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Ask HN: How is ChatGPT able to run code?
4 points by dakiol 4y ago|4 comments
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by dakiol 4y ago
I don't understand how ChatGPT can execute code. I understand how it can generate (good or bad) code, but how it can execute code correctly? Only a compiler can do that. Is ChatGPT "inferring" the output somehow? Does that me
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by dakiol 4y ago
> But at the end the deliverable is a combination of documentation, code and software is it not? No. At the end the deliverable is built based on communication between individuals on a team. If that doesn't work, it doesn't mat
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by dakiol 4y ago
The more senior the candidate is, the less important is how they code. Important things I consider in order: - can they communicate? Can we talk about tech stuff in a way that we actually understand each other? - what kind of domain experti
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by dakiol 4y ago
1. Directory structure. A thousand files within one folder? Bad (no matter how good the code is). Folder X (very low level stuff like operating with bits and bytes) at the same tree level than folder Y (critical business logic in terms of h
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by dakiol 4y ago
Salary is always relative ($120K in SV may seem like a very low salary and only for junior engineers… in Berlin 99% of senior software engineers with 10 years of experience make less than that). But working conditions (e.g., normal working
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by dakiol 4y ago
These practices exist outside the IT world for sure. One of my points is: software engineers don’t have to accept such poor conditions. We certainly can do better (even in times of layoffs and recession)… so I wonder what kind of software e
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Ask HN: Commit suicide (in terms of family time)
13 points by dakiol 4y ago|14 comments
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by dakiol 4y ago
Working more than 40h/week. So, if you have family and/or kids, you’ll see then less than you see your colleagues at the office. Simple back of the envelope calculation: - 10h/day at the office - 25 min commute each way - 8h
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by dakiol 4y ago
Why for SpaceX? It’s just a company, if you have kids and family that means you cannot/should not work for SpaceX? Crazy.
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by dakiol 4y ago
Only if they think it will take them 3 or more months to find a job. Otherwise taking the severance package seems to be the most profitable option.
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by dakiol 4y ago
Slack definitely ruins my day to day job. I’m hoping a new software appears and replaces Slack.
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by dakiol 4y ago
And Elon is the guy tech people admire? C'mon, he's not a Davinci or Linus or Jobs or Gates. He's just a clown with money
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by dakiol 4y ago
But that only means people will start to look for another job while working for Twitter. As soon as they find something, they quit. That's even worse than quitting suddenly (because the ones who are looking for a job somewhere else won
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by dakiol 4y ago
That theory doesn't hold. If Musk doesn't have respect for other people's life (and time), why do you think he would offer them more money to stay? In Musk's view, "hardcore mode" is the "normal mode"
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by dakiol 4y ago
If Twitter is using RPCs is for internal communication (i.e., among microservices), so how on earth would it make a difference depending on the country? Elon doesn't know what he's talking about.
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by dakiol 4y ago
I don't see how I could. On my M1 pro mbp 16 inch with 32 GB mem and 512 GB I'm running at the moment: - 4 VMs (Ubuntu via Vagrant and VMware) - two instances of Chrome, each with around 100 tabs - safari - two instances of Pychar
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by dakiol 4y ago
Depends. If you are European (and work on IT) and immigrate to Germany without knowing the language, it's not that hard because there isn't so much paperwork you need to do. Basically: - registration (it's rather easy, and so
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Ask HN: Am I wasting my time working as a software engineer in Western Europe?
58 points by dakiol 6y ago|40 comments
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by dakiol 6y ago
Since WFH I spend my official 8h/day like this: - 2h extreme focus (solve problems by designing solutions, write code) - 2h casual work (answer slack, review code) - 1h meetings (if any) - 1h reading (tech books) I don't work 8h&#
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by dakiol 6y ago
Oh, I hate this. I get your point but as a potential new hire of your company I'm also interviewing you. This means that if you state a problem in a very ambiguous way (like you did in your first message) that's already a red flag
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by dakiol 6y ago
Fluency in 4 languages before 12. I speak X, my wife speaks Y, we both speak to each other in English and we live in a country that speaks Z. Could be a challenge, I know.
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by dakiol 6y ago
So, who in your opinion should work on the stuff "nobody wants to touch"? It's clearly a job that has to be done.
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by dakiol 6y ago
Work on a personal project to get satisfied on a personal and technical level. A job is just a job, if you don't like it, go for another one.
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by dakiol 6y ago
I'm wondering when Google will start to show me based-location ads (with a, of course, "Skip" button) that interrupt me whenever I'm using their maps app
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by dakiol 6y ago
I'm not sure size is a good metric here. For example, a really tiny npm library like left pad ( https://packagephobia.com/result?p=leftpad ) is something you don't want to depend on (because you can implement it in
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by dakiol 6y ago
And you wrote that comment using an American laptop assembled in China. You get it now?
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by dakiol 6y ago
Weird. Half Europe (IT industry) speaks broken English and everyone understands each other just fine mainly because the English used is simple, without fancy words and direct to the point.
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by dakiol 6y ago
Umm, but using bcrypt to hash the passwords is just a couple of lines of code (at least in Go); I'm wondering if I'm doing things wrong by not using a dedicated framework.
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by dakiol 6y ago
I'm curious, what's the right alternative to having an email and password columns in a "customers" table?

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