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living in nyc is fascinating because you meet all these people making $750k/year with 8 figure net worths and they don’t even call themselves upper class.
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and gentlemen it’s time to lock in and study (after work 😔), i’m about to have 2 senior staff engineers grill tf out of me 😌
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DONE, no longer joining twitch/amazon, im OUTTA here, life switches up on you real fast, gotta adapt dawgs, congrats to amazon for losing their best engineers, i had a 380k new grad offer btw :). not sure what im doing next (maybe back to quant, maybe a16z SR, maybe startup).
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honestly life is so great with the gf.-i cook, she bakes.-we both workout.-both travel.-both love reading.-both watch anime.-great chore split.-introverted/extroverted mix.-political alignment.-absolutely massive household income.-love NYC.-get along great with the siblings.
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oracle db ladies and gents, jesus christ i would literally end myself
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anyone wanna guess when i started my job :(. working 8am-7pm almost every day, try to workout an hour too, have literally 0 energy for side stuff anymore, what do i dooooo. shit's depressing
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uh guys, did you know contract roles in quant can pay $400/hr? wtf.
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honestly cs job market is cooked—you send 1,000 applications and get 3 callbacks, it’s just over. if you actually still want a cs career without already being credentialed you have to probably network & get a gig at startups, not even sure what else you’d do.
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blaming immigrants because of skill issue, classic.
Now that H-1B has become a topic of discussion, here’s my story:. Born in Appalachia, went to a top-tier university, interned in wealth management and trading, recruited for all the top investment banks and research firms, only offer I received was to cold call South American.
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WHY ARE WE BUILDING DATA CENTERS IN SPACE?! 😭😭.
🚀@LumenOrbit (YC S24) is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity. Congrats on the launch, @johnstonphil, @ezrafeilden, and @adioltean!.
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SOMEBODY FROM AMAZON TELL ME IF ITS ACTUALLY 5 DAYS RETURN TO OFFICE, LIKE ACTUALLY i’m about to dip.
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alright guys i found the x (formerly twitter) version of james scholz, this guy is going places
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"[we're returning to office 5 days a week @ Amazon] because we’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture". the culture:
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my valve interview had a single technical interview question, just implement atoi (ascii to integer). that’s it. this is a company with average employee comp of $1M+/yr and one of the highest revenue/employee numbers.
For disclosure, here are the questions I asked at faang:. Warmup: write a function that takes a string of parentheses as an argument and returns true if the parentheses are balanced. e.g. (())() == true, ()) == false. Next: given a grid of… [cont].
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getting too many messages, if you're a cs student here's my advice to your potential questions.-commit and finish, don't waste time meandering shallowly between projects, just pick something mildly interesting and build it to completion, it's a mindset shift you need to adopt. .
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i loved this article—the best thing you guys can do for yourself is to commit to things and finish them, just finish, it doesn’t matter if it’s an mvp or inefficient, just ship, shipping is all that matters, it is the fastest way to grow, build and ship, commit and finish
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>i see shitty engineers / startups.wtf i can do better.>i see godlike engineers / startups.wtf i absolutely need to get better. i’m entirely run on pettiness, revenge, jealousy, and competition.
everything good you want in life is on the other side of genuinely forgiving everyone who has hurt you. 2000 years of philosophy won’t help you, forgiveness is the only thing.
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this was me, but then the gf wanted to move in, and i moved into a one bedroom apt, bought a $4k mattress, a tv, and then another tv, then a bidet, then instead of a ps5 we bought a kitchenaid classic 😔 how far i’ve fallen boys.
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if you cannot trust your employees to work from home, then that's a HIRING problem, that's on YOU, fix THAT first.
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x is a crazy place, one day i follow someone for being a cracked phd next turns out he’s a little behind the times
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honestly life is just so good rn.-exciting career.-amazing gf.-best health of my life.-many good things upcoming.-still have my sense of wonder.-ready to continue to grind. just need to deal with some post-college changes like not having enough time for side projs anymore.
honestly life is so great with the gf.-i cook, she bakes.-we both workout.-both travel.-both love reading.-both watch anime.-great chore split.-introverted/extroverted mix.-political alignment.-absolutely massive household income.-love NYC.-get along great with the siblings.
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one week in sf & have never felt this far behind, this is the right place to be. CEOS of companies worth $200M+ next door, ppl building rockets and shit, ridiculously smart researchers working @ OpenAI. acquiring ambition by osmosis.
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if it's not clear, the reason was the new 5 days in office mandate :).
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I LITERALLY ALREADY BOUGHT MYSELF A HERMAN MILLER CHAIR FOR THE COMFY WFH GRIND 😩 REDID THE WHOLE HOUSE SETUP TOO 😩.
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can someone please tell me what’s going on with cursor? i tried it, it’s pretty terrible, how is everyone, literally everyone, praising and promoting it? is this a psyop??.
