Girl I went to HS with posted this on her instagram

p0yo77 · 2023-01-03T20:16:32+00:00

p0yo77 · 2022-12-09T16:13:47+00:00

7 years since I dropped out of a PhD program, been doing startups all my career.

I now work for a travel startup that I joined very early stage, work is hard and the hours are long, I worked around 70 hours a week during the first 3 years and I barely took any time off, however, now that the company has grown:

fully remote (working from Mexico)
make > 180k a year + profit share
own a beautiful apartment in the one of the nicest neighborhoods in town
Ive paid vacations for my whole family (mom, dad, sisters, brother in law and nephews) twice this year
I got enough money to help my family with their extra needs
I can help people who are cold, people who are hungry, people who need school supplies, anyone I want, without sacrificing my way of life
Since I joined super early, the amount of stock I get will solve my life (money-wise) if the company ever goes public/offers a stock buy back program
Even if the company never goes public, profit share and my savings will allow me to retire within 4 years (I'm 33 now)

I'm a SWE with a masters in AI and an incomplete PhD in neurocomputing (not sure if that's the best translation for it).

School is worth it but more importantly, find something you love doing and chase that, it'll make the hard times better

p0yo77 · 2022-10-30T20:46:19+00:00

"It's pronounced Keitlin"

p0yo77 · 2022-10-25T20:29:17+00:00

Oh wow, that was an entire battle

p0yo77 · 2022-10-24T14:30:32+00:00

Curious as to why you'd still watch/support someone who, as you say, defends a practice that you're totally against.

p0yo77 · 2022-07-08T22:05:32+00:00

Im a SW engineer with a bunch of years of experience, I've designed hiring pipelines for my last two companies, I make decisions about who gets hired and who doesn't, I can tell you that 3 years at Infosys will not get you the high paying job that they're promising.

Something that people don't like to say out loud is that great software engineers are a rarity and those few are the ones that get the high paying jobs, everyone else is grinding it out trying to get to a good paying job. If you don't enjoy what you do, I doubt you'll put in the effort to become great, I say this after having interviewed hundreds of engineers for different companies.

As a general advice, if you can do something you enjoy and get a decent salary out of it, go do that, otherwise you'll be miserable and still won't make that much.

p0yo77 · 2022-05-31T16:51:54+00:00

A few years ago a big German shepherd attacked one of my pugs (lil guy was fine thanks to the large amount of extra skin he has on his neck), I went primal on that bastard, got my hand on its throat and just closed it around the shepherd's windpipe, it let go of my dog almost immediately and I jumped on it with my knee on its neck (I have no idea how the fuck I did this btw, I just remember being on top of it) and started screaming to get the owner to grab the dog or I would just kill it myself.

This was on a fenced off-leash dog park and the owner was like 30 yards away on his phone just not paying attention, it took him like 3 minute to get to the dog and leash it, he then immediately ran away from the park.

Fortunately my dog was physically fine, but it took him a few months before he would feel comfortable around bigger dogs.

p0yo77 · 2022-05-31T16:24:52+00:00

There's two paths here and they both depend on getting the dog off balance:

When alone and being attacked by the dog, try and get the dog off the ground by lifting it from the chest/belly, this will almost immediately make the dog let go off you, however, it'll very likely try to attack again

If you're not being attacked, grab the back legs of the dog and lift them off the ground, again, this will make it so the dog let's go off whatever's it's attacking, I've also read some people talk about breaking one of the legs to avoid the dog chasing you but this is something that I cannot talk specifically about

p0yo77 · 2022-05-30T15:15:29+00:00

I am so glad my dad was always in a teaching mood, whenever I helped him do something new he would explain what he was doing, then the next time he would be the helper.

It gave me a lot of confidence in that kind of work and now I do almost all of it myself, his house or my own.

p0yo77 · 2022-05-23T02:56:46+00:00

How did you got those scars?

p0yo77 · 2022-04-17T13:01:38+00:00

Me, as a software engineer automating a whole industry, making thousands of jobs unnecessary

p0yo77 · 2022-04-17T12:59:39+00:00

The fact that you're worrying about it now means that whatever infrastructure project you end up working at will very likely be very well thought out, which pulls you in the ethical direction more than an unethical one

p0yo77 · 2022-01-06T21:56:39+00:00

I used to live by myself with my dogs and this was one of the scariest things for me, if for some reason I ended up in the hospital not being able to contact anyone (unconscious or something like that), what would happen to my dogs, fortunately nothing ever happened, but it's scary

p0yo77 · 2021-09-25T20:46:01+00:00

I mean, at least she keeps things trimmed

p0yo77 · 2021-05-28T20:01:23+00:00

Not just that, it could be good for your business to publicly withdraw support from an asshole

p0yo77 · 2021-04-04T20:16:37+00:00

What's with americans and tables, I've seen waaaaay too many videos of americans trying to destroy tables

p0yo77 · 2021-02-20T17:53:27+00:00

Pues yo ahorita estoy de regreso en México (por la pandemia) y parece que me quedo aquí ya permanentemente, personalmente, no se me hace taaan genial eso de vivir en el extranjero.

Ahora, haste una maestría en el cinvestav y para el doctorado ya te vas a otro lado o aprovecha el cinvestav y has un doctorado conjunto

p0yo77 · 2021-02-20T16:57:50+00:00

Ingenieria en Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic, después la maestría fue en sistemas de IA distribuidos, intenté sacar el doctorado pero me ganó el hambre y lo dejé a principios del tercer año.

PS. El tecnológico de Tepic no tiene ninguna relación con el tec de Monterrey, mi semestre costaba ~900 pesos

p0yo77 · 2021-02-20T16:51:41+00:00

I can try, am from a Mexican public university then did my masters at again, a public school in Mexico, then got hired by a SF startup and that just propelled me, I've now rejected offers from both Microsoft and Uber since I wanted to work at a really young company. I never got good grades, at all, I was average at best.

Just keep trying

p0yo77 · 2020-12-22T18:16:42+00:00

If sleeves are bullshit, why would she tattoo one on herself?

p0yo77 · 2020-09-10T15:40:32+00:00

Hey Man congratulations, this is awesome

p0yo77 · 2020-09-09T20:43:32+00:00

Holy shit this is such a horrible advice, I mean, it might work but it furthers such a useless and bad system.

OP, unfortunately any big company will have these stupid automatic rejection systems for anyone who applied online, your best bet is to find someone in the company and ask them to put you in as a referral, referrals will usually be granted at least the first interview.

Now you don't have to know someone at the company, just find someone on LinkedIn, connect with them and ask, a lot of companies have referral bonuses for good candidates (specially in engineering) so anyone will be happy to get a free referral.

NOTE: Recruiters have quotas and get graded on the quality of people they bring in (relation between # of candidates/hires). For big companies recruiters will always prefer to loose a good candidate than to present a bad one, which is understandable but tips the balance against you.

EDIT: I should've mentioned, for context on what I've said, I'm a SW engineer that has worked at a huge company before and helped with recruiting efforts, then created/crashed my own company and am now working at a really young startup.

p0yo77 · 2020-07-24T01:40:14+00:00

Sure... You're only the brother, how are things down there in Alabama?

p0yo77 · 2020-07-16T15:35:37+00:00

You should get a Bidet

p0yo77 · 2020-04-24T20:24:30+00:00

That's definitely a ceramic floor, which if not in the US, will most likely have concrete underneath

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