EinsDueTresFour

> Many devs stuck on Windows use WSL to run Ubuntu for ML/AI work.

"stuck on Windows" is pretty telling here -- if Windows could it would already have replaced Linux ages ago. And it's not by lack of trying that they haven't.

I am the same when I am doing deep work that I am interested in. I need absolute silence.

My day-to-day mundane work is a bit different, but I still cannot listen to music with lyrics. I have found to my surprise that the soundtrack of 8-bit games (SNES et al) really helps.

I now have a playlist full of those, with soundtracks from Star Fox to A Link to the Past. Really helps with the mundane stuff.

I would add that the "Sales vs engineering and sales winning" would be a very relevant warning also:

> [sales] signed up a large number of smaller businesses on the platform. [...] However, integrating these smaller businesses was challenging thanks to several customizations needed for each new customer.

The ratio of revenue per each small customer vs the total cost of integration (and very likely on-going maintenance) was probably at least an amber flag somewhere for those who had visibility of it.

But maybe there was on-going hope that they would be able to sign up a big customer and integrate them before they ran out of money?

I can relate to this.

I went to a state school in a country where the only way in to university is by taking a test (this was in the early 00's), so I went to one of these cram schools after I finished high school. The cram school was focused on students of lower income families who would otherwise not have the means to attend a more prestigious one, and I remember in the inauguration ceremony for my year's class, one of their former students was invited to give a speech.

Her story was that after four years trying to get into medical school (i.e. four years attending the same cram school), she was given a tuition scholarship to a more prestigious cram school for her fifth year, and then she finally passed the test.

The thing is, this wasn't even an elite school -- it was just the only federal (state-funded) medical school in our state. The fact that the students' only way in was by taking the exam -- extracurriculars were not taken into account there also -- only made it even more of an _achievement_ for you to actually get in, especially if you were not from an upper middle class family.

Wouldn't Strive School (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/strive-school) be one of the schools trying to implement the Lambda School model in Europe and the UK?

I don't know how famous/big they are, but I have already heard about it from more than one person, which makes me think that they are gaining traction.

I think there's a high chance that they are all linked. That perhaps the founders of each great religion were all "teachers at the same school", but that the teachings they brought to humanity were given according to humanity's state of evolution, similar to how students have to go through different grades. Each teacher would then teach only what that grade is ready to learn, though they have all the knowledge.

I believe the focus of what's being said is that people who claim to work these insane hours, _and_ manage to keep all other plates in their personal lives spinning, usually do not spend that much time doing productive work.

That is not to say that there are others who can do many actual productive hours. But usually, at least in my personal experience, when one does that they are sacrificing other aspects of their personal life in the hopes that when they achieve their goals they can then deal with everything else.

In my experience, things don't really work out all that well. Ideally one should find balance in the now.

AFAIK, there are two different types of cassava: the one we eat, and the one that's poisonous (which I think they called mandioca braba) and is only used to make farinha.

It is likely though that, if GDPR proves effective, other countries will soon follow suit and implement a similar set of data protection regulations.

Perhaps by then companies around the world will be forced into paying more attention to these matters, and a system of reward for white hats may become the norm.

My comment is merely anecdotal, I guess, but I believe if I were part of this study my data point would have been considered a 'statistical anomaly'.

I am a career changer who moved from admin roles to software development. This part of my life started in 2014, when I decided to make the change. My first instinct was to get a degree, since I had never got one before, so I started an evening presential course with a local university. During the course, I often noticed that I wasn't taking much in from the lectures, so I'd come in on weekends and do my study then. I'd still attend classes, as I was always afraid I'd miss something important for the exams, but this turned out to be rarely the case. In my last year, I was already so frustrated with spending 3 hours in class each night after a day at my full time job, that I decided to completely skip my lectures altogether. Surprisingly, these were the modules where I had the best performance.

There's a lot of correlation here, but in my case I'd say that what motivated me were not the classes themselves, but the deadlines. I tried online at-your-own-pace classes before in my previous career (accounting), and they did not work at all. It was very hard to keep myself motivated. Again, the correlation here does not necessarily indicate causality -- it could be argued that the lack of motivation came from the fact that I didn't like the subject. But I still believe that what works best for my case is to have a deadline, and learning resources other than presential lectures.

TL;DR: career changer who tried learn-at-your-own-pace resources for previous career path and wasn't successful. Then tried presential lectures + self study for CS career, was moderately successful. Best results were obtained with self study + externally imposed deadlines.