whiterknight

I think this is vastly overrated:

- how much code actually gets read outside of top 2-3 projects?

- how many of those readers can detect security problems?

- why are others inherently better at detecting problems than the author?

Wouldn’t 1000 lines read by 2 people be better than a million read by 10?

Sure, it just invalidates the impending doom, ban C programming narrative.

1000 lines are easier to secure than 5 million lines

The point is that many of the problems rust aims to solve become much less relevant. For example, if your program only does 10 Malloc and frees, you can probably track down the memory bugs.

Side note: tell your startup to switch its “hardware with Ubuntu Linux inside” to BSD. You will have a much more stable and simple platform that can last a long time.

Are you thinking of a safari exploit that allows JavaScript to get out of the safari process? What’s the attack scenario?

I promise, you will be just fine without the security updates.

Yeah and Apple didn’t make any money until after that phase.

> If you're trying to build a business then you must be always be selling and marketing.

Yes. I am only giving marketing advice. Sales is unfortunately embedded in so many other areas of life besides commerce.

> I doubt that there is still any real career opportunity in "applied" optimization.

I agree there are no ready made jobs for that.

But you yourself know there are optimization problems all over real life. It’s a sales problem. Companies don’t know what they need or who has it.

> there is nearly no career in "applied" optimization

Agreed. But that’s true of all PhDs. The only difference is business guys see “computer science” and have an idea of where it fits in their org. It’s easier to sell. But in reality there is no business for experts in complexity theory or category theory type systems.

Making money involves solving practical problems. Even professors take a two job approach, mixing official research to get tenure with stuff they are actually interested in.

> With a BS "With Honors" in math, I got strongly recruited

This is very unfortunate. Because professors grew up competing in an academic tournament for their jobs they think that’s how the whole world works.

When it comes to marketing I think we can take a page from the Apple playbook. Never show anything incomplete. Critics and the general public don’t understand the artistic process and will only become uneasy. nobody cares how you did it. Just show results.

> I was naive. Knew much more about math and computing than people and personality.

Do you think not learning math would have helped you understand people at a younger age? It sounds like you just needed time to grow socially and in practicality. For most people on this forum, that’s a challenge regardless.

Sounds like you opened up the newspaper and scanned for “mathematician”. Leveraging phd research into a great job is a tough. Re-skilling into a normie engineer/technician/analyst, is not.

My point is not to criticize your job hunting skills, it’s to suggest that this an undue psychological burden in your life and is perhaps masking other causes and personal challenges.

You’re attributing these life challenges to your STEM PhD speciality?

I am sensitive to your hardship, but optimization has nothing to do with it. People are succeeding with bachelor’s degrees in Latin.

> you will forget almost all of the stuff your learned

Speak for yourself.

You are also developing a meta skill of being able to read technical material, and a fluency with basic concepts (algorithms, signals, etc)

Also sometimes learning something isn’t knowing exactly how to do it on the spot, but knowing it’s the right thing to look up when you need it.

In other words, the commenters suggestion would not make the video better fit that need.