> If you’re struggling to picture what clear writing looks like, buy a copy of the Financial Times or The Economist. Pay attention to the way articles their are written, to the word choices and sentence structures.
Try the Financial Times or the Economist for strong, clear writing. In particular, pay attention to their word choice and sentence structure.
Example masters: John Carmack, Jeff Dean, Bram Cohen. What do they do? I think they're all extremely effective at getting things done. So be smart, hard working, and laser focused on shipping.
A long time ago I saw a good talk by Jonathan Blow wherein he made a point that really resonated with me. The point was that to get good at programming you need the experience of shipping a lot of programs and thus you should optimize your career around shipping as many good programs as you can. Contrast this with the common advice of being an expert in databases, or distributed systems, or OOP, or testing, or something like that...
To play devils advocate. Perl 6 is an example of where not shipping was a major contributor to the decline of the language. Shame, as it looks interesting.
If you think it looks interesting, you should have a look at Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). Looks familiar? It should be, as it is the new name of Perl 6. It now also comes with an IDE (https://commaide.com) if you're so inclined :-)
I think the vast majority of JVM users won't even need Loom. OS threads perform well enough for most use cases. You can go a very long way with just a ThreadPoolExecutor.
> They are employees in that they cannot negotiate rates.
Hmm... How is an Uber driver different from a plumber here?
Let's say Google needs some pipes fixed at one of its offices and they tell me how much they'll pay, refusing to budge from that figure. That doesn't make me Google's employee. I can choose to do the work for that price, or I can go fix Apple's pipes instead. What am I missing?
I don't see how Uber's relationship with the passenger has any bearing on a driver's relationship with Uber.
If instead, my analogy were that I was a general contractor who built water slides and a water park put out a bid on construction of a water slide and refused to negotiate, my only option is to take that bid or leave it. Why does it matter what the water park is going to charge the people to ride the slide?
Your analogy doesn't map to this situation. Google and Apple would be the people you're driving around, not Uber. The company that employs you as a plumber maps to Uber, which of course would just be you if you were self employed.
Many service companies are passed down in the family, or bought out for plum rates by star employees. Others are sole proprietorships. The service worker analogy is problematic because of the storied history of regulatory capture in the taxi industry, and the century of bad legal rulings that allowed it to continue. I guess licensed professions and gatekeeping like the AMA does to limit residency spots are the closest analogues I can think of off the cuff, but I also think those things are wrong for similar reasons, so moving on.
Now that the app driving companies turned over the apple cart by essentially cyber-squatting on the legal system while backed by high power lawyers paid by VC cash, the driving companies themselves want to cry foul when they don’t get the way they bought and paid for. I guess what they didn’t foresee is the long view of judgeship, and their concomitant dim view of cheaters, no matter the problem domain.
It’s too ironic to be believed. The judges apparently agree with me.
Seems like it maps to me. Google and Apple are hiring me to do work, then they are selling the output of that work to someone else (indirectly, in this case, but I don't see how that matters.)
Join your school's ACM Programming Contest or ICPC team. It will prepare you well for whiteboard coding interviews.
Also try to do at least two internships; they'll teach you a lot about what professional work is really like and once you've graduated a lot of companies will like seeing this experience on your resume.
Or maybe it succeeded in spite of the name, color, and small controllers and would've been even more successful if the Americans got their way. I guess we'll never know.
It sold 40 million units versus the N64’s 20 million units. N64 was black? Big whoop. Price, abundance of titles, and some other factors come before anything like that.
You can buy more things with bitcoin right now than you can with gold. Euro, Yuan, and Yen etc. are also way more popular forms of currency than gold is. However if you mean “money” as in “investment vehicle” then yes at this time it is popular.
