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23andMe screens for the purposes of health, traits, and ancestry.From a health perspective, most of the data that you'll get isn't going to be useful. DNA isn't designed to be read like a book, and no company or research group is going to be able interpret the information for you because there's just not enough research yet to make definitive connections to many of the big diseases people are worried about (i.e., diabetes, heart disease, and depression). At the end of the day, just having the information isn't going to make it useful to you. Let's say, though, for argument's sake, that you do find that you have some well-researched predisposition to a disease like diabetes (the few studies are years away from being validated medically). Having a predisposition doesn't necessarily mean you'll get the disease. There's a lot of nurture that goes along with the genetics to an illness. In other words, if you eat an irresponsible diet high in processed sugars and fat and never exercise, chances are you're going to get diabetes even if you aren't genetically predisposed to it.It's true, though, that there are some diseases that have a clear genetic linkage. First of all, your doctor is going notice in your family history if said disease is wreaking havoc on your family tree. Secondly, many diseases with a clear genetic linkage present themselves early in life, often when patients are still quite young. You're probably not going to find a big nasty surprise buried in your genes. And even if you do find said nasty surprise, most doctors are not going to start treating you until your body actually starts showing symptoms. Most genetic diseases do not have a prophylactic treatment. And unfortunately there is also no special DNA laser that can zap your genetic code back to compliance.Health aside, there is the pressing question of the medical ethics of this sort of screening, especially when you start screening for traits. It has been standard practice for physicians to screen for genetic diseases in fetuses. Many ethical debates have used this guideline as the springboard for discussing designer babies and the genetics of traits. The types of screenings that 23andMe propose provide another step down the slippery slope to designer babies. Regardless of what an individual's final opinion on the subject is, it's important to understand that there is an ethical component to a general DNA screen.

My second son was about 15 month old when one day something weird happened. It was morning, I had the day off and we were back home from running some errands. He was playing quietly while I was on the computer, when all of the sudden he stopped playing, lay down on the ground and looked like he was sleeping, but with his eyes opened. By the time I realized something was off, he had resumed his game as if nothing had happened. Over the next hour he did it again a couple of times. He became unresponsive, his gaze not focusing on anything and as white as chalk. I sensed that something was awfully wrong, even though he looked “normal” most of the time and my husband and I decided to rush to the ER (which was a short 10 minute drive).When we arrived at registration, my baby was acting normal again and the nurse, seeing me freaking out told me to calm down, that my baby was probably just sleepy and that I needed to keep it cool (when all I wanted to do was to shout at her that I knew my baby and this was not him being tired). We had to fight to be allowed to stay and wait for a doctor to examine him. Not seeing any urgency and since it was lunch break, we were sent to a waiting room and told that we would need to wait for the intern to finish their meal. So we waited, my baby seemed normal, playing, walking around the room. He had a couple of “episodes”, but would resume life right after them as if nothing had happened. When the intern arrived, she saw a baby full of life who presented no specific sign of anything. She examined him thoroughly, didn’t find anything and was about to send us home with the instructions to come back again if something was wrong. At that point he hadn’t had an episode over the last 30 minutes or so. So I was ready to trust the doctor and rule it as something weird that would never occur again and for which we would never know the cause. We were about to leave when it occured again. In front of the doctor. And the smile on her face left. She grabbed my baby, examined him again, and told us we need to run a ultrasound of his belly asap. We were immediately sent to the ultrasound were her diagnostic was confirmed : he had an intussusception : part of his intestine had folded over itself. This could lead to the necrosis of this part of the intestine, as blood flow was cut, and, if not treated, could be fatal. The reason why my baby was acting so strangely was because he was in pain at each bowel mouvement. His pain was so great that he didn’t cry or react, he would just down quietly and wait for it to go.Fortunately he was diagnosed in the early stage, the folding had just occured and the intestine was still healthy. They gave him something to numb him out and were able to put the intestine back in place with an enema (the water pushed the intestine which unfolded back in place). We stayed at the hospital overnight and we able to go back home the next day.Few people know that when in great pain babies can just “shut down” without even crying. Intussusception can go unnoticed for a few days before the baby starts having blood in his/her stools. But as a mum, I knew righ then that something wrong, really wrong with my baby.PS: This story took place in France where ER and hospitals are probably not run the same as in other countries and where lunch breaks really are a thing, unless you’re considered a real emergency :)

I studied a few excellent answers to the following question:What is the closed form of [math]\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}n![/math]?And would like to approach this problem in a similar manner. In order to do so, it is convenient to compute:[math]\displaystyle S=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \dfrac{(-1)^n (2x)^{4n+4} (2n+2)!}{(4n+4)!}\tag{1}[/math]the requested series can be found by using:[math]\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \dfrac{(-1)^n 4^{2n+1} x^{4n+3} (2n+2)!}{(4n+4)!} = \dfrac{S}{4x}\tag{2}[/math]This will facilitate two operations later on.Changing [math]x \to 2x[/math]Using the definition of the Gamma function, for which the exponent of [math]x^{4n+4}[/math] needs to be a multiple of [math]2n+2[/math]. The Gamma function will take care of the term [math](2n+2)![/math] later on.This means that we need to find a series having the following form:[math]\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \dfrac{(-1)^n x^{4n+4}}{(4n+4)!}\tag{3}[/math]This takes a few steps. Let's start with:[math]\displaystyle f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \dfrac{(-1)^n x^n}{n!}=e^{-x}\tag*{}[/math]The factorial is present and we have achi...

