dmkirwan

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by dmkirwan 1y ago
It requires us to sign up to try it. Can you share a demo video or allow us to try it without signing up?
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by dmkirwan 3y ago
Does anybody have a good sense of how impactful this will really be? I've grown cynical over the years after plenty of big announcements but very little in the way of big action.
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Ask HN: Recommended software engineering podcasts for more senior devs?
2 points by dmkirwan 3y ago|0 comments
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by dmkirwan 3y ago
What a legacy. I watched an excellent documentary on this man a few years back[0]. He donated massive sums of money (up to $1 billion) to third level institutions in Ireland, all on the condition of anonymity. I would love to see an assessm
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by dmkirwan 3y ago
Obair mhaith! Not what I was expecting to see on Hacker news this morning. How does it work? Are you translating Irish speech to English text and sending to chat gpt? Are there API's that can transcribe Irish speech?!
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by dmkirwan 3y ago
In many parts of Europe, a heart attack used to go like this: 1: 112 call to an ambulance 2: Ambulance arrives, takes an ECG and gives aspirin and GTN 3: Paramedics drive to the emergency department 4: ER doctor identifies the patient is ha
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How we've adapted our interview assessment for the ChatGPT era(devscreen.io)
2 points by dmkirwan 3y ago|3 comments
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Ensuring Authenticity in Interviews: How DevScreen handles the rise of ChatGPT(devscreen.io)
1 points by dmkirwan 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Open-source, privacy-focused developer tools (early stages)(devtools.devscreen.io)
2 points by dmkirwan 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
Previous HN post on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167004
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
We've added a bunch of new features based on feedback since the last time: - We have a team that can assess submissions now to save companies time. - We published our assessment rubrics for each test so companies can use this to save t
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Show HN: DevScreen Recruit – a better software engineering interview(devscreen.io)
7 points by dmkirwan 4y ago|1 comments
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I assume you're not interested in hearing the obvious ones (zero to one, lean startup, etc., etc.) so I'll recommend two. At the early stages when you're defining your strategy? "Good strategy/bad strategy" by
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Intercom launches AI chat bot powered by GPT-4(intercom.com)
2 points by dmkirwan 4y ago|1 comments
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I have no affiliation with Intercom but I was taken aback by how much better this bot appears to be compared to any chat bot I've seen before. They have an interactive demo on the link I shared there to test it out and I've been u
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I built a similar one to test job descriptions for non-inclusive language[0]. These tools are helpful , particularly for people who are not native English speakers. I use open source tools like retext-equality[1] and retext-profanities[2] t
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
The major one that came to mind were cloud providers (AWS, CGP, Azure, etc.). Even if you manage to build in resilience to a major outage, I'd wager that many services your business depends on will not have the same levels of redundanc
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
Good idea to make a throwaway account for this question. If I were in that situation I'd send a get well soon card and flowers. I wouldn't call or visit. Usually the only thing you have in common is work, so you're left to sp
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Flights disrupted at Dublin airport again due to drones(irishtimes.com)
2 points by dmkirwan 4y ago|1 comments
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
A lot of the reporting that I read about this event showed an astonishing lack of critical thinking. As the linked article says, two things would have to have been true: 1: The aircraft entered into free-fall (i.e. falling at ~9.81m/s)
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
What (presumably!) was built as a joke will actually help me a lot. For my side-project (devscreen.io) we have to make lots of realistic coding tests and pull requests with bugs in them for candidates to work on as part of a technical inter
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I've done this. It was the right decision for me and I have no regrets. However, it is a personal decision and I'm not going to try to convince you one way or another. Rather, I'll share two posts below by Charity Majors whic
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American Airlines Flight 965 Cali Accident Report (1995) [pdf](skybrary.aero)
2 points by dmkirwan 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
If you were shocked that this is only happening now, I'd highly recommend reading or listening to the book "Invisible Women" by Caroline Criado-Perez. She highlights instances of this across many industries. I think that it&#
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
Similar here, except we had d3.js mixed in there also. We went back and forth on the decision to buy highchart (we were a small startup with limited $$$) but honestly it paid for itself immediately and the built in accessibility helped us m
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I was going to respond saying that you should be strict about declining meeting outside of working hours and protect your time, but then I remembered that my company is not every company and this may not be supported or possible. It does so
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
This is very cool. I love that it can be self-hosted! It looks super easy to use, too. Spinning up a pull request environment sounds like a great help.
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
It shouldn't need to exist but unfortunately interviewing is still a separate skill that engineers need to learn. People can get so caught up in the numbers on a dashboard or AB test that they forget that there's a human on the ot
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. Most interviews assess your ability to interview well, not do the job well. Stanford even run a class on the software engineering interview! I'm currently working on a product to help companies to build real
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by dmkirwan 4y ago
The rails docs are excellent, actually! I was surprised at how bad the node.js docs were, but the documentation for express.js is good enough that I didn't find myself referencing the node docs a whole lot. C# and .NET have been pretty

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