Unpopular opinion: Memorizing DSA solutions will NEVER get you placed. I spent 4 years in real software development. Not once did anyone ask me to reverse a linked list on the job. But they DID ask me to: → Think logically under pressure → Break big problems into small ones → Communicate my approach clearly DSA teaches thinking. Not just coding. Agree or disagree? 👇 #DSA #PlacementPrep #TechInterview #SoftwareEngineering #buildinginpublic

Musk's Money is Meaningless All of it is locked up in shares that he can barely sell. If he sells a large chunk of shares — in any of his companies — investors will think he has lost faith in that business and that will send its valuation into freefall. Musk himself has said that he has very little cash in his bank, even the homes he owns are held through LLCs, the tiny apartment he supposedly lives in is rented by SpaceX, and he has very little direct 'personal' wealth. So what use is it to be the world's first trillionaire but not have any real access to your wealth? His secret weapon is that he can pledge his shares, whenever he needs to borrow money. Most importantly he gets personal loans from top banks at extremely low interest rates — much lower than what you and I pay. This is true for all billionaires. One study showed that if an average middle-class borrower was charged 8.5% on a personal loan, the ultra-rich were charged just 2%. This is called the 'Buy, Borrow, Die' strategy, where billionaires take easy, low-interest loans against their assets and use those loans to live super-luxurious lives. And all of it tax-free, since a loan is not technically income. Musk has mastered this by not taking any salary. That means the world's richest man pays no income tax if he doesn't sell his shares or exercise his options. For instance, in 2018 — when he didn't exercise any options — he paid no income tax at all. It can be easily shown that most of the valuation of the companies that Musk owns comes from projections of government and defence demand. On top of this, these companies benefit — directly and indirectly — from government subsidies. So the trillionaire who actually depends on government expenditure for his riches pays nothing back to the government. That's the reality of contemporary capitalism.

Never. Give. Up.

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

Elon Musk is a Trillionaire now But the funniest thing how we are now seeing extreme inequality in billionaires as well 😹😹 Moreover, how the next 4 don’t add up to his level of Net Worth 🙌

The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

"No European country has been attacked with Indian Weapons... So Keep that in Mind"...!!! I think Europe was not expecting that answer from Minister @DrSJaishankar 👏

Do it for passion, not numbers, and more importantly be authentic and honest. If you do it for passion, then you do not need any extrinsic motivation to continue. If I were doing it for numbers, you would see very different types of posts from me. I stayed true to what I love knowing and doing, and people resonated with that. People resonating has always been a byproduct (for me). Even if my audience count goes to 0, I will still post what I am posting now.

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Man explains how Cos Θ learnt in school is used in real world

she has an army for her: > wardrobe > nutritionist > healthcare > personal trainers and gyms > kids (nannies) > don’t have to stress about 9-6 job > cooks and household chores > access to the best of the best food, meds etc. She is 50 but she has insane MONEY too. Money >>>> age

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RT @NayakSatya_SG: One of my close friends was fired from Oracle Bangalore. No panic, no stress, and no crying on social media. He stra…

My saddest realisation after receiving my CS degree is that all those elegant DSA are completely impractical on real high volumes of data. The only thing you should care is CPU cache utilisation.

Silenced, not defeated My message to the ‘aam aadmi’ — खामोश करवाया गया हूँ, हारा नहीं हूँ 'आम आदमी’ को मेरे संदेश

The best career advice I ever received: There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask the key questions. Get it done. Repeat. If you do that, people will fight over you.

Full-time jobs won’t exist in the future! Let’s be honest- Nobody wants to work for someone else. People do jobs out of compulsion, not passion. You do it because of EMI, rent, survival, not because you dream of building someone else’s company. A century ago, people stayed in one company for decades. They didn’t have a choice - starting something needed capital, connections, and some secrets. Only a few had access to those. Then the internet killed that arbitrage. Now everyone has information, access, and capital. Venture money replaced old capital. Knowledge became public. Ownership got split. Earlier, one person owned 100%. Today, five people own 20% each and build faster. (called startup) Tomorrow, those five will become fifty freelancers, each owning their slice. The mindset is shifting from ‘salary’ to ‘share’ from ‘working for’ to ‘working with’ from ‘9 to 5’ to on demand’ People already own their time - look at Uber, Swiggy, Upwork. Nobody wants a boss - they want flexibility, freedom, and upside. As AI automates repetitive work and capital becomes abundant, the only thing left with real value will be human time and creativity. And no one will sell that full-time.

Why did Uber build thousands of microservices? No better person to answer than Uber's first CTO, Thuan Pham. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:32 Getting into tech 16:09 The dot-com bust 20:42 VMware 26:29 Getting hired by Travis at Uber 33:22 Early days at Uber and scaling challenges 40:57 Uber’s China launch 47:12 The platform and program split 50:26 From monolith to microservices 53:38 Internal tools at Uber 57:05 Helix: Uber’s mobile app rewrite 59:55 Thuan’s email about naming 1:02:03 Org structure changes under 1:06:34 Thuan’s work philosophy 1:12:23 The “three tours of duty” at Uber 1:15:37 Why Thuan left Uber 1:17:34 Coupang and Nubank 1:21:59 Faire 1:25:31 How Faire uses AI 1:28:24 AI’s impact on software engineering 1:31:09 The role of the CTO 1:35:13 Career advice Brought to you by: • @statsig – ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. statsig.com/pragmatic • @WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. workos.com/ • @SonarSource – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review. Check out SonarQube Advanced Security: sonarsource.com/products/son… Three interesting parts from this conversation: 1. The program/platform split came before microservices. The concept of cross-functional “program” teams and dedicated “platform” teams became necessary because an org split across backend, frontend and mobile engineers slowed down in execution speed when Uber grew to around 100 engineers. Every feature required negotiating bandwidth across the mobile, backend, and dispatch teams. Thuan, Travis Kalanick, and Jeff Holden literally used color-coded sticky notes with people’s names to reorganize into self-sufficient teams. We cover more about this split in this The Pragmatic Engineer deepdive, The Platform and Program split at Uber: newsletter.pragmaticengineer… 2. Expect multiple rewrites during hypergrowth. The right architecture depends on how fast a product and company are growing. At Uber, repeated rewrites were common because each one “bought” another window of survival for the company. Thuan’s recommendation is to understand that a rewrite simply means a company is outrunning its existing architecture: this is not necessarily a bad thing! 3. Uber is the only major company that had a “Senior 1” and “Senior 2” level – and Thuan is unapologetic. Thuan introduced the Senior 1 (L5A) and Senior 2 (L5B) levels because the jump from senior (L5) to Staff (L6) became very big, and larger than between previous levels. One problem this split level created was that Uber’s L5B was akin to Google’s and Facebook’s L6/E6. Thuan resisted the title inflation of just renaming L5B to ‘Staff’.

no hard-work can save you from layoffs. no extra hours of work can save you from layoffs. What can save you is “friends” with right person at workplace to stay safe

Mass lay off going on @Oracle ?😱