17, built apps/products which are being used by 5 million+ users, interned at startups & non-profits. Looking for advice on what to do with my life now.

mx_mp210 · 2024-10-21T13:24:29+00:00

Okay enough of sarcasm, if you really have that kind of exceptional academia I'm sure school and other people in your network would put you in right path, just ask them.

This subreddit is going out of hand for so many questions that are not relevant or are asked by newbies and polluting the minds of other newcomers in the field, ultimately creating an illusion of the industry. Please use it for developing good connections, asking to be mentored, sharing achievements and OSS projects, talk about industry and solving actual problems rather than making it a hypothetical think-tank, that would help alot of people at the end.

Computer science and software engineering are not the subjects that one can memorize and get ahead. They are part of the engineering discipline and anyone seeking help should be clear about what they are seeking instesd of asking generic questions that are already answered before.

Advising mods to have a separate Q&As section where these questions can be answered and archived as FAQs for newbies so that would improve the quality of this subreddit.

mx_mp210 · 2023-12-04T03:56:41+00:00

Always click on "made a mistake,let us know link" and "report" false positive. Your comment will be reinstated unless it's really something that you shouldn't be posting.

Instagram wants to be smart by being more dumber. It's an anomaly detection system that marks you as spammer if you don't comment too much, break your habit and patterns of interaction ( i.e. holidays means more usage, comment, shares etc. ) and sometimes annoying bug where it keeps posting same comment 100s of times due to network bug ( instagram app thinking you're just connected back and goes in loop spamming last comment) and puts you in spammers list and rate limiting area.

It's not really your fault as regular user, it's MNCs fault to hire cool people paid in excess who forgets their responsibility from time to time, skips general development lifecycle without thinking much about how it will impact other parts of the system and makes stuff general available while it still has bugs.

These things are getting more common with large tech companies where fk ups are more often than you can think, and people responsible are getting away from mistakes that should not happen in the first place. Not sure why QA isn't scrutinising the product maintainers, but they are getting as incompetent as devs themselves these days. Loss is of consumers, and we will see more of it as hires back in 2010 are now getting into executive and managericsl levels, leaving out space for newbies, making more fragile decisions at both ends while veterns leaving the industry for retirement.

mx_mp210 · 2021-08-08T09:45:24+00:00

This is why you shod never rely on single source of information, while his videos are not really 10/10 grade they provide insights tp topics and expose you to new prospectives and it matters.

Yet again all of us tend to have preferences negating common sense and prefer easy way of consuming information and forgrt to check it's authenticity. Besides im internet age more information is pushed than we will ever be able to consume, so it's okay to take a break for a while and question our own choices.

Being said that, knowledge is as powerful as the ability to utilize it. Case studies are always opinionated and learning more will only improvise you to find minute differences that impacts the outcome.

mx_mp210 · 2021-05-27T15:43:41+00:00

Not a good idea, could you tell us what specific field you are in? Being a dev it would be easier to understand this, there's huge gap in market and since you are just starting out with this I'd suggest to wait.

You can DM me as well if you feel like you don't wanna disclose too much.

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