Originally answered - Shilpi Roy's answer to Should I choose signNow or Goldman Sachs (India)?The answer is gonna be really long. Grab some snacks as it could take a while.I was the happiest person the day I was selected as a FTE (tech analyst position) at GS - a reputed fin-tech company which mostly hires tier-1 students, a dream for many. I heard from many people that GS offers package as high as 32lpa which was quite a big deal for me - or for anyone who might have been at my place.Then came the HR’s call. She offered me semester long internship in GS! I was glad that I don’t have to spend my last semester in college and will also earn some money. With the stipend as high as 75k and stay at Hilton hotel during intern, anybody is likely to go crazy and say “YES”.And so I did.The beginning (GS-Bengaluru office)Soon came 7th January. Day started off with amazing orientation and office visit. Then came the lunch buddy - GS assigns a buddy from your department to have lunch with you the day you join, let’s say he was Raghav (name changed).Raghav seemed to be a really smart guy. I asked him a few questions about GS being a fin-tech, is it easy to switch and other questions. He seemed to be out of place, not interested. A guy came who was an intern in a team in which Raghav used to work. He kept talking and giggling with him, completely ignoring my presence. Cool, maybe Raghav is a bad guy - who cares?Met with my manager and two other interns who were in the same department - GIR. He seemed like a chilled-out and thoughtful person. Let’s call him Rudra.Our whole department used to sit in a middle sized cabin which accommodated around 32–35 employees of GIR. My happiness knew no bounds! Great team, small cabin and friendly manager - what else could I ask for?Then came the next day. We were introduced to our team and had a lunch together. Oh no! Lunch here was not free - no big deal. Only 80rs/- per plate is affordable when you earn 75k per month, I thought.After having lunch, we began installing softwares required. Wait, you can’t install some softwares without manager’s permission. Fine! I messaged my manager and he granted the permission. He came later in the evening and gave 3 of us an interesting machine learning problem to solve - in a week, till we get our projects.He had three projects in mind, and he left it for us to decide which one we want to take. I took the one which I thought was more impactful and cool, also because we had a member of our team working for the project. My task was to integrate the backend stuff he wrote with the UI I was going to create. Also to help him with some of those backend stuffs later on.“You can take help from Varun, in case you need” said Rudra.So it began!1st MonthI started learning React.js for the UI I was going to implement from various websites. There were tons of tutorial there. After understanding some theory, I clicked on ‘try it on codepen’ - online editor.“You are restricted from using an external website - no permissions”What? I can’t even use some online editor. Okay that’s fine - we have pretty sensitive data in GS. Since it’s a finance based company, we have client data with us and user may copy and paste it online - someone might steal the data! All this made sense. ‘It’s fine, I’ll bring my own laptop tommorow’, I thought before leaving.I could see two teammates standing behind me from my peripheral vision. One who was writing the backend stuff for the project I was working upon, let’s call him Varun.Varun was a silent and sober guy - a hardworking one who speaks only when required. Another guy standing beside him was Raghav.“Hey!” I said in a low tone.“Did I do some crime? Why are these two here?” I wondered.“You brought your personal laptop, is everything fine here?” they asked.I told them about the restrictions. Raghav took my work PC and sent Rudra, my manager a request to approve codepen.I waited. One hour. Two hours. Codepen still not working. Fine for me since I have my own laptop. No worries.After 2 weeks Varun called me and started assigning tasks to do for the UI. I was full of enthusiasm and paid full attention to what he wanted. I started looking out for the cool libraries out there and found - material-ui.‘Perfect!’ I exclaimed.Started with the tasks, and was able to achieve the target next evening. It looked damn good! Varun will be happy. And so, I showed it to him.“Okay, font-size is a bit huge. And please change the app’s name - ELEGANT USER’S APP” (name changed). And so I did.“E-L-E-G-E-N-T U-S-E-R—S A-P-P”What a funny name, I thought. (The real one was funnier than the changed one)So days went, 1..2…3 and I completed 5–6 tasks. The basic UI (20%) was done. Then came Varun -“Shilpi, you did this using which library?”“Material-ui! It’s really good and..”“Okay, but make sure you can use it. Only specific libraries can be used at GS. Search xyz site and ensure if we can use it. If yes, proceed. Else use GS UI library”What did he just say. I worked on the UI for 2 weeks, and he is telling me now that I may not be able to use the material-ui library! No way..With my heart beating fast, I typed..X..Y….Z …..gs..comCtrl+F“M-A——T-E—-R—I—A”Boom! It’s there. I was delighted :)The next day I was late. I saw a message pop up. It was from Raghav.“Hey” it said.“Hey” I replied.“Please try to attend the daily standup. If you don’t, mail Rudra about your update :)” He replied.There hasn’t been a single day I was late. But okay, FINE.Then came the 5th day - friday. I got a message from Varun.‘Hi Shilpi, can you make another UI using GS-UI?’Oh No!. Again?.‘Just for the feel…we’ll show it to Rudra next week, he’ll choose which one we can use’*Slow Claps*Well played Varun. Why did he approve the material-ui one if he wanted it in GS-UI - I wondered.It’s fine, I can do it. I encouraged myself and went to the internal site - gs-ui-library. (name changed)Okay, fine. This looks good. Okay. Cool. Documentation.. documentation….uhmm.I searched for the whole day, no documentation. Just few codes and examples to understand how to display some component.Way uglier than material-ui - I thought. And a minute later, an evil idea came to my mind..“What if I make the UI using gs-ui-library so ugly that Rudra and Varun both reject! That would be great!”The next week on friday, I was done with gs-ui-library. My code was asked to be removed from codesandbox by Varun - it’s illegal to put GS’s internal code there. I could hear Rudra laughing about how he is afraid of the interns bringing personal laptops here, and what will happen if someone names a variable as “GIR” and put it on github.I showed Rudra the material-ui one. He was impressed.