LordHumungous

Easy problems are hard if you've never done them before. As a new grad, you can learn a lot at a "boring" job.

My favorite project in recent years was a little python service that I owned end to end. The rest of the company deployed into this god awful monolith but my service ran on a little forgotten AWS account where I had full control. Eventually they got around to eliminating that account, and I was out.

I used to have imposter syndrome. Now I just don't care. I do my best and whatever happens, happens.

ITT: People who don't understand American history getting all mad about something that has existed forever (Black entertainment) because everything must be a culture war battle to them.

What sort of product do you have in mind that would be for white people?

Yes, except for more recent African immigrants.

The reality is that most of the country remains extremely segregated.

Yes, Black Americans have their own culture from music to literature to TV shows like Good Times and the Jeffersons. This is not seen as a bad thing here, it has produced many great things.

Well I'd say straight up bigotry is something quite different. Dunno what I'd do in that case, sounds difficult.

The Romans emphasized respect for elders in the extreme.

Is it really that hard to just ignore these things when your parents say them? I have Republican parents and I just smile and nod whenever they say something crazy. It's extremely easy.

It's difficult because some people do face horrific abuse and are very justified in cutting off contact. Others seem to be narcissists themselves who enjoy being cruel to their parents. It's impossible to know who is who as an outsider.

Yeah it does seem like many of the "no contact" people are themselves childless. I doubt this is a coincidence.

So true.

Yeah and we still have video conferencing in remote world. I'm not sure why racism would cease to be an issue over zoom.

I don't have evidence to back it up, but I believe that the ability to use a whiteboard boosts innovation.

The art of saying no without saying no.

Definitely not.

That's a lot of words to say work sucks.

Nobody does 1500 problems. 100-200 is most common.

Software development

A while back I realized that I don't care about my career anymore: Promotions, politics, etc. I'm just going to work on what I enjoy. So far I'm a lot happier this way.

Get a job at a small no name company, gain experience, get a better job, repeat. That's how I got to Facebook.

Yeah I'm not surprised he's burned out after doing 20 interviews lol. You have to pace yourself. This guy sounds like the kind of person who bull rushes into things and burns himself out.

Yes this guy comes off as a bit entitled, but hey, the industry grind is not for everyone. I applaud him for making his own path.

Aka living the dream

So all the difficulties in engineering are due to "dicks" and "idiots", unlike like the author who is presumably the only clever person in the entire industry. Here is an example of one thing I actually don't like about this profession: too many emotionally stunted egomaniacs.

Decades of research! I hate how they can't just say we believe in diversity because that's what we value. There's nothing wrong with that.

"Tell me about an experience mentoring someone." would probably get better responses. Ask about DEI directly and people will just recite the woke handbook, whether they believe it or not.

I mean, what's the utility that I get from the network effect as a user? Lots of people that I barely know and don't care about are on it, great who cares.