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by koliber 2y ago
When I was responsible for an engineering team, developers could choose between a company laptop or a personal one. An MDM profile was required which forced full disk encryption, password-based screen locking, company-provided AV, and stron
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by koliber 2y ago
I’m wondering if there are any apps that combine the functionality of a todo list and a calendar with the concept of a daily agenda. I use Notion to do this but it requires manual work. Each morning I create a daily agenda. I pull in my cal
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by koliber 2y ago
It is not possible to differentiate someone who stretched themselves and got a lower grade from someone that got a lower grade for more mundane reasons.
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by koliber 2y ago
I am interviewing Java candidates. People were submitting ai generated written screens and I had enough. I modified my written screen in a way that allows me to catch some ai generated content. When it flags it, it’s 100% correct. There are
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by koliber 2y ago
It's impressive, but it adds details that were never there in the first place. In the demo on the site with the colorful bird, the enhanced image is a different, although very similar bird.
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Show HN: End-to-end monitoring of email sending systems(wasitsent.com)
8 points by koliber 2y ago|1 comments
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The Neglected Step of the SDLC – MMM: Measure, Monitor, and Maintain(koliber.com)
1 points by koliber 2y ago|0 comments
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by koliber 2y ago
I think that JUST looking at how well someone solves a whiteboard question is a poor predictor of a success in a job. However, if a person can not solve a reasonably sophisticated problem, it is a good predictor of failure. You can look for
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by koliber 2y ago
I did exit interviews whenever I managed a team of engineers. They're a mixed bag. Once in a while I learned something insightful. It was worth it, even though a good percentage did not provide much value. The valuable ones where when
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Show HN: I built a tool to alert you when your automated emails fail to send
3 points by koliber 2y ago|0 comments
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by koliber 2y ago
In my latest side project I am allowing people to start using the tool without signing up. You can see it working on sandbox.wasitsent.com. I am using Django’s user system. When a user comes and wants to use the app, I create a Django user
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by koliber 2y ago
Yeah. The inflexibility is the problem. We told them and they ignored it.
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by koliber 2y ago
They should not try to catch them and "flatten" them. That would be unreasonable. They should have listened when a Polish person told them the names are the same and should be treated as such. It's perfectly OK to "flatt
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by koliber 2y ago
There are many subtle pitfalls with names that are not obvious. It’s best to ask a person from a given country and culture and have them explain them. There was a time when I was leading an engineering department for an American startup. Th
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by koliber 2y ago
It's best to post the actual salary range. However, sometimes candidates have a different expectation of whether that is low, average, or high. To help candidates understand the compensation level, instead of "competitive salary&q
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by koliber 2y ago
The star programmer was not a mature programmer. They were proficient and smart. They were incapable of working with a team, because it was difficult to collaborate with them because their code was inaccessible. A principal engineer is not
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by koliber 2y ago
Yes! I was explaining it to my wife yesterday. The code is clean, but occasionally the changes are in a completely wrong file. Or sometimes it changes something that is completely irrelevant. It's as if I had a decent programmer who oc
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by koliber 2y ago
I am an experienced programmer, and just recently started using ChatGPT and Cursor to help me code. Some things it does like magic, and it's hard to say what n-fold improvement there is. I'll put the lower limit on 3x and an upper
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by koliber 2y ago
How cool would it be if it worked together with an adblocker. Instead of blocked ads, it would show language learning. Two-for-one.
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by koliber 2y ago
Working on wasitsent.com. It's an uptime monitor that alerts you when your automated emails stop sending. Hoping to get a working version out this week. In the meantime if you want to get an early peek at how it works you can go to san
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by koliber 2y ago
> I think there are two types of developers: those who are most excited about building things, and those who are most excited about the craft of programming. Love this. You hit the nail right on the head. I don't know if I fit into
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by koliber 2y ago
You bring up a good point! These tools are useless if you can't prompt them effectively. I am decent at explaining what I want in English. I have coded and managed developers for long enough to include tips on how I want something impl
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by koliber 2y ago
My experience is anecdotal, based on a sample size of one. I'm not writing to convince, but to share. Please take a look at my resume to see my background, so you can weight what I write. I tried cursor because a technically-minded pro
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by koliber 2y ago
OP here. I am explicitly NOT blindly trusting the output of the AI. I am treating it as a suspicious set of code written by an inexperienced developer. Doing full code review on it.
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by koliber 2y ago
That's essentially what many hands-on engineering managers or staff engineers do today. They spend significant portions of their day reviewing code from more junior team members. Reviewing and modifying code is more engaging than typin
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by koliber 2y ago
I am approaching AI with caution. Shiny things don't generally excite me. Just this week I installed cursor, the AI-assisted VSCode-like IDE. I am working on a side project and decided to give it a try. I am blown away. I can describe
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by koliber 2y ago
I wonder how different garum is from southeast Asian fish sauce.
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by koliber 2y ago
Imagine lit-up drones doing a countdown like this before New Year’s Eve!
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by koliber 2y ago
The general concept is called output guardrails. See https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails for an open source implementation.
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by koliber 2y ago
Apple uses software updates to drive hardware sales. There are some relatively minor iOS features that appear here and there that make me want to upgrade the OS. And one day I find myself with hardware that works for me, but I can no longer

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