> Because passive safety and pedestrian protection are very important in Germany. The body must therefore be designed in such a way that it deliberately deforms in an accident and absorbs the energy of the impact in order to minimize injuries.
This is exactly what I was wondering about the minute I saw the Cybertruck presentation. In the event of a crash, the stiffness would be horrible for people in or outside of the vehicle.
define "pay like crap". My experience in Berlin is different, depending on your experience 60-90K EUR is possible. Combined with the relatively low cost of living in Berlin, you can live comfortably. I don't see London paying significantly more, while being a lot more expensive.
> I was talking to some recent CS grads about Turing completeness and they had no idea what I was talking about. How can you have a CS degree and not know Turing completeness?
Having studied CS, I agree that you should know about the concept, but does it really give the normal Software Engineer an advantage in their day to day? Most likely not. It always depends on what you are working on, but the body of CS knowledge is huge and it requires a lot of work to keep all the concepts fresh in your mind if you are not applying them.
I'd rather have people with a strong grasp of software architecture, algorithmic complexity, system design and networking protocols. On the other hand a game developer should be strong in other theory areas that they need for the job. Machine Learning engineers have again different focus areas etc.
Could not agree more. For a product company, having software engineers with diverse backgrounds can be a lot more valuable than having only super strong CS theorists (but you should have them of course). As long as the engineers are intelligent, passionate and productive, diverse backgrounds can only be a good thing.
Now this is probably different for research oriented careers, but most of us are building products for customers in some form or another.
A lot of the things you mentioned are abstracted away from most Software Engineers nowadays. Of course it's good to know how these things work, but for most SWE jobs it is not necessary to have a strong grasp of them.
The world of software has grown tremendously, many companies need rather simple software that is built with high level frameworks and tools.
On the other hand there are still people building compilers, game engines, routing algorithms or work on embedded systems where all the things you mentioned are much more important.
just checked some prizes out of curiosity for that route and found tickets starting from 400 EUR for 2 adults and two kids (unless you have to travel on the most expensive dates). Make it 600 EUR but it still does not sound like a big difference and you are not factoring in the depreciation and maintenance a car costs for a long trip like that. Financially i don't think it makes a big difference, it's probably about convenience in the end.
does the math really work out?
You will also have to spend quite some money on fuel and should factor in the depreciation and maitenance costs of your car to make it comparable. And flights on popular routes in Europe are pretty cheap nowadays.
> I use this as a reminder not to drink my own kool aid. Even if I'm being recognized at being good at something, it's not an excuse to double down on it and push it too hard. No one is applauded for being judiciously balanced.
But for a lot of things it can be positive if recognition motivates you to do more. Like can you ever be too good of an athlete? Too good of a programmer?
I don't know what Google pays for a Senior engineer, but from what I know about Amazon it's about 70-100k. Other companies that pay on this level:
- Zalando
- HERE Technologies
- N26
- Delivery Hero
- Soundcloud
- VW/Mercedes/Porsche backend startups (Proshare, Coup, Porsche Digital Lab)
And many smaller ones. From my circle, most Senior engineers earn in the 70-100k range total compensation. Since Berlin is still quite affordable, that allows a good standard of living.
It wasn't a prediction, this was set in stone and only the disaster that is the BER construction made some people reevaluate it. Of course it was risky to buy a home based on this, but there are many other forward looking projects to be based in the Tegel area, many of which have been planned for over a decade and that have been invested in already.
there are a lot of cool projects to be built in the area of Tegel, including more housing. My University wants/needs to expand its campus there too and people who bought apartments in the area would get screwed over if Tegel would stay. It needs to go.
It's delusional to think Berlin will forever be the leftist dreamland that it has been for the last 30 years. This change is inevitable and in the end creates value for the city. The problems can be solved in different ways than fighting against tech companies that want to create well paying jobs and pay a lot of taxes.
This actually draws a lot of diversity to Berlin, almost none of my friends and coworkers are germans, not even europeans and i love that.
it's not only US megacorps, a lot of well funded tech companies pay salaries close to what Amazon or Google pay and they have to as that's what the market demands. As a software engineer in Berlin i can't really say i don't like that though.
Berlin rents might have doubled since 2010, but they were also way below other german capitals due to Berlins history, so the rents coming to the same level as say Hamburg or Munich was just a matter of time anyway.
In the end it creates value for the city, higher tax income, more spending. Yes, gentrification is a problem, but it's far less of a problem here then in other major capitals.
> before what Chris Lattner did was a mess (he wanted to just have 1 task that learns magically everything), Andrej had to start everything from scratch
> Also, Uber's business plan is 100% to maintain share in the rideshare market until their cars drive themselves. That is the end game here. To shut down their self-driving research is to doom the company entirely.
Uber's business is clearly more important than lost human lives due to negligence of proper software safety measures. /s
I bought an Oculus Rift devkit and later the full version and loved it, but I actually have doubts about it only being a content problem. VR has some inherent problems (lack of any outside visibility, motion sickness, space restrictions) that are hard to solve and keep many people away from it.
For me it only really worked in racing games where i was not moving at all and even then it is quite exhausting.
this is a tiny script/hack that someone did 2 years ago and was kind enough to open-source. That person probably did not post the link to HN. So, what do you expect?
of course it is somewhat staged for optimal conditions, but still an amazing achievement. It's not an official world record and everybody is aware of that.
Well, for the casual user i agree, but wasn't that the case for a long time already? If you try shooting something that is quite far away or lightning conditions not optimal, a proper camera is still on a different level than any smartphone camera.
This is the lowest end iPad for students and people who just want a basic tablet, it's also only $320. It has the CPU out of the iPhone 7 and pencil and keyboard support. I own the previous 2018 one and combined with the pencil it's a pretty great tablet for a good price. Used it a lot for note taking in the past and to control media around the house.
It's mostly taxes, EV cars have no extra tax which makes them cheaper than petrol cars which often have 100% tax added to their price, which is not really the case in most other countries.
That is true, albeit it's slowly changing. I recently drove the VW eGolf and it was a really nice experience. I also drove the Model 3 which has better range and is faster, but also more expensive. I prefer the interior quality of the Golf though. There are also alternatives from the Japanese companies.
I think the reason is rather the immense popularity and hype around Tesla that makes it the number one choice for most people that have money and want an EV.