“This looks good! But don’t keep the name as ‘ ELEGANT USERS APP’, instead keep it as ‘THE USERS SEARCH APP’ ” (name changed)“But Rudra, Varun has asked me to..”“I will ask him. We will decide and tell you”Fine. Keep the name as ‘The bla-bla app’. I don’t care.Varun was already gone by the time.I smirked. I won’t show the UI I made using gs-ui-library to Rudra!Next day Varun was on my desk. He asked whether I showed both the UI’s.“No, actually I forgot to show the other..”“See, the people above us will probably ask why we didn’t use GS-UI. That’s why I am saying so. I have no problem with material-ui. Just ask Rudra if he is fine with it. Rudra…”“Yes, Varun” replied Rudra.And then he showed both the UI’s to him. The ugly one. The good one.“I think it looks great - the ‘gs-ui-library’ one!” Rudra exclaimed.I shouted in my mind - “How can he..!”“See Shilpi, we don’t have any problem using material-ui one but the people for whom we are making the app will ask why we didn’t use the internal-gs library. Okay, tell me one thing - it does have all the components you require, right?”“Yes, Rudra” I sighed.“Seems like Shilpi wanted to use material-ui, haha” Rudra giggled and looked at Varun. I could hear the giggling from one if the two interns from behind - Tejas (name changed).He was also working on a UI, along with some backend stuff. He was using ‘gs-ui-library’ from day one. And so, he giggled.Rudra -1 .. Shilpi - 0This was the first time I went home feeling sad. Why didn’t they tell me 2 weeks ago? Now I will have to work on the other one. And the library has no documentation.Next week , Varun decided to keep the name as “ELEGENT-USERS-APP”. He refused Rudra.Varun -1.. Rudra- 0So I went back to my desk and began.“g-s-u-i-l-i-b-r-a-r-y” I typed.Gs-ui-library was a really terrible library. No documentation, made by mixture of other available libraries online. It was like an accidental product of some cross-breeding. A scientific failure.Anyways, I somehow learnt basic features which I could implement using the library. On the other hand, my machine was damn slow - for a reason I didn’t know.“Why are you using vs code? How did you get it!” asked Rudra who saw me coding on vscode.“I like it- it’s really good for react. Installed it from the store.”“Haha, use intellij, okay!” Rudra said in a serious tone.Wow. After making me work with the gs-ui-library, now he is snatching away the editor I love. Cool.I still continued with vs code. Varun was totally fine with it.I went to drink a glass of water. Didn’t bring my bottle that day. So took a ‘visitor’s cup’ from inside the drawers.“Ma’am, you can’t drink in that. It’s only for visitors” said a staff guy who saw that I was about to drink water from the visitor’s cup.I looked at him in shock.“Oh, it’s ok for today you can use it..Ma’am” he replied.Great. Block websites - facebook, gmail, codepen. Take my material-ui away. Don’t allow me to use vs-code. And also, don’t let me drink water at peace!I was pissed off. Huh!2nd MonthSo I started working on the integration part. Meanwhile we used to have meetings in which we were told about GIR and it’s functions. Rudra used to tell us about how fun the NAPA training is going to be, and how we will start hiding our id cards after the event.I completed the integration part in a week or so. Gave a weekly demo to Rudra.Next week was going to be a demo with Monica’s team (name changed). The finance guys for whom we were building the ‘ELEGANT USERS APP’. Varun was happy that I had completed the integration part and added 2 more features to implement.- feature1 & feature2Before the demo, we had a meeting with Monica just a week before. Rudra, Varun and I gathered in a room.“So Shilpi, how’s the work going? Are you liking it - the UI stuff? Aren’t you bored?” Rudra asked.“Hehe.. Actually yeah it’s a little boring. I hope backend stuff starts soon!” I honestly replied.“You know UI people make the most money.” Rudra smirked.“No, that’s a lie. Backend people make more money.” I replied.“Shilpi, that’s the case of technical firms. In financial firms like us, UI people earn more bonus.” said Varun.Soon came Monica. Varun and Monica proceeded on what she wants and what actually we have. It was a debate between them and I listened.Since the lunch time was over, Rudra and I went to the food-court outside to have one.“Shilpi, you know I was like you. The silent guy in the room. If someone else was at your place he would have asked a lot of questions! ”“I think it’s better to listen Rudra, than argue. I didn’t have much idea about what they were talking and the talk was mostly concerning Varun.”“See..it’s good very good. But to be at a place like GS…you know! The world is very mean, Shilpi. You need to speak more than you do work here! Many people don’t know much but they’ll get ahead of you because they speak. I was like you when I joined GS. In the group discussion round, when everyone was debating.. I just sat at the corner. HR came and asked each of us individually. If she hadn’t done that, I mayn’t be sitting here today”I gave it some thought. He was right.Some days later feature1 stopped working. I had no idea why, I was using an excellent library for feature1, of-course an external one. Varun himself has asked me to use an external for that case since we don’t have a gs library for that.But now. It wasn’t working.It took me a week to include the library - react-bootstrap-table2 with the project along with the features it had, and use it. And some magic happened. Now feature1 stops working. Damn!I woke up the whole night - till 4 am to make the feature1 work. The remote desktop worked very slow. In GS, we are not given laptops for security purposes. So we have to use remote desktop.It was damn slow but I was patient. I kept on trying and trying till I fell asleep early in the morning. Woke up around 12.An hour before demo with Monica’s team, I told Varun about it. He said it’s fine, we will show the demo without it.Tik…tikk….I wasn’t satisfied. I worked damn hard for 45 min and was able to make feature1 work!We went to give the demo. Varun pulled out a chair and sat before a PC.“Hi Monica!”“Hey Varun!”And so it started. The demo. The UI I made. The features I implemented. The integration. My two month’s hard work.All of them was presented by our VP, Mr.Varun!