Depending on the area of software development then trigonometry, geometry, linear algebra, number theory, combinatorics and probability theory are the most obviously useful. Beyond that I know that there's a close relationship between category theory and functional programming. I'm not familiar with the details of that or whether it's useful in practice or more of an area of theoretical study. I'm sure there's others on HN that know though. Interestingly I used a fair amount of category theory in algebraic topology, but never closed the loop and learned much about the relationship to programming.
Yeah, it seemed pretty balanced and well thought out:
"Ploy for credibility, retreating even deeper into fantasy, pretense of reality, pure fantasy, contained within a world of fantasy, retreating into misinformation-fuelled fantasy world, runaway ego, less palatable, self-soothing fantasy bubble, fake statistics, blown deadlines, litany of bullshit, chronic inability, unprecedented publish delusion or deception, having drawn a poor hand, financial-cognitive nightmare, it’s hard to imagine anyone seriously believing that a night of delusional Disney Adult cringe, too childish to call a fraud, Musk’s increasingly-degenerate gambling run is slouching toward one last big coinflip"
Facts sprinkled with personal interpretation, a normal, albeit not an extraordinary, blog post?
I admire some of the things Elon Musk has made happen, but the guy has obvious ego issues and acts often like a villain from a child superhero movie. If a blog post is "biased, one sided, bullshit" for calling this behavior and all the accompanying unkept promises, what they are, together with some creative words and interpretation, why do we have blog posts in the first place?
Yeah, that's true for the incredible innovation in Neuralink and Paypal and OpenAI and Tesla, too. It's a total coincidence that Jeff Bezos and other billionaires fail.
"Ploy for credibility, retreating even deeper into fantasy, pretense of reality, pure fantasy, contained within a world of fantasy, retreating into misinformation-fuelled fantasy world, runaway ego, less palatable, self-soothing fantasy bubble, fake statistics, blown deadlines, litany of bullshit, chronic inability, unprecedented publish delusion or deception, having drawn a poor hand, financial-cognitive nightmare, it’s hard to imagine anyone seriously believing that a night of delusional Disney Adult cringe, too childish to call a fraud, Musk’s increasingly-degenerate gambling run is slouching toward one last big coinflip"
Some people have a rather unhealthy obsession with Elon Musk, and ought to take a few hours off the Internet and get some sunlight.
It's right around the corner. The evidence that Musk is actually really dumb is riiiiight around the corner. And will continue to be, for a very long time.
His track record for being behind all these mindblowing innovations is off the record, but we don't like his face, so he doesn't deserve any credit for it!
You generally want to avoid getting malware into your network, but it is even more important to avoid allowing for exfiltration of data. So the "copy via USB-stick" serves a purpose and makes it MUCH harder to exfiltrate data.
