All of the money you are spending on your one hour therapy sessions should be reallocated to hiring cleaning staff to clean your home. It will help your mental health more than a bad quality reaffirmer ever will
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honestly I don't like Indian culture at all. I just don't get it. Not, like the lore. That's awesome. Or Indians outside of India. But anytime I interact with Indians (from the Indian subcontinent) online I just.. don't get it. The behavior is just default performative
Like chinese? Love them. Israelis? I get it. Brazilians? Kkk huehuehue. Russians? Kotl give me mana. But Indians? They just really annoy me. Like I know you're not supposed to judge people by their group but.. lame. Not Indians outside of India but like Indians from india
I realize this is an insane thing to tweet but i get why so many honest hard working Indian folks really, really want to leave India
I'm really good at what I do. One of the things about becoming actually, truly, really good is that you can parse out when other people are good. Strangely, I learned that age, experience, education, has nothing to do with being really good
it's just all over the place
talent, talent is all over the place. i can spot a guy from a foreign country, from the pattern of his posts, his profile, the way he understands things. it has nothing to do with anything but just talent. its clarity
my two biggest formative moments were
- working with an experienced principal eng, and realizing there was nothing different between me and him
- working with an intern that had clarity of thought, and realizing there was nothing different between me and her
I'm benefiting greatly from google's open source software yet again, and honestly, I'm not even sure it's a good idea for them to open source this much of the sauce. The value that I can just.. git clone into my server.. it's astounding. It's worth millions of dollars to me
I don't mean "millions of dollars" in a hypothetical sense. I mean it literally. Because of open source code that google has put out, I will make millions of dollars. It would have been possible without, but it would have taken me 3 months to get to where i am instead of 1 week
This could be hyperbole might be a smaller version of one of those transformer moments. It takes time for the bureaucratic mass to understand what is extremely valuable, and that time is much longer than it takes for the researchers to just open source it
I got fired today. I'm not sure why, I personally don't think there is a reason, or that it's important.
When I joined twitter, I joined because of the engineers I met in SF. They seemed happy. They were having fun. Engineers at play. Engineers that were enabled. It was good!
They seemed competent. They spoke clearly. They didn't make things up. They told me why they worked there. One of them said: "this is the only place where I can work with this scale"
The scale. The scale is just absurd. 1m qps shit makes your eyes bleed. Pagers, pagers, pagers!
I was ambivalent to joining before I visited. I had dingboard, and it was growing fast. For me, it was a little adventure. But after meeting those engineers, I wanted to go back.
You can take the boy out of big tech
But its hard to take the big tech out of the boy
i actually don't think you could cheat the interview i give with AI. like it's laughably easy; it's something that you would have programmed yourself if you ever needed to write a tool to make a chart of your CC transactions
the point of a screen is an "are you alive" test and its actually pretty clear within 5 minutes of me going through it
in fact i'd say the more leetcode you do the more likely you are going to fail my screen. being overpracticed is the same as cheating
the truth is that most google programming interviews are laughably easy and are just testing whether you cheated your way through your CS degree. it's abundantly obvious when people do, no amount of "tools" will stop it
at some point we lost the plot and started LC inflation