Humans Of Reckoner Systems

I follow "Humans of New York" concern human relationship on Twitter, together with I am inspired yesteryear the interesting stories of everyday people enjoin inward that account. 

I similar to accept the same affair for "Humans of Computer Systems". I desire to read most the human stories from people working on reckoner systems (including distributed, security, databases, webservices, OS, hardware, enterprise, cloud etc.).

"Coders at Work" was a groovy book. I intend it came unopen to capturing the humans of reckoner systems vision. But I desire to encounter this to hold upwards opened upwards to everyday people of reckoner systems, non but famous coders.

I desire to postulate heed human stories from developers, practitioners, graduate students, hobbyists, theoreticians, open-source hackers, hardware hackers, automated verification people, self-learners, veterans, everyone. OK, fine, fifty-fifty machine learning people.

I desire this to hold upwards instructive equally well. Let's acquire from everyone. Every ane has a storey to tell, together with interesting affair to teach. And perchance something to gripe about. I desire to read most the gripes equally well. 

I prepared some questions together with seat them on Google forms. I volition banking concern stand upwards for this periodically together with direct some responses together with issue them on this blog. 

Let's continue this pseudonymous. This volition continue it interesting, together with solve a lot of problems most people beingness shy or worried most sharing most themselves. Please produce respond. You tin ship away skip most of the questions. You tin ship away enjoin your optic out on other questions. Keep it human. 

I am guessing this volition most probable flop. People are lazy. For every K people that reads a spider web log post, solely 1 somebody writes a comment. I don't know if this volition hand plenty people. But it is worth trying together with I promise this volition stick, because I am actually curious to read these answers together with acquire to a greater extent than most the human side of our champaign at large. 

Here is the link to the Google Form. Please produce respond.

Programming 

How did y'all acquire to program?

Tell us most the most interesting/significant slice of code y'all wrote.

Who did y'all acquire most from most reckoner systems?

Who is the greatest programmer y'all met, together with what is impressive most them?

What produce y'all believe are the most of import skills to hold upwards successful inward your field?

What character or might produce y'all value most inward a reckoner systems person?

Personal

Which of your work/code/accomplishments are y'all most proud of?

What comes to y'all tardily that others notice hard? What are your superpowers?

What was a approbation inward disguise for you? What seemed similar a failure at the fourth dimension but led to something improve after for you?

What produce y'all experience most grateful for?

What does your perfect twenty-four hours await like?

What made y'all most happy inward the final year?

Work

What was your biggest mess up? What was the aftermath?

What was your most interesting/surprising or disappointing interaction at work?

What produce y'all similar most most your job/profession?

What produce y'all dislike most most your job/profession?

What would hold upwards the unmarried modify that would improve your function environs most?

Technical 

What produce y'all intend are the hardest questions inward your field?

What are y'all most disappointed most the state-of-the-art inward reckoner systems?

What are the topics that y'all want received to a greater extent than attention? What produce y'all intend is a promising hereafter direction for reckoner systems work?

What is your favorite reckoner systems paper? Why?

What are the most interesting blogs/twitter accounts y'all follow?

Story

Is in that place an interesting storey y'all similar to enjoin us?

Rant your optic out.

Suggest some other interrogation for this form, together with if y'all experience similar it respond it equally well.

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