moat is in institutional knowledge of operations in ride hailing industry.
Also, pleasing the customer, imagine opening Waymo app and not being able to order a taxi 40% of the time. With Lyft/Uber you can easily switch the ride mode and get a car with driver if all self driving cars are busy
what advantages does swift offer over go/rust/js/java for server side programming? I always presumed the advantages of swift were native code compilation + top tier integration w/the apple ecosystem.
I don't think people care about its relation to Apple, they care about the language ecosystem, roadmap and evolution that were shaped by Apple's needs for iOS and macOS before there was a real attempt at making Swift more general purpose and multi-platform. And now that it's somewhat there, there are better options in almost every dimension.
I have a few personal and professional Swift on server projects, in the wild and in the works. Code reuse is a big win – we can ~easily expose functionality of our client apps to other systems. Familiarity is another – there's an ocean of iOS (and, to a lesser extent, macOS) developers out there who are familiar with Swift. With a little bit of coaching, they can pretty quickly get up to speed with how services work.
It reminds me a lot of what it was like to ship Node.js software 15 years ago – the ecosystem is still young, but there are enough resources out there to solve 95% of the problems you'll face.
In my experience, writing Swift for the backend feels a lot like writing TypeScript, but nicer — though that’s just a personal preference. You get the performance of a compiled language like Rust (though that’s rarely a bottleneck for backend applications), but Swift is significantly easier than Rust and has much faster compile times.
i feel like this is being blown way out of proportion. learning git is never the bottleneck to becoming a software engineer, and it doesn't take longer than an hour to grasp the basics.
CS majors should learn it just by messing around with projects, but I don't see why an otherwise great candidate couldn't learn it very quickly
This is the nuance that people aren't able to understand anymore - something happened when the Internet came out, and we've never been the same.
The OP was just surprised that people don't know git, and indicated that he wouldn't hire a junior engineer who didn't know git, but, there's very likely nuance to this, and I don't think that one person's personal preference necessarily needs to be discussed and debated extensively on Twitter, HackerNews, etc.
In my opinion, git is a very popular tool, and lots, and lots of people use it - and it only takes 15-30 minutes to learn the basics - for this reason, I think that it is fair to be surprised that someone doesn't know it.
It's worth noting that the person who said that they'd only hire junior developers who know git isn't the President of the United States or anything, and can absolutely make their own hiring decisions.
It's perfectly reasonable to make your own hiring decisions, IMO, and asking people to know git, or the fundamentals of version control seems totally fair, IMO.
If people are willing to spend a few weeks solving leetcode problems, or answering mock interview questions, I feel like they could absolutely spend 15-30 minutes learning how to use git.
1) he represented openAI at APEC just yesterday. what happened in 24 hours that would cause such a drastic decision.
2) generally, even when a board fires a CEO, they rarely "call them out" or say what they did wrong. they must have some extremely strong evidence against him.
i think it could be any of the following:
- something personal, i.e. the controversy w/his sister
- a financial issue: chatgpt stopped signups a couple of days ago
- a safetyist coup: maybe the board thought he was moving to fast
- a microsoft coup: microsoft used its power to knock out what they perceived to be their biggest threat
What fits best is Sam signing a contract for military use of OpenAI. With secrecy clauses, he couldn’t mention it. He likely could not tell the two foreigners on the exec team.
Eric Schmidt would likely know about it, and defend Sam. Sam would likely think the use is legitimate and not be ashamed of it (like he might with your suggestions).
Not OP, but California Air Resource Board gives a significant rebate and I know if you live in the Central Valley you can get another rebate. That's 10k+ from the state alone up to 120k income for a family of 4. Our local utility also paid for a home charger($500) and $500 towards installing the charger. Our utility also put a second meter on our power for the charger that costs a reduced rate to charge with.
I really hope this works. Siri is essentially useless except for very small commands like "Call X", and even if X is a clear and unique name sometimes it messes it up. Apple is miles behind google and alexa :/
can you be more specific in how letting qualified doctors and engineers from other countries (doesn't even have to be third world, a lot of british doctors would move here given their starting salary of 30k) will turn us into a third world country?
also, the wage argument doesn't make sense because rural doctors earn more than urban doctors due to the low desirability of the location, and despite med schools specifically selecting for students who are willing to become rural doctors, they still cannot find enough doctors to fill those spots.
(https://medrecruit.medworld.com/articles/how-much-do-rural-d...)
its also concerning that the reason you decided to oppose immigration was not for a tangible reason, but because wall street supports it. seems like contrarianism run amok. did you become a communist because wall street supports capitalism?
Immigrants from poorer countries will do anything for a buck. It becomes a race to the bottom. As long as conditions here don't get worse than where they came from they'll be happy. But for us, its just down, down down in terms of quality of living.
If rural hospitals need to pay doctors even more than so be it. I want that job going to an American.
Is it concerning because I don't care about what society thinks? Is it concerning that I don't care about getting an attaboy (e.g. karma) for towing society's latest groupthink?
"Immigrants from poorer countries will do anything for a buck. It becomes a race to the bottom. As long as conditions here don't get worse than where they came from they'll be happy. But for us, its just down, down down in terms of quality of living."
would you be open to mass immigration from europe and east asia, in that case? some of the countries have even higher standards of living, so logically those immigrants will demand better and raise our standards of living. Also, most cities like san diego, miami, dallas, atlanta etc have all become safer, cleaner, and the QoL has increased dramatically from 30-40 years ago. These cities have all become increasingly immigrant populated relative to 30-40 years ago, many of these immigrants coming from latin america or asia.
"If rural hospitals need to pay doctors even more than so be it. I want that job going to an American."
the crux of the issue is that there literally aren't enough american doctors. med schools giving recruitment preferences to doctors willing to work in rural areas + a much higher salary + a much lower COL still aren't enough to attract american doctors there. I don't know what magical solution you have to make thesecommunities desirable destinations but I am all ears.
"Is it concerning because I don't care about what society thinks? Is it concerning that I don't care about getting an attaboy (e.g. karma) for towing society's latest groupthink?"
no? There are many valid arguments to heavily restrict immigration, largely based on middle class incomes and cultural attrition, i just don't see how any of those apply to doctors in rural areas. and i was responding to how you openly admitted that you dislike it because wall street likes it. seems like a bad way to approach policy!
