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I'm a Bay Area resident. I went to Costco today at 9:00 AM and it was an absolute shitshow.

Yes, I do.

Good question, and that's the main reason I prefer to own physical books over Kindle books. I know that I own a physical book, but a Kindle book can disappear at any moment. Kindle…

Go to the gym and lift weights or do some cardio.

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Problem Solving 101 by Ken Watanabe provides a toolbox of problem solving techniques. One method I've been using to decompose problems us to use a "logic tree". Start here: https:/…

If you're located in the Bay Area I'm up for it. Or even working together remotely. I'm somewhat junior (3 years of experience) but mentorship is something I've been looking for in…

Become a T-shaped developer. Have a broad range of skills with a deep expertise in one.

Oh look, a thread about my current company. I'm actually in a bug fixing team right now separate from the main product development team. It's an extremely difficult position becaus…

Should be titled "How to Ace the Technical Interview in the Bay Area". Even absolute shithole bottom tier companies or unknown startups are asking these questions. Write perfect co…

You need to chill bro

The books that I've read that have helped me immensely: How To Solve It, Problem Solving 101, 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, and Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.…

So basically you're asking for a HackerRank screening. In my experience, if your code doesn't pass 100% of all test cases you get automatically rejected. At least with a human inte…

Spaced repetition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition If you don't actively review this material you're going to forget it. I created my own study guide for data struc…

Technical interviews only test your data structures and algorithms skills and your actual work experience is mostly irrelevant. If you want to crack an interview, grind leetcode an…

The San Francisco Marathon (for 2019) costs $233 to register for the full marathon, and about $143 for the half. It's definitely overpriced here.

#2: Have almost too much self-belief. Self-confidence has been something I've struggled with my entire life, to the point where its crippled my career growth as a developer. I've b…

Read these two books: "HTTP: The Definitive Guide" and "Web Scalability for Startup Engineers".

That's hilarious and so true. Last year I interviewed for a senior back-end engineering position at a well known mid-sized company in the Bay Area. They put me through 2 technical …

2015 15" Macbook Pro. The screen size and resolution is perfect for coding and watching movies. Keyboard is super comfortable, the touchpad is the best of any laptop I've ever used…

You can't learn this in a book. You need to put yourself out there (in social settings) and learn through trial and effort. Much like reading books about weight lifting won't make …

I was given a take home project to complete as part of an interview process for one company. I was given 48 hours to implement a basic chat server in Golang. I didn't know Golang, …

Sci-fi - Ready Player One - Pattern Recognition - Burning Chrome - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Hyperion - A Fire Upon The Deep Technical (backend development + security)…

I'm a Bay Area resident but visited Austin for the first time over the weekend. It's an amazing city, but the locals were openly unhappy about any more Californians moving there. S…