“Uhm…but we don’t need feature 1 and 2, Varun. You can remove it” said Monica.W-H-A-T! What did she just say. I went an hour back in time.I am sweating. I can feel I am nervous. This has to go good. I know well about the project, and I will make the feature-1 work! I will!Yes, I did. Only to lose the presentation as well as the feature.I rushed out of the room with the unhappy face which no one bothered about in the meeting room. I was silent and in hurry, it was weekly demo too today.“Haashh.. It went great!” exclaimed Varun who barely ever talked to me. Since like 1962!“Okay, but we have a weekly demo too!”The weekly demo got cancelled. Varun proceeded to tell me how we don’t need feature-1 and all the new features which Monica wanted. I remembered them all. One of them was a feature-X which was not possible technically. I tried making Varun understand and he did, after quite a while.Then came the mid-semester exam and I finally got a break!3rd MonthI went to my home after holidays. After 2 months, 1,40,000 was credited to my account. I bought clothes for mom and dad. I was delighted and ready to go back!Came back to office happily. Compiled the code.React-bootstrap-table2 library code - gone. Whole UI code changed in a week. My 2 week’s effort - 1 week for the library and 2 nd for other features went to ashes.Just in ONE SINGLE WEEK.~Varun committed the code 2 hours ago~~Varun committed the code yesterday~~Varun….~And so on.Varun started using an internal gs-ui-library library instead of react-bootstrap-table2. Instead of giving proper review comments, he changed my code by himself. Some backend stuff also came to me.I fetched the code from repo, the one Varun had implemented. And tried to understand.“You just have to implement feature-b-xyz, no need to go through whole code” he said.Fine.I added a new feature. Compiled and checked. Everything was working fine. Committed the code.Next day I came. Compiled the code.‘EXCEPTION THROWN’‘FAILED’And my PC hangs. For no reason why.I checked the code - it was changed. The integration part was changed. Feature XYZ was changed. And it stopped working.~Varun committed the code an hour ago~Why did he commit a code that fails? I wondered.This started happening daily. I had no idea why was this happening.The next series of days started with me coming late - 11:50, 12 or later than that. I used to mail Rudra about the update. Sometimes I was able to attend standup, sometime I wasn’t able to. My health started deteriorating.Everyday, Varun used to commit some changes. And it took a hell lot of time to update the project in intellij, go through his changes and do other changes. I was pretty much frustrated.Took 2 wfhs in 2 weeks. Logged in late many times. Had to push myself from bed everyday. Devoted my time to video games than gs work. Lost interest.Then I was given some backend part. I took WFH a day I wasn’t feeling well and learnt about apis stuff. Still some part of me wanted to do well and take interest in the work genuinely.We - all 3 interns received a mail from Rudra which we could never forget. Rudra had showed his ‘Rudra’ roop. The mail said -“You guys are not taking the work seriously. WFHs are not to be taken for granted. So many WFHs and late loggings. Not at all serious about your work. You guys need to have deliverables by the end of this month.I don’t care, work for your career not mine.”I was shocked. The friendly, giggling Rudra! I remembered the first time I met him. And the mail was quite a shock to all of us.Late loggings were targeted at me.WFHs for another one.But… Tejas? What did he do?As far as I remember, he was a hard working guy. Always on time. Never missed a standup. What did he do to receive the mail?Days after that, Varun took four wfhs in a row. Rudra was quiet. Nisha only came like twice in a week, Rudra said nothing.Why us? Why the interns? I wondered.One day I stayed at office till 8pm. I could hear Rudra talking about ‘The Elegant User’s App’ over a phone call.“We are building it again since the last UI was in angular. We wanted it in React.” he said to somebody over the call.Throughout my whole intern, I had one doubt in my mind.The app on which I was working upon was already built by someone and was functional too. But my manager wanted it to be built again since he wanted us to use a new technology.What’s the difference even if angular was used? What’s the need of rebuilding the app again from scratch? I wondered.And the next words I heard shattered me.“Yeah, Varun is working with some intern on ‘The Elegant User’s App’.”What did he say?The last two months were fully devoted to the UI. I went back in time.“Shilpi, if you want any help - Varun would be able to for this project.I was made to believe that it was an independent project, which it never was. I worked my ass off for three months only to hear that I am ‘some intern’ working under Varun and helping him building the UI.I got depressed.It was Holi’s festival - the festival of colours. I never really celebrated holi, hated to be coloured all over. We had a group for our department, and I wished everyone a “Happy Holi!”.Tejas replied with a “Happy holi” too.“Happy Forest Day” - stated an image I received on whatsapp. It was from Rudra. On the whatsapp group. This was his reply for “Happy Holi”.It's okay, don't respect our festival. But atleast don't disrespect it. Why was there even a need for reply?Needless to say, I didn’t go to office that day as sign of rebel (we didn’t have holiday on holi). Varun was already doing WFH. The “Happy Forest Day” frustrated me.Why Rudra why. You are better than that.