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>I cannot for the life of me figure out how people smart enough to work at a FAANG company would subject themselves to this kind of psychological dog and pony show. $300k+ total co…

What are creativity and leadership classes?

>Generally, I don't see a lot of these "snakes" out in the real world You don't seem to understand why the term is "snake" in the first place. Of course you don't see them. They're…

I went to Hong Kong earlier this year, and I was amused by how there were luxury watch shops seemingly everywhere. My first assumption was that they were for laundering money out o…

Plenty of people have been harmed due to their wealth. Does that mean you would rather be poor than rich?

Technically there are no intrinsic human rights and it's up to us as a society to define them.

>a senior developer, by definition, will hit the ground running with mostly anything you use. that's the senior part in senior developer. a senior developer also gets to be picky i…

>Yes. Because mainstream is what you should select for when choosing your tools. Ease of hiring experienced developers should absolutely be a part of selection criteria, but of cou…

>As I said, smart people are everywhere (on the Internet), just reach out and they'll help you. Well, maybe it was easier in the 90s - or maybe not, I don't know - but I'm 100% sur…

>As you said, I am sure some people dont need this though, and somehow just have limitless time or already somehow know exactly what they should learn next, when, and in what order…

The most brilliant and successful engineers I know don't have degrees, and they accumulated their vast CS knowledge on their own. They all dropped out of college within the first t…

Tech has been a profession longer than you or I have been alive.

Soccer is a huge deal outside of the US.

>Yet I don't feel guilty saying negative things about my life or being depressed on occasion. I do, especially after traveling. Holy shit do we have it good here.

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I wish everyone felt like we do. Most people with comfortable (or better) lifestyles who have never endured suffering could never imagine themselves homeless. For the record, I've …

I paid $1200 for a maxed-out 2015 13" MBP at the beginning of this year, and I would recommend that in place of a new MBP for most people. It was unopened/brand new, from a certifi…

Not to mention access to amphetamines if you're someone like me who burns out easily without them. Fortunately it's completely trivial to get them legally in the US.

The primary middleman ethnicity for restaurants where I live (Southern California) is Korean. There's lots of Korean-run places for the following non-Korean cuisines (in descending…

>Just the thought that through a few twists of fate I could have been born in some totalitarian nightmare state is enough to give me chills. I'm curious about this line of thinking…

We won't. I'll see you all in Western Antarctica. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/future/images/3/39/%21.j...

I know someone currently doing a CS MS so she can get into tech. She is good at math, so all of those classes are free As for her. She has other people help with her programming ho…

Sooo doing some exercise 2 hours before sleeping and not spending my last waking hours on my laptop did it. I got more than 7 hours of sleep for sure, and...also woke up feeling ve…

I don't exercise regularly, and I really should. My issue is I always feel too tired to exercise in the morning, and I feel like I have trouble falling asleep if I exercise in the …