Lex: “Have you ever tried LOVING Ukraine?”
Putin: “You applied to be a professor at MIT didn’t you? And they only let you teach an adjunct summer course? That’s good. They are a serious organization after all.”
After seeing 150,000 people get laid off across other tech companies, Gary in Chicago (works 15 hour weeks, total comp $670k) wanted to make sure he’s still getting four day weekends every summer.
RIP Gary.
“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
Montesquieu said this 300 years ago. We’re still working on this one.
my typical day at Google:
9am - reverse a linked list
11am - count unique ways to climb a staircase with dp
12pm - lunch
3pm - help animal escape NxM matrix efficiently
4pm - invert a binary tree
5pm - commute home using Dijkstra's