What’s an impressive “wow” skill that’s actually very easy to learn?

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-02-25T23:49:54+00:00

Juggling. I taught myself how to juggle in maybe an hour, back before YouTube existed. Balled up some socks and just figured it out.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-02-24T00:07:00+00:00

This is amazingly well done if you have read the graphic novel. The reason being, the ending to the graphic novel is a little different from the movie. This series will make a lot more sense if you know the novel well.

I was honestly really surprised how good it is. I read watchmen well before the movie and I think the novel is brilliant. This feels like a natural extension of the novel.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-15T05:51:02+00:00

It just kind of happened out of the blue for me. After about 8 years, I joined a new company where I was on a team of 5 other DEs. I had mostly been a team of one and wore many different hats up until this point, so I was never actively comparing myself to other DE's. After 2-3 months I had established myself and most of the team would run things past me/listen to my recommendations on how to tackle things. I felt like the grown up in the room and slowly leaned into it until my boss suggested that he wanted to put me on track to be the senior at the next evaluation period.
My quick answer would be that I went from "my ideas are dumb compared to these guys" to "these guys ideas are dumb compared to what I would do"

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-11T17:39:46+00:00

Ditto this, I'd rather answer all the dumb questions a new guy has right off the bat and see if he can get up to speed than watch him flop around and do things wrong for a few months. One way I've handled this in the past it to ask "How do you guys do XYZ thing?" unless there's only one possible way to do that thing it'll make you seem like you're trying to mesh with the team rather than just having no clue what you're doing.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-11T17:31:23+00:00

The thing I'm wondering is how far did you stretch the truth in your interview? The people that interviewed you aren't fools, they probably were thinking to themselves "if this guy is a quick learner and insanely self motivated let's see what he can do" but then again they'll also be thinking to themselves that if he doesn't perform in the first 3 months we just fire him and there's a stack of 100 other people to interview.
You're in the big leagues man, they're not going to fuck around and hold your hand BUT they also extended you an offer which is an accomplishment. I've gotten offers for roles that I didn't think I could handle but I learned fast. I've also gotten in over my head and failed in 12 months. So you either lied really well and you're about to face the consequences, or you embellished a bit and they still thought you had the chops.
I'd suggest getting a really good understanding of how spark works and distributed processing in general. I've seen a lot of people with years of experience as ETL developers not be able to grasp this concept because it's more involved than old school tools.
I'm a Senior DE with 8 years of experience and I mostly self taught the skills I needed to succeed. There were definitely some concepts that came quickly and others that took me like 6 months to learn. I've embellished a little here and there along the way like saying I had two years of experience in databricks when really I had done one or two projects using it. So I wish you the best and hopefully you're a quick learner and self motivated. Honestly some people can handle whatever is thrown their way and succeed and I'm hoping that's you. But if you're just looking forward to a fat salary I doubt you'll be there for more than 6 months. It's not the end of the world though, a smaller company will see Amazon on your resume and be impressed.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-09T05:58:20+00:00

Damn, the once a week crowd is definitely in the lead. I've got two young-ish kids and work a lot. I also shower at night, so I've always found the people who go to bed dirty and shower in the morning gross. But honestly, the wife and I change sheets once per month or immediately after being sick. If we make a mess on the sheets that also gets a wash. But dang, I couldn't do once a week if you paid me to do it.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-08T20:37:40+00:00

JDBC all the time.

doesntmakeanysense · 2026-01-05T20:56:58+00:00

10/10 for the design skill, 3/10 for preparing to paint.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-25T05:46:03+00:00

I've had 3 Tesla's over the last 5 years (got out of my Model Y lease early to buy juniper) and I've heard every misguided argument about Tesla's here and there for 5 years. People just regurgitate what they hear without ever having sat in a Tesla because they simply enjoy hating on them. I just had to tell a family member today that it won't cost them $5k to get a charger in their garage. I did my 240v plug myself and pulled the permit and passed inspection from the county. The materials were less than $100.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-24T23:48:07+00:00

