazi otherwise, but still... "I'm not a racist, but...". The other point…
Most gamers will object to the last paragraph. There are really a lot of strong friendships without ever meeting in person. Back then eben without ever hearing each other's voice. I've been working for a startup at the…
Well, apart from the US in most western countries you have a strong social safety net so you don't have to marry because of financial worries. Actually it's sometimes shocking when you see some being better off…
Well, apparently being good at college is not a requirement for becoming professor... But I don't get that US GPA system. If B is the second best grade from 5 available grades, and GPA goes from 1 to 5 with 5 best,…
That's unfortunately true. I found people in research to be much more open-minded than in sw development (at the same time they were always a bit too outgoing for me :)). But not sure if it's much better in most other…
I haven't read the whole thing but I'd briefly say: true, there are many codebases where you have to jump through a million strangely-named onliner functions (+5 lines for parameters, braces, modifiers etc... sometimes…
I feel it's the other way round.. Everyone is advocating Javascript, python etc. JS webapps are more and more developed directly in the browser in the dev console, CSS interactively modified to directly see the results.…
+1 for cmake. It works so well, in my latest C++ project the cmake file is more or less just a listing of source files and it does it job on windows, Mac and a few different Linux distros without any platform specific…
tl;dr
I had to take a few of those courses but I doubt they make much sense. I felt that you are mostly discussing "don't so bad things" all the time, captain obvious stuff... There's the one type of people who care about…
AFAIK in most of Europe you have to do a master before the PhD and typical (theoretical) numbers are 3 years bachelor, 2 years master, 3 years PhD. But that's theory, usually it's more like 4 3 4, but obviously there…
Right, seems many companies like that "SF/SV/whatever"-company label. That's sad. Goes so far that we have really small, local startups doing pretty impressive stuff... With a more or less empty "office" in SF and then…