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bUt ThE mIsSiOn BrO

(Make Elon/Bezos/Zuc/etc Richer)

Start your own company or work on side projects while you wait on administrative bullshit.

Why wait? Working at big tech is a bankrolling operation. I show up and collect my dough, nothing less nothing more.

A lot of boot camp devs have no idea how the computer works and just spew out (often terrible) code. Over time they do develop these skills but I think that’s what the creator is saying. Instead of jumping into creating modals with react or connecting to Postgres and adding some data with Go, I think it’s more important to understand data structures and some strategies around writing code to solve problems. Obviously day to day most react people won’t be implementing these, until they have to create a file explorer and need to show the file tree. Add a new file. Etc.

I have the opposite, where I find my day to day job incredibly boring (platform/infra) and I miss my product engineer days where I got to work with product manager and others to build cool stuff.

So after I’m done juggling yaml files I want to code and build some cool stuff.

I know how it works but CPUs. How they’re built seems like some wizard shit.

I wouldn’t mind going to the office if the whole team I worked with was on site as well.

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really give much of a shit when I’m the only one in this office while the rest of my team is all over the world. And no I’m not going to cater to their needs when it’s outside of my normal hours. Deal with it, else I will (and have).

Why don’t companies just have local teams that are nodes in the broader graph?

A fully local team in California that works on X, and interacts with team Y that’s based in Singapore, and team Z in Europe.

Each team is self sufficient and works on a piece of the work that can be done by them. In conjunction with the other teams, we get global coverage without having some dumb working hours or waste of an office.

I don’t mind going to the office, and having worked as mainly a product engineer I like whiteboarding with our Product manager and other stakeholders, or getting on calls with customers to demo something (team in the same room, read body language).

Product teams benefit the most being local and all together. It’s hard to build a great product when everyone is not in the same room. Remote might work to make a decent product, but I don’t think you can build something great.

Most rooms were just self absorbed narcissistic people talking to each other.

“Social” anything is a wasteland. Just build useful tools that help people do things, like buy plane tickets.

I just drink coffee but that’s just me

I feel like the deeper I get into my craft as a software engineer the less I use frameworks.

Now it’s more about applying certain principles, such as CA and preferring simplicity over dependencies.

I’ve tried some web frameworks and found them easy to get started with but they carry so much bloat and unnecessary cruft.

It’s way easier for me to consider my code responsibilities and build simple software that is easy to test, painless to maintain, and finally simple enough for anyone new (or a newbie) to pick up with what they know, without having to learn the nuances of the framework.

With that said I’ll say my favorite popular framework is phoenix. I was studying elixir five years ago and used phoenix to build a few simple apps. Great community and documentation.

As someone who took equity that got rekt over the past year, I’m never making that mistake again.

Give me as much cash as possible. I’m a software engineer, and not one of the first five/ten employees.

Not really. At least in my experience, their customer service is great and that means a lot more to me than the occasional fake product or reviews.

I've gotten wrong/missing deliveries, account issues/mishaps (caused by me in some cases), and other issues that customer service was able to quickly and promptly resolve.

The service is so convenient for the end user. While consciously minding all the other un-cool things Amazon does, their customer service is really good.

I prefer real world. I do hope all the annoying, self absorbed narcissist type people go and live in metaverse though. Would be awesome to finally live in a selfie free real world, just livin.

Teacher will buy a NFT or Fortnite skin

Thanks for sharing, enjoyed reading about your perspective.

Curious if that applies to humans as well. I’m from S Asia and well.. I do have my distinct looks that I share with my family and community, that are different from other communities. Are humans like that as well? I am aware of the migration theories and people crossing ice bridges and all that, but did people evolve in different areas and then spread out after settling their original area?

maybe it leads to a situation where we can just relax and go back to monke while the ai rules over us. But also who knows maybe it opens up new streams of consciousness and we can morph our minds with machines and go somewhere new.

Same reason people work for Bezos, Zuck, etc.

A lot of people have the capacity to set aside morals/ethics for a bit of chump change.

The work is interesting. I'm sure the people making nuclear bombs probably said the same thing. Or the death star. "It is such interesting work" Yeah ok.

I’ll bite with anecdotal pov. I think most of the people who are the “best” are advantaged from the beginning. Whether it is attending prep schools (40k a year or more private school for 12 years), having a home (not moving multiple times, sometimes in a year over many years), or honestly having the familial backing to “take risks”.

The last point is so wild when I hear it from some VCs or successful CEO. It’s easy to take a risk when your parents and family are loaded, even if you have nothing to your name at the time. It’s easy to say such things when your parents are doctors or entrepreneurs who put you through private school and then you got into Stanford. I’m sure they’re smart, but they bought their way in when you reduce it. Sure they took it from 20-100, but many people can barely get from 1-10 due to socioeconomic circumstances. I respect the people who manage to go from 1-100 way more than someone who was bound to be reasonably successful at worst from birth.

just buy your own planet bro

/s

Are you trolling, not in the US, or from the past?

I feel like there’s levels to it.

I mean people drink heavily while chastising smoking (both are bad) but there are people who are social drinkers or smokers. I’m not so sure that smoking one or two cigarettes per week or a month is that bad, I mean obviously the best is to not smoke. But only 30% of people get addicted to nicotine.

I guess all I’m trying to say is that life is finite anyway and nothing beats going to the top of a mountain and lighting up a smoke whether it’s a joint or a cig. Just don’t abuse it like anything else.

I'm talking future state. What you're calling out is great, but that's in current scenario. From my experience with lawyers (immigration) - absolute nightmare and again I totally understand why things are this way but just let me vent as a nerd who codes. Seriously, it drives me nuts that I have to put my trust into these guys that sometimes they completely get wrong. If a doctor messes up, I'm dead or close to it that it doesn't even matter anymore. If a lawyer fucks up or I have to proof read my accountant's work because he makes so many mistakes, its GG START OVER.

not as much as lawyers and accountants imo. they're a necessary relationship but its toxic. the systems in place for software are mostly open whereas the same cannot be said for a lot of legal and financial systems. they're not beginner friendly, and have a big barrier to entry from my experience.

Low key hope in my life time I can see lawyers and other secretary tier professions disappear in favor of open source systems. The only time you’d need a lawyer will be in criminal court otherwise you don’t need to pay someone in six figure debt 800/hr to proof read something.

Maybe I’m wrong but I would rather eat dirt than spend time/money on lawyers and other secretary tier professionals who ultimately still make mistakes.

This. Allow email and authenticator app options. It is also frustrating that voip numbers don't work in some auth scenarios.

some people in tech have always been pretentious.

lol but that's like most ppl in tech tbh

That’s awful. I would fire people like that on the spot if the goal is to ship and grow.

Maybe.. not a terrible idea. It would get rid of plastic which is probably both the best and worst thing we have created.

Driving. I have a simple 140 hp car now and I love just getting in and going for a drive.

I'm lucky to be living in S. California where yes we have traffic but gosh if you love nature and just enjoying scenery its amazing. Even if I'm stuck in traffic I've got views of mountains and all sorts of people watching. SO many cool spots to stop and explore.

I drive all around LA, and if I'm bored some weekend I'll get an airbnb in SF and drive up there along the coast. Put on some good music or podcast and just explore by stopping at different restaurants and pit stops.

I love driving. I can't wait for the day that people have space ships. I want to fly around canyons and then zip straight into space, warp jump to some other planet and explore it, before going home.

When I feel low, I grab my keys and wallet and head out.