“Niharika (name changed) is leaving GS” somebody whispered.Niharika, a very smart lady was in our department. She was mentoring an intern and sounded quite knowledgeable. Her sudden decision of leaving GS came as a shock to everyone.I had a last chat with her only when everyone was away for lunch. She had refused her farewell too I guess. She came to me and we had a decent chat. I asked her the reason of leaving. She wanted to switch the team maybe but it was taking a long time. Sweet and smart is all I could say for her. She had done work with JPMC & Morgan Stanley (US) and held a green card. A dedicated worker.After the lunch, she had a long meeting with Rudra. She was too firm with her decision.After she left, someone told me she bitched about many people in the team - specially Rudra. I was really sad. GS lost a good employee that day. And maybe, due to politics.Next day, GS was having an orientation for all new campus hires. It was one hell of a day. World-class hotel stay and world-class orientation.Varun was going out to the new office for 2 weeks. For some work.4th monthBefore Varun had left for the new office, he had asked me to attend telephonic standups for our team from 3–3:30. Now I used to attend 2 standups - the department one, and the team one. Full time waste activities!He had also asked me to get details of a task from Raghav and get it completed. I messaged him and he said he will be there at my desk in 5 min. Well, he never came. I asked him 2–3 times more to which he sent me a random link. I was disheartened and had nothing to do for 2 weeks.One day Rudra called me to fix some errors which he wasn’t able to fix by himself. He said he spent the whole night trying to fix those but didn’t know how to.I came to his desk. Those were linting errors!After having 10 years of experience, and you don’t even know what they are! Even if you know, please try to google. He was not getting what those line numbers represent. I explained him everything and fixed those.Soon, we got mails from hr regarding our joining dates and NAPA training, which is held in New York. I told the HR about my case, that I have courses left in college and I won’t be able to join on 3rd june.“Can I go to the training and join later after 12th july - when my courses are done” I asked.“No, you need to join as FTE. We will process your visa in june and you’ll go during july first week”“Okay” I replied.“Try to make your college understand, it’s important” is all she said.Next day, I refused. My college will never agree for me to take 2 week vacation during summer term.Rudra received a call from HR. I knew it was regarding me.He took me outside the cabin and asked why did I opted out of NAPA training. I told him everything - how my degree would be affected. He was ready to give WFH for 2 months. I was shocked. Again.Rudra was the most unpredictable mysterious guy I ever met. He was good and bad, at the same time. 2 months is a long time - and he agreed to give me WFH! He earned my respect.Then there was second meeting with Rudra. He told me everything - the work I’ll do as an FTE. Also, he never left a single moment he could get to brag about himself.“You will be working under Varun. He will be the team lead. Your work is XYZ-AHSH-PPOS…..”“Be as mature as me. I can make complex things simple easily. Learn it from me.” he said.Varun. No!!The silent guy. Who took away all the presentations. Even during our team standups over calls, he used to answer when some guy asked me about the project. My code was changed everyday. All the torture I faced last month. And now- I’ll be working under him. Wow.I told Rudra - how my code was changed everyday, how I was not told about the changes Varun did in the backend and still expected my code would run successfully. He listened to me for a while and then said -“When I was a NAPA, I used to ensure that I get 0 review comments”“I don’t get review comments, Rudra. My code gets changed, and it’s hard to understand it everyday without help of Varun.”“It’s a good thing, right? You will learn something from what the change he does. It’s good for you.”Cool. I have to look at the new code and somehow “learn without doing”. Interesting.I worked till 9 pm that day. Before Rudra left, he smiled at me sarcastically.“Shilpi, still working?”“Yeah Rudra, I came little late today.”“Varun changing your code and you changing his code.!”“Yes. That’s what is happening.”And then, he laughed maniacally.This was not the first time he did this. He used to laugh at me sarcastically many times after giving me the UI project.Next week, Varun was here. My virtual desktop was not working and I had no idea why. Called help-desk 5 times that day.“REBOOT!”“TRY IT FROM A DIFFERENT MACHINE!”“IT SHOWS ‘AVAILABLE’ ON MY MACHINE!”was all the response I got from 5 different help-desk-assistants.Took a day off the next day. Saw a mail. Varun had given presentation to our MD that day. UI presentation, which was supposed to be given by me.Next week, same schedule. Help-desk people failed miserably.I tried remote desktop and was able to open my outlook. My inbox was full of -“DISK CAPACITY OVER 95%! CLEAN IT!”I got it. But in order to clean it, I had to login to the virtual computer which I wasn’t able to. It was a deadlock.Soon I was assigned a new virtual computer. My whole local setup - was erased.My whole enthusiasm had turned to ashes at that point. Came late, went early. Stopped attending stand-ups. Late Loggings. WFHs. OOO. No updates. No weekly updates. Nothing to do next since Raghav didn’t help. Frustrated as hell.Our department was hiring more and more people. I had nowhere to sit. No one to talk to.The only friend I had in bengaluru left 2 weeks ago.Please note that I’ve nothing against GS. The management there is really good, they care about their employees. I don’t think any company could’ve given me 2 months WFH and I do respect Rudra a lot for that!The experience may vary from person to person, someone may find GS a very good place, based on the traits he/she has or the team he is working with. But for a shy person like me, who loves to code sitting at the corner of the room - GS is not the place. It was me who was not able to adapt to the culture there.This answer was written by me when I was still an intern. I had no idea what this could do to my life.Next day after I wrote this, I was called by the Head HR of Employee Relations in GS - Devika. I thought she had called me in order to discuss why am I choosing signNow over Goldman but this wasn’t the case.“I read your answer on Quora about Goldman..”“I’ll remove it!” I replied with the speed of light.“No..I don’t want you to take it down, Just tell me the issues you had”And she pretended to listen. Both of us knew why she called me here - to take the answer down.