The content of that post is amazingly on point. Anyone looking to build a clientele should follow it.

Thats a frequent opinion that sounds sensible. But when you put some thought into it, you realize that a lot of the electorate are poor uneducated people who did not know better.

Maybe so, it's often said that democracy requires an educated populace. So maybe if you don't have that, you don't have a democracy.

If by unbiased you mean in terms of the bias variance trade-off, and not in terms of "tends to align with beliefs of neither side of the political spectrum," then I'm inclined to agree.

and in the regions most people vote for whichever party drove them to the polling booth in a bus then gave them a sack of food and a gas canister afterwards.

Venezuelan elections have never been fair - there is a lot of vote rigging from all sides

Firing people has an exponential effect.

I believe it has a long-reaching effect, but not "exponential", at least not along any axis I know of.

Does firing 1000 people have a more than 2x effect than firing 500?

Unless by exponential, you just mean "a lot".

Whatever that means.

It means that when you fire one person it affects many more. When you fire 7,500 there are thousands more affected.

Still uselessly vague. Who is affected? How are they affected? How did you determine the effect is exponential as opposed to, say, logarithmic or linear?

I feel this is meant as:

"If you want to present at a big conference, then you must have experience doing smaller conferences or presentations."

You can gain experience by presenting in local meetups, making videos and posting them online, doing short tech talks at your job, etc. Doing those first will net you a lot of valuable skills and experiences.

Still worth reading because ruby is beautiful.

Another vote for ardupilot here. Easy hardware because its an arduino, great community and simple to use.

Some people are able to do it. But most are exaggerating or not doing the exercises. It takes me weeks to properly finish a good technical book due to time constraints. Either way, just do your best and forget about anybody else.

Linus gives the best answer: https://youtu.be/IVpOyKCNZYw

tl;dr: Nvidia, fuck you.

I've been in the game long enough to realize how true this is. Good point. It will certainly make people here defend their sacred choices.

Not everything can or should be well engineered. People that always chase this are worshipping false gods. Does anyone have experience working on something that at one point actually met with the high ideals a certain mindset strives for?

I've worked on enough projects to have covered both sides of the equation. The pristine codebase that belonged on a museum yet took way too much time to ship a feature. The other side of the coin with the codebase that somehow worked (no one knew how) and brought in millions because people would keep piling stuff on top of it. Have also worked with a codebase that started off awfully and was cleaned up enough to reduce the amount of time lost on stupid bugs and and thus increased how effective the team was delivering new features (with a direct financial improvement as a result because sales picked up significantly). It all boils down to finding a balance. Sadly, people confuse technical perfection with a product that works.