Elijah Christian

@PersonalThai I can go to Japan and stay there for 90 days without having to deal with any extension BS or I can go to Thailand and stay only 30 days what Not sure they make it so hard for Americans to stay longer on Tourist visa

Thailand drop in rules, but not official yet since the royal gazette not publish them. But the tourism authorities in Thailand have done this.

@villi Well, for devs specifically Stackoverflow used to be a thing I'm convinced that X is a better pipeline for talent than linkedin at this point And by talent - I actually mean Talent

Over the past 15 years, I am frequently surprised that there is no viable competitor to LinkedIn.

@laike9m_ praying that apple does the same

据说 Meta 裁了一半的 designer

@strzibnyj US starbucks are great

I am seriously starting to like Starbucks as a brand. It's the only reliable place when you need a desk, wifi, socket, toilet or all of these at once. Not just in US, anywhere really, including Prague. I am tired of searching for local hip spots that are too 'cool' for all that. Yesterday I needed to charge my phone but this one cafe wouldn't let me because of 'liability'. Once I found Starbucks, I was saved. Still, the guy at the table would rather stand up and move for me to plug it instead of plugging it in...and I suspect... liability. Is liability so bad in the US you cannot plug a phone for a stranger as a kindness?

I'll need to go through and read this when I have time - but let's assume for the sake of argument that this is the case. 1. Where are the majority of these supposed "openings" concentrated? At first glance I can see there being an increase in the search for experienced talent. Not so much junior talent. 2. If we're supposedly seeing an overall uptick in the demand for new talent - how would this explain the current layoffs by FAANG?

@loco_coder @stressandvest

snark on faang all you want, but at one point they were training entire generations of junior engineers with their massive internship and new grad programs. now it’s so much harder to find proficient junior engineers bc startups aren’t willing to do the work to train them

What they should do is leave 😂 These retards are supposedly so intelligent yet they resort to an utterly ineffective way of protesting. How about instead of assembling a measly petition, you stop giving your time, energy and effort to a company that is actively trying to replace you?

NEW DETAILS ON THE META LAYOFFS FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING At least one employee who was hired within the past month was laid off today. Over 1,000 employees signed a petition against Meta's new program that tracks keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train AI models. Protest flyers were posted on office walls and taped to windows at the Burlingame office. The flyers featured a cartoon "Employee Data Extraction Factory" with cats in orange hard hats. Meta went ahead with the layoffs anyway. A new team led by VP of Engineering Maher Saba called "Applied AI and Engineering" is being built using the data collected from that employee tracking program. Roughly 2,000 employees have been moved onto the team so far. Those who joined were told they would be safe from layoffs. An email to managers described it as "a high priority initiative, directly from Mark." Participation was not optional. Software engineer Mack Ward wrote an internal post liked by over 2,000 employees: "AI is a freight train, but the future is not a foregone conclusion. Speaking up is never easy, but 'easy' isn't what you were hired to do." CTO Andrew Bosworth addressed concerns in a Q&A last week. His response: "It's all bad. I'm not going to try to sugarcoat that." Director-level employees were offered roughly $500,000 in additional equity to stay. Some refused and left anyway. In New York, employees gathered Tuesday night. The invite read: "Commiserate or celebrate, pick your poison." The title of the event: "Never a dull moment." Notifications went out starting at 4 AM in Singapore and rolled westward. Offices were mostly empty. On Meta's internal forums, hundreds reacted with salad emojis. Their way of saying salute. Mark now says no more layoffs are planned for this year. We will see about that.

@stressandvest You're correct. Hence why we need less of them. If one engineer can do the work of 3, you can see why we would need less of them.

@loco_coder wouldn't a junior engineer with claude code be even more valuable than before, and way cheaper than a senior eng?

@TheGeorgePu Not prioritizing sleep is just bad time management. Unless she's one of the rare people who can operate on low amounts of sleep - getting a full night's rest does wonders for your spatial reasoning capabilities and overall health.

Meta cut 8,000 people today. A survivor wrote about a teammate who slept 4 hours a night for months. Commits at 3am. Commits at 6am. IC4. Strong reviews. No PIP. Cut anyway. Working harder doesn't move you up the layoff list. You don't survive by being valuable to them. You survive by not needing them.

@endless_poor @Usoppu I joked one time that singapore was just wanna be Japan, and all the singaporeans (all 6 of them) got butthurt

@Usoppu It’s so mid to me If you want better value for money, Thailand beats it If you want more culture, Japan beats it If you want more adventure and super cheap prices, Vietnam beats it No reason to settle in Singapore imo

I'm convinced people would be 100x happier if they just lived in Singapore 🇸🇬

If you're looking strictly at raw intellect - the raw average is distorted simply because the brightest minds in tech tend to work there - no question on that. If we look at the median - I would say it's a 50/50 split, as there are plenty of FAANG transplants that gravitate towards them once they get laid off / leave their company. That being said - being "smarter" does not equate to job success, and there are so many more metrics when it comes to this equation such as grit, ambition, perseverance, and charisma. At the end of the day, however - an employee's success at FAANG will be determined at how well they play the political long-game. FAANG prioritizes meritocracy, but like any office job it is not immune to office politics. Those who game the system will do so in their favor, and in an environment where half of the population are emotionally stunted and/or autistic - I would argue it favors these types of people. That same strategy doesn't apply for startups - particularly very early stage startups with a small headcount.

the average FAANG engineer is way smarter on average than the average startup engineer if you think it’s a professional mark of death you’re an idiot

@Shangles @benwegmann It's only a 5-minute walk from Caltrain

@benwegmann $500,000 in San Jose CA

What $519,000 gets you in Dallas, TX 👀

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Does their severance package include getting a free 1-month trial of linkedIn premium?

