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Honestly, way less work than you'd think. A couple of months of a few hours per week tinkering. Copilot taught me the typescript and the vscode api is very powerful and well documented. Being able to leverage other extensions already doing the heavy work is a huge benefit (such as DVT for identifying symbol definitions).

That's why I use vscode w/ remote ssh. Can't stand input lag on my typing.

As someone who's also done a lot of DV and DV tools, I love to see it. This gap was something I took away from attending DVCon last year and seeing all the papers from folks reinventing in the same verif tools.

Feeling inspired after DVCon, I was sick of how annoying our test infrastructure was to interact with so I built a vscode extension as a front end to the existing mature infrastructure. Handles running tests, regressions, opening logs of all kinds, launching vendor tools, jumping to definitions, hover over documentation on all our custom config files, even breakpoints that export to verdi. I've got about 30 people using it now which is pretty neat.

My main learnings are 1) boy it would be tough to make this generic enough to my existing infra without making it lose all the benefits 2) Switching away from my editor is a huge context loss, having tools directly inside my editor keeps everything moving faster.The thought of adding yet another important web page to my browser isn't pleasant. I specifically added features to my extension so I could avoid going to our internal regression results webpage.

Hence he said "short term". 2-3 generation from now certainly isn't the short term

Exactly. They got early support because of a strong brand they worked hard to create over the last decade. They backed their idea with market research and created something which could be enjoyed from the very beginning. These are important ingredients in their success.

If I remember correctly, the XBox was operating at a loss at the beginning. I think it was more than expected that it would take a few years to break into the market.

The executives completely renounced the whole dress code thing though. It was some middle manager who though it would be a great idea for his unit and got slammed after it hit public media.

Actually ExxonMobile makes that claim still.

In my personal use situation, if I want to see a movie from this year I go see it in a movie theater. If I'm just looking for something to watch, I pull up Netflix. Typically I can find something interesting and decent. I don't need popcorn time, because it isn't worth the effort/risk/moral grey area when I have legal paid options. As long as there are no commercials in my Netflix, I'm happy.

In my experience, it is always worth showing up, but not always worth paying attention as far as a cost-gain analysis from a student perspective. Showing up ensures that if there is an announcement or hints about labs/homework then you can take advantage of it. Lecture material is often availible elsewhere such as class website or the textbook

We cut people up into individuals, tell them they have no common lot with others, then force feed them a lot of ideology in order to convince them that they are freer the less they care about others and the more they try to accumulate wealth for them'selves'.

This is exactly the opposite of what most "big God" religions teach. I mean Jesus's big messages were "Do unto others" and "Be one". Not going to argue that Christianity didn't stray from that from time to time. But you're starting to go in circles here.

This goes back to the point of the article in the first place which is that "Big God" religions are a counter balance to large structured hierarchical societies.

Management versus worker is an adversarial relationship

This is because the needs of a company are not the needs of an individual.

Management democratically accountable to labor seems perfectly reasonable

Have you seen the US political system? Do you think if you apply democracy to management then it won't be corrupt? I only see people voting for the manager who promises the biggest benefits.

Doesn't sound like you read the article. It states that these things came before, but religion enabled them to expand them to larger societies.

There is a good reason why successful cultures have hierarchies. Specialization and structure improve efficiency and standard of living for everyone under it. Do you think companies could do without CEOs?

I would agree that social media works for shaming large corporations (brands), but not so much on the micro scale of individual people out of the public spotlight.

echoing what mlitchard said. Networking is a big help. Besides that, look at what is on the job posting. Try to use the same key words in your resume/cover letter. Not sure how well it would work, but addressing differences in the cover letter could work to get it past the HR and into the manger's hands.

Got to watch out for the HR filter. Often at bigger companies, hiring managers don't even see a resume unless it meets the criteria they specify on it. That means people like you with related, but different experience get cut out when you could still be a good match. Broken system.

I think OneNote does a great job of replacing my notepad. I use it to take notes on everything I learn and might need for later. Great for documenting processes and throwing lots of screenshots into. Way easier to find things later then some random page in my notebook.

I also use it for a daily log of my tasks and what I need to accomplish. Used to use a notebook for both these things, but I find it easier/faster to jump into onenote and back into what i am working on then

Not completely true. Everyone wanting to want to watch it at the same time causes issues. Other videos you can distribute the video to caches ahead of time, so the burden on the outgoing connection is less.

Which is why most right click menu options also can be found in another place. The right click menu is a shortcut much like hotkeys. Not essential, but convenient.

I was required to read Merchants of Doubt for my biology class in college. Pretty good read on this topic.

Agreed. However, I would argue that this is older than science itself. Before it was governments and religions who claimed to know better than science. Its about control, and hijacking science is a way to get "credibility". But I've got hope that real science will always win out eventually. It just takes time.

Don't worry. Amazon will deliver water filters via drones. Clean water for everyone!

I personally prefer having the option of popping into an IDE when needed, but do most of my day to day work in Sublime. Everyone has a workflow which works best for them.

It completely depends on where you go in my experience. I took a trip to Taiwan and the airbnb places were way better/cheaper than the hotels we stayed at. Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb...

Its there. 1995

+1 for cleaning. Really helps me when I get into a slump. Something mindless, but productive with clear results. Lets my mind process whatever it is that is slowing me down.

It was at my college. Both for EE/Comp. Eng. and CS.

I would say it seems to depend on the company. Companies like Google and Microsoft seem to go out of their way to hire minorities (i.e. not white male), but companies which are less in the public spotlight seem to put less effort into it. At least that is my perspective based on interviewing at lots of companies for post graduation jobs.

Thanks for sharing. Good read.