When I was a whippersnapper 15% down was considered pretty low. These days you can get pre-approved with less than 10% down and no validation that your downpayment isn't a loan itself. Kinda crazy.
Why would I tie up funds in a mortgage where I can make more in the market with those funds? Just have to make sure I actually put my funds into the market, heh...
Consumer debt (auto loans/credit cards) spooks me more than corporate debt, since that's the tentpole that's kept up spending with stagnant wages. Auto loans are especially sketchy, it's way too easy to buy a car you can't afford.
I mean XCode has been a terrible experience for a lot of devs (C++ in particular) for years. I completely avoid it, when you need it for a build just invoke it from the command line. Some of the other stuff is tricky to set up outside the UI so you need it, but other than that, XCode is not worth the hassle imo.
Real shame too. I've talked about this with some of their tools team I went to school with. I don't know what's in the water in Cupertino but I don't think Apple devs are getting the same experience out of XCode as their actual users.
IP isn't a tangible asset, so the analogy is unsound.
I think it's improper for someone not using IP or not the original developer of IP to be able to make IP claims. If you didn't develop the tech or aren't using the tech, you shouldn't have any claim over the usage of that tech.
The same goes for "defensive" patent strategies. They're an affront to the spirit of patents.
The whole point of Laplace is to make problems easier to solve by mapping linear differential equations to algebraic equations. To quote my dynamical systems professor, "you learned how to solve this in high school."
There is a bit of hand holding in engineering courses with it however. A lot of looking at transform tables, and maybe a few problems where you need to exploit the properties of the transform or remember its definition to solve a problem. That can trip people up, and it happens in the real world more often than you'd like.
