chrislaughlin

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There’s no Imposters Here

The google trend for imposter syndrome took a spike in December 2014, it wasn’t until mid 2017 that the topic reached peek in the tech industry. It is an indiscriminate force that affects all people in tech. Fueled by the constant bombardment of blog posts, tweets and new advancements in technology. Imposter syndrome can haunt someone throughout their career.

However “there are no imposters here” The tech community is actively working to remove barriers and provide inclusion for all. In these times we need to identify and stop imposter syndrome.

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD