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cs at ETH Zurich | prev dev at hft

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

it’s funny because this is genuinely the best approach

Simply not thinking about stressful situations makes you less stressed

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@maruushae The main point of match cases is for pattern matching (i.e object destructuring), not for normal conditional flow control

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@martin_casado tf is an infra folk?

[Tony Chau @SaskioLoL]

league of legends will humble you faster than life ever could

i watched a 35 year old man cry on a coaching call last month.

not because of the game. because of what the game showed him.

he's a senior manager at some tech company. makes $180k. has a wife.

has kids. everyone in his life tells him he's smart. successful.

"got it figured out"

he's been hardstuck silver for 6 years.

six fucking years.

in real life he can hide. blame the economy. blame his team at work.

blame circumstances. tell himself stories about why he deserves more.

league doesn't give a fuck about his salary.

the game gave him a number. that number said "you're silver" and no amount of corporate titles changes that.

that's what broke him.

not the losses. the mirror.

here's what nobody tells you about this game.

it's the only place left in modern life where you can't bullshit yourself.

your job? you can coast for years and nobody notices.

your relationships? you can blame the other person forever.

your fitness? you can tell yourself "i'm just big boned" until you die.

league? you queue up. you play. you get a rank.

that rank is a blood test for your soul.

your decisions. your mechanics. your mental.

your ability to stay calm when 4 strangers are inting your dreams.

it's all measured. quantified. ranked against millions of other players.

and you can't lie about it.

i've seen doctors who save lives get gapped by 16 year olds who skip school to play.

i've seen lawyers who argue million dollar cases get mental boomed by a mastery 7 lux missing every Q.

i've seen CEOs who run companies rage quit after getting solo killed by a vayne top.

the game doesn't care who you are out there.

in here you're just another player getting humbled.

most people spend their entire lives avoiding mirrors.

they build careers where no one questions them.

relationships where no one challenges them.

friend groups where everyone agrees with them.

league players get humbled every fucking day.

you think you're good? someone better shits on you. humbled.

you think you've improved? you hit masters and lose 3 in a row. humbled.

you blame your team? you watch the replay and see 20 mistakes you made. humbled.

over and over. daily. the game dragging you back to reality.

that's not a curse. that's the most valuable thing you'll ever experience.

because humbling is just learning with extra pain.

the 35 year old manager? he hit gold last week.

not because he got better at league.

because he finally stopped lying to himself.

the game will humble you faster than life ever could.

Study the Saskio way

[Rage ❉ @ragecvlt]

Don’t let them see you..🧿

[La Défense YIMBY @BarneyFlames]

"We don't hire juniors" is highly anti-social imo, firms with this kind of policy should be shunned by the industry

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@tarunnx @codewithimanshu @ChShersh And how do you think that buffer is allocated 🤔

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@TobyPhln Any plans on hiring grads?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Testing reveals speed, not depth. Real life is about depth.
RIP Jim Simons

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@cb_doge @elonmusk @xai Heard you guys were going to do grads and intern soon, is it true?

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@zeddotdev when are we getting support for notebooks :))

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@quant_arb Unsurprising, mean is a row operation (with axis=1) on a column major data layout

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@NUMAresearchco @idro___ I don’t think so, its a row operation while the data is column major

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@theskilledcoder This gotta be ragebait

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@timgedenk Probably stems from something deeper. I’d bet on bad interview process, companies so focused on testing if candidates can think outside the box. They’re forgetting to see if they can think inside of it x)

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@_vatsadev @arb8020 Not even, a lot of quant ones have underwhelming pay after first year ( since its sign on heavy). E.g squarepoint pays less than big tech

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@tanay_mehta Similar experience here, scrappiest and least technically demanding process I've ever had. As a bonus got some interviews rescheduled with 2 minutes notice :))

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@EEricoh @Feliciamtang @raiku_dev Not worth dwelling on it, ig I just didn't appreciate getting compared to a hinge match after putting 3 rounds in their mediocre process

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@Feliciamtang @raiku_dev Hmm, did 3 rounds with you folks, and I didn't get any feedback. This was after having an interviewer doing the most scrappy system design interview ever ( no virtual whiteboard or anything ). Also, after you guys rescheduled my interview 3 times x) forcing me to do it at 11pm x)