“See, these days many people are on social media and it is affecting how people see us. Probably, some interns wouldn’t want to work with us after reading the answer. Therefore I want you to remove it”“Also, please remember this meeting is confidential. DO NOT tell anyone from your team about it!” she said just before I left.And that was it. I deleted this answer.I saw Rudra’s text on my whatsapp. He asked whether I have a desk to sit, and when will I signNow on my desk. I knew something was fishy since he never ever bothered about.I finished the work and went home.The next day, I woke up to 10 calls from the HR and lots of messages. I asked what happened.I told her I have already deleted the answer, but there was something else. I wasn’t able to login from home. My remote desktop was taken away from me and I had no idea why.And then, came Monday.13th May 2019The day started off with my phone full of Devika’s texts. She insisted that I directly come to the meeting room first instead of going to the GIR cabin.I went to her cabin where she was sitting. And soon the harassment started.“What was your motive behind putting such kind of answers on quora, tell me what was in your mind”“I am sorry, Devika. I’ve already taken them down.”“Didn’t you knew about the firm’s policy? You knew it very well right? Still you put the experience on Quora?”“I was frustrated. So much that it didn’t occur to me at that time. But yes, I knew it.”She wrote it down on a paper.“You put it on social media, and don’t expect your manager to read it? Wake up! Everyone in your dept knows what you did okay! You are always saying that ‘don’t inform my manager about it’.. you know what, infact Rudra only informed us about this. He was the one who forwarded the answer.”I sighed. He knew about it the whole time. Still acted as friendly on thursday.“You can take action against me if you want to. I can’t say anything else.”“We are a very big firm. Many people are there writing these kind of negative - one sided answers. We don’t care”If she didn’t care, why was I sitting here?“I have talked to both Rudra and Varun. Now I know about their perspectives too. Did you inform your manager that you were on leave? No, you didn’t.”“Yes, I was really depressed and woke up at 5 eve..”“You were completely one-sided in your answer. Such a judgemental answer it was! You never wrote what you did!” she exclaimed.“Devika, I did. I wrote I was depressed and was late for standups. I wrote that I took WFH and..”“That was completely in another way!” she interrupted.And then she gave me a tough look.“I have tracked down your whole information, when do you come and leave, wfh etc. I don’t think it’s too much. You were also 1 hour late on the GS event, I heard”I wasn’t. What was she saying?“No, I was a minute late. You can ask my friend who was sitting there.”“Also, you were absent on 4 presentations Varun gave, right?”I was shocked. What did she just say? I was present in 3 of them, I remembered. Now I felt something was really wrong. Varun probably gave her false information about me.“No, I was there for 3 of them” I replied in a low voice.“And you weren’t allowed to give?” She raised her eyebrows.“I didn’t ask him, neither did he offer.. he just took the chair and..Did Varun said I was absent? I wasn’t!” I defended myself.“Oh yes you weren’t, I know. When did I say you were absent? You are just misunderstanding me” she replied and wrote down some points.And now she started lying too about things she said earlier! I was shocked to the core.“They said bad things about me, didn’t they.” I asked.“No, infact they praised you for technical aspects. ‘She did all her tasks which we assigned.’ ‘Used to find solutions of the problem till the very end.’” she read it from the paper she had.But what about the other aspects? I was sure they had said something worse about me. I wondered what was that except me coming late.“GS-UI-LIBRARY!!” she exclaimed.“This is what you wrote about the library. Seriously!”I looked down. I couldn’t say anything except sorry.“Rudra even let you choose jersey for cricket match, didn’t he?”“Yes he did.” I sighed.“What you think what made your experience bad? Was it yourself? Why put it on social media, and didn’t contact us. What about the HCM?”I was late and silent. The only faults.“Does anybody in your team knows about it?” she asked hoping that nobody knows.“No, just me and the interns.” I replied.“And what did you write? Niharika left because of politics..? Did you talk to her? Who told you?” she almost shouted.“I got to know that from a teammate.” I replied in low tone.“So you will put anything you hear on social media??” she tried to overpower me.“If I were your signNow HR and I read this answer on Quora.. you know I’d have..” Devika scolded in a rude tone.She would have taken my offer back. That’s what she meant.“I have already deleted it , Devika. I said sorry, what else can I do? ” I almost cried.“These things never happened with me at signNow. But people here..”I broke down. Couldn’t speak much.“What even if you deleted? 1000s of people saw it. All the people on your floor saw it. They may have copied it, downloaded it. It had so confidential information!”“And yeah, put this conversation there too!!” She said in a very rude tone.“I won’t. You know I won’t.” I whispered.“Anyways Shilpi, now it’d be too awkward for you to go there. We have already stopped your remote access. We don’t want you to work anymore. Since you’ve already rejected the offer too, no discussion related to it. You can submit the id card to me.”“Okay.”I cried a lot in the cab. Rudra knew it all the time. Why didn’t he himself fire me instead of sending a rude HR. And those two also lied a lot about me. The tone of HR was totally different when I met her on Thursday. And today she was really harassing me.It took me a while to understand - all this was planned by Rudra. He choose the rudest and senior-most HR to deal with my case and harass me, just to get back at me.2 interns were joining today and space was very less in the small GIR cabin. And he knew very well I completed all my work the last week itself. Win-Win situation for Rudra!Varun and Rudra lied to HR. It was evident from the way she treated me. I was made to be feel like a garbage - just because I was late at the office!I cried for an hour. And then, I edited and restored this answer.Next day I came to know none of the interns or people in my team knew about this! I was fired secretly. The HR lied the whole time.All because Rudra didn’t want to see my face in GIR!Do I fear them? Not at all.“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.” ― Sidney Sheldon (if tomorrow comes)Many people want me to take this answer down or go anonymous. I have done nothing wrong. Those who have, they should hide their faces behind “anonymous” mask.If GS has some problem with the answer, they are free to take action against me. I am not bonded by any legal agreement and atleast deserved decent exit process.

