Wait..... they're actually making these?
I thought it was a joke...
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I thought it was a joke...
Let me tell you something: hard work DEFINITELY plays a big role. I'm not saying "talent" isn't a factor too, of course. Other than sharing this, I'm not sure what kind of advice I could have. At least on paper you've done as much as you can.
If you allow me to guess something about your person with no basis at all: is it possible you just don't enjoy it? I know that for myself if I enjoy something I spent a lot of time thinking about it, even "down time" when your mind just wanders. I've always enjoyed little problems, and I can get lost in them for hours. If you do that a lot it's impossible not to get better at solving little problems. I think this possibly one overlooked aspect of "do something you enjoy". It's not _just_ that you'll get more enjoyment, it's also that you'll be better at it.
Good luck.
Dear Engineer. If you're not pattern matching him, he's pattern matching you.
Ok, lets say that SQLite developer believe this position has merit (they must've have, since they held it for 20 years, right?)
So what changed now which led to you implementing such functions?
Nothing changed, you just didn't _feel_ like doing it.
Can't read?
I learned Russian just so I could make politically edgy jokes, so this seemed like a good opportunity. Hopefully this will allow other ground dwellers to have a chuckle.
Adjusted: $4Tr
I guess that whether or not it makes sense to adjust, in this case, depends on whether the expense will leave the country or not.
If you imagine that Russia's contribution to the project will be providing scientists and technology, maybe it makes sense to adjust.
First you said "Just because Bill Gates is a billionaire, doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about"
Now that you've learned that most likely he DOES know what he's talking about, you changed your argument to "Other people think other things, so it's uninteresting" (What? WE're not talking about random people here.)
Lets just say it: you already arrived at the conclusion you want, now you're grasping for arguments to support it.
It's just that Bill Gates is legendary for the amounts he reads and his recall ability, and his contributions to many topics outside of just managing MS (state of the art algorithms, erradictinc malaria, nuclear energy etc). I thought everyone knew this, but apparently not. So you can see how funny it is when a random guy on HN says "just because he's a billionaire" :D
On HN every time the subject of language wars or platform wars or browser wars comes up, the idea also comes up that "everything is about the number of users". The self-reinforcing cycle is that the language/platform/browser with the most users also has the most development time put into it, which then attracts more users, etc.
Fine, I don't deny that the phenomenon exists. But I think that it's often overlooked that it's not just about the number of users. It's also about the quality of the users. If we could quantify "an excellent developer", I wouldn't claim that Julia has more of those than Python. But I'm convinced that Julia has more "excellent developers who are also excellent at numerics" than Python. I think the idea that the productivity as function of "developer excellence percentile" is a power-law applies even more strongly in multi-domain expertise situations, like numerical computing. So forget about 100x coders. The contributions of some people like Chris et al are closer to 10_000x as significant as that of an ok contributor.
It's not just about the quantity, it's also about quality.
Looking at it from Europe, this looks like the obvious consequence of decades of "free market fundamentalist" in America. If the free market magically solves all problems, eventually corporations will be making the rules. No surprises here.
That's just how science works. We learn things.