cylde_frog

I'm convinced to try deno. I only use node for small testing scripts so it should be easy enough.

It's funny how arrogant you seem to have gotten working at Google. Looking through your post history a couple of years ago you were doing grunt work you would see as below you now. The belief that all Google employees are doing hard innovative work is untrue. A large portion are centering divs and wrangling JSON.

A nokia dumbphone

I made the switch a couple months ago and its harder than you think. There is a lot of convenience you take for granted in the smartphone age.

Can't you still cite finances as a reason for not going? As in, "sorry I don't want to spend that much on this experience"

Is your extension collecting email addresses? I got an email after trying it out.

Yeah that makes sense. I'm sure after 5+ years there you would be far better than the average developer. I am talking from the perspective of people that I've seen go to those companies. Sure they were above average programmers, smart and driven but they weren't superstars or truly exceptional.

People that work at FANGs frequently say this isn't true

That's completely reasonable since you're not being paid for the time you spend on the bus or in a car each day.

"Dealers are scum" makes no sense. Is the college guy selling weed and mushrooms to his friends "scum"? Maybe the guy that gives out free samples of meth or heroin to get people addicted is bad but that sort of generalising is why drugs are illegal in the first place.

I wonder about this too. What sort of people do international criminal organisations hire to manage their info-sec? A criminal that became a computer expert or a computer expert that became a criminal?