quantum_nerd

Github Gist, Bear Note taking app(hashtags, hierarchical ordering, etc) and sometimes jrnl cli tool

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/

popular here in Seattle as well.

LoFi Instrumental Hip-Hop on Spotify(there are a few playlists), always puts me in the flow zone.

more like a curated list of 404 pages amiright?

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

to my college best friend as a birthday gift.

Seattle isn't on the list. So yea, not a serious list :P

1. "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. Taught me how to be more productive and simplify thinking about productivity. One of the books I re-read every year.

2. "The Bible" - I am not too religious, but I am a spiritual person. I find the new testament to be a good blueprint on how to live a righteous life.

3. "The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master" - such a timeless classic. Just get it...

wow! ok I am not even sure if there is a way to refute this without sounding angry...like, what part of anti-discrimination laws don't you like? the fact that marginalized groups can have equal access to gov contracts?education? healthcare? housing? please elaborate....

Getting a quality 7 hours of sleep every night, 7 days a week...oh and giving up alcohol(or at least drink only on weekends) which is easier said than done.

this is potentially an amazing idea, especially for those of us who work in polyglot systems. However, a search as simple as "queue in java" returns no result?

Location: Seattle,WA Remote : OK

Willing to Relocate : Yes

Technologies : Ruby(Chef), Java, Python, Cloud, Systems Administration(UNIX/Linux and Windows), Git, DevOps.

Resume/CV: Currently employed. Will share by email due to privacy reasons.

E-mail : quantum.nerdiness@gmail.com

I think we have lost touch with the reason we invented technology in the first place: which was to increase human productivity, not to remove the human from the equation altogether.

Corporations exist mostly because of consumerism, though. Once those "humans" are not able to work and in turn, spend their money buying crap from corporations, then...?

Dear Facebook,

you can track me all over the net all you want. I am just not buying shit.

Well, tell you what and I hope this helps: my first internship required 3.0 gpa. Mine that semester was 2.98 (exactly like yours). Not only did I interview and get the internship, I have been with that company ever since 2013 and haven't had any performance review below "exceeded expectations" ever since I started.

Moral of the story is: the gpa will only be a big deal if you make it so. Your perception will be your reality and you will lose out on a fantastic opportunity to start your career on the right foot. Call your recruiter, make your case, have a great internship.

Side Note: I graduated with a 3.4. Had to work my butt off to raise it up and get the offer and I did.

Sometimes I even ask myself: “you only hire the best…at what exactly?” there is difference between having a fancy degree/accolades and actually contributing meaningfully to your work. I have also seen(in my thin years of experience) that at most companies, there is a disconnect between HR and company’s talent needs. Only those who have figured out how to bridge that gap hire “the best”(subjectively).

Wouldn't just be easier to talk to your hiring manager/recruiter? usually if you are a really good candidate, they tend to overlook formalities like a 3.0 gpa. Those are not set in stone.

Talk to your recruiter!

sounds like an awesome place to work!

very true...

While I do agree with the OP that the tech hiring process "might" be broken, I noticed a pattern in his interviews: it seems to me like a self-fulfilling prophecy. From the get go, he already considered the interviewers as enemies and went in with a mindset that they are out to get him. That wouldn't probably help calm those nervous nerves, neither would it show your prospective coworkers that you are someone they would enjoy working with(which is a fundamental part of the interview, I believe).

I have actually noticed that most tech companies(at least they ones I've had to deal with, namely Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft) are doing all they can to take the guess work out of interviews with training sessions, resources, etc...

All the OP needs is to change his attitude from cynical to optimistic and I promise, things will change for him.

Also, BFS (and DFS) are as basic as you can get with algorithms. Either of them is not longer than 10 lines of codes; just remember that BFS uses a Queue and DFS a Stack...

I moved from Atom to VS Code for Ruby programming. My machine isn't the fastest around and VS Code has improved my productivity significantly after switching from slow Atom. Before then, I used Eclipse for Java/C++. I definitely miss the real-time static analysis, ease of refactoring, and other cool features that come with an IDE.

Put me on the list of developers who haven't actually used/don't like VIM. I find the key bindings too time consuming to setup for my one-off bash scripts. For that, I use Nano. Works for me...

This article was deeply personal for me. I have moved around a lot during my 20-something years of life due to a lot of factors including, but not limited to: genocide, civil war, family house foreclosed, crossing the Atlantic, taking a new job in a city 1500 miles away from my "home" state. In all those times, I have made a lot of friends some whom I am still in touch with today and others, I have drifted apart from. As I get older, it is just get too tiring to recreate new friendships. I am quiet and picky and not the kind of personal who has tons of acquaintances. I have gained new insights from this article;be right back as I text an old friend to ask how he is doing...

why oh why do we need another markdown editor?sigh I personally just use VS Code and it's been working fine.

I've actually interviewed with them, before when I was in college. In all honesty, I used to be on the defensive side of things against technical interviews only because I got really nervous and my mind would go completely blank, especially this one time when a BigTechCo hiring manager asked me to sort a LinkedList without using additional space.

So after many rejections and rushed algorithms textbooks regurgitations, I decided to start somewhere my well-roundedness counted more than my algorithm implementation skills( a big awesome Fortune 20 company too) , and actually REALLY take my time to study the ins and outs of being a real World software engineer and ENJOY IT.

A year and a half later after graduation, I don't regret my decision at all. My problem-solving and implementation skills have improved tremendously, especially after I discovered Firecode.io, which takes a more pedagogical approach to interview prep than TopCoder or google CodeJam.

I live in Seattle and have a few acquaintances who are in tech at various companies(Google, FB, Amazon, MSFT..) . My interactions with Googlers have been very pleasant; they just seem to be very down to earth compared to other engineers I have encountered, in general. I am not in a rush, though. I am gainfully employed and like my job, so that also drive my job search to be largely serendipitous.

Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...

All "my BigTech Co won't let me use this at work" and other privacy concerns aside, this is an amazing tool for budding programmers or experienced ones using an unfamiliar language. Can't wait to try it out!

As someone who has been paying upwards of 20% or more of my monthly take home pay to student loans, I am surprised the figure of delinquent payers isn't higher. I count myself one of the lucky ones(CS degree, gainfully employed...) and I have college friends making close to minimum wage, with more students loans than I and struggling to make payments.

Who thought a $25,000/year(and rising) public university education was a good idea ?

nice reference to President Bush there at the end :) but I do agree, merging locally(when there are a ton of diffs/merge conflicts that I had to sift through) is still a cumbersome process.

Seriously?? is this what tech hiring has turned into? pseudo-reverse psychology and mind tricks. I didn't even know the "green" GH contributions were that important.