mostly a circlejrk with other hunters fake reviewing a product they haven't used and half of these things will be dead in a year. everything about PH screams fake.
As someone with a STEM degree who enjoyed taking online classes at a CC during their 20s in Art History, I wouldn't call it a waste of time; it's brought me more joy, balance, and a feeling of well-roundedness than I had contributing to os projects.
I've always wondered - is there a way that we can decouple liberal education from technical skill building in the US university system? Because I absolutely agree that people crave and need the joy and balance that you describe, but currently its being held hostage to the price of at least 10k a year! Its so sad, I would kill for affordable, offline liberal education. The instructor doesn't even need to be elite (in fact I would prefer that she/he were not!), they just need to have a cool format.
True, I believe it does lead to a well rounded individual to study the arts and humanities, but with the cost of a college degree, the ROI on those courses ($900 per course) is not worth the investment.
applied STEM will pay off for the investment. I still take college courses online after my Masters in CS. I really enjoy learning about humanities and arts at a cheaper CC during my free time.
In all seriousness, I agree with you. However, I think some degrees are borderline "hobby-tier" - They're cool, but not very useful outside of personal enjoyment.
I dunno - looks fairly representative of the Silicon Valley population demographic. Maybe not so much an issue with this company?
I notice (as usual) under-representation of women. But that's endemic to the industry.
To an extent I agree that most startups are made up of Caucasians/Chinese males, I think one of the reasons I left tech professionally is because I didn't feel comfortable/enjoy the lack of diversity.
fwiw my best friends are SE Asian (not Chinese), white, black, and Mexican. I didn't feel this photo is as equally representative of that diversity. I'm not making a case it has any obligation to do so, just noting that it impacted my decision to not apply here a while ago.
If it had people of different color of skin but all men, would that bother you (no women)?
Or if it had different color of skin but all of them were Christian? ( no other religions)
Or different color of skin but all Canadians would that bother you? (No other nationalities)
As a European I am much more used to diversity meaning national or religious diversity. Still getting used to this notion of it mainly been used in the context of skin color in US.
Having gone through my twenties and seen many bright cs grads fail at starting a business, I think the best option is to find a role where upward movement is attainable every couple of years and attrition is relatively low. I cannot tell you how envious I am of people who did worse than me in college but are DevOps managers or app sec managers.
I wanted to add a response here for every aspirational algotrader: you can lose a lot of money very quickly. I hobbied in algotrading through my twenties, learned a lot more than I expected too, worked out the math, and made $600 in a matter of 15 minutes on my first day before losing $1000 the same day. That's when I decided to pull the plug. I already knew that it would be more profitable finding contracting gigs then inevitably writing off 100s of hours I spent researching, doing the math, and coding over the years, but decided I would regret it if I never tried.
That's right, I don't advise anyone to invest more than what you're comfortable losing: besides making dumb decisions even such things as an innocuous gap in your test coverage can lead to losing everything you have in a zap. In my opinion there's also no need for margin account right away. Focus on paper trading and only invest a few hundred bucks in real account just to get the feeling of it and to realize what are the little things that paper trading misses.
I'll try to maintain my cousins' anonymity while stating this: both of them are literally the best in the world at their passion (think Olympic athlete, math Olympiad, Rhodes Scholar, etc.) What's their secret? Their mom/my aunt swear by hypnosis. On a side note, their passion is not lucrative, it always saddens me to see them have such a drive yet not achieve anywhere close to their earning potential.
I wouldn't know since I haven't really prodded them on the details. I wouldn't want to give any advice on something I don't know too much about, I'm sorry!
For the last 3.5 years I've worked 100% remotely- an answer which I'm surprised isn't showing up more is: wherever my parents are. I got to spend my mid to late twenties seeing them daily and I'm fortunate for it every day. My girlfriend and I have an apartment on the other side of town and we were happy with the decision. The only way it could've been more ideal is if we could've gone back to our home country, but both of us are starting med school, hopefully, one day.
