kmicklas

Nowadays it's really easy enough to use real Haskell in the browser with GHCJS, and FRP libraries like Reflex provide a much more complete experience than Elm's restricted form.

They give you all that stuff to some degree to cover over how toxic the culture and job is otherwise. Leaving Google was the best decision I ever made despite the fact that I now get none of those things and make significantly less money.

I left Google for very many of the reasons mentioned in the article and I'm a white male. So I can only imagine how hard it must be for minorities.

Thankfully I had the opportunity to make this change early in my career, although my financial situation is suffering dearly for it. And it's hard to swallow when everyone you know is making 2x your salary and just about all of them have a bunch of family money as well. (I grew up thinking I was upper middle class and somehow was the poorest person in pretty much all my social circles when I was at Google. The tech bubble is real.)

Keeping perspective and realizing that even if you leave toxic tech and take a pay cut you'll probably still be in the upper echelons of the world inequality distribution is hard but super important. And you'll realize that rich people are on average way shittier and probably not worth hanging out with anyway.

Why is it on AMD to support TensorFlow? Pretty sure it is on the machine learning people to use the standard APIs like OpenCL or Vulkan etc instead of CUDA...

I don't fundamentally disagree with the article but this is ridiculous:

> People sometimes ask me, “What is the most important concept in political economy?” The answer is easy, but subtle: permissionless innovation, a strong presumption in favor of allowing experimentation with new technologies and with new business platforms that use those technologies.

Surely the ideas of capital, labor, markets, property, etc. are more important concepts in political economy?