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How has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the students buying it - and is it matching reality at the end of the course? It’s hard to get a feel from the continuous pendulum swing of “it’s dead” to “it’s better than ever”. As much as I am scared with my own career, I am worried about my nephews’. What advice to give them, when all their life I have advocated for CS as a fulfilling career choice? P.S. I have pivoted to best time to be solopreneur. “But what about uni then?”

Say if your AI tool of choice is saving x hours of your 8 hour work day, i.e. you are doing your work in 8-x hours per day (guessing at the same salary) - how are you claiming those x hours back? I haven't seen that many conversations on how this is ultimately benefiting the employee who is expected to fill that void by pulling in more from the queue. The general direction of conversation is how soon will the inevitable x==8 materialize eliminating the employee's employment.

In the interim, would you rather:

1. Pull in more work from the queue. 2. Invest in picking up a new skill. 3. Leave work early to spend more time with loved ones.

P.S.

Just kidding with the 8 hours, 10-12 are probably makes it real - despite the progress, we are probably the most overworked humans in history trying to keep up with speed of light.

Moving from a condo in the city to a single family in the burbs with a one year old during the pandemic has been both overwhelming and humbling. For the last 2.5 years while failing to optimize time and money across different projects, I have missed a system that has the following features: - Task based workflow - Calendar/Reminder - Contact management - price/quote management - Expense tracking - notes/wiki for howto, planning, research - Document management

I think having offline and remote/mobile access is invaluable as you are rarely in front of a terminal while taking care of such projects. Self-hosted would be ideal, primarily because of sensitive information, but also because I’m not sure how the needs evolve over period of time - for example, sometimes you have high setup cost (complexity/cost) but then with the systems in place, the effort needed reduces considerably.

So far, I have been doing it with notion, but the drawbacks are obvious. I was thinking of looking into open source erp systems, but felt like I am chasing tool vs having a disciplined approach - so wanted to see what(spreadsheet, markdown on git, notion etc.) are you using to track and ship long/short term projects at home?

Moving from a condo in the city to a single family in the burbs with a one year old during the pandemic has been both overwhelming and humbling. For the last 2.5 years while failing to optimize time and money across different projects, I have missed a system that has the following features: - Task based workflow - Calendar/Reminder - Contact management - price/quote management - Expense tracking - notes/wiki for howto, planning, research - Document management

I think having offline and remote/mobile access is invaluable as you are rarely in front of a terminal while taking care of such projects. Self-hosted would be ideal, primarily because of sensitive information, but also because I’m not sure how the needs evolve over period of time - for example, sometimes you have high setup cost (complexity/cost) but then with the systems in place, the effort needed reduces considerably.

So far, I have been doing it with notion, but the drawbacks are obvious. I was thinking of looking into open source erp systems, but felt like I am chasing tool vs having a disciplined approach - so wanted to see what(spreadsheet, markdown on git, notion etc.) are you using to track and ship long/short term projects at home?

2023 has been like trying to capture sand in your fist. Before my two year old wakes up, thought of planning out what should the goals and objective of my next quarter look like around health, wealth and wisdom. This is much easier at work - where we have defined areas of focus. But overwhelmed when trying to capture rest of life - I end up doing todo list, and have panic attacks at the sheer amount of stuff not done. Reviewing Cal Newport's framework and Tim Ferris's fear setting. Any practical tips?

A (scrum) story is often written in the form "As a <usertype>, I would like <feature request>, so that <benefit>". Spec by example is written in the format Given <condition>, When <condition>, then <condition>. These are effective formats for capturing complex concepts.

I was wondering if anyone has tried some standardized format that maximizes comprehension of emails or longer async communication in an organization. In a previous (big) organization that I used to work, massive email threads would continue for weeks. More and more distribution groups would start getting added as dependencies were discovered trying to address knowledge gap. Often to make any sense you would have to read bottom up to even understand if it needed your immediate attention/action.

I'm not trying to understand how slack or its clones are solving this problem. Rather looking for any reference of message exchange format for humans that maximizes comprehension.

(a) contributing to open source projects. long term disciplined approach, takes time to get evaluation (b) ship a real product. too many environmental parameters, takes time to get evaluated (c) participate in coding competitions. These tend to test your algorithm chops, and less of system design. But accurate results. (d) be generous about recruiter requests. show up for interviews without doing much interview prep (like practicing problems cracking coding interviews). but quick and fast evaluation. This gets very hard when you don't work remotely. (e) exact opposite to (d). be picky about interviews, prepare a lot for an interview. (f) attend conferences, hackathons. time consuming and may be costly and not sure how effective it is. (g) read some classic cs books cover to cover. no accurate measure

What do you do regularly to evaluate if you are getting better?