One-third of respondents to Nature’s 2022 global graduate-student survey are lukewarm about the value of their current programme. Sixty-six per cent of the PhD and masters’ students who responded think that their degree will “substantially” or “dramatically” improve their job … Read more
It makes you build poorly thought out and potentially wrong things. Your main job is to look for signals from data Based on these signals, you need to set the direction of the tech and product. But, when you are … Read more
Why I don’t use Netscape No, not because I use MSIE. I actually use x-mosaic 2.7b5 (ancient) with delayed image loading and emacs-w3 2.2.26 (text-only, and there certainly are more recent versions). By default, these browsers don’t display images, they … Read more
Everyone says don’t compare yourself to other people. It can be easier said than done. I’m going to run through how I avoid comparing myself to other entrepreneurs and the benefits of this approach. This blog post is partly inspired … Read more
Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act put the U.S. back on track toward significant emissions reductions, potentially reducing greenhouse gas output by 40% of 2005 levels. But one miner warned that when it comes to the transportation sector, domestic … Read more
As we approach limits on our energy, our food and our water due to under-investment, profiteering and short-term planning, the concept of smart technology is being increasingly sold to the public as an answer to these problems. The solution cannot … Read more
A friend of mine works as a janitor in a prominent business area in Oslo. He once told me he felt invisible at work. Lawyers, bankers, consultants, and other people in suits, walk around ignoring him. They treat him as … Read more
I have a handful of “magic” phrases that have made my professional career easier. Things like “you are not your code” and my preferred way to say no: “that doesn’t work for me.” These are tools in my interpersonal skills … Read more
By Macoy Madson. Published on July 24, 2022. In order to effectively write applications that communicate via sockets, there were some realizations I needed to make that weren’t explicitly told to me by any of the documentation I read. If you have … Read more
This is inspired by [1]. Quite frankly, I don’t know why filesystems don’t provide these things. I have read that Windows has a transactional API, but they’ve actually deprecated it! [2] They say it’s because few programs use it. I … Read more