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The content of that post is amazingly on point. Anyone looking to build a clientele should follow it.

Thats a frequent opinion that sounds sensible. But when you put some thought into it, you realize that a lot of the electorate are poor uneducated people who did not know better.

It means that when you fire one person it affects many more. When you fire 7,500 there are thousands more affected.

Firing people has an exponential effect.

I feel we are witnessing what happened to the newspaper once again. Only this time there is an interesting twist: manufacturers have been bailed out. Will the government step in again? No one knows.

I feel this is meant as:

"If you want to present at a big conference, then you must have experience doing smaller conferences or presentations."

You can gain experience by presenting in local meetups, making videos and posting them online, doing short tech talks at your job, etc. Doing those first will net you a lot of valuable skills and experiences.

Still worth reading because ruby is beautiful.

Another vote for ardupilot here. Easy hardware because its an arduino, great community and simple to use.

Some people are able to do it. But most are exaggerating or not doing the exercises. It takes me weeks to properly finish a good technical book due to time constraints. Either way, just do your best and forget about anybody else.

Linus gives the best answer: https://youtu.be/IVpOyKCNZYw

tl;dr: Nvidia, fuck you.

I've worked on enough projects to have covered both sides of the equation. The pristine codebase that belonged on a museum yet took way too much time to ship a feature. The other side of the coin with the codebase that somehow worked (no one knew how) and brought in millions because people would keep piling stuff on top of it. Have also worked with a codebase that started off awfully and was cleaned up enough to reduce the amount of time lost on stupid bugs and and thus increased how effective the team was delivering new features (with a direct financial improvement as a result because sales picked up significantly). It all boils down to finding a balance. Sadly, people confuse technical perfection with a product that works.

I've been in the game long enough to realize how true this is. Good point. It will certainly make people here defend their sacred choices.

It sounds weird, but I believe its meant as "untrained minds".

I've had somewhat similar experience with other big companies. People wonder why I hate to change jobs.

Sometimes I wonder if this approach has hurt Google's ability to innovate.

I do STEM Q&A sessions at schools various times a year. I cannot mentor anyone at the moment, but I could schedule time and do a Q&A session with them. No strings attached. Email in profile.

Disclaimer: I work in Ed-Tech. This is in no way a sales pitch.

There is a real risk related to goal oriented AI. It does not need to feel or dream. Merely having survival as its goal is sufficient to make it dangerous to other life forms. Worse is that it can happen at any time (it may have happened already). Given the computing power, tools, and availability of knowledge we can assume that it can be done outside of a controlled lab environment by a non-scientist.

This sentence[1] from his website always makes me chuckle:

Although my professional truck-driving career was brief, I did learn enough to do a nearly perfect double-clutch with a non-synchromesh transmission, while driving up a hill on a forest track, carrying a bunch of kids in the back of a dumptruck--the tippable, flat-bed kind, not one designed to squash garbage.

He left us too early.

[1]https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherlives.html

Yeah, spent more time than I'd like to admit playing it...

Any way to get in touch? I enjoy talking with experienced programmers. :) My email is in my profile.

No.

The snake game music when you click to defrag... Felt young and old at the same time.

Maybe add an option to view content with standard pagination?

Amazing :)

Wish you listed a method of contact. I really enjoy having conversations with more experienced hackers.

You took the class 43-44 years ago? Is that a typo? If not, mind sharing more about your experience?

A download or rss link would be nice. I could not find it on mobile.

Sometimes we just want to do something new for a short time. It might be to try some new library or language. Thats ok. Learn to identify what is a short term project (I want to learn how to do n with python) and a long term project ( I want to learn Ruby). In the case if building products, use the MVP approach. Then build on it if required.

I suffer from this, too. My solution has been to just write whatever code comes up and then commit it to its own branch. The anxiety of doing things right is then removed by the action of doing it. I can later revise the code and fix whatever issue it may have. Try it out. Its liberating.

Thanks for clearing that up! :)

Anything to do with computer vision controlled navigation is a good source of new challenges and new discoveries / inventions.