@hispanicnomad Trust me - we hate it too. We put up with it.

US 🇺🇸 tipping culture has never made sense to me Why do I have to pay for your salary? Isn’t your employer supposed to do that? One of the main reasons why I don’t want to go to the US

@labubu_trader The ironic thing is that these are the exact type of kids that will (and need) to be replaced It's sad but its honestly just natural selection at this point

I’m mentoring a bunch of software engineers, both inside and outside the company. One thing I’ve noticed recently is how much pessimism has spread through this community about AI replacing our jobs. People who used to have ambitious career plans now seem to have stopped caring about career growth altogether. I’ve heard things like: suddenly losing interest in solving technical problems, staying in a job only for health insurance, actively getting electrician licenses(shit, I need to move faster before it's too crowded), etc. Despair, resignation, helplessness, confusion — we’re basically 19th-century textile workers waiting for our Luddite moment.

@ForgetfuP @ivan_kray @arblauvelt Don't waste your time arguing with this human trash

@ivan_kray @arblauvelt Read the room buddy. This tyoe of stuff is even worse than when atheists will randomly start an argument in the context of prayers/expressions of worship for those dying or dead. Time and place.

Brother Amin Abdullah was the security guard who was martyred at the Islamic Center of San Diego. He gave his life to protect the lives of countless students and congregants. One of his last Facebook posts said: "What is success? To many people success is financial stability, good reputation, beauty, etc. As for ME! Wallahi, thumma Wallahi. It is returning back to Allah OUR creator with the same pure soul he loaned me at birth. Having the Mala'ikah [angels] of Allahu ta'ala saying "don't fear and don't grieve, but receive the glad tidings of Jannah which you were promised by the Most forgiving and Most Merciful". May Allahu ta'ala grant us Husnal Khatimah, AAAAMEEEEN🤲" May the Most Merciful meet you with those beautiful glad tidings, oh Amin. You're safe now

The job market is cooked right now. I have a Bachelors in Computer Science from Stanford University, a dual masters degree in Quantum Physics and Applied AI Engineering, and an honorary PHD in Programming in Spanish. And I still can't get a job. Any advice?

@hispanicnomad Europe on American salary = cheat code

Living well in Europe 🇪🇺 requires sacrifices nobody wants to talk about If you love your city… Whether it’s Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Berlin, doesn’t matter… You basically have two options if you’re a normal person 1️⃣ Stay and struggle. Yes, you’ll enjoy the architecture, 400-year-old buildings, €3 beers with your friends, and culture everywhere you look… And then take home €1,200 a month after taxes at 35, splitting a flat with two roommates, and watching your city get bought up by people who didn’t grow up there This is obviously a very valid choice. Just one where retirement and financial independence are a fantasy and owning property is something your parents did Or… 2️⃣ Leave for a few years. Go somewhere the math actually works There are several versions of this. Some people go to Australia to work in FIFO, others become software engineers in Switzerland My version of this looks a bit different: Earn in euros or dollars, live on a fraction of what your home city costs, and save aggressively You could go to Paraguay, Mexico, Thailand, Dubai, wherever fits what you do. Since you make money online, you can stack money for three to five years And then… if you want… You come back with capital, options, and the ability to actually enjoy the city you love instead of grinding through it Look, I respect both choices. Both require sacrifice and have pros and cons But the thing is, most people aren’t choosing. They’re defaulting. They stay because leaving is scary, because their friends are there, because their mother would cry, because they read one article about Latin America being dangerous and decided the entire non-European world is a war zone That’s just inertia. And basing your life simply on what’s the easiest path doesn’t usually lead to happiness Are you actually choosing your struggle? Or is your struggle choosing you? Both paths cost you something: ❌ Staying costs you money, time, compounding, and probably your knees by 50 climbing four floors with no elevator ❌ Leaving costs you comfort, Sunday lunches with your family, and the version of yourself that never had to start from zero in a country where you don’t speak the language yet Pick your poison, but make sure to pick it on purpose I picked mine over a decade ago. I left Spain with almost nothing. Lived in 60+ countries since. Built businesses from Paraguay, Thailand, Bulgaria, Poland… that I couldn’t have built as somebody’s employee in Madrid for €1,400 a month Some days I’d kill for a proper menú del día. I still wouldn’t trade what leaving bought me. And if things go well, I’ll probably come back, to enjoy a MUCH higher quality of life The romantic “follow your heart and it’ll work out” line is sold by people who inherited apartments Everyone else has to choose