cody_coconuts

That might be the only thing that matters to you, but that's not what matters to many others, or notably, the law

Are these all on-site only?

I think one of the problems is that people will treat these as the same. They follow Buffet's lead because the end goal is money. Everything else is a number on a spreadsheet

Which areas will you deliver to?

So this is what they were talking about when they said "shitty team culture"

Matches my experience on both counts

Maybe "little know outside of California" is more accurate. I certainly haven't heard anything about this, and it seems like the article is aiming for the broader audience

I haven't really ever needed much more than a customizable tiling window manager like i3. What kind of features are you looking for?

If you are a Sr Engineer, moving to another FAANG-level company is absolutely doable

Won't a centralized platform always have a wider audience than a decentralized one? I think that's one of the hurdles that you have to get over by offering other advantages

You present a straw man argument based on the author's bio from his website. Of course that doesn't represent his full position. He clearly advocates for a combination of both approaches in the article

The article agrees with you that, for learning tools, "on-demand" or "just-in-time" learning is advantageous. This applies for the things that you point out as being commonly cobbled together. However, for learning whole concepts like "AI" or "cloud development," these things are rarely cobbled together and require one to learn how to think through a whole new lens. The concept is larger than any one tool, and the idea is that thinking more broadly will be advantageous in the long run