Things that don't mean you're insecure:
✅ taking selfies
✅ posting about your successes
✅ being a perfectionist
Things that do mean you're insecure:
🛑 submitting personal information over a http request
Ali Spittel
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Ali Spittel
@ASpittel
- hot take if __name__ == "__main__": is one of the clunkiest lines of code tbh
- When I teach people to code, I see a lot more people struggling with problem-solving than the code itself. The ability to break a problem into smaller ones and then solve all of those smaller problems takes a lot of practice.
- Me to other developers: - You don't have to know everything - Have work life balance - you are awesome Me to myself: - You have to be an expert in all of the things - People work less than 80hr weeks? - at some point people are going to realize you actually suck at this 🙃
- Things that don't mean you're insecure: ✅ wearing makeup ✅ taking selfies ✅ dressing the way you like Things that do mean you're insecure: 🛑 storing passwords in plaintext
- If you're goal is to learn how to code in 2020, here's a thread of advice for you 👇🏻
- Hi, hello. I am recruiting for a senior C++ position. You must also know Rust, Kubernetes, JavaScript, PHP, and Brainfuck. We will give you $8 and 0 days off. But we have a ping pong table and also beer. Plz work 4 us after our 18 round interviews. Ur impressive.
- Dear Google Inbox, I miss your material design. I miss your bundles of emails. I miss your done button. I miss your GitHub previews. I miss your highlighted emails. I miss your bundled trips. I miss snoozing emails. Please come back 💔
- Stop using "he" as the pronoun for a generic programmer in your blog posts.
- Hi, hello. I am recruiting for a senior C++ position. You must also know Rust, Kubernetes, JavaScript, PHP, and Brainfuck. We will give you $1 and 0 days off. But we have a ping pong table and beer. Plz work 4 us after 18 rounds of whiteboarding. Ur impressive.
- Why would you ever spend a few minutes reading the documentation when you can spend a few hours randomly trying things?
- if we're using Meta for Facebook then Google has to be Alphabet so the new acronym should really be: MAAAN pretty fitting tbh
- Hey Friends, Learning to code was hard for me. So I wrote an ebook about what I wish I knew before I started. You can download it for free:
