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It's a bummer that there will be layoffs, but the employees quoted come off sounding pretty entitled
Great write up/summary of the crash: https://imgur.com/a/zin7CRo
Re:Reading academic computer science papers on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:55PM (#30952485)
Unless you’re working on something that has the potential to be directly influenced by a paper, I’ve found trying to stumble through academic papers to be a huge waste of time. Remember that academic papers are by and large written for other academics, not for general purpose or even specialized engineers (obviously it depends how specialized you are). Take something like merge sort - I’d recommend the Khan academy video before recommending the academic paper if you want to understand how it works. I get that you should understand “why” it works from an academic perspective, but I don’t know that you really get much value from that level of understanding.
Re:Decentralization isn’t important, until it suddenly is on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:35AM (#30124055)
This is true of literally everything that’s ever been important before it was important. I love naval but I feel like sometimes he gets away with tweeting ethereal nonsense
Any books you’d recommend on the subject?
Talk about great HR support