I firmly believe that the future is going to be dystopian -- thus I think that techs, especially low-level programming and hardware RE skills are essential.

Where can I find places that value fundamentals AND is willing to hire someone relatively junior, but has the proof of self-teaching fundamentals?

They exist but are rare and don't hire often. I know a guy (self taught programmer) who got his first major a job at a company doing native ui (not even using OS frameworks, straight GPU stuff).

The company does highly complex simulation software used by movie studios for explosions and other effects.

He got hired by word of mouth recommendation from someone at the company that had met him.

It takes as much luck as it takes skill to get these sorts of jobs, sadly.

Thanks! I'm going to grind and network more.

I read the book a few months ago and was shocked by this too.

Agreed. Companies pick Azure because they have already invested in Windows and Office. I have never worked in one company that uses Azure but not Office. They usually buy azure because of the discount.

I wish David Cutler were still the head of Windows NT.

Is there any other alien searching distribution screensaver? It was really interesting watching it do FFT back in the day.

You can say that for games too.

Interesting. I started to do the same since last year, but then realized that my anxiety comes from two sources I couldn’t remove, so I started to look for a different route. Good luck!

US doesn’t really pay back the principle — States usually roll over. So there is a concern that the future batch of US treasury is less reliable. Plus there is also the risk of a depreciating USD.

Side topic: I absolutely hate these large “Allow Ads” screen - you can’t even go back on iPhone Safari , which hides the interface unless the user pulls down the whole page - which you can’t because you can only pull down the Allow Ads page.