That's exactly what Amazon would like there users to think. How do you think he wake work is detected? It MUST be listening to some sort of ambient audio, wether that is recorded or kept in anyway, only Amazon would know.
If you can't code under pressure, you aren't a very competent programmer. Real world projects come with high pressure scenarios for software engineers. Code monkeys may be able to get away with low pressure, minimally impactful projects.
When I used F#, maybe three years ago, it was a good exercise in functional thinking. It was an interesting experience, siniliar to the experience of using C-Lisp. The worst part was the lack of documentation and community.
I would disagree. Google has beyond genius PHD's working one those problems. A SE with a bachelor's would most likely be delegated menial tasks, definitely not be working on cutting edge research. I have many friends at Google and, unfortunately, it's scale would not allow one to work on the problems you stated with out significant leverage and movement internally.
The speaker spoke in a roundabout way diluting her meaningful content with cliche after cliche. I think he point is nice though: aim for calmness and be honest with your team, not the allusion of happiness.
You make less than 30k as a cpp programmer? That's crazy!!! Am I missing something here or what? I work in Washington State, US and I make 4x that as a new grad.
I've had BMW 528i since 1997. Still going strong, but those damn window regulators break so often. I blame it on my mechanic replacing them with cheap Chinese parts. The car went 15 years with no window problems and all of the sudden I've had to replace each of the windows at least twice in the past 4 years (driver side 3 times)!