Overheard in Chingu Pt. 5

Random lines taken out of context from the Chingu cohorts

Chance McAllister
Jul 10, 2017 · 3 min read

I was born and brought up in small Himalayan town of India

There was an ambulance driving by their house last time I visited my parents. The neighbor promptly took their car out, and went in the same direction And what do you know, when the ambulance returned, the neighbor was behind them aswell..

My interests? Reading, gaming, and coding

Actually, my 48h [coding speedrun] is pretty muchover. I almost got to the same point I was (I would get exactly there if I hadn’t a doctor’s appointment today). Which means that in 48 hours I can do as much as I did for the first 3,5 months after I started FCC. But this doesn’t tell all that much. What does, on the other hand, is that instead of spending a day or two on each intermediate project (roughly how much I needed when I was doing them the first time), now I need something like 2 hours. Same goes for algos. So it was kinda nice to see the progress. And it turns out I actually enjoy this formula of “as much as you can do in x amount of time”, which I wouldn’t suspect before.

totoro is daft’s signature

Originally I wanted to be a pilot but that dream was over when I had to wear glasses at the age of 7 haha. Then I was thinking to become an architectural engineer or study business, and chose the latter because it was more generic and I wanted to keep my future open I guess. Worked in wide range of positions and industries, from large banks/corporates to startups, but mostly in marketing and project management. I kind of liked my jobs, but something inside didn’t feel right. I was not very interested in “climbing the corporate ladder” and all the company politics, and just want to create meaningful things with other people. I think coding will take me there.

I sent 10 thousand cvs and one answered me I start on monday

HEEEEEELP

I love running, yoga, walking my dogs and spending time with friends

Q: why do you need german? A: I have an existencial question plus I like beer

CSS is insane

Yes, I want to be a spy

I agree. I think algorithm challenges aren’t a good way to test a front end dev applicant’s skills. But that’s how a lot of companies choose to do it, so you have to follow procedures, I guess

The trick is in using *Scala*’s parallel collections (mostly, in being informed about them). It uses all CPU cores out-of-the-box

Learning to always write tests is the most valuable thing, I think.

Finally finished book 5 YDKJS. Async, promises, generators, and benchmarking really had me for a loop. I don’t know where I’ll be using that stuff but hopefully I built a foundation so that when I come across it won’t be completely unfamiliar

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Founder @ Chingu. Experience Designer. Lifelong learner. Teacher. Runner. Reader. Insatiably curious. Apply here: chingu.io

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