Working from home has many advantages, but to paint this as an advantage is a disservice.
First, that's a nice way to respect your coworkers that they are a random set of people who work with you because of their Leetcode skills.
Having work relationships is much more than get a PR reviewed, or asking for feedback on documents. Working together, involves interactions that humanizes your fellow co-workers. Since, I've worked with people before, now that we have to remote collaborate I understand the social cues, people can come stand-offish or rude, in remote meetings, because video and voice calls can rarely bring out emotions.
We went from cracking a jokes at the beginning of a meeting and chit-chat while walking to meeting and walking back from meeting rooms to more formal remote meetings, since people are concerned that they won't be interpreted correctly over a call (the fear is rightly so given video calls are inherently bad at this)
There's no reason to detest your colleagues, they're people with priorities and one of them is work. There's going to be weeks where you'll be spending way longer than 8 hrs a day together and nights where you will need to call them in the because of an ongoing issue in production. To dehumanize these relationships would be a great loss.
If you want to build long lasting friendships, you can definitely do that at work. I know people who have made friends on same and different teams, through work related happy hours and hangout casually now (meeting people outside your team is severely crippled with the current remote work culture), heck people get married to people they meet at work.
Rubbish! I just searched for `gm` no capitalization, nothing and got a page full of results for General Motors, from news articles to the wikipedia page.
I searched for `dentist pulled ex boyfriends teeth`
You do see the excerpt, but right underneath that you see the Snopes link.
I don't think Google should be in the business of debunking articles written years ago. As long as it's relevance algorithms can brings up contrasting sources, in this case the ABC news article and the Snopes stories. It's bad journalism from ABC that they haven't marked that article as redacted even though it's been proven false.
Recently I remember, seeing that the google card UI for the news marked an article as Satire, because in-fact it was a Satire article. I'm not sure if that's because the original article embedded some information that helped Google discover this.
They do a pretty good job at organizing information and making it available.
1. You have the choice of getting any of the options you want, that are not available in store near you in 2 days sitting at home.
2. You can compare prices on each of those items and choose the price point that best suits you.
3. You have an option to get information from people who have previously owned that item and read their thoughts and reviews.
4. You can order as any many you want, and spend 5 mins preparing a return and 10 - 15 mins returning the item (or, just pay a small fee to get it collected back from your house)
Yet, you choose to drive down to a store, a store which probably doesn't have an online inventory index. Try to find an option you want, don't find it, and now you're mad?
Isn't this just launched, with the feature set nowhere near the idea of securing payments?
2. Steam
AppStore has far more features and way more full featured. From Apps, Games, subscription models, app quality reviews. Also works on mobile.
3. Really..? How is Safari more innovative than Tor Browser? You can't argue that Safari was more privacy-respecting than Mozilla pre-Tor.
The right defaults. It takes a lot of innovation to come up with the set of defaults that are actually secure and protect you. If one thinks they're secure using the Tor browser, they have another thing coming.
4. Windows Phones (I had one, it was more capable and powerful in any way compared to the first iPhone)
Haha! Ubuntu is better Desktop OS than Mac and Windows.
5. Windows tablets
You're kidding right?
6. There were tons of MP3/media players of different varieties before the iPod - what makes it so innovative.
Apple did not invent the slate form-factor every phone uses today
Ever seen a blackberry in the last 10 years? A phone with a keyboard? A phone with a dialpad? Literally hand held computing is divided between Before iPhone and After iPhone.
Google Store? You mean the store where they allow anyone to host malware? Just "google" the number of apps that have malware on the Google Store.
Face ID on Android? over 2 years since FaceId but Android still can't enable you to do payments using Face Recognition because they don't have confidence in their camera system.
Safari was doing anti-web tracking way before Firefox was relevant again. Lets not even talk about mobile Firefox.
Literally the iPod changed the music industry. Hold on think about this, a single device changed how people heard, distributed and discovered music. If that's not an invention I'm not sure what is.
To be fair, I also think Apple hires some of the most creative marketing and UX folks.
Haha! Made me laugh. From the top of my head:
1. FaceId
2. App Store that actually works for customers not against them.
3. Privacy respecting web browsers
4. iPhone - literally
5. iPad
6. iPod
How does that matter? Does diversity for the cause of diversity lead to better results? Is there any data around this?
Hiring the most qualified people is the most important thing. As long as there isn't an inherent bias for not hiring someone who is hispanic, black, or brown, it should b e fine.
I'm a backend developer who uses Java an GoLang regularly to write back end systems - APIs, workflows, infrastructure, deployment pipelines, etc.
I don't have any knowledge about AI or how to model problems for recommendation systems, or when to use decision trees, versus something else. Is this a skill that I should be actively investing in to not become a dinosaur?
My worry is that in the next 10 or so years, I don't want to end up as a Cobol developer in the world of today i.e., might have a job and good pay, but not being able to work at the next big company or next big idea. What are your thoughts?