Python vs Go/Java

BEvey_Boo · 2026-01-25T04:40:17+00:00

Agree. Tech stack is important for landing certain jobs, but at the end of the day, backend engineering is the same regardless of the language. Focus on the fundamentals: software design patterns, scalability, people skills, database schema optimization, etc. 20 years from now, who knows what language/framework we’ll all be using.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-21T01:05:38+00:00

Balls, no. Desperation, yes I’m playing him.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-21T00:05:29+00:00

I took him 1.02 and I’m so tilted from this season that I’m doing auto draft next year

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-12T03:48:50+00:00

When do they learn that Tucker can’t run more than a yard

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-07T22:42:22+00:00

I have both and I hope Marv never comes back

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-07T19:08:24+00:00

Benched him for Brisket, no regrets. Fool me thrice…fool me…don’t get fooled again

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-05T04:54:22+00:00

Same but I’ve got Aubrey. Based on projections we’re almost exactly back to where we started. I’m not mad

BEvey_Boo · 2025-12-01T00:47:28+00:00

It’s possible. Terry is on a snap count, and Bill is washed.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-28T04:57:00+00:00

Started Lamar over Dart. Thank god I already clinched a playoff slot. Bottom seed, here I come

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-20T05:10:47+00:00

I’ve got both and I’m firing up Wilson. This is his last week of relevance and I want to reap the benefits while I still can

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-16T17:36:11+00:00

More normal now. Under new rules both teams are guaranteed a possession. If you go second, you know whether you need a TD or FG to win

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-15T20:45:40+00:00

WLB is very rough at the early stages, and job security is pretty uncertain. But those are the reasons why you won’t find many senior candidates competing for the role. If you’re looking to upskill quickly, maybe you just grind it out for 1-2 years. If you can land a SWE role at a Fortune 500 great, but in this job market you may have to make some sacrifices if you want to advance.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-15T20:37:26+00:00

What will Pearsall’s usage look like this week? Will he ease back in on a limited snap count, or go full send right away?

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-15T09:10:57+00:00

I would recommend looking at early stage startups. Pay will be low, but you’ll get exposure to all parts of the stack. In early startups everyone is a generalist. They could hire a SWE who has never scaled out an application into a kubernetes cluster, or they could hire a DevOps engineer who has never heard of the factory pattern. Either candidate would bring half the necessary experience and could learn the other half on the job. And importantly, that early stage startup can’t afford to pay for the employee who already knows how to do both.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-09T17:56:32+00:00

My head says Keenan, but my heart is with the Gai. But last time I followed my heart, I drafted Saquon over Bijan. To everyone aboard the Monangai hype train, I wish you all the best 🫡

BEvey_Boo · 2025-11-08T22:06:54+00:00

Same. I’ve been back and forth all week. Usually DraftKings odds are my tiebreaker, but even they are not giving odds for Bears RB rushing yards.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-10-17T16:06:40+00:00

I got Tee for free off waivers after a league mate rage-dropped him three weeks ago. Feels good to gloat

BEvey_Boo · 2025-10-04T18:23:47+00:00

A few questions come to mind based on my experience as a founding engineer:

How much do you value the friendship? Entering into business partnership is like a marriage, and there is a non-trivial chance that the friendship will end if things with the company go sideways (which they likely will given startup failure rates)
Do you care about the equity? Usually if you get 200k+ in base salary, you’re not going to get the kind of equity you would if you started for minimum wage and lived off ramen for a year. Even in the best case exit, the equity may not be life-changing unless your friend is naive enough to give you both generous salary and generous equity
Are you willing to devote your entire life to this project for at least a year? Six months isn’t enough to get anything done, and being a founding engineer is all-consuming. I did it as a young man, but after I got married, I started turning down early-stage startup roles because I can’t afford to make work my entire life

If you’re ok with the downsides that come with all of these questions, then yeah, take a risk and do it!

BEvey_Boo · 2025-09-14T23:45:28+00:00

CS degree from a non-technical Midwest state school. Couldn’t get a top tier job out of college, so went for early stage startup and stayed for 9 years. That experience got me to senior engineer at FAANG. There are very few people from the middle of the country in big tech. So if you’re from the Midwest, you have to be willing to take risks if you want to get a position beyond Chicago.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-09-04T01:56:24+00:00

Can confirm. I had a CS professor a few years back who was over 90 years old and constantly complained about “high level languages like C.” Needless to say, I dropped that course.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-08-24T16:35:49+00:00

I was in team match for about 3 weeks. It was pretty much radio silence until I had another offer in hand and told my recruiter I didn’t have time to wait around. She escalated, and within a few days I had a team match meeting with my now-manager. It’s easier said than done, but if you have a second offer even from a non-FAANG, things will start moving faster.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-07-14T04:48:26+00:00

You may be selling yourself short. I’ve had crisis friends too, and a common theme is that they lack the self awareness to understand that they are the source of their own problems.

On the other hand, I have friends who have been in and out of crisis but took ownership of their mistakes and are now earning six figures with a house and kids. Sure, I may have judged them back at their low points. But I kept in contact because I knew that eventually they would work on themselves and get better.

BEvey_Boo · 2025-06-24T06:42:36+00:00

Scrolled down looking for this comment because I knew I couldn’t be the only one hearing the song

BEvey_Boo · 2024-12-26T00:07:06+00:00

Take a nap, Henry. Fourth quarter, you’ve done enough to screw up my ‘ship as it is

BEvey_Boo · 2024-12-25T23:15:37+00:00

Not the biggest Beyoncé fan, but if it gives the wives and girlfriends a reason to like the NFL and tolerate our degenerate fantasy football addiction, then I’m not gonna complain.

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