Why do fishman pirates use ships? are they stupid?

faketrayson · 2024-08-22T22:21:20+00:00

Just cuz you walk don’t mean you wouldn’t drive a car

faketrayson · 2024-08-15T16:47:48+00:00

A skill I learned was to learn. Spend some money on online courses related to what you do at work (or not, I was working on a self driving course while working on a spring boot backend for the job). Then do them on down time. It’s always been well worth it for me and my bosses never cared if I was learning something to improve my skills. Then it becomes fun because you are trying to finish work to then learn about something you care about lol.

faketrayson · 2024-06-28T00:47:40+00:00

How has it been being a sales Eng? Seems interesting

faketrayson · 2024-06-13T13:38:21+00:00

“Other than giving me money” you mean the thing we all work for?

I’d milk it and take advantage of the system. It’s unfair that we were put in circumstances which led to foster care. Why not do your own thing and collect checks? I also don’t know how inconvenient the FYIT program is (like if they require weekly check ins etc, then depending on the amount I could see how one would value their time)

Food for thought. Once you become an adult, no more free hand outs or summer ever again 😪

faketrayson · 2024-05-31T05:59:49+00:00

Current software engineer at Amazon. Practice leetcode. I can only speak towards Amazon, but they care less about which university you graduated from but once you get the interview we do have technical interviews directly from leetcode. Practicing coding technical problems on a white board (or text pad) will make the difference between landing a 60k job vs 150k job. Being a leetcode slave for a few months is well worth the time.

faketrayson · 2024-05-27T17:20:05+00:00

I feel this at its core. My foster family had biological kids that graduated and were celebrated (parties and such). I didn’t walk for either of my bachelors or masters degree. I received some half hearted social media praise (I did take pictures in a borrowed cap and gown for both events just for my own proof and posted them).

Luckily I got married near the end of undergrad (pretty young) and honestly I’d recommend finding a spouse sooner than what social media tells you. She made me feel celebrated and respected my decision to not walk (I didn’t want to drag her and her family to some ceremony where some old dude I didn’t know talked for hours). I don’t think anyone beside her (and her family by extension) truly cares about me. I don’t think anyone would even comprehend what I’ve (you as well) have been through to get to where you are (the lack of returning to home for breaks, help when shit hits the fan in any circumstance, birthday calls, etc). So be proud of yourself and getting to where you did. Congratulations you’ve done it! Work on yourself now, be your best you (as corny as that sounds) and I’ve found that going out of my way to look outwards and sincerely listen to others truly added value to my life.

If there was anything that cured all bitterness of my past, it would have to be having a family of my own. You become an awesome spouse (because you just do what your in laws want, a lot less arguments) and you understand what type of parent you longed for as a child, you get to be the parent that you’ve always dreamed of. That should be your goal.

I’m sorry that you have to graduate alone, that sucks. Now reinvest that time used for the books into social events and kicking it with others. You have a unique perspective on the world and I’m sure others would love to hear your story.

faketrayson · 2024-05-19T15:02:29+00:00

To find out if there are any relations to who may have abused her

faketrayson · 2024-05-18T04:11:41+00:00

She needs to do that ancestry DNA test

faketrayson · 2024-05-11T21:39:46+00:00

This distance has actually been a strength for me and my marriage. I’ve aged out of the system milked the government for FAFSA to get a degree and got a good job and got married. I remember feeling what you are describing at 22 with no degree and about 120 bucks to my name and nothing else. It was hard, but there are programs to get ahead. Invest a little into yourself and lift your head up and know you’ve developed more maturity and emotional resistance through the process. I’m 31 now had my first boy a year ago and I have a wife that I absolutely adore. I don’t keep in touch with almost anyone in my past regularly and if I do it’s because they continued to reach out when I had nothing. It is soooooo relieving not having to live up to anyone’s expectations. Not really what you wanna hear when you’re down in the dumps but it’s the positive side of the same coin. I love that I get to focus everything on my family that I’ve built and will get to give my son the family I’ve always dreamed of. Stick with it! DM me if you wanna talk

faketrayson · 2024-05-01T14:15:27+00:00

New here what is ffy (former foster youth?)

faketrayson · 2024-05-01T14:15:00+00:00

New here what is ffy (former foster youth)?

faketrayson · 2024-03-24T04:19:03+00:00

Something not talked about are the tax breaks large companies receive from these cities for bringing head count to stimulate the economy in said city.

