Especially when you see the price

You can still vote in the state you are domiciled in (and you have to be domiciled in some state when overseas as a citizen), even when overseas.

I'd recommend establishing that in a swing state.

OR it encourages people to walk to transit which ALSO has positive side health benefits.

My personal favorite is that SQLite has only gotten to version 4

I have no idea what's going on but Apple is an extremely top down place. Its entirely possible that Apple pivots on a dime after the departure of the baffoon.

It has an extremely volatile profile. You might as well stick your money in the SP 500 and call it is a currency.

It does go down by double-digit percentages from time to time though, which is really inconvenient if you want to, say, buy a house today or tomorrow.

There's a reason people still use USD, EUR etc. and not fractional ETFs to pay and get paid.

And when it goes down the answer is to buy the dip. If you have funds needed for other things, they should be in lower-risk investments. As people get older, they should be moving large amounts of equities into bonds to lock in their gains.

There is a reason people still have things like checking and savings accounts and CDs.

> If you have funds needed for other things, they should be in lower-risk investments.

That’s exactly my point.

Gemini is really great now. Fast is insanely fast and handles 90% of queries. Deep Research works better than OpenAI's deep research given their search expertise.

It is going to be very hard for OpenAI or Microsoft to compete with this now that Google has gotten their act together.

That’s the joy of not having to compete, your stuff is just there.

Microsoft has a problem that they hire the middle block of talent in the market. They do not chase the top 20% most expensive nor the bottom 20% least expensive.

But this also means they end up with average products. They don't have the talent to do something exceptional.

This has worked well for them when they can just come in and copy something (say AWS in Azure) and not pay the innovation cost, but AI seems different for some reason, perhaps in the same way search was. You need the top 20% in order to really be successful.

That’s exactly what happened. For the past decade, the crème de la crème went to Google and Meta, which offered nearly double what Microsoft paid new graduates. Microsoft hired the next tier, after the top talent had already been skimmed off by Google and Meta.

Intel/AMD hired 2 tiers below MS. Intel's "great place to work" corporate propaganda was known as "Great place to leetcode" by engineers there.

this is just not true. Building great products with average talent is a sign of great management, and it's been done before in both business and sports. moneyball is about this idea at some level.

Plenty of SV is building below average products with exceptional talent.

> Building great products

This is where they are failing.

> Plenty of SV is building below average products with exceptional talent.

Yes, you can hire exceptional talent and give them poor directions, resulting in poor products.

But to hire mediocre talent and still produce competitive products you must have an unfair advantage of some sort. The Windows and Office monopolies gave Microsoft that unfair advantage. But it is becoming clear that this unfair advantage does not extend to AI.

> Microsoft has a problem that they hire the middle block of talent in the market. They do not chase the top 20% most expensive nor the bottom 20% least expensive.

This is such a BS attitude. A person’s ability doesn’t map directly with their salary.

The very best developers I’ve ever worked with? Small companies outside of major cities (for life style reasons). Not everyone is trying to max their income; some want a good job doing something they love.

Small companies can offer more meaningful impact, if you’re not the type who likes being a tiny cog or commanding armies.

You are coping. Overwhelmingly the quality of developers is reflected in their pay packages. Overwhelmingly most people are motivated by money/benefits/QOL/GPUs.

This attitude is how you maximize your TC.

> You are coping.

This is an amusing response. I personally have chased the TC (to an extent), climbed the ladder, and sit at the top (below the c-suite). This isn’t cope, it’s a genuine reflection based on many years of experience having worked for multinationals in various countries.

Perhaps compensation should be a reflection of ability, but the real world is far more nuanced.

Sure, but Microsoft isn't attracting those devs either.

The only time they copied something successfully and did not rely on major tie-ins with their existing monopoly was Xbox and that division lost money hand over fist for a long time.

> Microsoft has a problem that they hire the middle block of talent in the market. They do not chase the top 20% most expensive nor the bottom 20% least expensive.

That's only if you're only looking at the top 10% or w/e of the market in the first place. New grad software engineer salaries at MS are higher than the median software engineer salary in the US.

Is he related to Cofefe?

Covfefe? http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e

C'mon. The language was like something born in Hogwart's. Magic spells, incantations. It lost because it was not an easy language to learn - and others were (in particular Python) - while being just as powerful.