Interesting. I feel like I can consciously choose to like or dislike people. Once you get to know people better, your image of them evolves, and the decision to continue liking them is made repeatedly every time that image changes.
When your initial chemistry/biology/whatever latches onto a person and you're powerless to change it? That's a scary thought.
>Maybe there are some weirdos out there that feels unconditional love isn't love, but I have never heard anyone say that.
I'll be that weirdo.
Dogs seemingly are bred to love. I can literally get some cash from an ATM, drive out to the sticks, buy a puppy from some breeder, and it will love me. Awww, I'm a hero.
I went to the U.S. and am making more money than I ever could have in Canada and living in a house that I never could have afforded. The tuition per kid that I’m paying right now for elementary school is more than my salary that I was earning in Canada.
The Canadian brain drain is real and that’s because the politicians completely fucked up what we had previously which was a dominance in telecommunications. Ottawa could have truly been a “Silicon Valley of the North” but they fucked it up and couldn’t get around the idea that you have to grow prosperity, not tax people to death.
25 years later the gap between Canada and the U.S. is immense in terms of technical excellence and I don’t regret my decision at all to leave. I’m not going to sit around and become a slave to the worthless politicians, both Liberal and PC so they can siphon all my wealth like the Matrix in some delusional belief that it’s “patriotic”.
Ah yes those cowards -- like all the multicultural immigrants that built Canada and have made it a prosperous country. Cowards to leave their counties, etc /s
They only want to see somebody who can get working code and a glimpse of their thought process. But from 100s of mediocre examples, the better coder will have a "better thought process."
Same goes for dating. Of course people will swear up and down they "only consider personality." Turns out, they've met 10 other people with a better personality than you.
Just because they're "only looking for x" doesn't mean they'll accept anybody that clears the bar.
The ultimate read between the lines though is that "oh I'm only looking for xyz, nothing superhuman" in a process where you have 10,000 competitors and applicants will still require high performance on your part. It's just a nicety, a meaningless phrase.
It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked deck of genius non-egostical binary tree inverters.
There's not a more pragmatic measure of whether somebody can code than a track record of a successful code project used by other coders.
Am I missing something or is the use of "GitHub" weird here? Are they GitHub employees? None of the creators seem associated with GitHub. They're _users_ of GitHub, nothing more.
In Canada big metro cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal), the spreadsheet will most likely tell you that you should have bought on sight instead of making a spreadsheet.
Tangentially related. I was trying to describe to a friend of mine how being discerning after a few years of experience means I do less work (or toil) for a better outcome, and why it's worth the higher salary I command.
Young me would've enjoyed the process of building a thing, ignoring problems like maintenance burden, how fragile or brittle the new tool is, lessons learned from the old tool, etc. etc. (you know how it goes)
Current me will take a task and mull on it. No pen to paper for _days_, preferring a minor adaptation to the existing process, or discovering that the desire was misguided in the first place. The work not done and wisdom to not do it is worth its weight in gold.
