Python is also a more transferable skill than Fortran.
I bet that plays some role too in its popularity in the scientific community, which has many young anxious grad students/postdocs looking to ensure they are employable.
One of the more fascinating aspects of these is how smooth the second hand movement is.
Second hands on Quartz jump once / second. This is to lengthen the battery life.
On mechanical watches, they are smoother than Quartz since the escapement releases power multiple times / sec. But still ever so slightly jumpy since power is still released in discrete increments.
Spring Drive is outta this world smooth…it can do this since battery life is not an issue since it’s mechanically generated power that can be rewound…for practical purposes, it is releasing power continuously, see for yourself here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHA5rBQxQc
Paper cash was an innovation to solve the issue that gold is hard to lug around. And very much an analogy of a L2 network
It is arguably easier to counterfeit than gold (there is fools gold too…)
The base layer is very secure. L2s will be faster, but have a trade off of being less secure.
Note: the L2 Lightning Network is different than L2s for ETH like POLY, POLY has its own market cap (garbage idea IMO). Lightning is just a tool to make BTC more efficient
That a whole decade more for people to learn about it, and especially since the main features has not changed. Yes, there are improvements to the protocol, but the main thing has changed little over the years
How could something be worth 440 billion in market cap after a major correction not be valuable?
This is after having a 14 year history of people learning about it, not some scam coin like LUNA that went from zero to 40 billion and to zero in less than 1 year
Bitcoin “crashed” to a market cap of 440 billion USD.
It is valued more than the vast majority of publicly traded companies.
From that measure alone, why should anyone think “it’s dead”?
Bitcoin ain’t tulips, ain’t the pets.com, etc, to think something that is 14 years old and valued at 440 billion is going to die anytime soon seems…so wrong
If feels very very very wrong to compare a search during April 2020 and now.
Why? The year after April 2020 was a booming job market for SWEs. Hiring managers were competing for talent, 2021 was a boom year of low interest rates, euphoria in private and public markets.
This blog post _should not_ be considered a response to the WSJ article.
And sorry, grinding away at leetcode should only take about 2 months tops if you don’t have to worry having to balance leetcode and your job, and not a tall ask for a 250k+ job in tech. if you don’t need that high a salary, smaller companies generally are more lax about leetcode
I, for one, assumed that at least half of HN would agree with you. HN has a skew of people that are pro DDG, but not so much that this is all that contrarian of a view
I bet that plays some role too in its popularity in the scientific community, which has many young anxious grad students/postdocs looking to ensure they are employable.