Shengster

Good point, although I think he implicitly implies "index funds" in this case because later there's a bullet that says:

* Pay attention to fees. Avoid actively managed funds.

It seems the general consensus is that a great programmer can write better quality code in less time than others.

This requires a high level of aptitude and experience (which comes with practice).

However, I feel the ability to write quality code quickly is just one facet of a great programmer's skillset.

Often overlooked is the ability to communicate and collaborate with others effectively--which is just as important.

With complex projects, I oftentimes find that the solution to my problems has already been solved. Sometimes the best code is no code at all.

Ironically The Oatmeal is down. Presumably because so many people want to give him money that they've DDOSed his website.

People don't know what they want until they see it.

Not enough CPU and Memory to do so. Our app is huge.

Great response. It's hard to get any real work done when you have to constantly context switch between different things. Ed didn't know that he'd have to waste 3 hours of his time. It was only supposed to take 10 minutes after all.

I had something similar happen to me earlier in the week. The conversation went something like this:

Boss: Hey, we've got an urgent production issue that needs to be looked at. I'm getting some heat on this one and I need someone to diagnose it to see if it's a blocker for our release.

Me: Would you be able to ask X and Y to investigate? It seems they are on the support rotation for production issues. It'll take me at least an hour to clean up what I'm doing and switch over to run the old production instance locally.

Boss: It's urgent, I think you need to drop whatever you're doing and look at this.

Me: OK, sure.

(50 minutes later, as I'm almost done building the old production instance)

...

X and Y come back from a meeting.

Boss: I'll have X and Y look at this, you can go back to working on your stories for this sprint.

Me: !@#?$

Either the article is completely wrong about GPA or I must be an outlier. I barely had a 3.0 in college and got multiple internships at "Major" companies.

'Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett was feeling “guilty” about paying too little in taxes, he should “send in a check.”'

'So, Buffett has pledged to match one for one all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And, I’ll even go three for one for McConnell.” That could be quite a bill if McConnell takes the challenge; after all, the Senator is worth at least $10 million. As Buffett put it to me: “I’m not worried.”'

So does this imply that the universe is deterministic?

Apparently Jean-Louis was one of the few people that stood up to Steve in Europe when he visited back in the 80s, and this earned him Steve's respect. Back then, Jean-Louis was in charge of Apple France and didn't cave to setting Steve's unrealistic sales forecasts for the Macintosh.

Later on, Sculley (then CEO of Apple) chose Jean-Louis to replace Steve as head of the Macintosh division (which the Lisa team was folded into). Steve would later reflect on Jean-Louis as a "terrible" bozo--probably because he thought he was betrayed by him.

One thing I did notice about Steve from reading Isaacson's book is that he categorized people into two camps. They were either bozos or heroes, and nothing in between. Either an idea was the most amazing thing ever, or it was utterly shit.