I’ve spent years of therapy trying to overcome my fear of talking to strangers. Mostly it just feels inappropriate and unwanted; like I would be intruding on people. I can talk to strangers when there’s an appropriate social context (e.g. clerks / service people). But lacking the right context, it feels deeply uncomfortable.
Has anyone overcome this problem? Where would you go to interact with strangers–importantly where there’s an appropriate social context that permits interacting.
I'm passionate about systems programming and performance engineering. I love
learning about operating systems, compilers, and databases. In my free time, I'm
writing my own C compiler in Rust, which you can find on my GitHub.
I currently work full time as a backend software engineer at a SaaS start up.
I'm looking for opportunities that inspire my passions, so internal
infrastructure that handles big data sets, high throughput, or low latency are
areas I'm super interested in. I'm mostly looking for work in either C++, Go, or
Rust. Other than those areas, I'm also deeply interested in open source
software.
I am also finishing my degree in Computer Science at MIT this December. Looking for full time
work starting in early 2021. Only interested in positions that are remote or in Boston or the Manhattan area of NYC.
E.g. here's a 12 year old blogpost on the topic from the ROBLOX developers: https://archive.is/oXPyM
To be honest, it would probably be better off disabled by default. Its legitimate uses are pretty niche.