Mohammed Sameer

Aspiring web dev | ❤️opensource | camera phobic😎

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

https://t.co/xGNdjZOJV9

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Two things
A) you assume people that don’t drink are lonely weirdos

B) you think that going out for wine is some irreplaceable social activity

Truth is there’s about 1000 other things you can do besides going and sipping poison together. You actually have more energy to do it if you’re alcohol free as well.

You should examine why this drug is so incredibly important to you.

[Kevin Heintz @AskCoachKev]

After 8 years in the gym, here's every fitness tip I could come up with:

1. Stop drinking alcohol.

[Pranav Reddy @pranavreddyg]

Time for some new rubber 🏎️

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[major tom @tailwiinder]

How to win in college

- Take studies very seriously. That's what you're going there for, at the end of the day.

- Make friends with people who are smart enough to keep your mind fuelled, but also stupid enough to not be found boring by everyone else.

- Be around people whose ambition you cannot even comprehend. Someone who wants to give the world an improvement that sounds comically impossible to achieve. Ideally, have such an ambition yourself.

- Do not be afraid of failure, and do not be afraid of harmlessly fucking around every now and then.

- Be fearless af, and become courageous - because almost everything you do to become courageous will come with little to no consequences when you're in college.

- Reach out to people who you look up to. Ask them to let you help them in whatever way you can. Keep trying while you also keep tinkering on the side.

- Become absolutely and ruthlessly in love with seeking knowledge when it comes to your domain. Everything that you cannot understand should make you restless. Explore the absolute depths of it.

- Let the world know of your explorations. Be yourself on this platform. You only need to show people ONCE that you are smart and know how to get things done. You will always be remembered after that.

- Contrary to what you'd like to believe, inconsequential failure goes largely forgotten on a much larger scale than you think. For example, if you announce that you are doing something, and you end up failing, people are not going to notice, and if they do, they'll forget it in no time.

So, make announcements. Announce your exploration, because if you win, you'd be the person who kept their word.

And if you don't win, you lose ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

It's time for the reckoning of tech twitter

Introducing Shiptalkers - find out if the people on Twitter actually ship code or if it's just shiptalk

Live now, let's see your ratios - starting off with @thdxr who tweets 302% more than he commits

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Women inhabit a different social universe.

This is why, when they enter male spaces, they assume they are being targeted for their sex. They simply are unable to grasp what the standard male experience in those spaces is like.

The female of the human species has a life experience that is not only unique among humans, but unique among females. It is a privilege that is unknown elsewhere in nature.

When a female human looks as if she in danger, or suffering, or being treated unfairly, other humans, both male and female, care about this even if they are not mates or relatives.

This is not typical. Females of other species typically do not experience this. Male humans do not typically experience this, and when they do, it's culturally trained in.

Altruism towards human females is genetic.

Why?

Because the human reproductive cycle is uniquely fragile. Giant brains require early development of giant heads, which means female humans have to evolve to deliver giant heads, and to deliver them early, while they can still pass through the pelvic girdle.

This means that not only do women have to have inefficiently wide hips, they also have to devote much of their development to a complex and fragile reproductive system.

And it gets worse. Infants, being born prematurely compared to other species, are extremely fragile and develop extremely slowly. Infant horses can run hours after being born. Infant humans can't even hold their own heads up.

Which makes women even more vulnerable. After all, if you're carrying a precious and delicate Faberge egg around, inside or outside your body, you effectively ARE that egg... because if you are handled roughly, it will break.

Obviously, this heavy biological price is worth it to the species, because it has allowed us to be smart enough to dominate the planet, but it has caused humanity to evolve with an Achilles heel... the fragility, and the indispensability, of women.

So how does a species like that survive under primitive conditions?

Simple. Evolve a genetic imperative... protect the women.

In no other species is this imperative so strong.

Tomcats don't protect and care for female cats. Why would they? Female cats can run and fight and hunt, even when pregnant, and their kittens can be left alone for hours at a time in hidden places.

This basic instinct to defend the Achilles heel of the species is so powerful that it impacts and shapes our politics and social culture to this day.

That is why men want male spaces. Because when women are present, they must always be protected, even when that interferes with the mission, or the social culture of the space.

Going on a 20-mile hike? Take women along, and it might suddenly become a 10-mile hike, or a 5-mile hike, because one of them got tired. Building something? All work must stop if a woman becomes upset. Playing a team sport? Well, you get the idea.

