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Great animation! And I still have no idea what happened there :D

I assume you are looking for motivation. This thread might provide some https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009.

There are many examples of successful single-person startups (forgetting a recent example of a person who ran SaaS product single-handedly for over 4 years and then expanded). However, you can only bootstrap like that. To grow bigger, eventually will have to hire people - which means money, which means either VC or customer - which means tonnes of work in building products/building relationship/shipping product etc. I guess, if startup success rate was 1% then solo-founder startup success rate must be 0.01%.

Everyone knows that interviews are imperfect and interviewers even more so. It is mostly about getting a question which you have seen before. However, what piqued my interest is "recruiter saying that I was rejected because....". How does one get such specific feedback on their interview? Throughout my career all I ever got was "unfortunately we do not share feedback".

If it is a consistent feeling then may be you are ripe for change. However, if it comes in phases, then following works for me in exact order. Frankly, following is more for "developer's block" but may be that's what you are going through.

1. Try something different, new. However, it should not be complex, at least not to start with.

1. If that doesn't hooks you, pick a small trivial, meaningless utility to write in whatever framework you are comfortable with. It is important not to overshoot - really just pick a "meaningless" and simple task.

1. If that doesn't work, pick some small utility from a blog/video where full code is available (many examples here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918). Write whole code again, copying line by line. As you start getting involved, stop copying and start thinking how you would write the next function, or what optimization you'd do for current function, etc.

1. If that also doesn't work, take a break. Don't think about programming at all in that break, that's important.

1. If that doesn't work either, start looking into other roles/domains and what might suit your background and strengths. As I mentioned earlier, may be you are ready for the change :)

1. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

2. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

3. The idea factory - Bell Land and the great age of American innovation

4. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

5. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

7. Intel Trinity,The: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

8. The Dream Machine

9. The Soul of a new machine

"overly positive throughout" means thats how you felt but not necessarily how interviewer felt. Usually, FB's phone screen expectation is to do 2 coding questions (yes in 35-40 mins!), written as close to compiler ready as possible.

As long time kernel/OS dev, right now is not the best time for kernel jobs. Majority of jobs are in user space (particularly Node/JS/React or aws/Kafka/Hadoop type) or at least the interviews are geared towards them. Most companies which used to maintain their own kernel have either outsourced it or use cloud where minimal kernel change is needed. Even if a company has kernel/OS team, majority of their work is to debug, patch, and port. Usually even they don't want to touch kernel much since, it is super critical component of product, debugging is really hard, getting company specific patch upstream is hard, etc.

Obviously, RedHat, SuSe Canonical, Microsoft, Apple, AMD, Intel, firmware and embedded companies will always need kernel people. However, the demand has really gone down and it is no more considered "elite" team within companies. Jobs are still there but obviously teams lean towards hiring experts and veterans of kernel instead of new comers. Moreover, once you get over simple char driver and few lines of patch type stuff, kernel development is extremely complex and hard. You wont get much support either as very likely your problem will be unique to your company's hardware. So, my take - learn and do kernel stuff on side but avoid getting into it full-time unless you are really passionate about it.

To clarify on "Try and understand each and every line of it", don't try to do it sequentially. Initially, understand at 10000 ft level and leave the abstractions as is. Then dive deeper in second pass understanding one-level down of abstractions, then deeper in third and so on.

There is no easy way. It'll take time to build the knowledge, while occasionally getting ridiculed, praised, demoralized, excited etc. Just keep pushing! and best way to do that would be pick a small domain in kernel which "truly" motivates you. Try and understand each and every line of it, no matter how much time it takes. Take breaks, take detour, but keep coming back. Eventually, that one small domain will not only help you understand bigger picture, whole exercise will help in understanding other complex topics too. Remember, brain is like muscle too - it needs similar regimen of disciplined exercise to strengthen those muscles.

That website design is quite irritating. Reminds me of 1990s web pages, only in monochrome.

Every child deserves a good mentor, but I believe that black kids (not just boys but girls too) urgently need an idol to emulate. Most kids I interact with (a very small subset) seem to idolize pop stars, who are talented but mostly are bad role models. Black community must produce likes of MLK, who prove the point through their life and not just by words. Obama, despite divided opinion among Americans, I feel is a good contemporary role model for black kids.

I wonder if sound from these 2k drones was deafening.

Two simple rules -

1. Don't act immediately (no matter how urgent matter seems to be).

2. When in doubt, check with someone you trust (and first reaction should be 'doubt').

Beyond that, any of following are worthy of being flagged as scam automatically -

1. Call/email from IRS or any other government agency

2. Easy money offers

3. (unfortunately) Anyone asking for help, specifically involving money, that too urgently

4. Anyone asking for password, SSN, financial record acess

Bottomline is that in online world, start point should be doubt followed by questions which help build your trust.

