mrkentutbabi

My FOMO is that my life is wasted being a corporate cog in a machine and has to come to office to work daily warming seat while I can do my job in 4 hrs of work.

But then I need the money of a big corpo (read: FAANG pay-band) to one day have a financial independence and dream of creating my own startup where I can go work remotely at my cheap COL (cost of living) country and be near my families, solving real problems than just another dating/ecommerce/social media/investing/real estate eque app.

Yeah, a lot of the startups these days also focusing on those dating/ecommerce/social media/investing/real estate business, which I don't find any enjoyment in.

So, why not just work and slave away at big corpo earning FAANG pays.

I can’t believe society has a lot of losers like this. It checks every losers boxes out there. Meme comes to life.

The best of both worlds is to have dual citizenship/green card with one country where you can earn a lot of money in one and live like a king in the other.

I’m fortunate to be in such position. I hope to amass enough riches to help the other poorer country.

What is the difference between porting and complete rewrite? I thought they are the same?

Is this related to hey email by basecamp?

I like crypto because I don’t like my government. When I like my government I don’t have to like crypto.

It is illegal. Report it.

Desktop apps could be be doomed in walled garden.

Really? very wrong? Have you ever talked to the average Japanese women and see how they want it?

This is why westerners will always be a gaijin.

Indeed a lot of westerners trying to understand the "Japanese mindset" but missed it completely. Classic example of misunderstanding between cultures.

You must be a westerner. This is a very common westerner comment its very textbook, so textbook that Asian mindsets are tired responding to it. Please try to understand the mindset in Asia first. For example, do women in Japan really want career more vs becoming a house wife? You will be surprised at the answer.

I am a non westerners relatively young person. I am in a western country to only make money. When I retire I will go back to Asia.

Western country like USA is good for competition and individualism and you can make a lot of money because of it, and then you bring the money back to Asia, and retire in Asia, where everything is cheaper and community is stronger than in western country.

I like to deal with machines, not people.

I think if they use this for R&D more into security, I wouldn't mind. It will be better for consumer overall.

Password manager is still hard to use for the elderlies and technically non savvy people.

> Do you have a position on abortion, gun control, or gay marriage? > Right now we are working on developing more comprehensive policies.

> Are you left-wing or right-wing? > We think “left-wing” and “right-wing” aren’t very useful ways of seeing the world

Although I generally agree, but man this gonna be wild...

I am happy at my current jobs, then a few of the big 5s wanted me to interview, so I interview. Once they give me more money, I will leave.

But I do get to implement these in some my day to day work. Not everyday of course, but every other month there are some problems that I used my DSA knowledge to solve.

Graph problems are pretty common, even in frontend stuff. Often times I have to write my own library.

The alternative is way way way worse for both the companies and the candidates. While DSA is basically upside for everyone but especially, especially the candidates.

Learn once, use it many times, rack many offers. Its like cheating mode.

I mean, you can have all of it u know. Like learning JS and then Webpack etc etc with DSA as well. I do it. Everyone else does it.

How many manhole in NYC questions is hand wavy and not precise. Totally different than DSA.

If I have money for every article that rail against DS&A algorithm....

I don't understand why people hate DS&A so much. Just do it. Get money, jump ship, get more money, it also makes you a better engineer. It gives you better compensation, it helps you, helps everyone, helps your team, your company. It helps avoid wasting time as well on both sides.

There is no downside of studying DS&A and Leetcode, if there is, the downside is minimal.

And yes, you can have DS&A knowledge without handicapping your other software engineering knowledge. It is a fallacy to think that a Leetcode monkey wouldn't be able to code resilient, robust software, with good variables and good readable, maintainable code, and vice versa. Like, seriously. Why this is even an argument?

And after DS&A interview, there is behavioral questions interview. If someone is a crazy person, ideally behavioral questions would weed that out.

I don't understand why people prefer "here take home questions/work for 5 hours for free" over DS&A interview.

Also, it is "Green Lumber fallacy" to think that a knowledge of "how webpack 1, 2, 3, 4, and nth build system in JavaScript here works" will make you a better engineer. Those kinds of knowledge aren't long lasting, and it is also quite easy to learn relative to DS&A.

Here is the problem with these kinds of articles. Majority of them are written by people who hate these kinds of interview questions, and by extension, they probably aren't that good at it.

There are articles that sing praise of DS&A interview but of course it doesn't get here on HN because it is not controversial and the number of bitter SWE who don't have DS&A knowledge overwhelms those who do.

Not saying the author doesn't have DS&A knowlege, just my generalization.

And yes of course there are people who excel at software engineering without DS&A, but that's not the point of DS&A interview. The point of DS&A interview is as fast as possible system to vet engineers that aren't time wasting on both sides. It accomplish its purpose nicely. Engineers aren't as non-fungible as they think. Deal with it.

America is an individualist country and individualism is rewarded. We don’t care about average people. We care about our own ethnicity, our own identity, our own family, our own self. We are just playing the game here. Don’t blame the player. Blame the game.

That’s weird. I like money more than “work for cool stuff”. Cool stuff don’t pay bills.

Heh, maybe this is why I am an average engineer.

Isn't this a blog???

Another argument against UBI

I want a programming language that can do a lot, from web, game and IoT, with type system like Haskell/TypeScript/Rust/Ocaml and simplicity of Go

Is wealth inequality necessarily bad? Genuine question here.

The land of the free, home of the brave. Never expected this land would have a lot of problems. I thought only 3rd world countries have a lot of problems.

This is interesting, any article that you can give me?

other countries such as 3rd world countries started school early, seem they aren't stupider than US kids, quite the contrary....

Here take my “Most Off Topic Comments Of the Year” Award!