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I'm looking to enjoy life and my youth, I'm seeking to overcome the shackles of striving for wealth and enjoy my time here

Capitalism isnt collapsing, it increased the standard of living far beyond what the world has ever seen. Inequality is rising and so is the quality of water and electricity in Afri…

well that ruined my day...

I had this as well, an off by one error on a binary search resulted in a rejection...

What would you say to the reality that the private market has done almost all of the innovation in health care?

This exactly. The big data technology is automating a ton of the distributed systems difficulty from what mixpanel is creating. We built n in house version of mixpanel in six month…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_order_of_precede...

Honestly? Just master data structures, get competing offers at FB and Google, make 350-400k a year, invest heavily and aggressively, retire in 7 or 8 years

This is a middle class (no offense intended) view of wealth. You wont retire early or get rich from cutting down on 5$ lattes. Investments do accrue over time, but the idea that on…

Can BTC even crash by half once it gets so pricey? Are there enough buyers for the sellers?

just start writing high data volume spark programs, you wont quite understand or remember why the configs and tuning params are what they are until you try.

Mac book/iPhone, unfortunately. I use them more than anything else.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

Just take a look at the massive rise in quality of life across the world. Your alarmist post is bunk. Life is getting better for everyone all the time.

It's rigged but for the time being it works. So is it really that bad?

Personally, I think you are wrong. If you are an average engineer, you should be very afraid. But if you are exceptional, you will see your comp shoot through the roof in the comin…

Get a job building ML systems, not one where you are writing queries (though they may be complex) for a business person.

I firmly believe this. If you arent brilliant, you arent writing real software, you are copying what other people are already doing. Any monkey can do that.

"LSD happens to be one of the safest recreational drugs" Purely anecdotal, but have you ever met someone that has taken large doses of LSD over the course of a few years? They are …

"i still think in a lot of corporate environments, money is definitely being made on the side by the decision makers when it comes time to pick an outsourcing firm, or award a cont…

Was the threat to the traditional American way of life really the reason they were made illegal? It seems more likely that it was due to the unknown and possibly dangerous nature o…

Quick question, how do you feel about a long term contract (never ending) at 125$ per hour. Assume highly in demand skills (ML, Big Data Architecture, stream processing) with 5 yea…

this attitude will destroy the west