timbits don’t hit the same when you’re not in a car. you need to be on the 401 en route to like belleville ontario for that chocolate glazed to really hit
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so much "this meeting should be an email" but not enough "this pull request with 35+ comments and counting should be a meeting where yall look each other in the fucking eye"
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screen sharing your entire desktop instead of just one window is a radical act of workplace intimacy
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today my uncle drove through over 7 checkpoints to the airport where the cell network is active so he could call us for 15 minutes.
he told us that people are running out of food. the streets are getting more violent. hospitals are inaccessible.
I've never felt this furious.
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DEVS: documentation isn't important! also it's easy!
MANAGERS: documentation won't get you promoted!
INSTRUCTORS: documentation won't get you marks!
when in reality the past 3 technical problems I've had to deal with have been because of bad or no documentation 😐
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silicon valley ceos all abt innovation n disruption until it’s time to sign off on the 4 day work week lol
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the way i write bash is i’ve bookmarked a very long bash script from some random internal repo and whenever i need to do anything i look at the script and copy syntax from it. pro move
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new grad engineer starter pack
- notifications turned on for every shitposting slack channel
- terrible work life balance
- your friends are your coworkers
- takes 5 hrs to do a 5 min task
- know a whole lotta NOTHING
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I remember how betrayed I felt when I truly understood that good programming just took some practice and some focus like EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD
and it wasn't some inherently magical skill you had to be born with and wildly passionate about
fuck gatekeepers.
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kind of Hate it when ppl say “ack” to me at work like pls i am a human being not a tcp packet
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want to be an intern again. work on something well scoped out and high impact and technically interesting, have to talk to minimal people, get to work with an interesting mentor buddy, no interviews, no on call, no "q4 planning" meetings. just a beautiful time overall
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sorry to corny post but i love my neighbourhood. the sheer joy in being able to get to a coffee shop, bakery, hardware store, library, park, subway stop and gym in less than 10 mins by foot hasn’t faded in 1.5 yrs of living here. this is basically my dream scenario
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I will say out of all the personas dudes in tech adopt—reply guy, sous vide guy, hiking guy, keto guy—the least insufferable guy is the Bread Guy
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the indian government has incarcerated an entire fucking state. and the world is simply watching on.
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all morning I've been looking at pictures of the streets of my home flooded with troops next to pictures of people waving indian flags celebrating in the streets of delhi.
in the name of hindu nationalism, the kashmiri people have been dehumanized. their will means nothing.
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...years of serial interning have finally come to an end
i'm working at @stripe now💃
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here's my hot take for this morning: instead of having an interview prep workshop for university kids, have an interview design workshop for tech companies
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me: what do you call coffee that's so good you can't quit it
you: uh how about—
me: VIM HORTONS
you:
me: i said YOU CAN'T QUIT IT
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here's a secret for all u kids in college, engineering teams are saving all the interesting shit for their interns, once you start full time it's basically downhill from there
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me, programming c++: i'm afraid to compile this because everything will break
me, programming rust: i'm just gonna compile this because the compiler will tell me what to do, FRIENDS FOREVER.
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thinking of giving up on writing sql queries and simply screaming at the database until it gives me what i want. this should work i think
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some personal news
after many binary tree traversals, moving a rabbit optimally across a field of carrots, and a surprisingly fun conversation about goroutines, i have a new job: i'll be joining an SRE team at google ny!
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mingled exasperation and amusement as i watch my sister write 200+ lines of c++ without compiling even once and then be utterly shocked when g++ prints out approximately 12 pages of compiler errors when she finally deigns to run it lmao
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landlords everywhere are pieces of shit but none more than the ones in roncesvalles, a bougie ass beige clad boring cesspool of generational wealth. anyways i love the revue they deserve better than this
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top ndp leaders after doing jack shit for 2 years except ousting sarah jama from the party for her outspoken support for palestine the morning after their worst election defeat in 3 cycles: "and we'd do it all over again"
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"but won't you be sad and isolated if you work remotely?" person wearing noise cancelling headphones shouts while shivering in a 68 degree open office
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me: gonna stop tweeting about tech and start tweeting about desi culture, books, and baking to diversify my following☺️☺️
twitter: today u were followed by one (1) node js dude, several rust programmers, a brown guy who also wants to know where you live, and a blockchain startup
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thinking back to when my prof said “if your code is slow you can’t just run it on a bigger box in the real world” as i run my slow code on a bigger box in the real world
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honestly idk if i recommend this but life got radically better for me once i stopped expecting any tech company ever to act with an ounce of integrity.
