izzym's comments

Very surprising that a few are passing judgement, although there is no thesis in the article!, how would someone judge without actually reading a thesis?

It can be done, there are many people out there who did part-time PhDs in similar situations. Shame to see some claiming it can't be done or impossible!

Typical one-size-fit-all judgement, bigotry, similar to making a statement like 'All VW cars are polluting'!

> This isn't a UK PhD, at least it's not up to the standard of any rational UK PhD I've ever seen.

How do you judge without reading the thesis?, there is no thesis in the article.

> No one can do a part-time PhD; it's just so much work

You can't generalise, not everyone is the same, some people have the capacity and capability to put all in. There are part-time PhDs and there are many people who completed part-time PhDs whilst working full-time. Oxford University and many others top institutions offer part-time PhDs, it's possible and doable https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/part-time-a...

> PhD with basically no research with one publication Publications usually take a while to get through the review process, many be there are many in the pipeline, how do you know?

> Looking at his thesis and publication he's done none of the above.

There is no thesis in the article!, it's very hard to judge without reading the thesis.

> A US PhD is like a UK PhD plus a postdoc No comment, I'm quite sure this debate has taken place in many forums https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-compare-pursuing-a-PhD-in-E...

And of course if you have to attend classes, it will be difficult doing it part-time.

> Being around them will make you much smarter and more capable in ways that are intangible but obvious in retrospect.

As part time you can still meet those smart people at the university or by attending conferences.

I think the problem I'm reading in the comments that Lambdas have a 1.5 GB max memory, which is a constraint for some use-cases

BigQuery is well and truly amazing, zero upfront setup or infrastructure. You ur Query & BigQuery that is it

I agree, most of it is accumulation over the years

Very structured and lots of meaningful analogies. I didn't know that AWS had so many storage services!. And you are right AWS console feels like a marketing dashboard, so far I've only ever clicked on 3 icons, never looked at the other 30 or so