What stupid rambling is this? I'm from BJP IT cell? Because anyone in favor of CAA/NRC is BJP IT cell, right? Anyone who disagrees with you is non-secular, fanatic, isn't it?

"BULLSHIT. .... Don't speak of tolerance." It is infact you who is full of shit. India has given citizenship to different demographics based on time and need - people from China (Tibet), Sri Lanka, even Rohingyas. Currently, it needs to give citizenship to Islamic neighboring countries due to immense persecution they faced. Tomorrow special clause can be made for Amhadiyas from Pak too, if situation arises. But today it is minorities from these three countries. Pesudo liberals like yourself dont spend a minute in shedding tears about minorities elsewhere. But if India takes an action, then "why only minorities?".

So much of misconception is being fed by people like you about NRC. Have you even read what is NRC? How will government ascertain who is on the list? What process can be followed if one wants to challenge the list? Your questions and misinformation suggests, you haven't! But, heck! I'm ready with my pitchfork, because it's much easier to be internet warrior than do any homework. Do you know that even Hindus will be excluded in NRC list? Do you know that despite CAA, any person from any country, irrespective of caste/creed/religion can still apply for citizenship or asylum to India? Do you know people who'll be given citizenship, they are poorest of poor? Have you seen the squalid condition they currently live in?

"BJP has become militantly anti-muslim." Do you know BJP has massive support of Muslims in many areas of India? I'm sure you'd argue that EVM was hacked there. Do you know BJP's first nominated president was a muslim? BJP has many spokesperson, ministers, office-bearers who are muslims? I'm sure they are brainwashed, isn't it? Do you know NRC list was proposed much before BJP came to power? Do you know earlier governments of Congress and even Gandhi were proponents of providing citizenship to religion based persecuted people from India's neighboring countries?

"They never thought this through at all, did they?" Nope! Only you did! because everyone but you is a moron, right? None of your arguments were supported by any actual proof, just repeating lies. Should have thrown in words like fascist, hitler, nazi too and you sure would have gotten some TV/media coverage, if that's what your goal was. Very shameful of you!

Looks interesting and would love to read/review it. But at $88 a piece for 3 volumes ... hmm!

You missed personal finance in that list. I'm not sure if you are recommending doing away with regular curriculum completely or supporting it with your curriculum. I am all for latter because that's the change which is feasible, former is not.

You might like "Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb" (https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzz...)

Other than high literacy (which means able to sign your own name), I don't understand why Kerala is considered as good exmaple?

1. Due to communist style of functioning, setting up a business is near impossibility. I know friends who moved their business out of state since its marred with strikes.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/18-days-after-nri-...

2. It is fast becoming Islamic state of India.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/isis-recruiter...

https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/kerala-coast-on-ale...

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nia-conducts-raid-in-t...

3. Infrastructure seems to be dated (single lane road for most part of state) and floods wreak havoc every year.

Tagged as "God's own country" I expect much better from Kerala. However, I always find cliched "most educated" state remarks and self-pat on back without perusing its problems and what is happening to state.

From my previous comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18451260

What about dfinity.org?

> What is the check for 3P company maintains the quality level

It'll be quality of hire. Eventually, hiring company does culture/personality fit but can also do some quick filtering (and hopefully not full-fledged interview) to ascertain the quality. Same would apply for trust too. Eventually, it's in 3P's benefit to have good process as there would be multiple players.

There are leetcode and such but AFAIK they are all focused towards interview practice.

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They specifically designed it for use within India's GPS satellites and probably there too had very limited scope and usage which would explain it being under-powered.

Exactly! When used in moderation, even 'fear' works in your favor. When overused, it can incapacitate individual.

I did a search on "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger" and didn't find anything, hence, I submitted the link. Otherwise I wouldn't have.

I might not be able to explain properly but I think there is difference in suppressing anger and not getting angry at all. I agree with what you say about suppression but what if that emotion of anger didn't germinate at all? Latter is what this article is referring to. However, you do bring up nice point and it has expanded my understanding too.

> It's surprising to me that this is being portrayed as some kind of discovery/revelation.

The way I read it, discovery is not "behavior is reflection of environment" but how to create a good environment.

Even if some Intuits do opposite of what the article says, how does that refute what article is trying to convey - good parenting, controlling anger, and importance of story telling? I think you are focusing on "Inuit" part of story while the article is focusing on "parenting".