[listenallyall]

This reads like a pretty "wet-behind-the-ears" professional who doesn't know what he doesn't know.

> There's no Java awfulness like ... instead it's just `cars = []`

I mean, there's very good reasons for static typing. And if he was using Kotlin, he could specify whether the variable `cars` was itself immutable and whether the list was immutable (`val/var cars : List<String>/MutableList<String>`

> notebooks

yea, Jupyter kernels exist for almost every language. This is not a Python advantage.

> debugging

Good IDEs have the ability to set breakpoints, inspect variables, test methods, etc.

> type hints

"oh, forget what I said earlier about how Java had ugly boilerplate, now I have an `import` and a type def after all" - except nothing here is actually enforced

> parallelism

parallelism is relative... a lot of compiled JVM code will run much faster than Python to start with, and even with `multiprocessing`, Python won't catch up (and JVM languages have their own concurrency solutions, of course)

> I've put a large chunk of my money in leveraged index funds and etfs.

Written by a person who's never seen the slightest hint of a bear market, or rising interest rates. That's ok, you wouldn't be the first smart person to be seduced by leverage: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/myron-scholes.asp

> Stimulants like caffeine, adderall, and modafinil are magic... People do stay on adderall and modafinil indefinitely

Look, I'm no doctor (and I'm aware I'm out of the loop on things like this), but mental & concentration stimulants are the kinds of things associated with old people, not recent graduates.

[tomnipotent]

This is an oddly snarky response to someone just sharing their experience, but you seem to be reading it matter-of-factly. She's upfront about having just graduated, and having 2-years of experience with a math background and not a CS background.

She clearly covered a lot of good ground in that time, and even took the time to write a 6000+ word article.

[dawndrain]

Certainly lots of things to learn still.

Going point by point:

It's not "he" it's "she".

I don't think it's controversial that you can be much more concise with python. My experience first learning Java was that everything was 2-3x as verbose as in python. The difference is smaller if you're using type hints in python, but it's still more concise.

I talked about repl's/notebooks for other languages. They're still an especially great tool for python/data science since they make it very easy to visualize data and share analyses.

I played around with breakpoints in pycharm and I don't think it would work for me. You need to run your code from pycharm in debug mode for the breakpoint to trigger, whereas I always run things from the command line or a notebook.

I believe you that there are times when python is slower. At least it's not noticeably slower when simply calling C behind the scenes or when you're i/o blocked anyway.

Re investing, I mean, everyone has seen phenomenal returns since they were born: this century is unprecedented. Also there was the pandemic crash very recently, so everyone has experienced an extremely harsh (albeit brief) bear market too. LTCM was like 100x-leveraged, which I would not advocate for, since you'll almost certainly get wiped out if you hold that position for more than a few hours...

Eh, lots of kids have add, and like 10% of college students used adderall in 2016 according to the first hit on google. In any case they've been magic for me the few times I've tried them e.g. working 12+ good hours in a day.

[dhanna]

It’s magic because you have no tolerance. That goes away after a few weeks of continuous use.

[hazbot]

True, but that didn't stop me from finding parts interesting, and just generally enjoying the earnestness.

[int_19h]

Modafinil is literally known as "the Wall Street drug", and it's not because the old people there use it.