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developer relations manager @Visier , but also speaker + engineer! 🌻 previously @Retool @SquareDev @Amazon @hackNY 🌻 co-founder @hack_davis

Bay Area, CA
Joined December 2014
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4 years
dear parents, just because your child is smiling at their phone does NOT mean they have a boyfriend / girlfriend / partner. consider that MAYBE they are looking at pictures of really sexy cable management
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5 years
software engineering be like zz z z  <⌒/ヽ-、___ /<_/____/  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄    ∧_∧ I FIGURED OUT    ( ・ω・) HOW TO FIX THAT BUG   _| ⊃/(___ / └-(____/
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@cszhu
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4 years
if you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from closing 100 chrome tabs after solving an obscure programming bug, not from someone else
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@cszhu
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5 years
STOP making fun of different programming languages C is FAST Java is POPULAR Ruby is COOL Python is BEAUTIFUL Javascript Haskell is INTRIGUING
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5 years
me, graduating with a CS degree: finally, I have mastered machine learning, system design, various defunct functional programming languages, and know how to do abstract algebra me, at my daily job: *spends 2 hours trying to center a button*
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1 year
no software developer has all 5: 1. decent work life balance 2. a love life 3. good mental health 4. ranked gold or higher in league of legends / valorant 5. a m1 MacBook pro
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@cszhu
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2 years
oh you have a weighted blanket? haha that's cute, I sleep with the crushing weight of all the shitty code I wrote years ago still running in production
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@cszhu
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8 months
Today I rode a high speed train in China: - got free snacks and water - ordered food on an app - the restaurant was 3 stops away. When my train stopped at the station, the restaurant dropped it off - it was personally delivered to my seat - all for $7
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@cszhu
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5 years
let's take all the BUGS 🕷️🐛🐞   \(´・_・\)    (   )    く く put them in the BACKLOG  ( ´・_・`)   (\  )\     > > 📋 and NEVER LOOK AT THEM AGAIN   \(´・w・) /    (   )     |  |
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@cszhu
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1 year
HEARTBREAKING: Software engineer has to turn around, take out one earbud, and say "huh?" when someone asks them a question even though they finally got in the coding groove
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@cszhu
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5 years
things that DON’T make you ugly - acne - being over/under weight - scars - stretch marks - amputations - physical abnormalities things that DO make you ugly - committing code without a commit message
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@cszhu
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2 years
the software engineering urge to get up, quit your job, run away to a ranch and open a farm while living a wholesome lifestyle surrounded by chickens and leaves
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@cszhu
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5 years
me explaining our 10 year old legacy code to our new hires
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@cszhu
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1 year
Being a software engineer is so embarrassing. Letting the whole world know you sit at your desk with your fancy little chair going beep boop at your fancy little fruit computer
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@cszhu
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10 months
ok but seriously who invented regex to be like that, surely there must be a better way
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@cszhu
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6 years
Me: *has a computer science degree, has been programming for a few years* Also me: *googles 'how to declare a list in Python'*
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@cszhu
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5 years
this is @ all my ppl with imposter syndrome
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@cszhu
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5 years
found this really helpful so hopefully y'all find it helpful too! :)
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@cszhu
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5 years
the idea that the "ideal software engineer" as a coding genius who knows 8 programming languages is so unimaginative, obviously the ideal software engineer would have a powerful cyborg arm and a built-in airhorn that goes off when standup goes over 15 minutes
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@cszhu
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5 years
startup idea: for $5 i will write 'yikes' under your enemy's code reviews
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@cszhu
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5 years
┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲ house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ TEST IN PRODUCTION ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
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9 months
when it's finally ur turn to give ur update during standup:
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@cszhu
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6 years
when my coworkers walk past my desk and ask me how fixing all these tickets are going
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@cszhu
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3 years
still think about this pr sometimes......
