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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Okay, obviously people who don't have better options. As some body who has been through this whole process. Let me tell you people come to the US to work on Visas happen to be the most privileged of the pool. Simply put, it is
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by kamaal 4y ago
The comments on this thread are an indication that only a few would be doing it, its because what it is, 'you have to be doing it'. It requires doing work. Most people are imagining a magic pill approach to self help stuff. In a
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by kamaal 4y ago
Pretty much anybody writing on this site, is privileged(by world standards) by very definition. Chances are you are the 'Elon Musk' for lots of other people out there.
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by kamaal 4y ago
If you have the same routine as Mike Tyson, you are definitely guaranteed to not win the world boxing championship. But you can be sure it will make you very fit, healthy and a decent boxer along the way. You might not become the next Jeff
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by kamaal 4y ago
Which framework do you think is the next big thing in the Frontend world?
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>What is it about bitcoin that brings people into these threads to say "good riddance! I hope it dies because all of it's negative externalities."? Because many became rich riding the first crypto wave. And they missed
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by kamaal 4y ago
At least in this case, any advice would be helpful. But it also depends on the person. If the person has been trying several things, and is curious to learn more and work on the suggestion, even small help can make a huge difference. When i
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by kamaal 4y ago
In the 2000s landing a job in Infosys in India was really the equivalent of landing a job in FAANG's. May be even more than that because the era preceding it has such scarcity in terms of opportunity, that it was literally the equival
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by kamaal 4y ago
Plenty of other companies can't pay half a million dollars to center a div either. Lots of people will lose visa status, homes, cars etc.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I'd imagine that if 50% of your colleagues were dramatically fired, I'd be looking for a job even if I survived this round. Another way of looking at this is since so many people left, there is lots of vacuum, and open pos
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by kamaal 4y ago
I've seen people who believe they are 10x gang, sometimes go on a long vacation, and when they return to their horror they realise nobody missed them. Happens all the time. People are less important than they think. Even without this w
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by kamaal 4y ago
By Musk metric, people who write lots of code should be in those positions.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I'm curious why you would respond to that so defensively. Because I think I shouldn't do X. == ok I think You shouldn't do X. == no I think you should get all the rights to not start a rocket company, car compa
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by kamaal 4y ago
I think their point is in the era of OKRs, they are more interesting in knowing if you have been coding up the next billion dollar app, or working on maintenance stuff to keep lights on. While the latter is equally important, its the former
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by kamaal 4y ago
Whats the problem? Feel free to sit down and do nothing. While others do something. Why do you feel entitled to dictate how other people must spend their time and resources, even to fail.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Asteroid mining is another very profitable and useful option. We are talking about many trillions to be made, many things to be built, and people who get up there first could end up controlling lots of things for the foreseeable centuries.
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by kamaal 4y ago
People do this all the time. Remember the times when people used to go around hating Steve Jobs(He didn't build the entire iPhone or iPod by himself etc etc, "so why does he get the credit" sort of reasons). I was there when
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Everyone is a millionaire down on their luck. You only need to work harder or be more clever—ideally both. Race is an unchangeable, decided at-birth deal. Class on the other hand changes based on how you succeed to that end. People
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Perl and its magic variables are absolutely undecipherable if you haven't worked with the language before (or in a long time). Yeah, either the language gives you magic variables, or you make your own one's in the programs
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by kamaal 4y ago
It could entirely in someone's mind. People use brackets like {{{ }}} in C based languages all the time, when they have to deal with ((( ))) in Lisp suddenly they become unreadable. The thing is people want to spend little effort to le
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Perl's syntax is a bit off-putting. Not sure which parts of Perl syntax you find off putting, but I could guess. 1. Sigils: Why is this bad? Perl has symbols do represent lists(@), associative arrays(%), scalars($). This is act
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by kamaal 4y ago
In hind sight, yes. While aiming to be at the top 1 - 2 of the stack is always a nice thing to do. Shutting down established revenue streams to achieve it is equally bad. In many ways it is also lazy. If you won't work on a business to
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by kamaal 4y ago
There's quite a bit of legacy running in our industry. Most of it is not even Perl. Think Java, Jquery, and even Python(2.x) these days. Most shops don't have the budgets for total rewrites, or even partial and gradual rewrites. T
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I do know that a single person or a small team can often outperform hundreds of people at a big company. I wonder if he's tapped into that somehow in this case I think that is because he doesn't outsource management to oth
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by kamaal 4y ago
Less complex in lots of situations means being explicit, not being too template'y, not being too generic, abstract and writing code that is supposed to be a kind of meta that takes in a config and does several things for several inputs
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>It comes down to this: I hate being an employee. Why should anybody hire you to do a thing, you hate doing it?
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>What is the benefit of using Vim proper these days? 1. Editing files on machines, where you can't use vscode remote editing. 2. Leetcode grinding. Many companies allow only vi for onsite interviews. Some companies will prevent
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>a miserable failure who crashed the economy. Can somebody from the UK tell us what did she do that the economy crashed, in just under two months?
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by kamaal 4y ago
They do have EUV machines, albeit unreliable. Like you yourself mentioned the yields are the problem here. This is really more of an engineering problem, you need more cycles for quality and reliability. But it's not something unsurmou
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>There's not much difference between installing LSPs in VSCode and adding plugins to Vim using Pathogen, vim-plug, or the built-in plugin manager. It's not as if I wrote Pylint myself, I added "dense-analysis/ale&

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