christophergs

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   by christophergs 10mo ago

   Pydantic | Solutions Engineer | REMOTE (UTC-8 - UTC+1)| Full-Time | https://pydantic.dev If you write Python, you've probably heard of Pydantic (400m downloads per month) and if you do AI engineering you've probably he
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   Running open-source LLMs in Python on your laptop(christophergs.com)

   1 points by christophergs 3y ago|0 comments
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   by christophergs 4y ago

   Thank you for writing this
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   How do you know your skill is degrading? Could it be the old "the more you know, the more you know you don't know"?
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   Well said. Also "that metadata doesn't leave the ivory tower" is wonderfully concise.
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   Yes. When I was very inexperienced I still remember being interviewed by an extremely big dog in the open-source world (he was VP of engineering at a very successful startup). I was probably about a 3/10 in terms of quality of interv
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   I agree that ending an interview early is a no-go. However if it's an onsite/process with multiple interviews, I think the fairest approach (and I've done this in the past) is to manage expectations ahead of time that the ful
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   Timing matters. The latest generation of VR headsets are incredible. I feel like this point matters, the same way that Netflix needing broadband to be fast enough to stream video mattered.
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   by christophergs 5y ago

   I'll pay the extra money and get the valve index just to avoid doing business with FB
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Thanks for doing the AMA! How did you discover your repeatable distribution channel, and what did it end up being?
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Very true. This is one of the amazing things about Stripe support. They are the only large company where the first person you talk to actually has a clue
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    This guy deliberate practices
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Yep, I do the same. I also combine with github wiki for larger projects and documentation (often these will reference a bunch of issues).
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Yep, the projector approach is what I've used before. Here are some pics/write up: https://coursemaker.org/blog/create-affordable-lay-down-desk...
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    This. Comments are for why.
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    This, this, a thousand times this.
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    LearnWorlds is a solid choice. If you're after a course platform tailored for technical courses, check out https://coursemaker.org
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Obligatory XKCD which brilliantly captures how management can fail to distinguish easy/hard tasks: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Haha, love that show. There's definitely a parody in there somewhere > Now that I know what software estimation is, I no longer need you.
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Great post. A key point you don't bring up is the aftermath, even if you do deliver. Especially in non-tech companies there still remains the tendency to view these projects as "done" after the end of the project/MVP etc
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    I can see this being really useful on documentation sites, kudos. If you want to make money from your coding knowledge, CourseMaker [1] has similar functionality with video hosting/payments/custom domains all baked in. [1] https:
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    You can build your own site like this with CourseMaker[1] (disclaimer: I'm the founder). We don't have SQL support yet, but you can create interactive exercises with JS, Python, Go, Rust, C# and Java. I learned to code through the
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Could you elaborate on what living non-traditionally looked like for you? What was your thought process going off script, and what made you decide to change course back to a regular job?
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Shades of PG's "Why Nerds are Unpopular" [1] > "As far as I can tell, the concept of the hormone-crazed teenager is coeval with suburbia. I don't think this is a coincidence. I think teenagers are driven crazy by
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    A lot of busy, smart people have seemingly random side-projects. For example, Von Neumann: "A professor of Byzantine history at Princeton once said that von Neumann had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did" [1] I don
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    At my last gig I got budget to bring in the maintainer of an open-source testing library we using for some really important stuff. We paid him $1500 for a couple of days consulting. He showed us how to fix a couple of tricky bugs and gave a
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Switch to part-time work. Obviously not everyone can, and the quality of roles tends to be lower. But if you care a lot about your creativity and other projects this option is powerful. https://4dayweek.io/
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    Summary of Michael Lynch's Hacker News Course(coursemaker.org)

    2 points by christophergs 5y ago|0 comments
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Same, sometimes people volunteer to help me code https://coursemaker.org for free because they like the idea. In one case this has worked out well. But in a couple of others the engineers have vanished quite fast. Sometimes I wo
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    by christophergs 5y ago

    Well said. This is why engineers who know how to finish the last 10% are truly valued by good colleagues and managers.