Millions of European but mostly German women were raped by the Soviets, Millions of Germans died after the war as a result of the allies behavior.The British and Americans continued to bomb Germany right up to the last minute knowing the war was over and it would be the Allies to clean up the mess. I understand that on Hitler’s last birthday the Americans gave him a gift by sending in a 1000 bomber raid on Berlin with the war ending just two weeks later. Stupid. Whenever the Americans sent in a 1000 bomber daylight raid they usually lost at least 50 bombers with ten men in each plane. These bombers could of been used to help our soldiers in the field to help defeat the German ground forces saving allied lives instead of killing innocent German civilians.The Russians would send in tens of thousands of men into battle with many not having any weapons. They were told to pick up weapons as they were found.The city of Leningrad became surrounded early in the war. Supplies came in over a large lake that the Germans had not taken complete control over. In the 900 days of the siege, over 1,100,000 Russians died in the city, mostly of starvation. In December of the first year, 59,000 people died, January 130,000, February 130,000. Total deaths by the end of the first year were 780,000. Of the 30,000 doctors and 100,000 nurses in Leningrad, only half would survive the war. 1.5 million people were evacuated during the siege. Many died in transit. The population of the city was 2.2 million at the beginning of the war only 630,000 were left at wars end.

I am banned from:All San Jose Sharks games for screaming "kill the fucking frog, you fucking weak piece of shit" in 2000 in a game between the Sharks and the Leafs. It didn't help that I was hanging 8ft up on the top of the plexiglass barrier.All KFC in the country for calling KFC "the disease ridden whore of fast food after a night of shagging a pile of chicken feces" and demanding to see the rotting carcass of "the Colonel" to compare its edibility with that of a six piece all white bucket - during a panel discussion about food at a food service show. I got the letter three weeks later.All "Twin Peaks" locations in the greater Dallas area for making hand motions simulating oral intercourse in front of a camera that live-streamed into the main dining hall. When challenged on the frivolity of my actions I responded that a place that uses every sexist trope under the sun to attract frat boys and idiot bankers trying to fill their wank bank has no standing in this debate - and got banned.Two Megachurches in Dallas for wearing a Gay Pride t-shirt and entering their merchandise and sermon-on-DVD store inquiring about incense and myrrh flavored condoms.Calling the Rush Limbaugh show for telling him that draft dodgers and drug addicts have no standing in criticizing our Commander in Chief.A few bars and restaurants in San Jose and around for starting fights or being involved in them.Edit: yes, I am a rude, undesirable, morally depraved and pretty ugly human being. I enjoy it. I also don't ever want to eat at KFC or Twin Peaks, I don't live in San Jose anymore, and I am not usually calling Rush Limbaugh or go to church, so none of those bans really affect me other than cementing my reputation.

I’m the co-founder and Dean at Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp that teaches beginners how to program, but I’m personally self-taught. So I not only help beginners learn to code every day, but I’ve also gone through it myself. I’ve found that “what I wish I knew” is sort of a fallacy. There’s no fairy dust to sprinkle on your code that can just make learning suddenly easier. It can be difficult. And most of the time, it takes some trying, failing, adjusting, and retrying to understand how you learn, how you work, and what you even need to know.I just had to put in the hours to get better, but there are two things I didn’t know were important when I first started out that I wish I did. If I’d known these things, it would have made the learning process a bit more efficient. Here’s what I wish I knew:1. Learning how to work with other developers is really important. When you’re teaching yourself, it’s tempting to measure how much you know by how much you can accomplish in a certain amount of time. I wish I knew that my own personal velocity wasn’t as important as my ability to work with others. I’d think, “I got from point A to point Z in a week. Next time, I want to cut that in half,” when I should have been thinking, “How do I get from A to F, while someone else gets from F to M, and another person is going from M to R.” Because this is how programming actually happens in the real world.When you’re self-taught you have to spend a lot of time working alone, but it is absolutely critical that you learn how to work with other developers. It’s not just about communicating, it is also about dividing a project up so you don’t step on each other’s toes — so you aren’t overriding anyone or breaking anything. Even if you’re a new developer, becoming good at working on your part without breaking other peoples’ parts can make a huge difference in how far you’ll go as a programmer.So, even if you’re teaching yourself, you shouldn’t learn alone. Look for local Meetups where you can connect with other aspiring programmers; start study groups with friends; join the coding community. You can also try Flatiron’s new Community-Powered Bootcamp—it allows students to drive their own learning through our full stack curriculum while still connecting with a powerful community of students on our online campus so you can learn through collaboration.2. Knowing how something works is different than knowing how to use it.There are a lot of architectures and patterns in programming. When you start teaching yourself, you likely have one of two options: (1) you can ignore them or (2) you can use them without necessarily knowing how they work or why they exist. For example, if you never feel the pain that object orientation addresses then you can use object-oriented code with no understanding of why it’s better, or you ignore object-oriented code entirely and write everything procedurally.I didn’t do a good job as a beginner of understanding why certain patterns and architectures existed. I either ignored a pattern because I didn’t understand it or I used it blindly before—finally—everything eventually clicked. I should have looked for that “click” moment earlier, and spent more time learning how and why things are built as opposed to just how to use them.This is why, at Flatiron School, we break a concept down into its parts in order to help students understand how it works. To understand