adur1990

Hi all, I think the title says it all. I did my PhD last year (in Germany), have been working as a PostDoc for about a year now, but want to get out of the university. The academic path in Germany actually leads inevitably to a professorship, we don't have many alternatives. But I don't want that, because the pressure at the university is just irrationally high. Therefore, I am now looking for work in industry. I've already written a few applications and had a few interviews, but the jobs all seem trivial to me. I know this sounds super pretentious and arrogant, but I want to be more than "just" a software developer or sysadmin. On the other hand, I don't want to stay at university.

On top of that, I have pretty high expectations of my employer. Weapons industry? Automotive company? Banks and insurance companies? Big Tech? No, thanks. I'd rather stay at university.

What did you do after university, if you also got your PhD?

What materials and resources can you recommend for learning Elixir/Erlang?

Elixir seems to be hyped in my community right now because it seems like you can write parallel/concurrent programs quickly and easily. So I wanted to give it a try.

So far I use Python, C and Golang for my applications. So my knowledge of functional languages is limited.

Thanks

Apple today updated the iMac (Pro). Among other changes they also now come with 10th Gen Intel CPUs. The question now becomes if it is a good idea to buy one (or other Macs).

Obviusly, this depends on the situation and use-case. Thus, I will give describe my situation. The company I work for gave me a 13" MBP that has deceng juice to get my work done (mainly writing docx and LaTeX, using SSH for remote access to Linux servers and workstations). And I am also alowed to use it for private purposes, so I also use it for my side-projects (Python and Xcode projects mainly). Now comes the catch. I'm also musician using Logic. And here the MBP struggles having only 4 Cores. So, my plan was to buy an decent iMac and use it for the next 6+ years. I wanted to buy the i9 CPU and 512GB SSD and upgrade the RAM myself. And after all the years, the iMac would be upgradable (to some degree). But these options are now gone, I think. macOS will certainly not be supported for 6+ years (assuming a similar timeline as during the last transition). So if I buy one now, in the near future I will have a really expensive Linux worstation.

And there is also the question if (i)Macs with Apple Silicon will be upgradeable. CPUs surely not, but I am afraid RAM and storage won't be upgradable neither.

So, what is you take on this problem? Would you buy or not? If, why?