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by Mc91 2y ago
I don't use AI at work at all. I pay for Leetcode, which usually gives editorial examples in Python and Java and such, and paste it into ChatGPT and say "translate this to a language I am more familiar with" (actually I have
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by Mc91 2y ago
I'm not deep in the field at all, I did about four hours of Andrew Ng's deep learning course, and have played around a little bit with Pytorch and Python (although more to install LLMs and Stable Diffusion than to do Pytorch direc
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by Mc91 2y ago
I am an SWE in the US. In 2022 on Linkedin I got messages from recruiters at Google, Amazon, Uber, and many other companies, large and small. I haven't gotten a message from any recruiter on Linkedin for over a year. Luckily I am work
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by Mc91 2y ago
November of 2022 is when the Facebook and Amazon had their big layoffs, and Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce etc. followed in the two months after. I haven't had a recruiter contact me on Linkedin for over a year, in 2022 and before I
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by Mc91 2y ago
I work for a Fortune 100 in one of the 20 biggest metros in the US, $75k is a standard salary for juniors/associates getting an offer right out of college. Some may get a little more, some get less, I haven't met any who got $100
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by Mc91 2y ago
You can find the problem described here. It also has a link to solutions in different languages. https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/
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by Mc91 2y ago
Right. I learned what binary trees were in college and didn't directly use them much afterward. Since interviews sometimes ask about trees, I started my practice of solving tree problems by practicing how to invert a binary tree. I
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by Mc91 3y ago
As others have said - cardiovascular exercise, trips/commutes...
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by Mc91 3y ago
Why do I think it has declined but will go back up? Because I've been following the field since the early 1990s and have been in it since the mid 1990s, and have seen it act as a sine wave, although the amplitude can change. The US was
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by Mc91 3y ago
> Is this AI? No > Is it a temporary decline of the market? Yes > Caused by what? That's a complex thing to answer, but the fed funds rate starting 2022 at 0.08% and now being 5.33% doesn't help. > Is there still any n
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by Mc91 3y ago
My current job started as a job at a consulting company, which I got via a recruiter reaching out on Linkedin. Hacker News who is hiring threads work as well - posting your resume or reaching out to job listings. I have got interesting inte
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by Mc91 3y ago
> I found the whole process pretty dystopian And you didn't even go to the office and see the Orwellian "MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS" and "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T AFRAID" posters, or the internal new
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by Mc91 3y ago
> All that said, a majority of candidates can be filtered out within 15 minutes If I interviewed six candidates, usually one would obviously be head and shoulders above the other five. If I interviewed twelve, two would be. I saw this
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by Mc91 3y ago
> Everyone hates him, but you have to begrudgingly admit that Elon successfully demonstrated you don't need massive dev teams to build and run software, even at Twitter's scale. (obviously it has other problems due to Elon&#x27
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by Mc91 3y ago
> Personal Computers [80s] > But what if OpenAI decides to revoke access to that API feature I’m using? This starts with personal computers, and why would computers at that time be called "personal"? Part of the problem wit
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by Mc91 3y ago
> They aren't a load of fuddy-duddies who insist on using mailing lists and IRC. Nobody wants to collaborate with a load of grumpy greybeards Sometimes the grumpy greybeard fuddy-duddies act as they do due to experience. One can ha
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by Mc91 3y ago
I donate monthly to five Patreons. One of them is LineageOS ( https://www.patreon.com/LineageOS ). Two of them are community spaces. Two are podcasts, only one of which I listen to. I really only get Patreon benefits fr
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by Mc91 3y ago
Same. I work as an SWE at a non-FAANG, non-tech Fortune 100 company. We already had an IT staff in India and would hire consultants in India, but this has been accelerating over the past year - virtually all hires or new consulting contra
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by Mc91 3y ago
If you're in college as a CS major, look for a summer internship. Some companies are looking for people between junior and senior year, although some will take earlier. If they like you, you may get a job offer. Find out when they w
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by Mc91 3y ago
I look online for Android programmer jobs, I see React Native often enough when someone is looking for an Android or mobile programmer. It's a large skillset people want - you need to know Javascript, then probably some HTML and CSS, t
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by Mc91 3y ago
This may be true, but there tends to be more complaining about Amazon in the FAANGs than the others.
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by Mc91 3y ago
Correct. If management told our team that our performance was based on getting 2-3 planned features out this quarter, and we've been minmaxed to fill our schedules, and there's a hiring freeze and one team member just left - then
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by Mc91 3y ago
> I think software as a whole suffers greatly from this "well, I got it barely done, technically fulfilling the requirements, so my work is over" attitude. I get it barely done, technically fulfilling the requirements. How muc
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by Mc91 3y ago
Don't put up multiple slides with long lines of code. A few slides with a few lines of code where everything is very clear is fine. Some people just have every slide be many lines of small code. In terms of slide text, less is more.
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by Mc91 3y ago
If ChatGPT should be able to generate any code, a function that outputs a set of prime numbers longs in Kotlin should be simple enough (unless you consider Kotlin, the 12th-20th most popular language according to various surveys, too obscur
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by Mc91 3y ago
> If you can't monetize you can't put people on your software and it will suck (like most OSS software, for example). I have worked on FLOSS software and I have worked on non-FLOSS software and I don't see most FLOSS softw
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by Mc91 3y ago
I live in a US metropolitan area with 2-3 million people, at a Fortune 500 company. Junior/associate devs, hired out of the internship program usually, can make less than $100k TC (some even make less than $80k). Most of them say it i
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by Mc91 3y ago
I don't really have problems with RSI nowadays, but years ago I would be at the computer even more. One helpful thing is switch the mouse between hands every few minutes. Your hand gets a break if you're moving the mouse a lot.
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by Mc91 3y ago
I think this is it, an hour a week can be too much in some cases, but never having 1-on-1s can lead to some things deteriorating, depending on the manager. Otherwise trivial issues accumulate and become non-trivial, both sides can get out
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by Mc91 3y ago
> ML+Python+Pytorch because it's hot right now? Watch this video, which is an introduction to logistic regression for beginners - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrYrynGWGA If you think that is lacking some prelimi

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