jonbarker

And ongoing risk of an endemic new virus even after a vaccine is developed. Even though we have flu vaccine, it still takes its toll every year and is probably here to stay.

@ghall Is there a planned feature where one might generate a list of the most frequent keywords and market needs to guide one's self study efforts?

The reason is that arguably a traditional search firm is a broker, whereas an aggregator can introduce new efficiencies. This is how disintermediation typically happens. Classic example: travel agents vs expedia.

Can we please call this project "git jobs"?

I can vouch for the addition of meditation and/or yoga to this regimen. No data to back it up other than qualitative reduction of back pain.

Lego not creating minecraft seems like the modern day kodak digital photo story everyone will be studying in a decade or two.

One distinction though, the rubes he targets are generally rubes with some level of power or influence. That's kind of the point.

I enjoyed this article but I find the people rejected by Harvard more interesting than the ones who dropped out. Warren Buffett is on this list. The people who dropped out after all always had an implicit invitation to come back if things didn't work out.

Was lucky enough to hang out with him and Marvin Minsky at Marvin's home in 2014, which PHW organized as a seminar. A generally surreal experience. Some things I recall: both had great understated senses of humor. PHW and Marvin even at their ages remained interested in 'figuring things out' but also were fond of laughing at what they didn't understand, or rather maybe where their knowledge gaps were. It was immediately clear why they were friends and colleagues.

There are two types of partners in the MSFT ecosystem: those that build, and those that license. If this is a change to support the partners with product/implementation expertise, then it's a good change. But I think it's too early to tell.

It's not uncommon for up to 1/3 of usage and therefore the bill on VMs in the cloud to be consumed by garbage collection. So if you can rewrite it without a garbage collector, you can save money. A great book on this topic is "The Beast Is Back" by jetbrains. Advocating C++ in that case (written in 2015). If GC makes you more productive, that's good, but at some point rewriting things without GC makes sense.