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Is it fast enough to stop a huge economic and biological burden hitting our children? It’s sad how short sighted the majority of people in the US is today. Small sacrifices could lead to hugely greater quality of life for everyone’s grand children but everyone is special and deserve everything they desire right now.

Gives me very low confidence that these people understand society at all. And they’re supposed to be the gatekeepers? According to… themselves I’m guessing?

Ah yes a pompous letter where we list all of our impressive formal accomplishments will surely get these rubes to take their hands off of our toys

Funny I remember warning people on various reddits many months ago that there is no risk free 10-20% investment and asking where is this yield originating from. Let’s just say people weren’t very receptive. Greed is a hell of a drug

I disagree. Teaching people to think about abstractions wrong is not in any way helpful. Everyone I know including myself had to spend years writing bad code before realizing that this way of thinking is counterproductive. It reminds me of this quote from Kung Pow

Don’t worry about Wimp Lo, he’s an idiot. We’ve purposefully taught him wrong… as a joke.

Composition is an infinitely better method to teach if you have to teach OOP. That way you don’t need to unlearn what you thought was the right way but is actually useless at modeling almost anything.

They were marketing hard at one of the coworking spaces I was at which was full of tiny companies that didn’t make Much revenue . Couldn’t they figure out the math doesn’t work out prior to doing all this work and then backtracking ?

I’m guessing they were just chasing vanity metrics for a funding round

I’ve met some well dressed druggies in the PNW and they’re not any more fun to talk to. One guy I remember had some big exit and then decided to just do drugs constantly and “adventures”. He was high as fuck and couldn’t hold on to one coherent thought

No it’s totally right. Going in cold is basically impossible. You have to be ready to regurgitate leetcode answers, “approved” system designs, STAR stories about your career that show various BS story arcs. And of course pretend like you’re not just regurgitating for… reasons. It’s all a bizarre cargo cult acting session at this point. Big companies even send you a study guide these days ffs