I like their table/blob and queue storage, but maybe it's because it's relatively mature and the domain is well understood. Most of the comparable services from other providers are generic analogs.
I'm not sure I feel much different across Azure Cosmos and Aws Dynamo. It seems super-easy to get locked into a relatively expensive proprietary offering in each case.
Shouldn't STEM (and to a greater extent STEAM) refer to degrees that combine the component areas into a program and not a degree that is solely a single component?
Yes, I understand you do very little Chemistry or Physics in a Comp Sci program, but your fundamental building blocks are almost entirely pure Chem and Physics, even more so in engineering.
I mean, ultimately the response really should be:
1. The overall macro measures still support success rates of STEM trumping other areas of study,
2. All hype is not created equal; even within Comp Sci or Engineering there are winners and losers.
3. Use general trends and measures to guide your overall strategy, not set specific tactics
>> if people would want to quit after a week or kill themselves after a month of pair programming we would see a lot of backslash against it.
That's been my experience. Even at the few places I've been were some do pair programming it's a very rare occurrence. Occasionally upper management will stump for it, likely because they (a) don't actually program all day and (b) see it as some sort of kale-like super habit. None of my IC have ever pushed hard for regular sessions.
The same thing happens when you've been with a mobile/telecom/etc company for a long time. They milk you for every penny they can get and give all the promo pricing to new customers. The pay sales higher commissions for new sign-ups and treat existing loyal clients like garbage.
It really bugs me to have to waste the time to change providers for everything every ~2 years, but I'd feel like an idiot if I left thousands of dollars per year on the table. It's a stupid game, and companies are not immune.
I think it really depends on a couple of important variables, including cash flows and company management. Our private equity overlords care mostly about the macro goals that are generally well defined in advance (sales targets, M&A budgets, bonus pool) and our CEO has done this a few times so he has a track record of predictable returns, which is primarily what a PE fund wants, vs the hockey stick growth of VC money.
In this economic climate and especially outside of the US, PE gives you a lot of the benefits of going public without the extra scrutiny and reporting. I've seen several established companies in my industry forgo going public and unlock liquidity via private equity or sovereign wealth funds.
tax evasion is illegal; tax minimization is lowering your tax burden using existing laws and is not illegal.
Governments should reduce the number of unintentional loopholes but (a) it's far easier to pass new laws than amend old ones, (b) if you change a law that an existing big domestic firm or voting block is exploiting they will let you know at the polls; with a new law you can sell it as "balanced fiscal justice - righting a great wrong by making big foreign multinationals pay their fair share!"
I'm definitely not against tax reform, my big concern is the common approach of new taxes as political theater without any honest attempt at simplification, broad application or coordination with other jurisdictions. All this tax is doing is targeting a small, low-vote target that will figure out a complicated way to shift taxable revenue into a different jurisdiction, perpetuating the exact problem it supposedly addresses.
>> places like Twitter and Medium that remain open and free.
WHAT? Perhaps only in the most literal sense of "they don't make you pay money to read", but that's not really what people mean when they talk about open and free...
Microsoft has also demonstrated a far stronger commitment to developers over many decades compared with Oracle, who never sell or promote that far away from the C-suite.
Would you do a 4-hr take-home assignment? What if I gave you a $100 amazon gift card?
There's a big difference between making someone jump through countless, one-sided hoops and asking for a little effort. The challenge IME is finding the balance.
It hurts to quantify it this way, but the pot to fund health care is not bottomless in either a pure public or privately insured system. It needs to be spread across the entire population, and across all of the potential issues an individual may face.
yes - it's relatively cheap when you're youngish (i.e. kids < 20) which is when your family would need it the most. Treat the premiums as a sunk cost (you know, actual insurance) instead of some sort of investment or convertible policy.
Yet another way the market is rigged against the main street investor. Successful founders of this vintage love to build their company on public money, then use their considerable leverage to take the company private after dramatic growth. I wonder if Dell will live long enough to repeat the entire process...
My first reaction was similar to the GP - not sure you can throw out the word "officially" when it refers to something you say you did at 11 years old, unless it's documented or there is some sort of record. When the overall post is how you have nothing to show for it, that's kind of the opposite of official.
Don't really care if people want to measure differently, but IMO what you've done in the past 2 years is way more important than how long you've been doing it. The 15 year old genius I went to university with is now 33 and doing the same mundane things as most salary devs.
Why would someone need to preemptively learn both React and Vue? I can get saying you want to understand how they accomplish their respective roles, but is there an actual (non-crazy) scenario where your core, day-to-day job depends on really knowing both?
Or is that the whole point? Am I erroneously assuming "learn" means really deep knowledge(which for me really digging into any single one of these would be enough) when it means "known enough to pass a job interview when I ladder-up to the next company"?
Agreed - they're not stupid, it's just not their money.
If I can reap the glory of a new stadium, or hosting the Olympics (as my city just narrowly avoided) while you pay the bill for years to come, that's a winning proposition.
What you're describing is how property taxes already work. If the land value rises (however unlikely that is) most property taxes are based on assessed value which would increase your tax bill.
I'm not sure I feel much different across Azure Cosmos and Aws Dynamo. It seems super-easy to get locked into a relatively expensive proprietary offering in each case.