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CS50 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqgP9dpD1k&list=PLhQjrBD2T3...

> But fails to mention the the moral reasons to choose oat milk over cow's milk.

This is kind a red herring. Cow's milk should be irrelevant because you don't have to choose between the two. You can leave both out if you have moral reasons to avoid cow's milk and health reasons to avoid oat milk.

Strides - https://www.stridesapp.com/

Really? Who actually views Zuckerberg positively?

> I am the team--everything before was done quite manually with spreadsheets.

In that case I would pick between Python and R. R might even win out slightly over Python for your use case. Definitely not Clojure, Scala or even Julia.

> What's the point of staying in big cities if most people are now working from home

WFH won't be permanent for most people. Cities won't be attractive for the next 6-12 months but eventually people's incentives to live in a big city will be back to where they were pre-COVID19.

It's not that there's anything specific to disagree with in your statement. The point is that when the question is "Is there evidence...?" an answer like "This is what makes sense to me..." is almost irrelevant.

> but I'm pretty sure RedHat knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to let IBM in the door.

Call me cynical but isn't it possible that the people who were responsible for the acquisition on RedHat's side were also the ones who would benefit most from it financially so they simply sold out?

Not really. If that was true, stocks would be tanking but they're also at a high. There's just a lot money around and low interest rates so all assets increase in price. I just wonder how long that can last for and how it will end.

This is the high quality content and discussion that I come to HN for.

Having to deal directly with the business stakeholders can backfire so easily though. I wonder what the difference is between the companies that can handle this kind of re-org and the ones that will completely collapse after it.

I'm not a web developer so I really have no idea about this - is WebAssembly a viable solution or have I just absorbed some hype without understanding the problems with JS?

No, there isn't and that's a good thing. I can't imagine a group of people collectively having the thought "Hmm how can we be more like accountants?".

Isn't it way more risky to buy their first gen ARM computer than to buy something that will definitely work reliably (Intel)?

> Do I need to make that distinction explicit?

Yes.

> Companies are usually more interested in hearing what the employee can do for them rather than what the employee wants out of their career.

That's true and is in line with what I'm suggesting.

My point is that you shouldn't position yourself as "I have no continuous experience, please hire me for my first real job". Instead it should be more like "I'm an experienced software developer, this is the kind of work that I've done and these are the skills that I have".

You have several years of software development experience. If that's true, you aren't really starting your career now, you're just looking for a more stable position. I think that the distinction is important especially in interviews because without it you might be underselling yourself.

Just because they're still working in the UK that doesn't mean that they haven't been affected at all.

I too would like whichever group I happen to fall in to get an yearly bonus.

> I think the solution is to pay for everything with donations and crowdfunding.

Good will doesn't scale up enough to cover the entirety of the internet. And ultimately that leads to more paywalls being put up.

I mean of course it isn't - no single aspect of your life will guarantee happiness or a good life.

Personality and public image play a big part too. Zuckerberg has the charisma of a head of lettuce on his best days.

> Mr Pichai’s foremost challenge is to prevent Alphabet from becoming what Mr Brin and Mr Page were so bent on avoiding—a “conventional company” that dies a slow death from lack of innovation and declining growth.

I don't think that he's succeeding at the innovation part but that won't matter as long as their financials look good.

You need mainly probability, statistics, multivariable calculus and linear algebra. It's a lot of material to cover and it takes years. I would suggest to pick a mathematics course/book that's just above your current level (whatever that is) and start there.

That shouldn't stop you from doing kaggle competitions right now though if thats' what you like. Personally I dislike kaggle but there's no reason why you can't just grab a dataset, experiment with different algorithms and learn as you go.

Global population growth is already slowing down and the global population will likely peak withing the next 100 years and then slowly decline.

Also, the economy is bad which means that Americans have little hope for the future.

Not being facetious here, I'm genuinely asking - does it matter at all? What difference does it make if something will be used in 20 years?

What's the incentive for an employer to do this? That incentive needs to be massive in order to overcome the downside of giving company property away for free to people who you might never see again, who you might not be on good terms with because of their termination, who you have no way to oversee in the future, who now have the option to work for your competitors. No company in their right mind will agree to this.

As you're reading those papers, take into account the probabilities of different outcomes instead of assuming that the worst case applies across the board.

The best indicator is a recommendation from someone whose opinion on movies is largely aligned with yours. I suppose you need a platform where the user is profiled and matched against reviewers/raters/critics with similar tastes. Has anyone done this?

> Especially now since MS programs are bleeding people due to remote learning.

Can you elaborate on this? Are they just losing students? Why do you think it's happening?