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To be fair, it’s the horsepower of a mouse, but all devoted to a single task, so not 100% comparable to the capabilities of a mouse, and language is too distributed to make a good …

A senior engineer can work through a hard problem assigned to a junior engineer, resulting in a well-implemented hard feature and a less junior engineer. Just because a junior engi…

Fractional opacity mixing with pure black is still not the most physically accurate shadow, because in the real world ambient light is mixed in with shadow, and also the color of t…

I am surprised to find this comment so high up when so much of it is so categorically wrong I almost wonder if you're saying opposite things as a joke. Perhaps the most egregious i…

Not only did NASA help create and enable SpaceX, they were one of the primary early customers, with about half of SpaceX’s revenue coming from government contracts. [1] Apparently …

Yeah, but the original point you were responding to was endorsing the idea that “you should invest time in optimizing/performance last, and focus on making something people want to…

Yeah, but even in the old days the developers would still be prototyping. Internal stakeholders are still stakeholders, and it’s developers optimizing for things other than speed. …

Ehhh, I don't think your example disproves the idea you're responding to. Perhaps video games MUST deliver performance in the end , but often game prototypes are not performant at …

Sublicensing is what legally enables things like rich media link previews (the kind you see on Facebook and Twitter) or APIs to exist. Yeah, theoretically they could use that to se…

If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. OP is in a situation where he haas much more money than time, however due to his position in the world, he can see many opportunities…

I went to school for CS, and decided to add on a BBA since I could do it basically for free. Prior to school, I was extensively read in the category of books you describe. While yo…

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at...are you trying to say business people are smarter than OP gives them credit for? "I very quickly realized that" "very smart people" "oft…

> Marketing class- 2 lessons, if you are going to put years into a project, do a marketing plan. Also, learned how incredibly important marketing is. This was exactly why I chose t…

I think you're misunderstanding what he's trying to say. He's not saying that knowing finance has anything to do with being smart--if anything, it's the opposite: Of the people he …

Oh man, all the questions you just asked only highlight exactly why an MBA is so beneficial for mid-career people haha! I'm an adult student doing concurrent CS and business degree…

Oh hey Dr. Johnson, fancy seeing you here! Here is an example of TechFolios in the wild [1] which I built while I was in his class. https://spyhi.github.io/ (I’ve let it fall a bit…

I'm planning on giving at least one talk at my school to help business students better understand the characteristics of technology companies in hopes of encouraging them to do mor…

It isn't anymore, if it ever was. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-i...

> Yelp seems to be the superior product since it has more reviews while having no financial benefit from manipulating reviews. This is a dubious claim. There have been periodic blo…

University of Hawaii at Manoa. I'm finishing up an undergrad degrees in CS and Business (started school at 30 after time in the military, so another success story for this thread),…

I don't know how it is in other schools, but at mine you can get a masters in CS even if you didn't do your undergrad in CS. They just have you take the core undergrad CS courses, …