Viewing profile — votr

Good tips, thank you. I started in algorithmic trading with Java and Entprise-y stuff. Got bored and moved to front-end. Now looking to move to ML. Like you, no degree, but I apply…

What was your strategy for dealing with how most ML positions require advanced degrees?

I want to believe Magic Leap is going to deliver. With investments from tech companies AND banks AND movie studios, and with half-a-dozen R&D outposts all over the world, it's hard…

If Dell releases an XPS 15 in Q1 with Kaby Lake, discrete graphics, and 32GB ram, I'm in.

Become location independent.

Read The Originals; in particular, the chapter on the CIA agent. Yeah it sucks, but if you insist on the security of a larger company (my assumption), that's how it works.

I have this fantasy of starting a company dedicated to building Linux laptops for developers. Great displays and keyboard, generous ports, beefy specs, with a willingness to trade …

Is there support for only C/C++ at this time?

I feel like Tim Cook decided to double down on the "Apple as a luxury brand" business model. If that's the focus, then it makes sense to emphasize thinness, aesthetics, and raise t…

It's rumored that the Surface Book 2 will use Kaby Lake and have a 32GB option. So does this mean the only way MS can support that is by increasing size and weight to 7lbs+?

This is going to keep getting worse until we have some sort of guild or association whereby being a member implies we're already vetted.

I've been using Ubuntu on my desktop for three years now. I love developing on it, but the consumer aspect has minor annoyances. - If I have a PDF with advanced features, then I ne…

I approached learning Clojure the way I approach learning everything else. I survey the resources available, then pick the two best books. Ideally, I want them to come at it from d…

Nope. Still commuting. But becoming remote is my number one goal. At the moment, I have a client outside of work (ReactJS stuff), and am negotiating a remote gig with a company in …

I'd say non-programming fundamentals took about two months at about 4-6 hours a day, with the majority of that dedicated to algorithms and data structures. I took these two OCW cou…

Clojure. Before learning Clojure, I didn't even have a career. I just wanted to get into software development. But at the time, all I knew was a bit of Python. And while I could've…

Thanks for sharing. My big question, which I'm still struggling with, is how much to specialize. I'm one of those guys who wants to do everything. After a few years of Java develop…

You sound like a character from a Dickens novel.

A chapter from The Originals talks about that. Specifically a junior CIA agent who got sidelined for her suggestions and ideas, only to have them taken seriously once she was senio…

And engineers with Libertarian slants happily go along with it while their masters laugh.

My guess, based on nothing, is they've adopted a Japanese-style ethic of putting in long hours for show because of a combination of high living costs and little opportunity.

I've just started dipping my toes into education; sharing stuff through my blog to demonstrate how clearly I can convey things. I don't know about your personality, but if you're s…

In response to you and codegeek, I do think of myself this way. I'm an excellent communicator and actually stand out at work because of this (technology at an investment bank). You…

Perhaps the question itself implies too much. But I feel that as time goes on, my competition will increasingly be not just those in my market, but across the globe. It's only a ma…