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  • It's believed that Glassdoor's business model is to charge companies for removing bad reviews. So how much value can the rating provide is questionable in the first place.

    Personally, for big companies, there are always people writing their work experiences on an open platform. For small companies, it's unlikely to find a relevant review, if any, on Glassdoor anyway. So I never bothered to use it.

  • If you are looking at learning CS in a more holistic manner, there's Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!. It's a list of courses, categorized by topics, which are exactly what a CS undergraduate would learn. It might feel daunting at first, but you can pick any interesting topic and dive in.

    I especially recommend CS50P for beginners.

  • One problem with exceptions is composability.

    You have to rely on good and up-to-date documentation or you have to dig into the source code to figure out what exceptions are possible. For a lot of third party dependencies (which constitute a huge part of modern software), both can be missing.

    Error type is a mitigation, but you are free to e.g. panic in Rust if you think the error is unrecoverable.

    A third option is to have effect types like Koka, so that all possible exceptions (or effects) can be checked at type level. A similar approach can be observed in practical (read: non-academic) languages like Zig. It remains to be seen whether this style can be adopted by the mainstream.

  • The interviews revealed that data scientists sometimes get distracted by the latest developments in AI and implement them in their projects without looking at the value that it will deliver.

    At least part of this is due to resume-oriented development.

  • Well, it depends on your definition of truth and it could be the absolute truth by definition. A theorem is absolutely true in the same way that "a bachelor is an unmarried man" is categorically true.

  • Sorry I wasn't being clear. AC is used for connecting within areas of densely populated cities, e.g. British National Grid. If we are talking about really long distances (> hundreds of kilometers), HVDC is indeed preferred.

    I was talking about a trend of some factories replacing AC from power grids (possibility generated in nearby cities) with DC from solar panels on their rooftops. So it's a long distance compared to that.

  • Power grids would mean long distance power transmission, so AC has an advantage. If the point of consumption is near the point of PV generation, DC can and is already being used.

    I know factories with solar panels on their rooftops to cut down power bills and instead of converting to high voltage AC, a custom-built DC power system is used.