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I don't have a tiktok nor a twitter, but somehow I sincerely enjoyed consuming this, nice work!

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As someone with a STEM degree who enjoyed taking online classes at a CC during their 20s in Art History, I wouldn't call it a waste of time; it's brought me more joy, balance, and a feeling of well-roundedness than I had contributing to os projects.

IXL Learning https://www.ixl.com/

fwiw my best friends are SE Asian (not Chinese), white, black, and Mexican. I didn't feel this photo is as equally representative of that diversity. I'm not making a case it has any obligation to do so, just noting that it impacted my decision to not apply here a while ago.

To an extent I agree that most startups are made up of Caucasians/Chinese males, I think one of the reasons I left tech professionally is because I didn't feel comfortable/enjoy the lack of diversity.

On a side note, has anyone noticed a lack of diversity on the group photo on their careers page: https://openai.com/content/images/2020/04/openai-offsite-jul...

I remember coming across it not too long ago and felt unwelcomed/disappointed.

Having gone through my twenties and seen many bright cs grads fail at starting a business, I think the best option is to find a role where upward movement is attainable every couple of years and attrition is relatively low. I cannot tell you how envious I am of people who did worse than me in college but are DevOps managers or app sec managers.

I wanted to add a response here for every aspirational algotrader: you can lose a lot of money very quickly. I hobbied in algotrading through my twenties, learned a lot more than I expected too, worked out the math, and made $600 in a matter of 15 minutes on my first day before losing $1000 the same day. That's when I decided to pull the plug. I already knew that it would be more profitable finding contracting gigs then inevitably writing off 100s of hours I spent researching, doing the math, and coding over the years, but decided I would regret it if I never tried.

I wouldn't know since I haven't really prodded them on the details. I wouldn't want to give any advice on something I don't know too much about, I'm sorry!

I'm not sure if they have a session prior to competing but I know they use it to train and get through 8+ hours of practice.

I'll try to maintain my cousins' anonymity while stating this: both of them are literally the best in the world at their passion (think Olympic athlete, math Olympiad, Rhodes Scholar, etc.) What's their secret? Their mom/my aunt swear by hypnosis. On a side note, their passion is not lucrative, it always saddens me to see them have such a drive yet not achieve anywhere close to their earning potential.

At least Jesse is quite accomplished. Some of Qualcomm's lesser-known acquisitions are c-suite's bailing out family.

For the last 3.5 years I've worked 100% remotely- an answer which I'm surprised isn't showing up more is: wherever my parents are. I got to spend my mid to late twenties seeing them daily and I'm fortunate for it every day. My girlfriend and I have an apartment on the other side of town and we were happy with the decision. The only way it could've been more ideal is if we could've gone back to our home country, but both of us are starting med school, hopefully, one day.

I can't say I agree with this decision. I graduated from Cal probably a bit higher than 70th percentile by GPA in EECS 10 years ago. To this day, I was motivated by everyone smarter than me who was admitted based on merit based on their SAT. If I were to graduate today (at lets say) 85th percentile, not because of merit but because Berkeley admitted applicants not as strong, that would've damaged my motivation more than being in a fair 70th percentile placement.

There is definitely an anomalous uptick with reddit harassment these days. I posted a positive article to /r/Coronavirus and I was immediately harassed in the dumbest way possible (someone trying to counter an article I posted but their argument was actually restating the article thesis). He ended up getting a ton of traction because he probably sounded confident. It left me confused and saddened- I owe a lot of what I learned in the last few years through great discussions on reddit and hn, hopefully reddit's deterioration by bored/malicious actors is stopped.

Probably the least interesting, esoteric, and useless topic but it's a rabbit hole none the less: the taxonomy of ancestors of modern-day elephants such as the Deinotherium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium). A lot of them look wild and they're interesting to read up on.

I passed the interviews at one of the top stat arb hft firms and it sounds like there are a couple of responses from similar shops here. One thing people haven't mentioned: pedigree. I passed 3 rounds of interviews and my final interviewer was batting for me, when I didn't get the offer, he said the team was apprehensive because I didn't have the pedigree from MIT/Princeton like everyone else. He wasn't a fan of the decision because he worked at a string of failed startups himself prior to starting there, c'est la vie. Also for the curious, he said the salary range was 400-460k with ~3-5 yoe.

I've wanted to work with Elixir for 5 years now. I attempted to go through The Pragmatic Programmer's Elixir textbook and couldn't make it through. This comment applies solely to me, I feel I didn't have the aptitude to pick up functional programming (and that's coming from someone who graduated in CS from a T3, had years of experience, and starting med school next month).

There's a guy on the /r/bayarea subreddit that's been doing god's work and providing transparency on all new cases and deaths in our 9 counties.

You definitely don't need an "open source coding resume" at mid-career since you don't need it in an early career job hunt. You just need to LeetCode sigh

I posted about this the other day in the Finnish thread - of course they are, there's probably a 300% salary difference between a banker with 6 yoe and a social welfare worker with 12+ yoe. You don't have fields attracting people for purely financial incentives when the salary difference between these two is more like 10-20% for a seasoned professional. It's an entire systematic issue which has compounding effects, but when you mix in global instability, food security, etc. would you rather play ball here or expatriate and take a risk with the educational and career opportunities your children have somewhere else.

Moikka, I'm happy you've found a stable life. The thing is that subtle/implicit racism is quite difficult to pick up on. It involves not being:

* given the benefit of the doubt in difficult situations

* realizing how easy it is to socialize normally

* given a fair shake in a candidate pool

I, unfortunately, was a witness to many minorities not being given these benefits easily (not being one of them). Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" explains the mechanisms of these implicit biases well, and unfortunately, they're much more evident in Finland than most American metropolitan cities. It's difficult to pick up on them and unless you realize the hurdles in front of you, you're just built to jump higher without giving it a second thought.

As someone who used to live in Finland, their "success" is mostly driven by an excellent student:teacher ratio and a phenomenal social services system. Any adult who is struggling through a crisis will be helped by a system that 1) doesn't stigmatize 2) is able to retain talent (because they probably only make 10% less than a software engineer so you have many more capable people interested in it). Conversely, education in America fails for people in low socio-economic conditions primarily because of a lack of these two, not because Finland's found a magical/effective way of teaching an average 10-year-old kid.

After seeing so many posts on Finland recently, I feel an obligation to emphasize something (as someone who used to live in Finland): While it's safe, affordable, and definitely one of the best places to raise a family, it's nothing to romanticize. If you're not Finnish/Swedish, there's a lot of implicit racism and it's an upward climb for many aspects of life. I was speaking with someone pretty high up in the DNC: if you're an ambitious refugee, America is still the best place for you. You can drive taxis, pay for your education, and become a software engineer without anyone questioning you. I literally know a handful of refugees who got free education in Finland but were denied most job opportunities because of systematic racism.

Same, those clowns are Sky Rocket Ventures wouldn't stop calling me. I told them to match 65% of my then-salary, they realized they weren't talking with a broke 20 year old kid and stopped calling me.

This is pretty engaging, thank you!

Nice work! If I wanted to learn how to build VMs, how would I start? My experience is in backend development/distributed systems in Java and Go (so assume I know nothing outside of an introductory OS course)

Oh my god this book is amazing! Thank you

Someone needs to write a book about breaking into writing software like RocksDB, HSE, etc. Years ago I found myself wanting to learn more however going from 0 to 1 felt impossible. Graduated from a T3 school in CS so understanding the concepts wasn't the issue, I just didn't know how to build a good foundation in low latency persistence. Years later I ended up contributing to low latency java which was really interesting, but what an opportunity missed.