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by cowanon22 5y ago
> I bought a new Nissan Kicks last year (the lowest-end crossover SUV) and it seems pretty dumb. Not sure about 2020, but 2021 has Automatic breaking, pedestrian detection, and collision detection standard. There are likely a few hundre
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by cowanon22 5y ago
BTW, If you find that nothing is of interest to you, then you may be suffering from depression which can often happen after severe burnout. I would recommend seeking out some help if that is the case - there is no need to suffer in silen
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I have also suffered periods of technical burnout -- it's almost inevitable that the workload will exceed your capacity at some point in your career. Contrarian opinion here - maybe it's okay to leave the side projects behind. I
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by cowanon22 5y ago
>Refinement certainly helps but Toyotas are reliable because any car would be reliable in the hands of Toyota owners. This has not been my experience. Toyotas are just better built coming out of the factory. In the past I've had n
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Personally, I would hire a lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction and specialty. Laws are complicated, and collections and court cases are very expensive if you happen to be wrong. The lawyer can help you reduce the amount if you happen to be
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by cowanon22 5y ago
There are high quality workers everywhere in the world, but they are also expensive. You generally get what you pay for - the skilled developers in others countries are also smart enough to find a better deal if they are underpaid. The 1&
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I think Steve jobs was mainly looking at the cost vs potential profits of Opendoc. There was a lot of ongoing engineering money going into development, and the potential revenue streams seemed too niche for the amount of effort. From his
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by cowanon22 5y ago
If you truly want to learn computer science from the basics, I would recommend starting with Nand to Tetris https://www.nand2tetris.org/ and the corresponding book and labs (and Coursera courses), along with Code the hidden
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by cowanon22 6y ago
Unfortunately most roads lead to management in tech. Tech knowledge is a decaying asset with a half life of 5-7 years. Eventually, you have 10-15 years of experience and your skills are decaying as fast as you can learn new ones. You loo
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by cowanon22 6y ago
I think the book "Fundamentals of Software Architecture, an Engineering Approach" (Oreilly) is much closer to what most engineers need today than the GoF book. It covers topics such as layers, pipelines, microkernels, events, mic
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by cowanon22 6y ago
I agree with this - young engineers typically do not appreciate the importance of building the right thing vs building it well. However, the OPs point stands. McKinsey and these other companies just regurgitate what is printed in the trade
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by cowanon22 6y ago
> are not actually data scientists, at best they are data analysts. Unfortunately the phrase's usage has been corrupted by HR departments, and the BA types of job listings now outnumber the "real data scientist" listings.
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by cowanon22 6y ago
My background: I am a tech architect/manager on IoT projects who designs and helps develop analytics systems. I do some basic data modeling in my role, but defer to experts to build a better model once we find some area of interest. T