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@cszhu
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5 years
all these balls are the same shade of brown.... 🤯🤯🤯
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@cszhu
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3 years
anyone else ever go "hell yeah I'm gonna code so much today and be so productive" and then open ur IDE and dissociate while staring at the code for like 30 minutes
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@cszhu
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6 years
me coding by myself vs me during a coding phone screen
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@cszhu
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2 years
another day without inverting a binary tree
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@cszhu
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4 years
me after I submit my PRs:
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me as a mentor:
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@cszhu
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2 years
still think about this warning notice for software devs sometimes
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@cszhu
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10 months
guys idk maybe the new verification system isn't working as well as we thought
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@cszhu
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5 years
me every time I see one of my code changes live on production
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5 years
todays tea for all my reactjs haters: ) ) ) ) ( ) ) _(___(____)____(___(__ \ hating on popular / _ \ frameworks / | \ doesn't make /____| \ u smarter / \____________/
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5 years
with these 2 by my side I am unstoppable
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5 years
me leaving work, after debugging for 5 hours, making no progress, and dehydrated
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@cszhu
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1 year
hey gen z crew, do ya'll know who this is?? just want to see how old i am
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5 years
i took just a D N A T e s t t u r n z o u t i'm 1 0 0 % anxious but still trying my best everyday
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@cszhu
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6 years
today I asked a senior engineer out for coffee! we chatted about career stuff and he gave great advice on how to be a better engineer i highly recommend reaching out to senior engineers who you think are cool, even if it seems scary. most love to mentor younger engs :)
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@cszhu
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6 years
"this fix should only take like a day"
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@cszhu
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2 years
today i made one of the worst typos i've ever made
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@cszhu
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6 years
As a new grad who's been in the industry now for over a year - there must be something more I can do...
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6 years
my relationship with front end Development is......... Complicated
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@cszhu
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2 years
when i was a junior engineer, I did not know that "ack" actually meant "acknowledged" and I just thought that my managers liked to say ack for fun in stressful situations
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@cszhu
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5 years
before anyone says anything I wanna say I work with JavaScript everyday and I love it OK
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5 years
I mean close enough right
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"what's it like getting older?"
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5 years
a daily reminder from coder cat:  ∧_∧ (。・ω・。)つ━☆・*。 ⊂   ノ    ・゜+. しーJ   °。+ *´¨)   .· ´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨) 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒𝑒𝓇𝓈 (¸.·´ (¸.·’* (¸.·’* (¸.·’* (¸.·’*
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5 years
i'd like to take this moment to thank MapleStory and RuneScape for my 120wpm typing speed, thus paving the way for my career in software development
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@cszhu
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2 years
retweet if u fucking love french fries, just took a nap, or u a depressed software engineer and just don't care
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5 years
something I gotta tell myself every time I play video games
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when you love an open source framework but don't know enough to improve the code so you just make a pull request fixing a typo in the docs
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5 years
"hey the service is down, can you figure out what happened?"
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@cszhu
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3 years
developers: do u guys delete your git branches after you merge??? I rarely delete them cuz I'm a hoarder that thinks "but what if I need it later" lol
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@cszhu
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4 years
Me looking at code I've written 5 years ago:
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1 year
@wongmjane now this is what I call HARDCORE ENGINEERING in PHP
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10 months
someone wake me up when tech starts looking like this again. thank u
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4 years
it's 2007. you're 10 years old, and your ~250MB MapleStory download finally finished after 7 hours. you've set your Myspace autoplay song to "thnks fr th mmrs" by fall out boy and login to AIM. life is good.
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5 years
@justkelly_ok @MKentuckey wait... this is a fake account. I found the original images from this girl on Instagram: Someone made a fake account specifically to troll people with #NotMyAriel .
