vivek

just like every other thing in life, it simply boils down to a skill issue

[vivek @149in44]

The actual problem is that the average Indian tends to view everything as a zero-sum game, resulting in a chasing of mediocrity.

I recently started contributing to OSS as a beginner (been 1 month), and here is what I have experienced about current indian devs in the OSS:

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[major tom @tailwiinder]

C'mon guys have some self-respect and some dignity when it comes to open-source.

If you keep turning open-source contributions into some sort of a competition and commit low-quality, pointless nonsense, it's going to ruin the reputation of Indian devs as a whole.

Show some respect for OSS, understand their cause, their purpose, the reason behind thousands of engineers working for free to make software better.

By all means, take all the time you need to prepare yourself, but don't ruin the future of devs who take OSC seriously.

Do you just want to be known as a mere cheap labour outsource in tech? Or do you also want to be able to show the world that your knowledge has some depth in it?

People are going to stop taking Indian devs' curiosity to explore open-source seriously if we keep doing this nonsense.

Be serious. You have a responsibility.

[major tom @tailwiinder]

“Worldly race may riches chase,
And riches still may find them, o!

And though at last they catch them fast,
Their hearts can ne’er enjoy them, o.”

[suckrates 🇵🇸 @shifaphrenia]

find beauty here for me pls

[vivek @149in44]

X is the worst thing to happen to tech

[vivek @149in44]

@notmunib @ANCHITH33882 @SacredSourceAth Dm please

[vivek @149in44]

@chrisdadeviant Send sir

[vivek @149in44]

What did you get done this week?

[major tom @tailwiinder]

I don't follow youtubers who primarily focus on leetcode stuff because DSA is a very fundamental concept of programming that only requires you to spend more time with it.

These people are hell bent on giving you hacks and strategies and roadmaps.

I have rarely heard any of them say "spend some time with books like CLRS, spend some time building an intuition for data structures and approaching algorithms, etc"

They are so focused on giving you sheets and roadmaps and interview-gamification techniques that they FORGET what the entire foundational ideology of CS is.

It's your career. You can't expect to win by continously hacking the system. You actually have to explore it deeply to move ahead. This is the path you chose. Getting the foundations right is literally step 1.

If you keep taking shortcuts - at one point, you will watch yourself build a bubble out of your career and it WILL burst sooner or later.

[Manu Arora @mannupaaji]

“Can we hop on a call?”

[vivek @149in44]

Learn from first principles.

[vivek @149in44]

when Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Spotify, Instagram, Slack, and TikTok didn’t even exist.

[vivek @149in44]

Just joined a startup where the founder's been grinding for over 20 years, pretty much my whole life

[vivek @149in44]

Asking the right question ⁉️

[Abhinav @Abhinavstwt]

How he built facebook without Next.js and TypeScript

[vivek @149in44]

@tailwiinder I love when major tom talks about anything other than tech

[vivek @149in44]

Where you live is the single most important decision you make

[vivek @149in44]

@Afeefuddin2004 make one open source alternative of x

[vivek @149in44]

that's so fucking hard bro

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

introducing the @omidotme hardware team

[vivek @149in44]

Does @cluely work for linux?

[vivek @149in44]

Saving this in case this SF internship works out. Amen! 🙏🏻

[vivek @149in44]

@119off61 What's in for me sirr