Switched networks built up out of segments, ever heard of those ?

Before a week ? Before the sun has set, you mean...

One more incentive to the US to turn towards renewable energy sources. The USA are lagging way behind western and northern European countries in that respect. Last week e.g. the Dutch railways announced that from next year on, 100% of their operations will run on electric power from renewable sources, mainly wind, bought from a total of 5 north west European countries ( DE, DK, BE, NO, NL ).

Other countries than the US do not only count better, but more and more other countries are beginning to count more....

A colleague of mine ( who has an animal nickname BTW, we call him "Bokito", you may wanna google that ) has a great poster on his whiteboard, with a picture of a treadmill on it: "This is what a career ladder looks like". 'Nuf said.

Plankalkül, with an Umlaut on the "u"....

All the security personnel get to see will be the outlines of obese / overweight / fat American inmates, malnourished by a decades-long diet of corn-syrup-based beverages and saturated fatty acids, as the USA underclass is wont to consume. I pity the prisons' security personnel.

Not only great science. Great and sound engineering, also. The document behind the second link has visibly been written by good engineers, who understand their trade. Remember the old tongue-in-cheekish adagium: "without engineering, science would be only philosophy"....

Now I know where my manager spends her holidays....

Granted, it does not say "interpreted" on that page. Hence the "walks like...looks like... quacks like" analogy. In that sense, Java is "interpreted" as well, although a bytecode interpreter. The interesting thing about Julia is the assembler code generated after the first run of any routine: its performance is compared with that of later runs, and after a couple of runs you can see incredible performance gains.

Karl Popper, "Objective Knowledge", in order to make you understand what the dangers of induction and inductive reasoning are.

John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior", a brain-trainer that will leave you, after having read it, much more induced to first simulate, then code !

Peano, "Calcolo Geometrico", containing his famous axioms for Boolean algebra. There is a good translation from the year 2000 by Kannenberg, titled "Geometric Calculus"

Leslie Lamport, "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" -- you will never think the same again about synchronization and time-related problems....

And so on. All classics from the 20th century, giving the necessary background in computing and logics fundamentals that I so often miss in today's fresh graduates. The oldest text, by Peano is even from 1888, but still actual today !

Source: wikipedia entry on "Julia programming language", called on May 15, 08h56m CEST

Walks like an interpreted language, looks like an interpreted language, quacks like an interpreted language... could it be an interpreted language ?

is also the back end behind the Julia Programming Language, and its thoughtful use by the Julia guys has made that language blindingly fast as compared to R, Matlab, Python etc. etc., while still "officially" being an interpreted language. So yes, why not ?

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@Wisecat I think the answer upon both your questions is "yes". The trick, in the first question, would IMHO lie in "selling" yourself. And two major ingredients of that magic soup would be enthusiasm, as well as "honing" your CV for the vacancy. I don't mean outright lying, though. But one can always ask what a HR person, what a recruiting manager really wants to read and wants to see. Often, they are like children: if they whine for a chocolate, then give them a chocolate - or convince them there is chocolate in what you are about to give them. The results can be.... interesting.

And yes, specializing in one language would be a good idea, especially at the point where you are now. ADA would be a bit risky, though having the potential to land you that great technical computing job. In your case, I would dive deeply into C++ and the more advanced programming concepts. I did with Java, and it made me break through, what with barriers, semaphores, locks, lock-free waiting, queueing, concurrent programming, dependency injection etc. etc. The chance I got was a job opening asking for exactly that, and I had prepared for such a chance exactly by specializing. Remember: luck does not simply come to you out of the blue. You prepare for luck to hit, creating the conditions for it to manifest itself. And then - a "jack-of-all-trades" could very well grow bold and sell himself as an assistant project manager, a configuration manager, or a technical product owner. You might want to think "up", think different.

However - here is an offer. I have changed jobs so often that I have grown an eye for CVs. My email address is above this post. If you want me to take a look at your CV, just ping me.