Alex Chiou

I just post random garbage - Don't follow me lol.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

Blind catch

#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch

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@rpandey1234 📈

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

Roll both Mavuika and Citlali 🙏

#MavuikasNewYearsGreeting #StandWithMavuika

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① Follow @GenshinImpact
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🎁The small surprise contains: Primogems ×30 + "Mavuika's Specialty Dish" ×1

Event Details: https://t.co/M3qRNH5ZpH

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

#zzzero #zzzSpecialProgram

[Zenless Zone Zero @ZZZ_EN]

🎁 #zzzSpecialProgram – Share for a Chance to Win Master Tape ×10

Dear Proxies, Zenless Zone Zero Version 1.3 "Virtual Revenge" Special Program will begin on October 25 at 19:30 (UTC+8).
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In this livestream, Mr. Z, Lady Meow, Tsukishiro Yanagi, and Lighter will all present the latest content for Version 1.3. During the livestream, as well as a redemption code, several lucky Proxies will also receive mystery gifts. Don’t miss out~

▼ Event Prizes
Master Tape ×10: 50 Winners

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▼ Event Duration
October 24 – October 26

▼ Event Rules
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[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

#ShadowRaids

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To help you take on Shadow Mewtwo, we’re giving away codes for Purified Gems if we reach 150k RT! To participate:

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If we reach our target, we’ll send participants a code for Shadow Raid–themed items!

[Pokémon GO @PokemonGoApp]

To help you take on Shadow Mewtwo, we’re giving away codes for Purified Gems if we reach 150k RT! To participate:

Follow us on Twitter
RT this post with #ShadowRaids
Receive confirmation reply

If we reach our target, we’ll send participants a code for Shadow Raid–themed items!

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

People wondering why talented engineers would go to somewhere as soulless as Big Tech when these companies are literally paying $200k+ to college grads.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

If your interviewer tells you that their life is perfect at the company and there's no problems, RUN.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

The most important debugging skill to learn is to rerun your build with 0 changes, desperately hoping that the issue will magically go away.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

Back when I was at Instagram, one of biggest projects we ever took on was making a single button twice as big. It took 6+ months, multiple tech leads, and layers upon layers of experiment analysis.

This is the roller coaster that is life at FAANG 😎

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

The first step to having good work-life balance at a massive tech company is fully accepting that you don't actually matter there. 😢

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The key to crafting an effective interview process at your tech company is to load it with stuff that the engineer won't actually do once they're on the job.

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The key to building a successful side project is to make something that you would use yourself. So even if it's a massive flop, you still have 1 active user 😊

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

The key to succeeding as an Android engineer is to ignore all the new APIs Google is throwing at you.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

The key to succeeding at Big Tech is to pump out some new feature nobody wants instead of maintaining the legacy service your team owns that's riddled with 9,000 bugs.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

Optimize your codebase for the new junior engineers that have 0 idea what's going on.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

The key to a successful automated testing suite is to have it be so flaky that the amount of time spent debugging the tests is greater than what it would have taken to just catch all the bugs manually with basic dogfooding.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

0% code comment coverage is 1000x better than 100% code comment coverage.

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

Why are you commenting out 1,000 lines of code, because we might "use it later" when we're literally using this thing called version control that makes this completely unnecessary? 😑

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

tfw you put out a stack of 10 beautiful commits for review but a major issue is found in the first, and now you have to struggle rebase all of them 😭

[Alex Chiou @AlexChiou]

You work to live, not live to work.

#im14andthisisdeep