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Wow, didn't know Workflowy was still around! I loved it back in the day.

The first step in a transition like this is to make sure you actually enjoy and are good at DevOps. Ask yourself what someone in the role you're interested in is most likely to do on a day-to-day basis, and then practice doing those things for a few weeks and see if you actually like it. One thing I've learned time and time again is that my perception of what X is like is often very inaccurate to the actual experience of doing X.

Look up a few folks on LinkedIn in your area with the title you're interested in getting, and ask to buy them a coffee. Pick their brain on how they like what they're doing, where they see the field going, and what their frustrations are.

To take this to the next level, find a friend with a side project they're trying to launch, and offer to help them out on some of the DevOps aspects. Try it for a few weeks to months and then evaluate what you learned.

Once you're sure you actually like the work, you can start thinking about how to actually pivot into DevOps.

What field were you thinking of switching to?

Thanks for sharing. If you could share also, what was the field like for you when you first came in?

Fantastic input, thanks all! Extremely helpful.

Yes of course, but let’s assume the goal is to be conversational in what’s changing/new at the level of a Marc Andreesen, without actually having to be Marc Andreesen. I work in the space as well, but because I’m not in the Valley, find it more challenging to always be abreast of the changes. While it might not be essential for the actual product engineering to know what’s new, as a founder talking to customers it’s highly beneficial to be on top of things (depending of course on your vertical).

Thanks for your feedback! I wish there was something that could aggregate all this so it could be browsed quickly a couple times per week.

I was just reading about it today. Awesome!

Very interesting! I've been using Elixir on a smaller project and have been quite impressed. It just feels friendly and palatable, while also being quite powerful for highly concurrent workloads.

Agreed on the typing, however.

Thanks Gary. I hadn't seen this site, very cool.

One such example: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/22/lockheed-martin-shares-take-a...

That's very cool! Perhaps the "Trump bump" could be quantified.

We've been working on this at Georgia Tech. It's an exciting area with a real opportunity to help improve care in dermatology.

Poster: http://mattmay.us/pub/dermfollow_poster.pdf

Paper: http://mattmay.us/pub/dermfollow_final_report.pdf

For any of those who may be doing Elixir development, https://github.com/pprzetacznik/IElixir works perfectly with this.

Aside from subjective or "trust me, this works!" commentary, what does the data say about getting replies from investors? A better title for this would be "How to Email An Early Stage Investor."

It would be interesting to mine emails from well-known investors and see what the data shows for first emails from individuals who were ultimately funded.

Beautiful website. Really love it.

That's correct. During open (non-minimally invasive) procedures in which you're being virtually proctored, you want a head-mounted camera and display. This is because if you have just a head-mounted camera, every time you look up at a monitor to receive instruction your camera's field-of-view changes.

And that was roughly the original title, pre-editing.

So the surgery lasted about two hours. We used a 7000 mAh battery pack, since without external battery Glass would make it about 25-30 minutes in the Hangout before going dark.

The resolution was good enough for the remote proctor to assist. We did notice that as the device got warm as the surgery progressed, quality seemed to decrease a little. Overall I think we were really pleased though with the reliability and quality; we didn't experience any drops, or much packet loss or jitter.

I would say the biggest hurdle was audio. Because the version of Glass we used relied on bone conduction and didn't have an available earpiece, it made it pretty difficult at times for the surgeon to hear his remote proctor, especially since there was a lot of sawing and suction going on.

What's your preferred method of re-selling?

Use the money to help with any rate-limiting factors. If you don't have any, then ask yourself why you're raising it in the first place.

You don't need it for a designer. You've got one of the cleanest, most elegant UIs I've seen in months.

I would be very interested to see a similar survey done of Asian tech execs. Is anyone aware of such a study? The hypothesis would be the proportion that's technically educated is greater but I could be wrong.

How do we change this?

Get to know a professor with industry connections and demonstrate to him/her that you're smart and/or hard-working. Use that as an inroad to a programming internship. It'll take some time, but it might be your best bet if there aren't a lot of internships on the market.

That's awesome.

Right.

Do you have any data to support your assertion, i.e, that companies with engineer CEOs are in aggregate more successful than those run by non-engineers? We can go back and forth anecdotally, but that doesn't mean much :-). You may very well be right, I'm just wondering.

And what a frightening thought that is.

This is interesting, but I'm always suspicious of articles that seem to hand-pick their science. This isn't a critique of tea being good for you (I'm sipping on a chai right now and feeling dandy) but a little healthy skepticism from seeing years of nutrition/health effects studies contradict each other. For more detailed thoughts on the problem see John Ioannidis' "Why Most Published Research Findings are False."