Software engineering, though interested in generic and specific advice

Care to share more? How much did it cost and was it a sherpa like experience?

Sherpa?

I think they mean "was there someone guiding your trip, or did you do it alone". I have never tried psychedelics, but I've heard its helpful to have people with you, because you can have a "bad trip" where your mind goes into awful places, and having a familiar face nearby can help get you out of that state or ameliorate your symptoms.

Would love to know more about this if you've found any related literature of how this relates to our modern society.

43%, crazy.

For one specific private university. If you consider every state university and College, I expect far more people are impacted by affirmative action

Maybe they meant there’s no VM like w/ Java, so no intermediate bytecode, or no IL like C# iirc

Yes but assembly is an intermediary representation and the OS is not doing any “direct execution”, it’s the CPU that does it.

I would expect a seasoned C++ database developer to be able to understand these nuances.

> Yes but assembly is an intermediary representation

there's certainly a technical difference between assembly and machine code, but it's pretty common to use the word "assembly" by metonymy with the latter

> the OS is not doing any “direct execution”

OSes have native executable formats for which execution most certainly has less steps than executing a .js, a .jar or a .sh, which I would absolutely call "direct execution". The criterion can be defined I would guess as - does the OS / environment need to launch a separate process / specific steps such as setting up an interpreter before getting to the code you want to execute ? but most likely there's a finer distinction to be made.

It is called LLVM, GIMPLE or whatever, depending on the middle layer we are talking about in C and C++ compilers.

Likewise there are JIT and AOT compilers for turning those JVM bytecodes or MSIL into machine code as well, including not shipping a VM rather a runtime.

So it does show a lack of understanding on how compilers work.

I’m sure you know it but in the majority of cases JIT-compiled languages run bare-metal machine code just as well.

> Very few individuals are responsible for key advancements of civilization.

Is this true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_theory_of_invention_and...

Another example is the Finnish education system aiming to raise the floor instead of increasing the ceiling.

I can think of counterexamples in Hungarian mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

A lot of them knew each other growing up, but you could argue they would've succeeded anywhere.

If this question were more carefully explored I think it'd do a lot for the author's argument as a whole.

This is exactly the argumentation I would love to see as well. It would be very interesting to compare scientific achievement coming out of Finland compared to, say, Alabama which is the first state to cross 5M people and thus comparable in population. Of course, I'm sure that analysis would be plagued by what subjectively counts as achievement.

Also, I was loose with my words. I didn't really mean few as in you could actually count the individuals. I meant more along the lines of the 1% of the population that has a PhD and at least making some minor contribution to academia.

The people that replied are likely software engineers and likely high earners in a very employee favored market.

It's true that it varies by employer.

Here are average numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm

The average is just one week a year (two weeks a year past 15 years of work), well below world average.

I'm an experienced developer looking to dabble in some of the tracks you offer.

What's the best way to determine if this is a fit for me?

Email admissions@lambdaschool.com.

Admittedly we're mostly built for folks trying to break into tech right now, but will be modularizing and offering different segments in the near future.

I’d be really interested in filling in some gaps that I have.

I’m self-taught, but I definitely have some gaps in the algorithm side of things.