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This just tells me you haven’t worked on a big/complex enough system.

If it were that easy people would not be paying for it.

That Romania and Iran also have strong education in STEM.

Your point is these countries don’t? What point exactly are you trying to make.

It’s been barely two generations since the death camps. My grandma, who is still alive, can tell you stories of seeing trains take half her village away.

Intergenerational trauma is a real psychological phenomenon.

A „hilarious anxiety” is an incredibly naive world view.

Poland is fifth in the world with gold medals in informatics Olympiad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Info...

But yeah, it’s just cause they’re cheap and subservient right.

Would you want to work with someone who you couldn’t communicate with?

This is not a matter of prejudice but basic competence.

Happening in Australia for more than a decade

Postgraduate degrees in particular are rife with cheating, collusion, and „students” mainly in pursuit of a visa than an education.

In a commercial setting (i.e. not a side-project) the choice of programming language is also a business decision.

The main factors being:

- How large is the pool of available candidates for this language? A recruiting risk.

- How mature is this language? A business continuity risk.

I have an insatiable appetite for non-fiction - history, geography, politics, etc which I'm fairly certain can be traced back to a series of educational picture books I devoured as a child.

Each would survey some broad topic, for example Ancient Egypt. It would be full of detailed drawings/illustrations and accompanying text snippets. "What did the inside of a pyramid look like?", "How did the Ancient Egyptians use chariots?", and so on.

Mum would always buy me a new one every other week. The topics were diverse & broad, and so never got boring.

A bonus was when a subject I had read in these books happened to come up at school :-)

To be honest I wish the Attention paper never came out.

All of this AI/LLM stuff is exasperating. I don't think I can stomach to hear another MBA talk about "leveraging AI" in their next startup/product initiative.

Cool, better autocomplete in my IDE is handy. But that's about it. I'd trade that back in a heart beat if I didn't have to have awful chatbots shoved in my face every time I open a webpage.

Retirement has never felt so far away.

What are some alternatives to CrowdStrike?

I’ve had plenty of productive “water cooler” conversations. Especially with people from other teams, as we don’t interact with each other much. Cross pollinating ideas in a large organisation is conducive to spontaneous creativity.

However, neither of our statements are very useful as they are just anecdotes, a result of our personal experiences.

> Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

This seems more relevant to physical consumer goods

I share the sentiment but I don’t think this is tech related.

Incremental rollouts is one feature that a platform can save you having to build, i.e. enable the flag for 1 -> 10 ... -> 100% of users.

An auto incrementing integer (for internal use) and a string (for external) will be enough for the vast majority of use cases, is simple to understand, and works well.

100% agree. I find the "passive" heating options like radiators or floor heating much more comfortable than being blasted by hot air from above.

Without knowing the specifics of your data model I'd wager what you have is a data modelling problem not a graph problem. Maybe start with that?

There's a reason these graph DBs are esoteric. They're fun & cool to use but there's not a lot of problems they can solve better than a relational DB.

Would doesn’t guarantee could

I remember when Google first started getting popular and how much of a leap it was compared to what was the mainstream at the time. Almost overnight the old 'search engines' felt deprecated.

I'm getting the same feeling again. I don't think we've seen "the next Google", just yet. But the foundations for one are in place.

The Innovator's Dilemma at work.

When I was 14 I enjoyed spending an evening installing NVIDIA drivers. I'm 32 now and spend my nights changing diapers.

When I go to use my laptop these days, the last thing I want to do is deal with system admin, I just want to work or play.

Is this worth your time to worry about? Does your startup have solid runway and/or are you profitable? Do you have solid PMF? If the answer is no, and I suspect it is since you're deliberating where to host, then get back to shipping features.

To be reductionist ... I'd rather have to deal with vendor lock in a growing successful startup, then have cloud agnostic infrastructure and be out of runway.

Even then, I think people generally over-engineer this problem. I've worked at multiple unicorns who have been 'locked' in to AWS/GCP/Azure.

Think in terms of risk, and opportunity cost.

You did something very shameful.

They’ve caused so much damage to the Scala community. Absolutely toxic. As a bystander to all of this back in the 2010s whilst I was involved with the language, watching the non stop “drama” between members of the community was exhausting and cringe inducing. Glad I left.

They’re at a 13x multiple which is fairly conservative for a SaaS with their growth rates, and have been profitable since 2017.

Disclaimer: I used to work there.

Your point?

You don’t sound like a good educator. Perhaps withhold your personal and subjective gripes for the sake of your students

From what I recall that book is more about people management, not so much project management which the OP is asking about.

Perhaps you’re a better BE developer.

Better stewards than Apple?

Is this not possible currently in the US? That’s quite surprising!

Something perhaps less well known:

Bartosz Milewski on Category Theory

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...