You have to understand that this behavior is compulsive. Even the precise same men who resent women's presence changing the space, will still feel compelled to protect women, and to change the space to protect women, even if they passive-aggressive lash out at those women later for invoking that instinct.

In other words, male spaces are spaces where men can just be people and not have to worry about being a stranger's guardian angel.

The reason that online male spaces have a higher frequency of this sort of lashing out at women is that men can't SEE the woman there, so the protective instinct is less likely to trigger.

There is a corresponding instinct on the part of women... to seek out, gravitate to, and demand this kind of behavior.

So the answer to "Juliebear"s question is simple.

1. Yes, men talk to each other like that.

This is not a special trait of men. It is the universal standard for strangers in competition, a standard from which only women are exempt.

2. No, we don't like it.

3. So what?

We have to put up with it anyway, because it trains us to be tough and not let things bother us. Because that's who we have to be for the sake of women.

If we are delicate and sensitive and cry, literally or metaphorically, not only can we not protect women when they actually need, or think they need, protecting, we would also not have descendants.

Because crying men give women the ick.

4. No, you are not different.

You can virtue-signal all you want by saying men should be protected, too, but that has about as much weight as a puff of warm hydrogen.

If and when a man elbows you aside to get to the lifeboat, or cries because someone said something mean and his feelings are hurt, you will find out just precisely how not-different you are.

5. This is the social order that keeps our species going.

Don't mess with it, or birth rates will plummet. Kinda like we see happening all around us right now.

[Let's Get Rusty 🦀 @letsgetrusty]

Good times are here :)

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

All HR departments in tech are now legacy, in India for sure.

90 day notice. 30 day ESOP exercise window. Relieving letters. Full and final after 90 days. All of this is legacy. Just the way that 'guaranteed employment for life' is legacy.

[When I say legacy, I don't mean 'bad'. I just mean that they are outdated in the new world being born]

Why? This should probably be a blog post but here goes...

The social contract between employers and employees that existed during our father's generation is dead. Employment for life is a laughably quaint concept today. While employment remains cloaked in feel-good PR, the employment terms are now purely transactional. We're family until it's time to lay you off.

But humans cannot live like this. They *want* a sense of meaning from their work. A sense of community. A sense of shared risk and adventure. A shot at great things. A mission. They want to sacrifice and be sacrificed for. There's a reason companies are projected as families.

Over the last two decades, company formation has become easier. You don't need much capital. Two coders and one angel can a company make. And so company destruction has also become much more commonplace. For every winner there are thousands of dead companies clogging the MCAs databases.

And the most adventurous and fearless have CVs that no HR could possibly pass on to the next round. A no name college and three no name companies.....ATS kryptonite. But 120 stars on github? Ignored. Blog posts talking about scheme - ignored.

And as we get more and more of these people in the workforce, they will inevitably form guilds and gangs and tribes. And these tribes work by word of mouth, by reputation, on handshakes. They do not have 90 day notice periods or ask for relieving letters.

We were in the minority a decade ago. Less so now. Wait till many of these people become succesful. Their HR policies will make any dyed-in-the-wool HR shit their pants.

Met a CTO like this yesterday. Notice period? Hand over your KT and leave. Two weeks tops. One week median. Best case two days.

Full and final? Two days after you leave the org.

Relieving letter? We didn't ask for one but if you want one for your next job here it is.

ESOP exercise window - five years.

Peope who work like this cross paths often. They play infinite, positive sum games. They pass goodwill on. They take your guild reputation more seriously than any HR bureaucrats rubber stamp.

The whole ethos and DNA of HR comes from industrial management of factory workers. It still had a role when it came to call centers and large services companies. Startups are an alien and hostile environment for this DNA.

This is the new world. And every HR org in the startup space must adapt or die.

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

8 years ago, Jensen Huang hand delivered to OpenAI, the first AI-focussed GPU made by Nvidia.

This moment marks the end of Intel's dominance.
It wasn't luck, it was deeper.

Jensen has said publicly that Nvidia 'did it' by religiously following 4 core values 👇🏻

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

You play doom with a CPU.
I play doom with CPU usage.

we are not the same

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Are you actually sitting there telling me that, in 2024, a significant open source project is using fucking Autotools instead of something like Cmake?

See, this is why I retired early from software engineering.

Because for every new job I took, the same conversation would occur in slow motion over the course of a year or three.

Foobar, Inc: Welcome aboard, Devon. We were really impressed by all the awesome super-smart stuff on your resume!

Devon: Thanks, let's have a look at this codebase.