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being an engineer is a trip sometimes you’re just minding ur own business not paying attention in a meeting n some man will go “if we don’t index by this field i will SIMPLY DIE” and i’m just sitting there thinking... bro calm down
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can u imagine if the suez canal ppl did a sprint retro for the last 2 weeks like “what went well, what didn’t go well, what are key takeaways for next sprint”
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at least once a week i think of how deeply messed up it is that if u work in canada/US taking more than 2 weeks of vacation at a time is basically unacceptable
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i'm just here waiting for a knope/shellstrop showdown nitter.app/ShinraAlpha/status/960…
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I actually didn't get the whole "it's so easy your mom could do it" thing in tech because my mom taught me C++ & is the family gadget nerd.
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had a conversation with @b0rk about how fixing bugs is fun and interesting yesterday. today i'm the proud owner of my own memory leak bug. life comes at you fast.
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manager: you did good
me, deflecting: mmm yeah could have been better though
manager: YOU DID GOOD
me: OKAY OKAY OKAY I GUESS I DID
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i work with some senior engineers who are really smart and respectful and even funny (yes, funny) and they take every dumbass question i ask seriously and never take up more space than they should in meetings and apologize when they mess up. why arent more of u like this lol
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definitely something miserable abt going to a bowling alley with your coworkers on a tuesday afternoon only to find that the only ppl in the lanes next to you are...amazon software engineers... also on their corp offsite
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tbh junior engineers would learn lots more if senior engineers did less posturing and more mentoring—and perhaps more importantly, if this was actually incentivized by the organization!
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u aren’t required to tweet their support for palestine but if u regularly tweet abt every hot button political issue to make ur personal stance known and have been dead silent while hundreds of thousands have taken the streets this week... yikes aha
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yesterday my dad was saying my mom's food makes him feel high and i was like dunno what that means sorry then he said it's like taking pot and I was like what's "pot" and then he patiently explained what pot was to me like he'd created the world's dumbest 23 yr old god bless him
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no one in the world except canada knows that today is election day in canada. this is how it should be lol
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the thing about working remotely is that..... sometimes your job doesn't feel real at all. somehow my job has made it possible to shift around stripe traffic while in my pajamas waiting for my laundry eating dinner for breakfast
that's just wrong
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kid in the park absolutely losing her shit sobbing her heart out bc her stupid parents refuse to take all the ducks home. haters
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baby sis is learning C and every time I help her out w her homework I have to resist the urge to tell her to throw the whole fking language away because it's so stupid
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all senior engineers do is say shit like "we need to vertically scale" like they simply cannot bring their smart brains to say "use bigger box"
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cbc toronto currently workin overtime to make sure y’all don’t know mississauga showed the f up today ❤️
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something i think about a lot is what a luxury it is to grow up somewhere and never be forced to move away. no good way for me to explain this other than i feel like a half person most times. the rest of me is in kashmir and i can’t let it go, even as i barely recognize it
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yesterday my little sister made fun of me for using vim instead of vscode so if u'll all excuse me i'm going to go cancel myself
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i have this fantasy of not having a job and dedicating my life to painting silly little cards for my friends and learning a abt islamic history and spending 5 hrs cooking every meal and tending to a vegetable garden and going to crossfit and buying expensive clothes
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currently reading a long ass book named anna karenina abt this girl named anna karenina and it's been *checks notes* 17 chapters and she still hasn't shown up
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i've been programming for a few years now and i'm still prone to thinking "three hours of programming" is 3 hours of non-stop typing and not 1 hour of staring at the screen, 1 hour of talking to myself and waving my arms around and like 20-30 minutes of actual typing
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saw this video of a man trying to dig his children out of rubble after a bomb hit their home, shouting “you shouldn’t be dead before i am”. honestly.....am not okay. this is so fucked up
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life comes at u fast one min ur writing a google doc at work next min people are referencing it like it actually means something. sometimes i’ll just say anything man doesn’t mean that it’s true!