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me when I add box-shadow and border 1px black to a button on a website
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yeah sex is great but have u ever gone through brutal code review comments without crying before
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4 years
tech bros be like "I know a place" and then take you to their company hq in soma to give you terrible beer on tap
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6 years
@its_willyu @_viv_i_am So many people in my theater Just started laughing and making fun of bao while I cried my eyes out😭 usually the white people, but all my AA friends felt similarly and cried watching it. It was so relatable
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real pic of me at 9 years old trying to add glitter images and fancy hover effects to my Neopets page
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s/o to our mentors in tech u guys are amazing
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me: *compiles code even though it fails immediately* me 3 seconds later:
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@cszhu
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6 years
me: *reruns code even though I didn't change anything* code: *still doesn't work* me:
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@cszhu
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3 years
if I hosted a same height party would u guys come
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5 years
TFW I know all the different Pokemon typing and weaknesses but somehow can't seem to remember how to declare an iterator in Java
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do u think if I showed this to junior developers they would feel less intimated about coding as a career @CodeNewbies
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born too late for affordable housing born too early to experience space travel born just in time to experience anime VR catgirl waifus on the apple vision pro
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4 months
all the tech blogs are like "tech economy is finally recovering and stocks are going up 📈📈 :)" while my swe friends are like "every time my manager asks for a 15 minutes meeting I'm afraid I might get laid off for the 3rd time this year"
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4 years
a message from wooloo for the upcoming holidays
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9 months
unfortunately, this is not a photo of a continent sized lobster taking over the earth. it is a regular sized lobster, chillin in a metal bucket, (still such a sick pic tho)
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the 5 love languages: 1) acts of service: I reviewed your pull request 2) quality time: want to go over your pull request together? 3) words of affirmation: I 💖 you as much as I 💖 clean code 4) gifts: I got you this pull request 🎁 5) physical touch: *gently hugs pull request*
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⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ (\__/)    ⠀  (•ㅅ•) my mentor defending  _ノ ヽ ノ\ �� my code to the team / `/ ⌒Y⌒ Y ヽ (  (三ヽ人  /   | | ノ⌒\  ̄ ̄ヽ  ノ    ヽ___>、___/   |( 王 ノ〈 (\__/)   /ミ`ー―彡 \ (•ㅅ•) me
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4 years
did you guys know that "cd -" will bring you back to your previous directory??? how have i been programming for years and just used this for the first time?
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1 year
no better programming progress than "well, at least it's a different error this time" progress
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4 years
when u spend 30 minutes trying to figure out why ur code ain't working... and it's b/c you forgot to save changes to 1 file... hello darkness my old friend
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2 years
idk how I'm supposed to just focus on my job and code normally while this country slides back into the 1800s for women's rights? like how am I supposed to care about writing unit tests right now
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9 months
ngl #LK99 has got me in a chokehold
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5 years
why don't companies sponsor afternoon nap time for their employees? we need it way more than kindergarteners tbh
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4 years
dating in the bay area be like
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1 year
tech bros be like "idk why I'm so anxious all the time" before washing down their creatine preworkout protein powder with their 3rd cold brew coffee of the day
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5 years
me vs me when someone hurts my friends
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2 years
you host in us-east-1, i host in us-west-2. we are not the same
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8 months
Tl;Dr I can only hope to see the California high speed rail become a thing in my lifetime but my hopes are small 🥹 it'd be so nice to take a 6-7 hour train to Seattle or a 3-4 hour train to LA.
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5 years
in what perhaps is the most wholesome dick measuring contest ever, the shopify ceo donates just enough money to top elon musk in a tree-planting charity
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6 years
me: *trying to image what a Microsoft GitHub acquisition looks like* me:
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5 years
I've heard people think they’re unqualified for X engineering position because they don’t know a specific language/framework (ie. JavaScript) reality is, engineering intuition is something that carries over from job to job, and languages are easily taught!! 📚
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whenever I do right click > inspect on a webpage
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a $6000 cheese grater that can run slack AND chrome at the same time #WWDC19
@WIRED
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The starting price of the new Mac Pro, with the eight-core Xeon and 32GB of memory, is $5,999. #WWDC19 It will be available in the fall. More details:
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software interviews: you need to birth, design, traverse this quad tree in O(logn) time, breathe and live every single system design pattern, and also cry tears of dynamic programming real life software job: i can't find the bug on our internal stack overflow!! noooooo
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my CPU after having 50+ tabs open in chrome:
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4 years
is there a feeling more liberating than looking at ur work calendar and realizing u don't have any more meetings in the afternoon
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oh ur a front end developer? name every JavaScript framework then
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when ppl ask why i deploy on friday afternoons
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I'm very sad that playgrounds get smaller and smaller as we move up through the school system. They should get larger and more extravagant so by the time we get to college we should have roller coasters and bumper cars
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is there any bigger feeling of betrayal than when u open ur laptop and it starts blasting ur embarrassing music choices to the whole office
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