Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice

Re:Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Loo... by grobaru on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:03AM (#12259970)

I do not want to discourage you but these companies hardly solve "real problems". Yes they might be challenging and more prestigious but you will probably end up just working on better ads targeting.

I mean I do not want to underestimate your skills and intellect but look at what happened to Geohot and I believe he is above your average MIT/Stanford graduate

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Re:Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Loo... by vinothgopi on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:22AM (#12260030)

What happened to Geohot? Any links?

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Re:Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Loo... by fouadmatin on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:38AM (#12260088)

"The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage" http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

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Re:Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Loo... by arcanus on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:16PM (#12264151)

That looks like quite a bit of hype for someone who has not done too much as of late.

Cracking the iphone was great, but disparaging top notch organizations (Carnege, Tesla, Vicarious, etc.) sounds more like narcissism than reality.

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Re:Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Loo... by chairmankaga on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:46PM (#12266214)

I believe this is what he meant.

'From 2007 on, Hotz became a coding vagabond. He briefly attended Rochester Institute of Technology, did a couple five-month internships at Google, worked at SpaceX for four months, then at Facebook for eight. The jobs left him unsatisfied and depressed. At Google, he found very smart developers who were often assigned mundane tasks like fixing bugs in a Web browser; at Facebook, brainy coders toiled away trying to figure out how to make users click on ads. “It scares me what Facebook is doing with AI,” Hotz says. “They’re using machine-learning techniques to coax people into spending more time on Facebook."' http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

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