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im in a really bad place right now, not mentally, just got followed by like 50 dude programmers
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missing my binary sort red black tree days…..some of the hardest problems at my job now are like ok how do we get this one group of people to talk to this other group so that we can all agree on how to accomplish one pretty straightforward piece of work
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some lessons from helping my sis learn to program:
1. teaching is so difficult. especially when ur clearly able to see the solution the person you're trying to teach...isn't
2. it's so rewarding 🥺 just want to chuck my whole life away and teach people forever
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hello! I'm VERY ready to graduate and get myself a kitchenaid, so I'm officially looking for full time SRE/infra roles starting next summer (remote/Canada, have worked remotely before).
read more about me at arshiamufti.com/about and DMs are open if you want to chat!
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i had to write node js for the first time in my life and I can confirm and tell u js programmers are fucking gods and and i would now love to crawl back into my primitive golang hole and never come out
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infra engineers everywhere feverishly writing “what waffle house and the suez canal can teach us about incident response” conference talk proposals to submit to an oreilly conference lol
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me: I should step away from this code and come back to it with a fresh pair of eyes in a few hours
me:
me: or I could stare at my code and will it to work
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participating in technical meetings in which i contribute ideas, raise questions that make people go "🤔 good question" and answer questions in turn is
- WILD
- a place i never thought i could get to
- i never want this feeling to end
- omg
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sometimes being an engineer is being told that hashing is the same as encryption by a group of random dudes who make like 6x more than you and you have no choice but to be like “okay”
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u know what you really have to hand it to the rust ppl, everyone complains abt verbosity and lifetimes and how there’s 3 string types or w/e but this is the first time a group of compiler developers were like hmmm what if we? created a compiler? assuming a human is gonna use it?
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in lieu of an eid outfit I want u all to have this video of me rushing to finish decorating my eid cake to the tune of the gbbo soundtrack
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if ur understanding of the response to covid has been limited to the US/UK/Canada, there is no way to properly comprehend the depth of mismanagement and covid denial that has taken place in India
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hazards of working in infra include spending over an hour debugging insidious bugs in go and questioning the fundamentals of computer science, why you even have this job, and ultimately, life, itself,
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became a morning person for the sole purpose of vibing in bed reading and drinking tea for a solid hour before i even get up to shower. it’s the most powerful feeling in the world to wake up and realize you don’t have to get out of bed
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ok i’m just learning england has never won the eurocup before…ok then what the fuck is coming home??? colonizer mindset lmao
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an incontrovertible fact is...everyone in the us and canada grew up eating subpar chocolate. chocolate here just sucks lol. idc about “mars bars” or “snickers” what i want is a cadbury dairy milk wrapped in gold foil that i can buy for 30 rupees
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*half way through my mock interview*
me: you know it would really nice to cache these results so we don't have to keep paying the cost of a...holy shit this is a dynamic programming problem
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i cant believe how long i've been sleeping on cabbage. keeps for days i.e. a single person's dream, perfect for the best type of salads (punchy and crunchy), incredible when seasoned properly, it's really doing so much for us, the humble cabbage
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nothing quippy to say today.
today is eid. I can't talk to most of my family. many kashmiris are at home. they don't have eid qurbani. they can't visit each other as is tradition on eid. others are in hospitals, injured because they dared to venture out and protest occupation.
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sometimes my sis asks me what I do day to day at work and I say some impressive shit like "orchestrate and optimize stripe in a cryptographically secure way" as if I didn't just spent 3 hours of my youth hunting down a fucking http header using 17 log statements
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whenever i don’t call home for a couple of days my mom texts me “may god bless u”. that’s it. nothing else. ice cold downright brutal vibes. i deserve it
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this blog post by alice goldfuss contains some of the most useful, no-bullshit, and actionable advice I've seen on how to deal with impostor syndrome: blog.alicegoldfuss.com/slapp…
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do u need
- binary tree traversed?
- a robot moved around on an infinite plane?
- a linked list implemented?
then CALL ME.
#interviewprep
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everyone in my life who has a cat and regularly posts cat pics to their social media is doing me a huge personal favour
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gonna start saying "omg don't u know it's ramadan" in the same way that a white guy in first year once said to me "omg how have you never watched star wars" you feel
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today is off to GREAT start
- woke up early
- walked to williamsburg bridge
- breakfast ft. flat whites next to the water
- got to work before 9 am
i will accept applause in the form of likes.
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my mental health is tenuously propped up by my instagram engagement, regular exercise, warm baths, moving jira tickets to the done column and ppl “liking” me n i think it’s beautiful how when one of those things fails the rest topple like beautiful dominoes lol
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