wai1234

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by wai1234 6mo ago
Most posts on those platforms are drivel, regardless of authorship. Stop picking on em dashes. The reality is that too many people have short attention spans and no idea of coherent presentation. Everything looks like text messages. The fee
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by wai1234 1y ago
Your answer to 1 troubles me. A CS degree program greatly expands your toolbox BEFORE you need those tools. The problem I have with "when I need to" is how do you know now is the time? It's a chicken-and-egg thing. If an empl
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by wai1234 1y ago
I think you should ask yourself two related but separate questions: 1. Will the CS degree increase your knowledge and problem-solving ability faster than you could without it? 2. Will the credential add substantially to your credibility for
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by wai1234 2y ago
With a supportive manager like yours, you should ask to get connected with someone in engineering who might mentor you a bit. If your current side work was driven from that end, you would quickly figure out how the culture works there and i
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by wai1234 2y ago
I recently read this. It's brilliant. Not immediately aimed at a new startup but important to keep in mind when evaluating who to include on your board and how to weigh their advice as well. https://www.unchartedblue.com&#x2
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by wai1234 2y ago
You have a very poor notion of intelligence. Mimicry does not require comprehension. Without comprehension (or, if you prefer self-awareness), you don't have intelligence. This distinction is as old as Eliza (look it up). The Turing te
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by wai1234 2y ago
The OP covers all the salient points. We might as well throw in antigravity and FTL travel since we have left reality behind. This is classic Musk. Right down to asking the public to solve his problem for free. Nuts. As far as the dream tha
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by wai1234 2y ago
"The humans behind the API possess real intelligence, and by extension, so does the API." LOL, no. My calculator can add numbers to get the same answers I do. I use my intelligence to get those answers, so my calculator must also
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by wai1234 4y ago
It's actually worse still. ALL of the 17 responses to the real name were negative if you read what he actually posted. That's an infinite increase. NOT 5x.
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by wai1234 4y ago
"the scope of work is very specific" and not under your control. Word.
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by wai1234 4y ago
This. There are a handful of majors that are wide gateways: accounting (NOT finance), the core engineering disciplines, the core sciences, the core humanities (including Math). Choose one of those that matches your interests. Avoid the fash
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by wai1234 4y ago
IMO, this is terrible advice. The core concept that school is passive and life is active is, at best, partially true. Very few people answer to no one and the rest get told what to do, all too often, throughout their lives. The rest is most
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by wai1234 4y ago
This one is too easy :) 99% of the parenting advice you will get will be crap. Your child will be unique. In fact, every child is unique even within a family. My two sons are very different. Parenting is a procedurally generated open world
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by wai1234 4y ago
I realized I didn't answer your question. Yes, it's a form of hazing.
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by wai1234 4y ago
I'm not aware of any evidence the approach works. Seriously.
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by wai1234 4y ago
The tests select for people that will put themselves through hell just to work for you. They don't measure anything else. See any of the many stories of gifted, senior, often well known devs who did not 'pass' because they re
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by wai1234 5y ago
1. Why are you looking (assuming you are still employed)? 2. Why did you get no offers in your 'dream' companies? If you answer those two questions honestly, you will have your answer to this question.
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by wai1234 5y ago
As has been pointed out already, this is yet another round of an old paradigm. Just like every other shortcut (looking at you, frameworks) it comes down to LEGOs (or Minecraft). As long as you are satisfied with blocks world, they are great
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by wai1234 5y ago
Why is it checking for GA at all? A critical function like accepting payment should be bullet proof. It's critical code and should be treated that way.
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by wai1234 5y ago
Your checkout shouldn't trigger ad block. Stop slavishly bowing to GA everywhere. I'm about to give you money. That's the only 'analytic' you should care about. I'm tired of being treated as little more than a
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by wai1234 8y ago
You write about Gmail as if no one had email before that. GMail doesn't have a single meaningful feature that other clients didn't have before. And those clients didn't completely redo the UI every 3 months whether you want i
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by wai1234 8y ago
Why do you believe Google is "really good at building useful products"? Would you buy any of them if they didn't have the Google brand (or pay for any of the free ones for that matter)?
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by wai1234 8y ago
You don't mention WHY you want to get into software. If it's just because you think you can make a lot of money, that's a poor reason to switch careers. You also say you lack experience. Do you mean you have none at all? That
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by wai1234 8y ago
"My only concern hiring older engineers is that they are stuck in a rut." Wow, better check that bias.
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by wai1234 8y ago
I'm not sure how it's supposed to work on anything. It's unusable on Firefox. Why does the scroll wheel change font size? Why is the list slanted? Why is it a list at all given it's a web of connections?
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by wai1234 8y ago
Open plan was invented by bean counters and sold to impressionable engineers through a combination of rah-rah misdirection and pop psychology. They save money, period. No claim of improved collaboration or productivity has ever been demonst
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by wai1234 8y ago
There seems to be a belief that such an exam would produce uniformly high caliber practitioners. There are plenty of lousy members of every regulated profession. The exams in regulated professions are designed to test that you know the jarg
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by wai1234 9y ago
Never, I mean NEVER, intern for free. You will almost certainly be the equivalent of 'drink run boy' and learn nothing. If you are willing to work for free, find a volunteer group where everyone is unpaid. That has its own problem
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by wai1234 9y ago
I don't think I misinterpreted, "do things you can't do when you are in your 30s". That's a categorical statement and wrong. Yes, a 30something (40, 50, ...) is not a 20something, some plus, some minus, but nothing
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by wai1234 9y ago
"Make mistakes, they are cheaper to correct at your age." No, no they're not. The "be stupid early" plan is a major fail IRL. The idea that society will forgive you for it is proven wrong every day. When employers l

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