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A better way of saying it is that the whole of investors are better at accurately predicting the value of a company than individual investors. Which sounds almost like a truism whe…

Nerds never seem to catch on that dismissing criticism as an ad-hominem is itself an ad-hominem.

Buffet doesn't claim it's impossible to beat the market. He only says that the vast majority of investors cannot pick individual investments accurately enough to beat a diversified…

It probably depends on the company but I think this is right. If I interview someone with little working experience it definitely helps that they have some work on Github. But it w…

Exactly. The biggest impediment is going to be insurance and liability. What do you think it will cost to insure a robotic driving vehicle? On whom does the liability fall in the c…

I think the companies that hire an army of 23-25 year olds are planning to fail fast anyway. Why bother trying to recruit older, more senior talent that is going to expect higher b…

Not being able to serialize an empty string is abysmally poor design.

So it correlates either to a lazy developer or a really good developer? That isn't much of a correlation.

I wish this happened more often in companies. Unfortunately I usually see the following happen. A mid-level developer, let's call him Dave, becomes a critical employee after a few …

They already are. I've talked to some recruiters who laugh at bootcamp programs on a resume. A few years ago nobody would ask me about my academic background in a job interview, bu…

My point is that you likely learned programming by learning the basics of file I/O in C or Python or something similar. You didn't sit down and learn all about automata theory etc.…

It's really frustrating that articles like this never state if they are comparing inflation-adjusted numbers or not.

You write tests to automate tests you would have to otherwise perform manually. That is the only reason tests exist, to automate the boring task of testing. That's one problem with…

It's hard to teach an introduction to programming without teaching a particular language. If you have to pick a particular language, it makes sense to choose something the student …