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I don't buy it anymore.
If you want to be a tenured professor, you'd usually be expected to have at least a certain number of publications in the top journals.
Also, I remember an interesting comparison amongst the Top 10 Econ departments, that compared grad students and the amount of top-journal publications they had 5 years after graduation.
The bottom line was that the Top 5 students in MIT\Harvard really have much more publications than any other grad student. But, the median Harvard\MIT one doesn't perform better than any grad from tier 1 school
As Currying and functional programming a popular thing now, I was thinking what my current codebase would look like in C# if I were writing code in a more functional way.
So, obviously C# isn't a functional languageat all but using Func<T>, and maybe some delegates would enable this easily.
I'm not sure this would turn my code to more elegant or readable.
What would I benefit from ?
As a finance tech worker, I know that All Import/Export companies are so afraid of the forex risk that they are willing to pay someone to take care of the risk. Usually they either buy options or forwards to fix the exchange rate ahead of time.
So unless your base currency is BTC all the way, I still can't understand why anyone would do it.
Unless your USD-->Bitcoin (and the other way round) transaction costs are lower than the average joe's, why would I prefer being paid that why ? Even if you cover the transaction costs I'd still prefer to be paid in USD and that you'd pay me the additional transaction costs instead of converting USD to bitcoin on my behalf.
Unless it's a finance backdoor in terms of tax, etc, I can't see the reason in doing it.
Why would a reasonable person want that ? Even If I believe in Bitcoin, I'd prefer getting paid in USD and choose to invest in Bitcoin.
Apple: We sell an experience of software and hardware. Google: We sell ads, based on data we gather from our users. Amazon: We sell commodities\services as close as possible to the marginal utility, so we're very competitive.
Altough each of these tech giants are competing, each has quite a different strategy.
As for the Fire phone, I think that Amazon realized that they could deliver an excellent shopping experience from the mobile phone. This would enable massive future growth: Think about going home in the train and buying groceries instead of driving to your nearest Wallmart.
Nobody who has money to invest wants to miss the train.
As software developers, We've been taught that a good solution to a problem is a "generic" one, a "one fits all" solution.
for example, in this case, a solution that would fit "all" people interested in "any" topic.
The thing is, for all non-tech problems, the best solution is usually the specific one, the custom made one.
Most of the time when you try a generic solution, competitors specializing in a specific solution would beat you.
Jeff Atwood wrote about a similar idea and called it rule of the 3 [1]. I vaguely remember that he also wrote that they used this rule when starting StackOverflow.
We discussed how is it possible that he was only diagnosed now. His response was striking and ming opening: "I had never experienced not having ADHD. How could I know that my experience is not normal ?".
I completely agree with your response. We must talk about mental health and raise awareness to mental health problems.
Improvments would be to create a kind of a control dashboard of what you want to see. maybe remove only pictures and videos ? subscribe to a specific list of friends, etc..
I׳ve found that the fact that you need to explain something to someone makes you double check everything, and reduces the chances of screwing up. Even if they׳re not familiar with SQL, they can still easily understand the logic behind the query.
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