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Nick Karnik

Thanks! Let me know if there's a particular topic you'd like to learn about.

Once a company had me work on a distributed cloud storage (like dropbox) that encrypted files into 96 chunks which were stored across the web on 96 different machines with redundancies. The idea was that you give some space on your machine to get some space on the cloud (aka other people's machines). They said to do my best work and take as long as I want - it took me 3 weeks to deliver something that was production ready. They loved the project and called me in only to say that oh we don't have that role anymore, instead they made an offer for an SDET role. I'm glad that place went out of business recently!

I've worked with people who've been in the industry for over 40-50 years and they're definitely a huge inspiration, so I think there's hope for us. :D

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robencom

Well, I am fairly new at React, so just about anything is interesting to me.

One little thing I would ask for is that in your React video, we could hear you type kind of loudly. If you can push away your microphone from your keyboard, I think the viewers would really appreciate it :)

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Nick Karnik

Thanks for the feedback. I will need to figure this out. I had increased the gain on my mic since last time I got feedback that my voice was a bit low. The keyboard on my macbook is also a bit loud with the force feedback. I might need to consider typing in chunks and turning off the sound and introduce background music (but that'll work only in large chunks, not every 10 seconds :D).