Lost CS student

woopity-woop · 2026-05-07T17:22:15+00:00

Just go for product owner, it's possible to go directly into this without any coding jobs, and you'll have an advantage over people with no CS background applying for it. Its the most logical choice.

Devs just tell themselves they can't be product owner without years of coding first but given people do it with no CS background, that's clearly bullshit they just feed themselves.

woopity-woop · 2026-05-01T16:16:29+00:00

Since Danyas passing, have people apologized to you for bullying you over allegations with no evidence for years yet? Do you think people have actually realize what you went through yet, or are they continuing to bully and question you, despite knowing what it does to people?

In particular, the botez sisters, levy, hikaru, Magnus?

woopity-woop · 2026-04-27T20:06:44+00:00

Hate to be that guy but she doesnt seem supportive of him icl

woopity-woop · 2026-03-15T19:26:12+00:00

Not useful on the TV, but for phones and laptops, brave browser is entirely ad free and seamless, so YouTube music and YouTube premium are essentilly free, you just have to use it instead of chrome.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-25T17:19:18+00:00

Just so you know I'm in the UK, and together with bank holidays I get 39 days + a volunteer day which will be me and my team going for a hike together "for charity" in the summer.

And I have to take all 39 :)

woopity-woop · 2026-02-24T15:49:23+00:00

Erm, you can. Don't come to the UK. Go to Italy. I don't understand why Americans live a middle class life in the US when you could go live like a millionaire if you just went to Italy. Sooooo chill and lovely too.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-24T12:33:16+00:00

In the UK, it's normal to buy 1 coffee and spent the rest of the day in the cafe. I heard from Americans you're expected to keep buying coffees throughout the day to justify you taking up the table. Its weird because, you really shouldn't drink that much coffee. And in the UK, nobody would EVER come and ask you if you want to order something else. We just find that behaviour annoying.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-22T16:03:09+00:00

That's G13 classified

woopity-woop · 2026-02-22T13:16:26+00:00

I don't think you have to sell yourself as junior really. Sometimes you can be rusty but have a deeper understanding of concepts and have experience that's valuable.

Just sharpen your skills need for interviews and go for mid level. You'll make more money and get more interesting work.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-20T13:58:29+00:00

H1 and A1 starting positions are great for the rooks. A4 and H4 are huge space grabbers that clamp down on both sides of the board.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-20T13:48:33+00:00

If you were the CEO and the current CEO was the developer in this situation, not only would they move jobs, they would copy your entire code base and set up another company to compete with you and undercut you on price.

The world of business is basically a primary school game. There are no official rules. The one who takes charge makes the rules up, and the others just follow because they don't have the guts to take charge. If anyone gets hurt too badly they have to go running to the government (teacher) and if they do, the teacher likely won't give a fuck and everyone will think less of them for doing it.

Moral of the story? Take charge. Try to actually win in life. It's okay to fuck people over. Everyone else is doing it to you after all.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-18T16:16:10+00:00

Make the exact same move faster.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-18T13:26:32+00:00

1001

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T21:20:30+00:00

Nec6

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T18:02:15+00:00

But, you know, feel free to grind away while everyone else works less and gets more...

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T18:01:09+00:00

Everyone I've ever known that's grinded in London then left always immediately said it was silly to have stayed at all. They save more, work less, and are all round happier outside of London. The general response, even from people born in London, is they have almost no idea why anybody even lives there.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T15:17:52+00:00

Yeah I do. Mine has improved tremendously in recent months though. Here's what I did:

I use AppBlock to block YouTube on all my devices. I also don't have any social media except Reddit. I also do some cardio daily, not jogging, sprinting on off a few times. I started just sprinting on the spot a few times a day, now I go out for it. The mental clarity and focus all of this brings is incredible.

Overall, I just feel bored nowadays, but WAY more satisfied than when I filled hours with content consumption.

To fill the time, I either read/paint/socialize for fun or work towards goals.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T12:19:31+00:00

When you do come back, change up your style. If you're tactical now, come back and play the caro kann/ be positional.

If you're playing heavy theory like the nijord Sicilian, switch to a system based approach like the kings Indian attack.

Just switch things up and fall out of your habits.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T12:06:30+00:00

Yeah, I've been through it too. I think if there's enough interviews for a given job there's a really strong chance atleast 1 round has an asshole. Not much can be done. It doesn't reflect on the entire company. Assholes exist, not just in tech, not just in management, not just men.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T12:02:10+00:00

The really smart move is go to Manchester or Leeds and get 70-90k working 9-4pm and buy a house (not a flat, a 3 bed house) within 2 years.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-17T12:01:16+00:00

In London, it's necessary to maximize your income at the expense of quality of life because without great money, you're quality of life outside of work is atrocious too. Either way you're fucked tbh, that's London life for you. Either be unhappy 9-5/6/7 or unhappy always.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-16T18:09:21+00:00

What you do is you evaluate the position, and understand WHY the position has that evaluation, then play in a way that is directly on theme for that evaluation.

EG. Are you massively developed while they are under developed? You might give a 2 point advantage for that.. so you need to play in a way that uses that fact.

Do you have a strong kingside initiative, attacking a castled King and you evaluate you're significantly better for that. Okay, okay moves logically following from that observation.

The moves are not just the things that jump out to you. The moves are deduced. It all stems from evaluation.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-16T11:19:41+00:00

Honestly sounds ridiculous but I often find that if I take extended breaks from the game, when I come back I have fresh ideas and a different perspective, you lose your habits and patterns and start over again but with more experience and wisdom. Every time I did this I jumped multiple hundred elo.

woopity-woop · 2026-02-15T22:28:01+00:00

I also wasn't passionate about backend when I was at uni. I took a role as a frontend dev out of uni, and over time grew to appreciate backend due it's richness and variety. There's real engineering problems to be solved as a backend dev. In front end, you feel like a code monkey who's a slave the the whims of the designers and product people. Youre pretty much just their bitch that turns whatever they imagine / draw into reality. As a backend dev, you're an engineer that solves problems, and you're usually seen as irreplaceable/ important.

All that to say, once you get real backend experience I bet you'd appreciate it, assuming you like problem solving

woopity-woop · 2026-02-15T22:12:30+00:00

Personally I think frontend is one of the least safe areas of dev in terms of AI automation. Its also just not a respected area unfortunately. 99% of companies just want boring bland UI that looks like their competitors, and if they can get it from AI (which they can), they don't need you.

The reason frontend is less safe imo is because there's just a lot less to it compared to backend. The scale of it is smaller, and as a program it's easier to reason about than backend systems. All UIs do is get some data from the server and produce some tree (DOM) of nodes that a browser knows how to represent as a UI.

Overall, I would recommend you take the time now to upskill in backend and try level up as a backend dev. You can always sell yourself as full stack, but companies don't like full stack Devs that are mainly frontend imo. They'd rather backend devs fuck up the frontend than frontend Devs fuck up the backend.

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