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Please let me know what startup that is so I avoid it at all costs.

Sounds like they care more about process. Process-centric companies tend to not do well in the long run.

Everyone is bad at everything they haven't tried to do. You can be good at anything. I can't ride a bicycle but if I wanted, I could be good. Just gotta go and do it. Unfortunately…

I had a 3 and 2 year old when I prepared for interviews and I did alright enough to get a job at a FAANG (and it's not Amazon). I took about 2 months and blocked some time every si…

Not quite but almost: Leetcode doesn't evaluate programming proficiency but ability to solve complex and abstract problems using programming. Doing so doesn't require being good at…

Wrote it in C++ too a while back (5 years ago ) https://github.com/tlextrait/2048

Airline pilots are professionals, car drivers are just trying to get somewhere... paying attention isn't their full-time job. Also building autopilot software for a near empty 3-di…

It's not because we achieve more with less code that we write less code. Instead we want more. Doing speech recognition would have been unthinkable with punch cards... plenty of th…

Get married maybe

I think your inability to find a developer position has nothing to do with your ability to develop. I recruit for my company and the most important is how you sell yourself. Every …

That service already exists, look it up on Google.

I agree, most of the ideas listed either already exist in some shape, or have no market at all. One issue is not just identifying problems one has, but identifying problems a large…