What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI?. My daughter has been learning to code with @cursor_ai and it's mind-blowing🤯. Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by @CloudflareDev Workers AI 👀
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software engineering for work.>i sleep. software engineering for my side projects.>grind until 4am. why must i be like this 😭 (stayed up super late like 4 nights in a row now, im tiredd).
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this guy literally always has the worst takes ever but he has 300k followers, what the hell
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LIFE WAS GOING TOO GOOD DUDE, it had to come down at one point, andy jassy, dawg, that 5 day RTO is how you're going to lose all your best engineers, amazon continues to maintain their reputation of shitty employer.
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5 day RTO news coming out the week before I join, i’m seriously considering going back to old job now 😩 man wtf.
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have a mortgage to pay though, so gotta still make bank, but honestly thinking of just doing my own startup thing, will let y'all know, going to spend today looking at opportunities, rock climbing, and balatro 🥱 lmk if y'all got any cool things going on in nyc.
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i’m so f’ing excited, literally my dream job ever since i played team fortress 2 for the first time a lifetime ago.
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guys he’s 13?! soon we’re going to have elementary schoolers flying to sf to network jfc how did we get here.
Hey guys, I'm in sf for the next week and I wanna meet as many people as possible! . Lmk if you wanna meet!
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guys game dev is so cool, it’s the perfect mix of code, aesthetics, and interactivity, i live for this shit
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see how the view counts drop so much per video, this is one of the most tragic fates that can befall you, lack of commitment.
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we’re gifted with god at our fingertips and the best use of it for a good amount of us is academic dishonesty 🥱 boring timeline.
Your future doctor is currently cheating on his exam using AI
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a single student at stuyvesant (nyc's top high school) built Talos, stuy's school management system, very disappointing that our taxes go to Oracle instead of any reasonable alternative.
NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.
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gf >> career. making that choice every fucking time boys.
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@Duderichy THIS IS TERRIBLE NEWS, RICH, DAWG, i was about to join amazon next fucking week, but BRUH im out, back to the quant mines i go.
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chat i’m working on my own vc startup now, cya until the series a or smth, was fun but i got work to do now ✌️.
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so many new friends, welcome welcome, today i post about almost getting expelled at cmu after hacking the dining system. it's a banger, i always love telling this story
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@202accepted yes, valve legitimately was (and still is) the only company i truly wanted to work at (think i’m 10 years too young unfortunately, and not cracked enough to make up that age gap atm).
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@itsmelodewyk ya did competitive programming, did math & graphics research, and competitive internships in college.
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guys this ad kinda disturbed me.
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i’m telling ya guys, chinese game studios are the future, they’ve been cracked long before this, there’s going to be a new era of video game dominance from our eastern comrades.
‘BLACK MYTH: WUKONG’ has sold 10 million copies across Steam and PS5. Approx $600M in revenue in just 3 days.
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@jouabr i fucking did dude, there is balance in the world and i should've known i was at a peak.
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we can have differences with politics and shit but this ain’t it dawg lol.
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@Geoffiam ahahaha not being able to get a job in wealth management, trading, or investment banking because of us government tax advantages, be serious dude. sounds like he’s crying to me.
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friend the ai necklace is cooked.
left today. proud of how far we’ve come and excited to see where they take it from here!. a new chapter begins.
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@HououinTyouma like actually i was about to hang out with the gf 2 days at work every week, it was a dream but now it’s just a big L.
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does the science math, guys? im a little weak on the spacey side.
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i feel like the indie hacking scene is everyone just trying to get popular on twitter, not really building anything useful, and then selling a course.
I feel like an imposter, so I have to be honest too. In the last 9 months, I've grown from zero to 2,300+ followers. I've launched 4 products. Despite that, I've made. $82. Yeah, the launches got hype and people say the products were amazing. But in the end, MRR matters.
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hope y’all make it in whatever you’re trying to achieve, much love always.
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my theory is that if i block enough of the ads accounts & X doesn’t have that many advertisers then i will no longer have ads.
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chat if i ever sell a course please just end me.
Alright, let's try this. 👉 Preorder: (Price increase every 100th sale)
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ngl seeing this makes me so motivated to write, i got the wildest stories too
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in fact i got scammed once in team fortress 2 a decade ago and i still remember his username, im too vengeful.
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@salinecrop in terms of the career? metrics and challenges scaling/maintaining such an architecture. in terms of ethics? i was really poor and i wanted to make money.
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@eliteplayzXD can go back but undecided, it's a good opportunity to see what i want to do, i have enough money to pay the bills for a while anyhow.
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@starshipneil NO but if im working from the office either way im taking the higher pay dawg.
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@ElminDev DUDE IM ACTUALLY OUT if this is real, dawg i will grind my ass for you company, but i want my 2 WFH days with my girlfriend.
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cause guys, im a great programmer, but dawg i'm kinda socially autistic.
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hi new friends, boon writes about his experience sports betting with the russian mafia
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cmu's stellic was also made by four students (it has raised $15M since)
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alsooo, wtf kids are doing this shit as sophomores in hs?!?! go live your life brother.
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