100% - I went to Cal, however after spending time in finland I would've been equally happy going to University of Helsinki (which costs pennies on the dollar compared to here), or a myriad of other schools - TU Delft, ATH Zurich, University of Oslo, etc. We're definitely not getting our money's worth here in the bay area anymore, and amongst the severe rise in gun violence, theft, extreme politics - my wife and I are trying to plan the next 20-30 years in places with a strong education system and safety profile like Dubai, Helsinki, etc.
I would love to delve into GNU Radio - but not really sure where to start without a background in communication theory. Should I start by reading a textbook on electronic communication? My background is "EE"CS, with 90% being cs.
I wonder does reading anything at the level of stratechary make any impact? I use to religiously read this blog and matt l.'s 6-8 years ago, then i started growing my family and haven't read it in years - I realized 3 years ago, there was no difference in my life, the trajectory of my career, or my understanding of the tech industry without these blogs. I also have 2 VC friends who say blogs like these waste their time. I always thought I was gaining an alpha by reading these blogs, but going into my 40s, I have yet to see any benefit.
This advice is wrong on so many levels. What gets you promoted is being aligned with your leadership and being easy going. You'll get bonus points if your skip level likes you - it usually makes promotions come quicker. Aside from my time at Google, where technical leadership was valued - being the "go-to" person usually gets you more work for the same pay as others in your level. In fact, the "go-to" person on my current team was taken for a ride, exploited for multiple years, and then sacked in a round of layoffs because he became "difficult" (which he had every right to be for his treatment). My advice to young folks would be to join teams with a history of promotion (very important to ask during interviews) and a low turn over rate.
I question who this article is for - having worked at Qualcomm, they beat you over the head on how their business is built on patents and how they were going to go belly up some 20 years ago had they not pivoted to this model. I can't imagine a single analyst or anyone interested in the company not aware of their business model in the same way it doesn't take long to figure out that Apple is in the business of selling iPhones, mac books, etc.
I would like to point out how awesome it is that someone in high school is making this caliber of a post. I've thought at least a dozen times over the last 20 years how i would like to understand macOS internals, and this person is deconstructing it. well done!
that would make sense - they've reached out to me frequently over the years - seemed a bit desperate. Stopped the interview process the first time after learning what their PM salaries across a couple of levels were from an acquaintance who had recently interviewed there and realized they didn't value engineer's time.
this reminds me the time I was 16 (which is almost 20 years ago), having an interest in communication theory, I somehow ended up on a IEEE journal review list on the topics. I received a paper to review from someone in china, and I bullshitted my way through that review thinking that was the start of my academic career.
maybe i'm getting older (almost 40) - but I spent 5 minutes clicking through links and could not figure out what in the world this is. They need to do a much better job on the documentation front.
Fwiw, I believe the romanticization of advanced mathematics needs to end. I'm 15-20 years out of university, and I had thought I might delve into some specific area of math after graduating. I studied EECS and only took courses in abstract algebra and real analysis. But pursuing further math never materialized for me. Moreover, all of my friends who majored in math transitioned away from it within five years of college. Most became developers, a few became product managers, but I haven't seen anyone maintain or even express an interest in advanced math outside of academia, especially in their 20s and 30s.
n=1 but over my 15 year career I've tried picking up elixir and found it too difficult to learn. I found the syntax hard to read and felt I had to spend 2x more time digesting a similar method than in scala/java (my background). I wish I had picked it up though, being a consultant in elixir seems lucrative and I've received multiple offers to maintain a phoenix/elixir codebase at $150/hr.