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According to my colleague, there are three types of interview candidates: a) Those who use C++ or Java and after 40 minutes panic and rush towards completing the code. b) Those who use Python and get extra 20 minutes to validate their code and write test cases. c) Those who use Haskell who complete the solution in 2 minutes and spend next 40 minutes trying to explain the interviewer their solution.

Wow! this is one gem of a read! "Read more long content and less tweets." " It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with." "One of the benefits of working hard is that good opportunities will come along, but it’s still up to you to jump on them when they do." "Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter." "Don’t worry so much. Things in life are rarely as risky as they seem." "Exercise. Eat well. Sleep. Get out into nature with some regularity." "Go out of your way to help people. Few things in life are as satisfying. Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter." "Learn voraciously. " "Don’t screw people and don’t burn bridges. Pick your battles carefully." "Forgive people." "Don’t chase status. Status without substance doesn’t work for long and is unfulfilling." "Most things are ok in moderation. Almost nothing is ok in extreme amounts." "Be a doer, not a talker." "Don’t judge other people too quickly. You never know their whole story and why they did or didn’t do something. Be empathetic." "The days are long but the decades are short."

"People can be said to be perfectionists, but in the software world, perfection is simply being correct." "The way we write software currently is complete f'ed." "It’s not like we just forgot to get the milk from the supermarket or left our wallet at home every once and a while. It’s like creating Frankenstein and then, after you’ve hit it with lightning and given it life, while attempting to walk, you realize that you didn’t bolt the legs on." "Refactoring and not updating documentation or tests is a cardinal sin." "If you’ve ever played with a big box of lego bricks, you’d probably find that unless you were following specific directions, there’s a decent chance that your awesome spaceship ended up with a few weird appendages or blocks that were out of alignment. Over time, unless corrected, those blocks end up as a permanent blemish on the overall structure." "A few lines of comments describing the contents of a file are far more likely to impress anybody than any clever optimization you may attempt to do beyond them. "

Beautifully written! 1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. 2. You are not your code. 3. No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more. 4. Don’t rewrite code without consultation. 5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience. 6. The only constant in the world is change. 7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position. 8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat. 9. Don’t be “the coder in the corner.” 10. Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code.