{Sound of Devon throwing up a little in his mouth.}

Devon: Pieces of this code appear to have been thrown together by howler monkeys over the course of a seven-day cocaine binge.

Foobar, Inc: Oh, that would be Fred. Yeah, he's self-taught, and his code's a little unorthodox, but —

Devon: He has clearly never taken a single computer science class in his life, and his code is a crime against god, art, and nature.

Foobar, Inc: But he's just so fast. He got our whole version 1.0 written over just seven days!

Devon: I totally believe that, and it's the reason why we need to —

Foobar, Inc: Yeah, we wish more programmers were fast like him. Nowdays, everyone seems to take forever to do anything. Including Fred, for some reason. Weird.

Devon: Have you ever heard of something called "technical debt"?

When you write hasty code, you introduce bugs and accidental complexity. It's like borrowing time from future you. You have to pay it back, with interest.

Foobar, Inc: What an interesting concept. You are clearly very smart.

But we don't have time for you to be an abstract philosopher king, pontificating about theoretical concepts which obviously have no bearing on the real world.

We have new features to write. That seems to happen so slowly nowdays for some unknown reason.

Devon: It's because you are drowning in technical debt.

Foobar, Inc: What an interesting abstract philosophical concept that has no bearing on our reality. You are clearly a really smart guy.

But we can't test your theory, because the CEO expects 5,763 new features in next month's release, to fulfill promises he made to Important Partner Business, without consulting us at all.

Devon: This tech debt needs to be paid down sometime. You can't just put it off. If you do, the interest will inflict itself on the timetable for every new feature you write.

Has someone tried explaining the concept of tech debt to the CEO?

Foobar, Inc: We can't do that. He's a boomer. Also, he has the power of a god, and the emotional stability of a single mother with a crack habit and an Onlyfans account.

We find it easier to smile and present him with rosy scenarios, and then lay off a few scapegoats when we don't meet goals.

If only we could understand why everything takes so long these days. Software engineers must be lazy. Not like Fred. Let's put Fred in charge of the whole department. Maybe he can shake things up.

Devon: Hey, I spent a week re-architecting the BazTranslator component. It runs sixty-three times faster, and you can include new conversions by inheriting from this base class and overriding just these two virtual functions.

Foobar, Inc: How DARE you, sir? You were supposed to be writing new features! This is why progress is so slow. You spent a whole week without adding any new functionality! Don't you understand we are in crisis, here?

Devon: You are always in crisis. Have you tried reading this book of essays by Fredrick Brooks?

Foobar, Inc: Get that thing out of my face.

Why are you being so difficult? You should watch out. You're acquiring a reputation for being difficult to manage. You should tremble in fear now.

Devon: I could have a new job with one phone call. I am trying to help you, you silly people.

Foobar, Inc: Then stop being an abstract philosopher king and write features as fast as you can! Like Fred! Why can't you be more like Fred?

Devon: Fred made a whole set of structs containing raw untyped pointers so he could reinvent polymorphism in C, because he "doesn't like C++".

Foobar, Inc: Yes, isn't he clever? We love Fred!

Devon: And segfaults, apparently.

{Sound of major project hitting an iceberg, burning down, falling over, and then sinking into the swamp.}

Foobar, Inc: Another project failed. Clearly, it's your fault, wasting time with all your weird philosophy and refactoring code. We're going to lay you off.

Devon: I am actually relieved.

Appros of nothing, does your family carry a lot of credit card debit?

Foobar, Inc middle manager: Of course not! That stuff will kill you!

Why do you ask?

Devon: No reason.

{Sound of Devon retiring from a high-paying engineering career and writing a science fiction novel in his bedroom for nine months.}

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

mfs will make up an entirely new language just to not learn C

[Joel 🇦🇺 @ptr_to_joel]

If a GUI wrapper around curl has the courage to host a conf, you can make your side projects public

[Marc Backes @marcba]

Frontend developers when a new JavaScript framework comes out

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

Reminder: Barrier exists and it's awesome.

https://t.co/xBGrQoxplW

[Mohammed Sameer @sameeriron42]

What is meant by trickling ICE in WebRTC?( Interactive Connectivity Establishment)
why and how did we get here? Great explainer👇🏻
https://t.co/Ad5Xee5NRq

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

rip bram

love vim and am in perpetual thankfulness for what you built

[Mohammed Sameer @sameeriron42]

“The engineer is better served learning the fundamentals of software engineering instead of frameworks, languages or platforms that keep changing.” — @hnasr https://t.co/tyznruRYS8