johongo

I don't remember who said it, but someone mentioned that mathematics papers don't read well because the models don't know which parts to emphasize and which parts to gloss over. I would imagine similar tendencies here.

Random text in many random places is quintessential slop

If only people did this with care. I have seen too many books where people just highlight everything.

Right, and we developers will rant about it over beer, but the dishonest ones stumble into their next success before we know it.

I am a few chapters into the book, so maybe this is answered later. Don’t most people who play a part in corrupting companies get away with it? You mention Jack Welch and James McNerney, but it feels like explicit examples of corruption are rare. I imagine that many of the perpetrators move on to other boards and profit off of the decline at the expense of others?

Did the number of applicants go down/approval rate go up as a consequence?

What were some notable differences between H-1B before and after the fee?

Emil Eifrem (founder of Neo4j) has a talk about them doing this with the Panama papers

It was a typical attitude among my physicist and mathematician friends that memorizing was for suckers, even though it was often required to reproduce long proofs or derivations. These were people to whom mathematics came naturally; their understanding, memory, curiosity, and experience just compressed that knowledge until it was trivial to memorize. Unfortunately, many walked away with a sense of not needing to know things until they need them, but good luck with that in a systems design interview.

It sticks out. I prefer a subtle hook to the right at the bottom.

Yeah, me too. I just went back to Chrome.