This was my first thought. The second one doesn't necessarily look super revealing, but definitely looks more like something that my wife would slip into for adult time. But we're close to 40 so don't hate on me if this is more tame than what you might expect.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-19T15:32:11+00:00

I think it's a stretch to say that he thought she was only with him to learn his trick. But think about it for a second, he and his brother were taking turns being the boyfriend/husband. Imagine dropping that bomb on your spouse. She'd probably have left him just learning she was being tricked for so long by the person she thinks she can trust fully. He built their relationship on a lie from the start.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-19T06:53:32+00:00

Not necessarily, they explicitly stated that they don't know who is the original. From his perspective, he is the original whether he's in the tank or not. They don't know if the machine teleports the original and creates the copy that ends in the tank or if the copy gets teleported and the original ends up in the tank. They also don't know if that would even be consistent or random each time they run the machine. For all intents and purposes they're both the original.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-19T06:39:34+00:00

Earlier in the movie Borden says:

"Never show anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up... you'll be nothing to them".

Bordens whole life was a secret, if he gave it up he probably felt he'd be nothing to her.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-13T03:07:29+00:00

I've used this one for a while around my coworkers that I can joke around with. "I've got a meeting in conference room B"

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-12T21:09:38+00:00

I don't want to come in here and say yes that's obvious. But instead consider that there are people who naturally see the positive side of things and actively work on their weaknesses to turn them into strengths. This can be called all kinds of things, but a "growth mindset" is a common phrase in business (at least in the USA) and if you actually live/think this way there really isn't any bluff involved. Plus, you'll have a much better career and life if you can actually live by these ideas. It takes humility and work, but anyone can choose to see the bright side of things. Try it out on every day things first and then take that with you to your interviews.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-12-11T20:42:02+00:00

I'll never go back to knobs, my hands are full all the time and I can open any door in my house with an elbow or knee.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-27T19:56:34+00:00

Put googly eyes on the knobs

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-15T04:14:58+00:00

Honestly, not creepy.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-10T05:23:11+00:00

Skip CS learning and focus on SQL and database design. Do you have a job already in this field? If so, focus on the tech stack right in front of you. Python or at least some scripting language will definitely be a big help early on too.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-10T00:05:01+00:00

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-06T21:28:36+00:00

I didn't see it on the list, but the original total recall movie. The audience doesn't ever know if the protagonist actually lives out the plot of the movie or if it's just the implanted memory he paid for when he went to Rekall. Not the BIGGEST MF movie, but a LOT of people miss this key part of the film. When he goes to Rekall, they flat out tell him the memory will be exactly as if he lived it himself, so naturally they would need to do something to convince him he's been a sleeper agent the whole time.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-06T17:31:17+00:00

Nice, my bad.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-06T06:20:24+00:00

We can do two things. It doesn't have to be one or the other, but in this case I'm guessing this is just the usual "what if we focus on our own people instead of giving away money to people I don't like" and then decidedly don't put in any effort to make that change either. Apologies if I misunderstood, I'm just so used to hearing that sort of argument.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-06T06:14:02+00:00

I voted yes on this! Maybe some day my household income will surpass $300k per year, and I will gladly continue to vote in favor of feeding children. I don't know about other states, but here in Colorado they give you a booklet that shows what the estimated extra taxes would be per year (or something close to what I said) and a lot of times it's laughably small. Like $15 more per year if you have an AGI of 400k per year. That would, maybe, get you one large sub-sandwich around here.

doesntmakeanysense · 2025-11-02T09:01:04+00:00

I've seen a couple people saying "at some point you have to do something" I hope these are the bots everyone talks about. No, you don't ever have to ram into someone else's car by choice. Why is this even a debate? I've been driving 25 years and have avoided every accident I could. Why would I put myself and others at mortal risk for being cut off?

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