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Shameless user of nextmv here! Nextmv has just the right level of abstraction needed for software engineers. Took us very little time to get a production model running.

What’s the point of the subject tests anyway when you already have AP exams? It was pointless for me to do both in high school, the subject tests were much easier.

Would you mind elaborating on how build scripts helped you (what problem did you solve?) and sharing learning resources?

Title: > Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads From the article: > More than 250 employees have signed the message Facebook has >35,000 employees. 250 s…

Isn’t that Google Cloud Spanner?

> They are so used to live their own lives that they have extremely hard time compromising any part of it. Reminds me of this passage from The Brothers Karamazov: > “I heard exactl…

> As a Russian, I don’t understand how Americans can “get into” Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. The cultural background required to understand them is simply not there, so you’re getting ma…

Who said Linux was simple? :)

“We shape our buildings; thereafter our buildings shape us”

Leo Tolstoy took about 1400 pages to make exactly this point in War and Peace :)

Or, in continuous terms, marginal X is simply the first derivative of X with respect to some other variable.

This is really great insider information, thanks for sharing!

Tesla is still responsible for picking the right supplier & some degree of quality control even on components they didn't manufacture themselves. Perfectly OK to hold them responsi…

And Promises too!

Can you give an example where a shell script would solve the problem? Curious to know

That's not remotely close to what the parent comment was saying...

The buyer is usually not the end user. For example, a landlord is biased towards purchasing appliances that looks complex so they can show off all the extra "features" to clients.

This isn't the fairest comparison, because the richest Americans are richer than the richest Canadians. If the Canadian income distribution is tighter, then it's easier for a Canad…

Upon further reflection, I think it's not so much about human vs physical capital (and I agree with your point), but about IT workers vs other types of workers. If a company of 5 I…

Another way to look at it: if restrictions on high skill tech immigration tighten, then tech companies that would have been founded in America will instead be founded elsewhere. Th…