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arshia
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arshia
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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"
- ok on the downside it’s tuesday but on the upside this is where i’m working from
- screen sharing your entire desktop instead of just one window is a radical act of workplace intimacy
- senior engineers love to drop in meetings and say shit like “why isn’t this idempotent”
- 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.
- 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 😐
- silicon valley ceos all abt innovation n disruption until it’s time to sign off on the 4 day work week lol
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- kind of Hate it when ppl say “ack” to me at work like pls i am a human being not a tcp packet
