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I have found a sure way to get estimates... Do the work, and say how long it took me.

I love to sleep in darkness. Stayed at an Airbnb with a windowless bedroom. Best sleep I ever had.

I'm not sure which random distribution you mean ... But if you assume a normal distribution with constant mean, and, say, 100 years of records, the chances of you still getting the hottest now are very very small

If you believe this started as the US doing anything, I have a bridge (or an LLM) to sell you ...

The US (and the West) reacted to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I think they've done an amazing job given the horrible starting premise. Still, they're trying to achieve balance and many things can go wrong.

Do you believe letting Russia take over Ukraine (or half of it) was a better option? Or getting NATO directly involved?

And most big companies too ... Faang / banks / whatever

Different people are different; I enjoy my work, and take pride in it.

If I'm so demotivated I'm only putting the minimum effort, I start looking for the next job

I more or less agree... But, does it make it any less true?

The main problem is that what you call foundational knowledge is different from what the next person does, and the union of all the 'foundational' knowledge is way bigger than a CS major in the USA.

Your typical liberal arts degree has 4 years; about 2 of them are dedicated to liberal arts, or core education, and two years to the major, so you only have, say 16 classes for a CS major. Of those, say 4 are math, 4 are the intro programming sequence, and 3 are the architecture sequence (circuits, architecture, and operating systems), so you only have 5 or so classes, for your foundational classes and cool electives.

What normally happens is that, depending on uni and student, students will take some of them, but not all of what you call foundational knowledge. And the same with what the next person wants ;). Your foundational knowledge doesn't include AI, Data Science, cloud, mobile , graphics, UI, ...

If you think we have a perfect way to measure (or even to define) pure skill I have a bridge to sell you ...

We're always hiring based on attributes other than skill. If we're lucky and purposeful, skill becomes a part of the hiring process.

You forget one thing ... You also discover the 20% of manure that isn't true, or doesn't apply to you.

You are defining male and female that way. If you go by that definition, you can define a transgender person as someone who deeply thinks and feels they ought to be of the other gender. They are not 'mistaken' other than by your definition. If you ask them 'do you have a penis' or similar question, they will respond with your objective reality.

Can you point to one? Usually the stick PCs will connect to an HDMI monitor, and may get power from USB, but this seems a different use case.

This is a gotcha only if you assume programs use perfect meritocratic measurement of your skills and knowledge to decide who gets in.

In real life, there is some correlation, plus other uncorrelated items and just plain luck ;)

You may be better off going to physical sites. Go to meetups for a few programming languages, meet some people etc

It's not so much the (closed) gaps, but the time since last job. The first job after you take a year off will be harder to get. After that, most people won't care.

I think it's one of those things, where if you have a hammer in your toolset you'll probably bang on a lot more things :)

I've seldom implemented parsing, since we had Lisp, XML, and now YAML. However, I use language translation all the time.

Definitely not the only thing. Maternal mortality is another big thing. War, famine, malnutrition....

Although the max age hasn't increased, the proportion of people who reach it has.

If your students are striking, chances are you won't attract good students, and are not balancing priorities well.

But that one is for MS SQL Server, not Oracle

Kind of ... Suggests ... And it was true at the time, for the strains we had.

It's sample bias :)

Unfortunately, it became not just politicized but partisan. Republicans 'like' him and Democrats do not.

It wasn't blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease, especially because it wasn't.

There is room to disagree on how much and for how long we should have distanced, and which government interventions were more useful, but I (and most people?) think doing nothing would have been much worse.

Most layoffs will include some low performers, but almost never only or all low performers.

If lucky and done right, performance will (inversely) correlate with probability of layoff.

I don't know of any big company with unlimited PTO.

Different people have different experiences.

From what I have seen, it's slightly hard to get the first position, easy after that.

It's not hard to get a position after 10 or 20 years, but, if you lose your position, you may need to adjust your expectations.

Meh ... From their announcement:

we will hire backfills to replace employees who move on to new opportunities, and there are some targeted places where we will continue to hire people incrementally

How would you define it? What loopholes? Why isn't any of the other published measures not enough for your purposes?

That's a pretty big assumption :)

There's always management infighting, especially in lean times.

Maybe no city has managed to make public transport better than a car in every circumstance, but many times public transport is better. In fact, nobody would take public transport if it wasn't better for them.

In cities where public transport sucks less, there's more circumstances where it is better, and so more people use them.

1. Most of those are not actual treatment, and the association is spurious.

2. Tons of depressed people are still depressed even though they exercise, eat well and sleep.

3. Tons of people are making fortunes peddling these and similar 'cures' to everything :)