how an engine works you have to start with pistons. Similarly, before we explain a Ruby wrapper around a database, we explain the database without a Ruby wrapper. You should try to go one layer deeper into the most important concepts. In cases when this isn’t as useful or efficient, you have to make really conscious decisions about how deep to go, and that does take some experience.I was also fortunate to have done a few really important things right. Here’s what I did know:1. Never, ever be afraid to put yourself out there.Always put yourself out there. Talk to the programmers you admire. Even the super famous ones can be surprisingly accessible. As I taught myself to code, I’d go to conferences and stop my favorite programmers in the hall, or I’d write a blog post I was proud of and email it to them. Most of the time, they were incredibly generous. They’d help me promote the article, and I’d get really valuable feedback.A lot of beginners are afraid to just signNow out to great programmers, but they shouldn’t be. In my experience, almost everyone was supportive. And if I hadn’t signNowed out, Yehuda Katz wouldn’t have offered to have lunch with me and Ilya Grigorik wouldn’t have tweeted about my blog post. Every piece of positive, constructive feedback was absolutely worth the times I had to hear something hard, or nothing at all. 2. Try to be your heroes. Always mimic programmers you look up to. I remember thinking, “I want to write code like this person — oh, they tried writing a book? I’ll try writing a book. They wrote a library? I’ll try writing a library. They have a blog? I’ll have a blog.” I would imitate the successful programmers doing what I wanted to do in every way. None of the libraries I wrote ever took off. None of the books I wrote ever took off. None of the blogs I wrote ever took off. But going through the motions taught me what it was to be a professional programmer — and all the stuff that goes with it.3. Read the books, even if you don’t understand them.When I was first learning, there were probably only five Ruby books in existence, and I had read them all. I got the chance to talk about them with a programmer I admired. Afterwards, he told me he really appreciated that I’d read everything.His compliment made me realize that if you’re going to be a part of the conversation and the community, you should try to know what you’re talking about. Even if you don’t understand what you’re reading, just do it. You will at the very least learn the seminal authors in your craft. Here are a few books to start with:Learn to Program by Chris Pine is a good book for people who haven’t programmed in any languageProgramming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ GuideAgile Development with Rails by David Heinemeier HanssonWeaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee is a good source history and context for what we’re doing todayBetween teaching myself and teaching others, I also learned these five huge things that beginners should know:1. How your code looks absolutely counts. You are writing code for humans. How your code reads and looks is very important. Having very good indentation, not leaving comments or broken code, correctly naming your variables, having method names that match the languages style and syntax — these are all critical. Beginners should pay attention to what their code looks like from the start.2. It’s better to be proficient in one thing than an expert in nothing.Nothing will ever replace the basics. Beginners often try to keep up with technology in the same way that advanced programmers do. But all the languages are the same when you’re a beginner; it shouldn’t be a priority to use all the newest, hottest tools when you’re starting out.If you’re really good at one language and you can use it to build amazing things, no one is going to care what language you used to make them. Beginners shouldn’t care about the languages they’re using. They should care that their chosen language matches their goals, if they’re getting expertise and depth and in it — and, of course, if they love using it.3. Learning to program doesn’t happen all at once. Learning how to code isn’t going to be a constant, continuous accumulation of understanding. It’s going to be an S-curve, with troughs of not really getting it punctuated by massive increases in efficiency. You just have to be diligent and get through the troughs because this is going to keep happening throughout your career. Remind yourself that if you keep going, it’s going to make sense eventually.4. Ruby might be a good place to start.(2) is more important here. Specific languages don’t matter so much as a beginner, but at Flatiron School, we have strong preference for starting out with Ruby before covering more languages like JavaScript. Matz, the programmer who created Ruby, built the language to make other programmers happy, and in my opinion, Ruby really does value your happiness. It embraces complexity, individuality, and multiple approaches to every project.Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once said, “The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities,” which means that programming languages can actually change the way we think about problems. Thinking in Ruby is not myopic or restrictive. It’s a liberating, expressive way to think, and it’s no coincidence that it is also used to build awesome things. If I had to learn again, I’d still start with Ruby.5. Totally fall in love with it. A lot of programmers, including myself, will tell you that you have to fall in love with coding to really learn it. Honestly, it’s difficult to get through the tough parts without loving it. But realize this: the surest thing that has ever moved humanity forward is a leverage on technology—science put to productive use. Learning to code will allow you to change the world. How could you not want to be a part of that? If you’re sitting alone reading code and losing heart, remember the opportunities that you’re unlocking by learning to code and how fantastic this moment in time is—let that get you through it.Finally, always remember that the journey is the most important part. It’s impossible to just know things in programming. But coming to know them is the best way to really understand them — and to better understand yourself as a programmer.It’s almost important to note: I’m self-taught, but you don’t have to be. Take a look at how we teach people to code in our Web Developer Program and Community-Powered Bootcamp.There is so much more to say than what I have here—we’ve actually started collecting answers to this question here. If anyone wants to add to this list, feel free to leave a comment!