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I've never read a book. At least not a non-technical, fictional one. At school I'd just dig up a summary. Didn't stop me from getting a job at a FANG. Wheneve

I've never read a book. At least not a non-technical, fictional one. At school I'd just dig up a summary. Didn't stop me from getting a job at a FANG. Whenever I read, I feel like I'm wasting my time. It's slow, boring and feels superficial. Just something arbitrary someone wrote. I can't focus and get no value from it.

djur 7y ago
What is the value of getting a job at a FANG?
- akjsndkas 7y ago
  High income.
  - heavenlyblue 7y ago
    Is that the end of the means or the means to an end?
cbanek 7y ago
To read, perchance to dream. Human creativity is unleashed in fiction, where anything is possible, yet still bound by its humanity. That it didn't happen makes it no less human, and possibly more human in that it is completely driven by emotion and pure thought. Just look at _From the Earth to the Moon_. Long before we knew we could make it to the Moon, we yearned for it. And I think it was that yearning that led us there.
GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
i wonder if your tendency to cut corners is reflected in your code (assuming you're a developer) if you've never read an RFC or grinded through technical documentation. Do you enjoy reading other people's code? >Didn't stop me from getting a job at a FANG. probably stopping you from being a top developer at a FAANG
- LorenPechtel 7y ago
  Second this. Being a good developer means lots of reading. In the old days that was usually manuals, these days it's far more likely to be whatever Google coughs up, but I'd sure be a lot slower if I couldn't see what others said about whatever unfamiliar territory I'm trying to navigate.
bsenftner 7y ago
You're only experiencing a limited fraction of your life, due to total blindness of your time and place in the human journey. Literature enables one to identify where they are in the sea of humanity in time. You're simply adrift, refusing to use aid to see and learn what others before you have said about where you are, in the ageless language of introspection essays.

djur 7y ago

What is the value of getting a job at a FANG?

akjsndkas 7y ago
High income.
- heavenlyblue 7y ago
  Is that the end of the means or the means to an end?

cbanek 7y ago

To read, perchance to dream. Human creativity is unleashed in fiction, where anything is possible, yet still bound by its humanity. That it didn't happen makes it no less human, and possibly more human in that it is completely driven by emotion and pure thought. Just look at _From the Earth to the Moon_. Long before we knew we could make it to the Moon, we yearned for it. And I think it was that yearning that led us there.

GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago

i wonder if your tendency to cut corners is reflected in your code (assuming you're a developer) if you've never read an RFC or grinded through technical documentation. Do you enjoy reading other people's code? >Didn't stop me from getting a job at a FANG. probably stopping you from being a top developer at a FAANG

LorenPechtel 7y ago
Second this. Being a good developer means lots of reading. In the old days that was usually manuals, these days it's far more likely to be whatever Google coughs up, but I'd sure be a lot slower if I couldn't see what others said about whatever unfamiliar territory I'm trying to navigate.

bsenftner 7y ago

You're only experiencing a limited fraction of your life, due to total blindness of your time and place in the human journey. Literature enables one to identify where they are in the sea of humanity in time. You're simply adrift, refusing to use aid to see and learn what others before you have said about where you are, in the ageless language of introspection essays.