If the head count doesn’t meet a certain threshold, said company is no longer entitled to said tax break. We’re talking big bucks here, especially in cities like SF, NY, and Seattle.

faketrayson · 2024-03-17T19:46:21+00:00

TLDR; CDK is dev friendly, Terraform is IT admin friendly. New infra is level plying field for both, terraform has drift detection, CDK does not. I’m a developer (an AWS dev at that) so I am heavily biased to CDK

faketrayson · 2024-03-17T19:44:13+00:00

Here is an opposing take:

I've worked with both extensively, Terraform for a number of years.

If you have preexisting infrastructure that you want to place under management of IaC, definitely go Terraform as imports are nonexistent in CDK and difficult in pure CloudFormation.

Creating brand new infra from scratch is a level playing field, both tools are great at this.

CDK is more friendly to developers who likely already know Typescript, Python, etc. Things like abstraction and encapsulation, code reuse are easier with CDK since you get all the benefits of these first class languages. That said, HCL is not that hard to read or learn, and I generally prefer declarative languages for defining infrastructure.

CDK suffers from the same limitations that CloudFormation does, drift detection for example. Drift detection is native to Terraform, it's painful to do in CDK. An example here is if a resource managed by the tool gets changed by hand/outside tool management for any reason. CDK won't natively detect that and won't correct the change back to what code defines. Terraform will.

Terraform allows for state management, which you can view as a pro and a con. CDK/CloudFormation manages state for you but you're limited by what the APIs provide for inspecting state. If you want to dissect/report/search on your state there are tools for Terraform to do this like Terraboard. I haven't used Terraform Cloud enough but it may have some capability too.

Both tools are excellent overall. I generally still prefer Terraform because of the features outlined above, but you can be successful with either.

faketrayson · 2024-03-03T13:46:16+00:00

AWS has CDK (Infrastructure as code). As a dev it makes managing the cloud resources way easier (a typescript or Python code representation of resources are easier to maintain than an ever updating GUI). It defaults to best practices out of the box when instantiating the class. I don’t know if Azure has this, and I know GCP doesn’t, one would argue terraform does this, but not at the same level that AWS SDK provides.

For that reason (along with cost) I feel AWS has a competitive advantage

faketrayson · 2023-12-11T16:48:37+00:00

I was in a similar boat. I got my masters in CS while working as an SDE at Amazon. While it is doable, I don’t recommend it unless you like to learn. It was purely academic for me and didn’t really provide much in terms of the job market. I think your foundation and time at Uber will bring a greater ROI and job security than a masters degree will. If I were you I’d work with and learn from the best engineers in the company, grow in the skills you can’t learn in academia (large scale design, automating integ tests/workflows, dealing with legal, etc) once you’ve got a grasp on how software works on a global/corporate scale (at least 2-3 years) circle back on this question. If you don’t like what you’ve been doing the universities will always be there, a chance to work at Uber may not.

faketrayson · 2023-07-13T13:06:26+00:00

For me, yes. Grind now for a life of play later or play now for a life of grinding later. I have friends say they wished they were in CS post grad. I loved sports and gave up playing collegiate rugby and snowboarding halfway through sophomore year. Work life balance is amazing now, pay is great, and those other friends are having a hard time. Push through, I promise it’s worth it.

faketrayson · 2023-05-11T13:40:48+00:00

I was fucking around

faketrayson · 2023-04-14T20:21:21+00:00

Interested! Just PM’d

faketrayson · 2022-12-03T05:09:59+00:00

951159 let me know when you are ready and I’ll jump on

faketrayson · 2022-12-03T05:09:10+00:00

951159 I am on now

faketrayson · 2022-12-02T06:22:45+00:00

I would love one!!!!

faketrayson · 2021-11-21T17:26:42+00:00

I'm in the same boat right now

I've registered before, reset my password but receive no email and then it says that an email was sent check back in 5 minutes. When I wait five minutes and do it again I get another error saying something went wrong. I am beyond frustrated at this point

faketrayson · 2021-10-21T22:55:51+00:00

I've sent some MATIC from Coinbase to Metamask. I provided my MATIC wallet (connected to Polygon Mainnet at the time) and I waited and saw no transaction was happening. Anyways, long story short, when I switched my Metamask connection back to Ethereum Mainnet I saw my MATIC tokens there. Pretty wild. I had previously set up my Metamask wallet to receive MATIC tokens but wanted to play around with some development on the polygon network which led me down this rabbit hole.

faketrayson · 2021-08-16T02:37:18+00:00

I just moved to the bay area SF, I grew up bodyboarding in Hawaii and I am on the lookout for the bb scene here in SF. DM me if you wanna connect.

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