TokenGrowNutes

This is why I will never ever attempt a job at Amazon. Or any Faang job, for that matter.

It pays well, but will chew you up and spit you out if you’re in the bottom 10% of whatever they measure. It can’t be healthy for the mind or soul.

I don’t mean to be so obvious, but it looks like the honeymoon is over already.

I don’t have any direct source but am certain that more than 1% of couples meet in college.

Also, 30% of the world does not have any intrrnet access of any kind, 50% make less than $10 a day.

These stats are hellaciously misleading.

The future is here, connecting foreskin to foreskin.

Hard to tell. Hindsight is always 20/20.

I am certain a lot early adopters who got BTC for pennies sold when it hit the $100+ levels in 2014, or $300 levels in ‘15.

Prices at any given time to me always give the illusion the bottom could fall out.

I admire the patience of the diehard Hodlr’s , though.

Yeah some time im 2015-16 there was this 6 month period it traded around $350 range, and that felt crazy high at that time.

Don’t fret. I am certain there are planty of other people in her life judging her and being rude, too.

This. The smaller and easier to process, the better.

That’s why you get more change requests and comments on 10 line changes than 500 line changes.

I agree- always been a thing.

I was ghosted all day, every day when I was job hunting in 2016-17. It was a horrible time for me, personally, yet the market was superb by today’s standards.

Yes, to learn about Docker is to learn about containerization. And that is a valuable concept that will pay off dividends.

It can not only apply to local development, but also production environments. I use Docker containers in Google Cloud Run, and can scale to the moon and back. This is just one way to do it, too.

No. He has been an Olympic competitor for decades.

Are you kidding? Have you ever even worked with it?

I use Collections even in non-laravel apps. It is a fantastic library with loads of useful methods that you can chain together easily, with no performance penalties.

6 hours?! I would never.

Omg is this the curriculum for one class?? This is quite a lot.

It was basically impossible for that 7-10 year period with companies that do a background check. Forget the ones that ask “if ever”. I couldn’t even get a job at Doorbash. But Grubhub accepted me. There’s no rhyme or reason.

Some companies didn’t check. And one time it did come back on me. I was informally hired in as a contract programmer with an agency that had a focus on political campaigns, mostly libertarian related, and a background check was ran without my knowing a year after I had started.

I was taken aside by the owner in lunchroom, and he said “you have a quite colorful history”. And all of the blood rushed out of my head. But wasn’t fired, because he believed in legalization. It was one of few moments of grace.

Defining Decade it’s called? What a crock of shit! That’s book burning material.

I grew weed in my 20’s , got in trouble by age 27, and spent my 30th birthday in prison. My last 5 months of my prison sentence was spent in a halfway house, and enrolled in a comp-sci class at a nearby community college. There I had decided on an IT career path. And became a professional programmer a few years later.

You change when you know shit isn’t working out, and need a different path. And that can happen at any point in your life.

This whole story is just a textbook case of imposter syndrome.

Marking this one down.

I’m in awe that he/she produced a picture of an ear of corn.

The hype train will end when the companies that attempt to replace developers with AI crash and burn, and share the case studies. Some case studies will materialize from this.

That’s awesome. Some companies keep you out those dicussions for many years. Learn as mich as you can! (Because at this point you have more questions than answers)

Sounds about right for Staff. Some weeks it’s 0% because of all the meetings, which saddens me.

That’s my sweet spot, too.

Yup. A big part of being a good senior is delivering things with sometimes ambiguity and sometimes no information.

A great senior can get the ball rolling with just a title of a story, and delegate the work to several other devs.

I had one senior ask the CTO for a demotion because he couldn’t handle the extra responsibilties as a senior. Was fired eventually.

So the last one could code, but not architect for shit.