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One BIG reason to start your own company but never ever become an employee at a startup.

EDIT: The only benefit of working at startup (and a significant one) is to learn how startups work. If thats taken away from you then there is no point in risking your career.

So Profit.

>>"Success" is such a vague concept

Actually its not in terms of business.

Success = Profit + Long term sustainability in doing so.

At $9000 its out of my range.

Frankly this is pretty irresponsible thing to do. What if she wants to try electronics, robots, physics or even medicine ? Does she have any way to experience those things ? Web programming might be cool right now but in 10 years it might be replaced by something else. Rather than just focusing on Web programming build your own curriculum around her interests if you think her high school is wasting time.

This what generally people think of 10x. The imaginative 10x heart surgeon would do following:(any or all of it)

1. Take 10 times less time performing heart surgery.

2. Could perform successful surgery at 10 times less cost.

3. Invent new ways of doing work of 10 heart surgeons.

4. Survival rate of his/her patients would be 10 times that of other heart surgeons.

5. Could perform heart surgery so complicated that it would generally require 10 heart surgeons during the surgery.

Are you going to find such a heart surgeon ? If so, how many? would entire healthcare system be functional if all hospitals are adamant on just hiring 10x surgeon and at the same time advocating bringing more 1x heart surgeons into the market.

There is a difference between a specialist and a 10X person. Specialization indicates a detailed knowledge of specialized subject. It has nothing to do with how creative, intelligent and talented you are in solving problems of your domain. I could be specialized into writing device drivers for Real-time linux systems and yet be average programmer. Specialization has to do with knowledge, 10x indicates fluid intelligence in solving problems.

Lot of startups are just looking for superstar programmers because they want to get the most out of their limited funding. But without proper product-market fit its even counter productive. Superstar programmer is like a sports car, he/she will take you 10x faster in the wrong direction if your direction is wrong.

We humans are greedy species. If given opportunity we would always hire superstar (even janitors or hamburger flippers) especially if they don't cost any extra. If you can find superstar, great! but stop crying "shortage" if you are not in the business of open heart surgery.

EDIT: And yes every average heart surgeon is capable of doing heart surgery otherwise they would not get a degree in the first place. There is no such thing as 10x heart surgeon.

It is not zero-sum ? companies like Google, Facebook pick 1 out of 100 programmers, if there was 10 fold increase in programmers, they would start picking 1 out of 1000. Instead of complaining shortage of programmer it makes sense to build software development processes around "average" programmers rather than insisting on superstar programmers. How many other fields do that ? Have you read an ad about hiring only superstar plumber,pilot,electrician,nurse? Even if its true that your company will benefit from so called 10x programmers why not train people to be 10x or give degrees to people who are only 10x. Just increasing the pool of 1x while insisting on hiring 10x doesn't make sense.

Reflected from the surface ?

I would just install VR-Linux OS specially built for VR on PCs. Its fully real-time, that means zero frame-drops and no judder! Only problem is that it doesn't exist yet :(

Why is it called open office ? It looks like factory floor to me.

This article makes a strong case of inventing a time machine.

I doubt any sane civilization wants to spread like cancer.

This is exactly why this mode of interviewing is not at all popular. Not to mention you lose your negotiating power because you don't have a job!

Great talk and ideas. But the idea of representing mathematical equations in the physical form is like supporting the same medium of symbols and just representing it in a different way. But fundamentally math was invented using pen and paper, so the centuries of mathematical thoughts were already slaves to the 2D medium. Maybe it would be interesting to think about, what would happen if we take away 2D surfaces and ask people to reinvent math in a medium that Bret is talking about. How would someone go about discovering, solving, proving mathematical systems without pen and paper? How would you represent 4, 5 or 20 multi-dimentional spaces in a 3D environment ? Maybe pen&paper was kind of abstracting out limitations of physical world so that mind can explore even further.

Our world will finally look like the Matrix with green glow coming from the trees everywhere.

I am glad I read the article and not judge it based on your comment. Your comment is apparently valid for some research but here its targeting the wrong one.

This research could be funded by the low-fat industry!

Its not as complicated as it seems. 2 full-time year might be required if you want to start in the PhD program for it but not for its applications.

Several children are playing with the leaves

Several leaves are playing with the children : 4.26

Indeed!

Machine Learning itself is kind of rebranding to avoid itself from being called yet another AI trick. It is AI as much as Deep Learning is. Main difference between traditional machine learning and deep learning is that, deep learning (neural networks) is inspired by biology.

Deep learning has become a buzzword that every CEO on the planet is going to put in his/her presentations.

e.g

Deep learning will allow us to identify new opportunities and capture more value from existing markets..blah blah blah.

Hire people who know the difference Google. Math puzzles doesn't solve everything :)

Yes I do.

" Nature's internal costs of publishing run at £20,000–30,000 (US$31,000–47,000) per paper, an extremely high charge to load onto authors or funders rather than spread over subscribers."

What in the digital world would make it so expensive to publish content ?

Software Engineering is in a way meta engineering discipline. Problem domains are vastly different. A mobile game development is different than building a system software for surgical robot. The first step is to define the vocabulary of the solution space and then build the solution based on that vocabulary. Expectations of reliability, maintenance, requirement changes adds another dimension to its solution space.

So professional self promotion is acceptable but social self promotion is not ? I don't know but his article feels like a weird rant. I don't know how to describe it but its like he is saying.."Don't drink wine if you don't understand its taste , texture, history etc". Don't tell people how to travel its just wrong.

"Henry Wismayer is an award-winning freelance journalist based in London. He writes travel features for over 50 publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post and TIME Magazine"

Sounds pretty narcissistic to me.