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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

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12 Dec 20

In the industry, people are moving en-masse to Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript and Go. Like if you look around at product companies, 75~80% new things are written in these.

Yet we are still teaching Python/JS/C/Java to beginners. This is creating a bit of a problem here. Read on.

When I use `?:` or `?.let { } ` type of syntaxes in Kotlin it comes so naturally to me, because of my years spent in Java, understanding the null-safety problems, and the long chunks of code to work around them, that these 'feel' idiomatic.

For beginners, it is very different.

As someone who as been teaching programming and onboarding developers at bigger teams I see -

Those who have made websites in JS being put into large TS projects
Those who are still grasping Java being put into Kotlin projects (android or backend)
Php/Django folks starting Go

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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

@championswimmer

11 Dec 20

Gatekeeping happens in weird ways, and most of us just fall for it.

For example - lot of people have forced themselves to "like" alcohol, when initially they didn't like the taste, just to as to "blend in" with the cool crowd.

The "acquired taste" thing is scam.

And especially in the tech community and developers/programmers there are a bunch of similar fads.

- real devs use dark mode IDE
- real devs use vim to edit
- real devs use mechanical keyboards
- real devs do not use mouse.

All that is crap ok

I do not know if the following are enough to make me a real dev

- worked on custom kernels back in 10th grade
- made libraries downloaded > 50k/day
- mentored 5k+ android and nodejs devs personally

All of this using GUI editors, light themed IDEs, chiclet keyboards and mouse.

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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

@championswimmer

26 Oct 20

I never thought too highly of teaching as an activity or profession before I started doing it myself. There are teachers whom I deeply loved and respected though, and it always was for being "guiding" figures rather than for being great teachers of their subjects.

Thread 🧵👇

The formal education system in India isn't the most conducive to produce great teachers for a bunch of reasons

1. No real performance evaluation in govt education instt
2. Too low pay and little care taken of in private ones
3. Investment into their learning is nil
4. Infra

As a result, we all growing up, have more stories of THAT "incompetent" teacher in school, whose own grammar was bad, or THAT teacher in college who never came to class.

Also as students, teachers are our favourite punching bags. Which is, ok fine, as long as it isn't toxic.

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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

@championswimmer

17 Oct 20

Ok weekend thread 🧵 time 👉

Since college days, I have launched 4 products (2 fail + 2 sold), started up thrice (1 failed, 1 sold, 1 running), lead a team at a $1B+ startup and worked as lead engineer at a Fortune 100 giant

Here are some learnings (tech/management/product)👇

Everything is a people problem. Always. 100% of the time. It isn't the code, the market, the product fit, the idea, the money. None of that.

BUT BUT BUT, do not blame 'a person' for it. That's a cop out. Fix it structurally, in the process, so it isn't repeated.

The single short term fix for 99.99% problems is money.

From cofounder problems to team bandwidth, to bad code. More money can stop a leaving cofounder from leaving, let you hire more people, or scale your server 10x.

It is a bandaid. Fix it properly eventually though.

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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

@championswimmer

16 Oct 20

@rahulsharma

I have worked at Micromax before, personally with @rahulsharma too, when we launched @YUplaygod

It was exciting because we wanted to launch a product based on the merits of the product (price, features, style) and not just "nationalism" as a feature.

https://twitter.com/Micromax__India/status/1316998886918029312

@Micromax__India

And I have no grudge against @Micromax__India or @rahulsharma for the new brand "inMobile", because I have seen this man being able to impeccably pick out gaps in market for features and at unimaginable price points, and I would love to see "truly" made in India hardware more.

@Micromax__India

But it is sad that we are ready to skimp over pricing and quality of products and simply use "nationalism" as a feature to ship products.
This is exactly the opposite of what globalisation and liberalisation was all about. Heck even @Micromax__India wouldn't exist without that

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Arnav Gupta😷 💉◾💉□

@championswimmer

22 Aug 20

I have been teaching #FullStack #WebDevelopment for over 5 years, and taking interviews for #FullStack developers for over 3 years now.
Here is a tiny thread 🧵 for aspiring #Developers 👇

1. 📜 Take up frontend first, easier to see results. Take up backend later

I personally learnt #NodeJS to support my #Android work, and later got into #Frontend. But if I only had to be a web developer, I'll redo it with frontned first.

2.💡 Focus on basics before frameworks. Framework ninjas with 0 in basics get thrown out in interviews

It is nothing short of depressing how many people cannot even start making a simple project with #react or #vue scaffolding. Don't be that guy.
DOM events, semantic HTML ftw!

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