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This just tells me you haven’t worked on a big/complex enough system. If it were that easy people would not be paying for it.

That Romania and Iran also have strong education in STEM. Your point is these countries don’t? What point exactly are you trying to make.

It’s been barely two generations since the death camps. My grandma, who is still alive, can tell you stories of seeing trains take half her village away. Intergenerational trauma i…

Poland is fifth in the world with gold medals in informatics Olympiad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Info... But yeah, it’s just cause they’re cheap and su…

Would you want to work with someone who you couldn’t communicate with? This is not a matter of prejudice but basic competence.

Happening in Australia for more than a decade Postgraduate degrees in particular are rife with cheating, collusion, and „students” mainly in pursuit of a visa than an education.

In a commercial setting (i.e. not a side-project) the choice of programming language is also a business decision. The main factors being: - How large is the pool of available candi…

I have an insatiable appetite for non-fiction - history, geography, politics, etc which I'm fairly certain can be traced back to a series of educational picture books I devoured as…

To be honest I wish the Attention paper never came out. All of this AI/LLM stuff is exasperating. I don't think I can stomach to hear another MBA talk about "leveraging AI" in thei…

What are some alternatives to CrowdStrike?

I’ve had plenty of productive “water cooler” conversations. Especially with people from other teams, as we don’t interact with each other much. Cross pollinating ideas in a large o…

> Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management This seems more relevant to physical consumer goods I share the sentiment but I don’t think this is tech related.

Incremental rollouts is one feature that a platform can save you having to build, i.e. enable the flag for 1 -> 10 ... -> 100% of users.

An auto incrementing integer (for internal use) and a string (for external) will be enough for the vast majority of use cases, is simple to understand, and works well.

100% agree. I find the "passive" heating options like radiators or floor heating much more comfortable than being blasted by hot air from above.

Without knowing the specifics of your data model I'd wager what you have is a data modelling problem not a graph problem. Maybe start with that? There's a reason these graph DBs ar…

Would doesn’t guarantee could

I remember when Google first started getting popular and how much of a leap it was compared to what was the mainstream at the time. Almost overnight the old 'search engines' felt d…

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When I was 14 I enjoyed spending an evening installing NVIDIA drivers. I'm 32 now and spend my nights changing diapers. When I go to use my laptop these days, the last thing I want…

Is this worth your time to worry about? Does your startup have solid runway and/or are you profitable? Do you have solid PMF? If the answer is no, and I suspect it is since you're …

You did something very shameful.

They’ve caused so much damage to the Scala community. Absolutely toxic. As a bystander to all of this back in the 2010s whilst I was involved with the language, watching the non st…

They’re at a 13x multiple which is fairly conservative for a SaaS with their growth rates, and have been profitable since 2017. Disclaimer: I used to work there.

Your point?