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What roles did those people end up having after the MBA?

I think it’s more the opportunity cost potentially. Amount of lost income by not working for 2 years + can you get that $10k increase in salary by having 2 more years of experience

While having considered it, for me, unless you are planning to move to Business org, it seems an MS in something technical is more valuable, even in engineering management, or Product Management, just looking at the degrees people at my company have in those positions.

Is it the same at other places?

That's interesting! What would make it benefit in your opinion?

Is having non-CS a problem if it’s still STEM? I have a math BS

What is the false positive rate though?

The reason I’m considering it is because I’m trying to envision myself in 10-20 years and thinking who I would be happy to be.

Right now, I don’t believe what would make me happy is to be a principal/staff engineer somewhere necessarily.

Don’t get me wrong, I love programming, but I see it as me getting paid to solve problems, and not getting paid to write good code, and I think there are other ways to solve those problems. For example, I think the biggest problems in my organization are managerial and organizational rather than technical, and I feel like the type of training that would come with an MBA can help one solve those issues, including communication, planning, product validation, people management, etc.

That said, my entire reporting chain up to and including the CEO doesn’t have an MBA, so it’s not like it’s a prerequisite.

The other path I’m considering is an MS in CS/SE because while I’ve been an engineer for a few years, my undergrad is in Mathematics, and I’m worried it’ll be a limiter later on to not have a CS degree, but also only a BS.

How is this going to work with OpenGL's deprecation on MacOS?

Have you found it to be true? I guess in general have you found it to have been worth it.

One of my concerns is whether or not i’d be able to come back as an engineer as a fallback.

You could do that at the macOS level using karabiner for example. I have Caps lock as esc when tapped and Ctrl when held.

What was your main reason to pursue an MBA with the technical background? I'm considering it too at the moment.

Is there any difference in terms of curriculum between the EMBA and the MBA? As in would people consider the EMBA a "lesser" MBA so to speak?

I'm an engineer looking at MBAs right now too, but it seems like a huge investment.

I’m curious in your path. What made you decide to get an MBA being an engineer, and what are you doing now with that degree?

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So if I understand correctly, the semi was tall enough that it would interrupt the signal between the two dishes on the roof?

Intermittent probably.

Could you share a little more about how you're achieving this?

This unfinished one. Despite being unfinished, I still preferred the content over the current official one.

I had tried running Rust for a few months now, but it didn't really clicked until I went through this book.

Thanks to the great explanations of the concepts of rust, the helpful exercises and examples, I have not only since been able to contribute to the RustLang, but also am in the process of a PR for Servo, created a website using rocket.rs, and started using Rust at work.

It's definitely true that the initial hump of learning Rust was more intense than other languages such as Python, but this book helped to alleviate a lot of the initial pain.

Thanks carols10cents & steveklabnik!

This has been one of my passions too. I recently became a member of Strong Towns, in which we have a slack group to discuss cities.

There are definitely members looking on how it would to start a company based on solving cities' problems.

did you have experience beforehand in using emacs? I've been using spacemacs for a couple of weeks, but I'm having trouble getting past the most basic usage, and partially it's because I feel like I don't have much experience with emacs.

Just for perspective here, I'm currently an H1-B holder at a "unicorn" tech company.

I did not have multiple H1-B applications, I was educated in the US, and I got very very lucky in getting the lottery. I'm paid the same as my coworkers on my team, I do not have to work longer hours than them, and for all intents and purposes I am treated equally by my peers or management (not skipped on promotions, raises etc).

So to speak, I work in the category of companies that do not abuse the H1-B system, and uses it to find the right candidates (We've been looking for someone to add to our team for 1 year at this point, and we can't find anyone, american or not).

That said, even though I might benefit from this, I am still worried personally as the devil will be in the details, and these things have a tendency to have unintended consequences. Furthermore, I'm in the very early stages of postulating for a green card, and what the future of that process may entail also keeps me up at night. I really hope I will not have to pack up my things and be forced to leave at any moment.

I know this is not unprecedented, but this was the first launch/landing I've seen live, and the sensation I got when it landed on the pad is one I've rarely experienced before.

Might be hyperbole to others, but it was like the feeling that a step was made for humanity as a whole, and not just a group of people.

Thanks to you, just became a member!

As a fellow European I'm curious, why did you have to wait 7 years? Isn't the quota almost never hit for European countries?

While I'm glad that this topic is getting addressed, that video was pretty difficult to watch. I know it would be unwise to spend extensive amounts of time on each topic in the video, but the way it was cut made it hard to think about the topic before moving on to the next part.

Otherwise, this topic is likely what I want to focus my career in at some point, understanding how to improve the ways cities run, given how they are more and more the drivers of not only the economy, but a lot of the culture and thinking generated in the world. (As someone who grew up in global cities such as Singapore, Paris, etc., I always felt that these cities had more in common with each other than with other cities in the countries they are in.)

I'm making my way through Jane Jacob's Life and Death of American Cities right now, and it has definitely changed a lot of my thinkings of how cities should be designed (more mixed-used, parks are not necessarily ideal, etc).

I wonder how a company could be created to tackle the issues cities are facing these days, working with local governments (or without if need be).

It depends on where you live of course, but the BBC one is a pretty good list.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/seasonal-calendar/all

Just click on "web" under the HN title to bypass the paywall.

I run Linux VM on windows and would definitely say I got more battery life out of the machine. Not sure how it affects non-battery life performance as I haven't run anything intensive yet, but it was worth it for me.