blastwind

Messages are only editable within 2 hrs so I write another message expressing my additional thoughts and thanks:

As important as having integrity is a community that prioritizes and fosters integrity. The HN community skipped the fostering part and went straight to giving me referrals and interviews. I'm grateful, and I'll carry on the spirit when I'm in the position to do so. The opportunities I've derived are nothing but amazing, but the most important thing I've learned is to internalize integrity as one of my greatest strengths: In the face of adversity and unfairness, I'll stand up for myself and others.

Also, thanks for those telling me internship finding is going to get better. I am not pessimistic about it at all, but I was trying to be funny by "impersonating" the previous top comment, it fits the theme. I find myself maniacally focused when practice algorithms, and I enjoy focusing.

This whole time of writing this I have that one scene from Scent of A Woman repeating in my head: "And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that."

Ha! You're good. I'm still in uni, so I am interviewing for internships (mainly for big tech companies right now since I had a taste at a IoT startup last year). Perhaps I am underestimating myself, but I'm in no rush.

Thank you reminding me about that diagramming and xml-parsing repos. Regarding the diagramming repo, that was honestly some of worst code I've written (2000 lined React class with 15 states). It's so bad that I put a warning in the repo and haven't gone back to it since. And regarding the xml parsing repo, wow, you really looked carefully! I however added a funny warning regarding this in the readme (https://github.com/BlastWind/xml-leaf-highlighter#design-dec...). I wanted to use regex since it was just a school project. Going to add an additional warning, thanks.

Haha yes. She's honest and the best.

I'm grateful for all of the opportunities! Thank you everyone.

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site.

This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two pointers, left and right, iterating over a list of heights to find how much rain water it can trap.

I'm about to repeat the experience for the 10th time and I'm 100% on autopilot. But suddenly, a man reaches out to me on email and offers me up to $80/hr to be his senior engineer. This feels sketchy, my girlfriend tells me, "you're good but let's be honest here...". Anyways, I proceed, it might just be the start of a beautiful thing. I'm asked to interview as one of our developers because English is not their best language. I'm a little bothered, but I was fine with it. But then I see the developer name: Connor Tumbleson. My laughter bursts and so does my suspicion: With a name like that, no way the guy doesn't speak good English. I look up Connor Tumbleson on linkedin, and my suspicions were proved correct. I detail everything to Connor, and now this is on the top of HN. I lost a opprotunity but gained a story of the lifetime.