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He also now has a strong incentive to stick to what he said. Complying with China after publicly saying he wouldn't would be an even bigger PR disaster than what Blizzard is facing…

Yep they are two very different languages. However with the possible exception of the build times argument, the points for choosing Go over C++ also apply to Go over C.

They touched on this in the article, but I'll go into more detail here since it's been fashionable for years to bash on "Blub" languages like Java or Go. I myself was guilty of thi…

What I meant was the machine learning systems that have developed in the last decade since the 2008 crash. Many of these are black boxes with thousands to millions of variables, an…

> it is easier these days to find Go devs than C devs Not really actually, there are still loads of C devs (or C++ at least) and a lot more jobs in C and C++ than for Go. Having ma…

Having Go experience on my resume, I do get a lot of recruiters reaching out to me for Go jobs. It's quite popular for infrastructure work. This is in the US, not sure if it's the …

> "Machines are taking control of investing..... Funds run by computers that follow rules set by humans" One of the points that the article makes is that this statement is changing…

Be careful, these are the first step to being turned into a Cyberman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQs3gVobcfg

Speaking for Canada rather than Europe but I imagine the argument is mostly the same. The supply and demand ratios are different. Canada has very few pure software firms like Googl…

77 is a large enough sample size to produce statistically significant results in a lot of cases, depending on the problem. For example, using 77 men and women, you could easily see…

> most of us have seen managers try to improve quarterly numbers at the expense of company health Yep, this does happen. The point though, is to let shareholders rather than manage…

From the article: > In this study, we tested 77 undergraduates who were randomly assigned to play either a popular video game (Portal 2) or a popular brain training game (Lumosity)…

> it's still javascript This is exactly the reason why Typescript took off and none of the other compile-to-JS languages did (other than a brief flash by CoffeeScript). Dart had a …

Not that I've worked in a lot of places, but everywhere that I've worked that uses C at all treats it this way. Writing new C code is considered a no-no.

Downside is that a lot of startups are not that interesting. They're just filling a business niche.

From my experience hiring in startups (and personal life experience, having left the startup world at 28), over-30s have higher salary requirements than startups can afford. It's n…

They do set up shop elsewhere. The problem is that the BigCos are also doing the same (NYC, Seattle, Austin, Boulder, etc.) and bringing their high salaries with them.

BigCos like Google and Microsoft can afford to pay big bucks and collude together. Startups on the other hand can't always afford to pay $100k+ for a junior engineer.

"Don't Tread on Me" is pretty light as far as Metallica goes. I wonder what the cougar would have done if she had unloaded "Battery" or "Dyer's Eve" on it.

Does anybody know how hard it is for non-Chinese citizens to live and work in China? One of the competitive advantages of the US has been its ability to draw top talent from all ov…

I've never found that sticking strictly to the Law of Demeter makes your life that much easier for the reasons under "Disadvantages" in the article. I prefer a more relaxed form of…

Are you looking to get into a graduate program in CS? Or just move into a different field?

You might be able to get into a Master's program without a Bachelor's in CS, provided you can demonstrate understanding of the material. OSSU has a great curriculum for replicating…