rak00n

> He was always willing to listen when I had design ideas that differed from his own. When my ideas were better, he'd incorporate them into our plans.

This is what makes someone a good Tech Lead and/or manager.

I think you'll like George Pólya's How To Solve It. That's one of the methods he prescribed on solving a difficult problem; by gently removing the most difficult part and look at it again.

IMHO the title coming from mods sounds better. Your title seemed like you're explicitly advertising for BigQuery.

In my android I turn off most of the notifications, except the messaging apps. It's quite bearable that way.

At least it's focused on Music industry. At least I'm comfortable as a patron that some egoist exec won't just shut it down out of nowhere.

Still it's arguably better than the alternatives out there. When I cast music to my TV Spotify has a nice interface. When I cast Google Music there is this icon dancing around all over the TV. I think their web interface is superior as well.

"Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere." - Anton Ego

I don't disagree with you. But celebrities have a far wider audience. Your rockstar programmer doesn't have that.

A lot of social problems disappear when you're accepted as a famous accomplished person. So a celebrity can be weird and not face the same social isolation.

Imagine yourself stuck in the an apartment with a lease with 3 people you hate most. That's the worst case scenario.

Success can be measured by how satisfied you're with your quality of life. There is no one to impress.

What's the service?

It's not always true. In San Francisco the people I meet in meetups are often broken and puts little trust in strangers.

TBH, I never met so many lonely broken people in other parts of the world.

I thought Facebook does delete your account. Do you have a source?

I'm surprised you're downvoted.

STEM F-1 students can work under OPT for 3 years. I'd say that's good enough considering the fact that H1B also get issued for 3 years.

I was always thought it was a greedy way of doing a breadth first search.

Google actually banned payday loan ads from their network [1]. I couldn't take your anger seriously after reading that line.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...

Solid advice. Having more options is always better. Companies are not your friends. They don't deserve loyalty.

You're just trolling this guy. Science knowledge is not transferable. I cannot make a rocket scientist do high energy particle physics research. If there is no demand for rocket scientist then his wage would be low.

How hard is that to understand?

It's hard to imagine Sergey Brin founding Google in Russia or Jerry Yang founding Yahoo! in Taiwan.

If you're procrastinating your brain is telling you it's not important. You can push yourself with motivational tricks but you might won't get anywhere.

It might be better to get some value out of it and/or convince your brain why it's worth doing.

It's funny how he got stuck at American dream at the end.

It resonated with me. You wrote it very eloquently.

He probably wanted to say they're paid above average. In the same way doctors are not overpaid.

Also it's easier to nope a bad decision for OSS. Office politics makes it way difficult.

Only if government did adjustments for living expenses for school teachers, police and firemen NIMBYs would get less sympathy.

There is a difference between living in your own country that's xenophobic and immigrating to a xenophobic country.

I'm having similar thoughts about my social interactions. Since I moved to Silicon Valley it's like having junk food continuously comparing to my prior relationships. Now I can either keep eating junk food or choose isolation and try not to lose my mind. This is tough.

Is it in Bay Area?

> The type of work you do affects your outlook on life.

I wish you had elaborated on this.