mertleee

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by mertleee 1y ago
This is cool! Curious what front-end tooling you've used for the landing page?
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by mertleee 1y ago
This works, but imagine how easily a billionaire could bribe a lions share of employee fractional owners / voters to do whatever they want to a corp org structure. Sure, distributing CEO pay to workers is a great idea.
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by mertleee 1y ago
I guess I'm too simple to understand why this is useful? Just because it's been implemented in so few lines or?
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by mertleee 2y ago
Assuming we don't give all of the jobs generated to h1b's and O1's I think this could do very good things for the country. Dollars staying within the US and not going to other countries is good.
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by mertleee 2y ago
Looks cool, what sources of data are you guys using to derive this insight?
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by mertleee 2y ago
I was able to raise, it's been interesting. But a part of me feels like I just can't take this shit seriously anymore. I'd like to think I just have a real brain and self-respect for thinking this way - or maybe I just suck
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by mertleee 2y ago
Thanks for your thoughts! I think I'm just going to try to get a "boring" role for a few years and re-charge. Granted, anything making more than $50k a year as a "founder" will be a welcome change. Embarrassing as
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by mertleee 2y ago
After having a seemingly "random" bout of cdiff after receiving a highly potent antibiotic for a "random" salivary gland infection - colonoscopies and antibiotics really scare me. I believe the salivary gland infection w
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Ask HN: I feel I can no longer trust my gut
14 points by mertleee 2y ago|4 comments
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by mertleee 2y ago
Curious what you mean by "corporate"? I'd be down to join a google et al, however my background is pretty scattered with 1yr long engagements and I'd need months to actually leetcode up to the bar that I'd even sta
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by mertleee 2y ago
Very cool! I've had great results with Mistral OCR as well. However, in terms of embedding models I've had a hard time getting consistent results with really large pdfs (over 40pgs). Ideally would like to be able to build index
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by mertleee 2y ago
Elon is a clown but I'd be more worried about $500B missing from our government accounting records.
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by mertleee 2y ago
Very curious what kind of tooling you used to create this!
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by mertleee 2y ago
Has anyone created an open source solution to check vibe-coded apps for basic auth / db configuration issues?
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by mertleee 2y ago
Page is... broken? lmao
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by mertleee 2y ago
I think it's important to highlight that this kind of advice isn't negative and it's well meaning. As engineers it can be easy to form a distortion field about what we're working on and the perception of those who might
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by mertleee 2y ago
As a past founder this is immensely important. Think very carefully about he financial impacts of "taking the idea to term" and more importantly if you're happy with your current life. In many cases if you're asking yo
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by mertleee 2y ago
Just hire an SRE. If you want to piss off your team and incur more costs than the annual salary of one decent SRE... ask your team to do on-call rotations. In this day and age if you're a properly capitalized startup you should have t
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by mertleee 2y ago
the irony is KYC/AML basically only made things worse for consumers while doing nothing to combat banks from doing lots of illegal things. KYC/AML now means you have to share incredibly personal and high-risk details with... anyon
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by mertleee 2y ago
Historically, the "private dark room" has always been a mechanism of goofy elites. To an extent these will always exist - but what we define as investigative journalism will likely decide whether we hear about these at all haha.
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Ask HN: Moving from startups (mixed success) into product?
1 points by mertleee 2y ago|4 comments
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by mertleee 2y ago
Idk, at 29, 30 and 31 I became significantly smarter - it just had to do with things I was intensely interested in. Things that could hold my focus just no longer matter. Fortunately I'm interested in engaging things that are hard.
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by mertleee 2y ago
More than willing to make tradeoffs. It doesn't have to be fancy or new.
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by mertleee 2y ago
Curious what you mean by "professional services" orgs? seems like you need a referral to get into these?
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by mertleee 2y ago
This is quite common even in austin - heck even at half decent startups. Also, with inflation $120k is a joke relative to even my adjusted starting salary out of college.
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by mertleee 2y ago
It's not for my ego - it's being honest about what I've been able to yield from my skillset and just being able to live a modest below average life. My point of comparison is about average or below average. I barely go out,
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by mertleee 2y ago
I'm starting with companies that appear to be relatively good fits, by no means just mass applying to anything that matches a skill / tool. Ideally at least series-B all in all, within the month prior to joining my friend probably
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by mertleee 2y ago
Curious what platforms I should attempt to network with? I have no idea where to even start with this but it sounds really interesting.
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by mertleee 2y ago
Thanks for the advice. I've always sort of struggled putting myself in the shoes of someone who would read my resume and then pick me over another candidate. Cover letters used to help with this - but I don't think even HR folks r
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by mertleee 2y ago
I appreciate the perspective - but in my opinion continually lowering your standards (at this point below even average) to feel okay with my situation is what I've done in the past and it's only resulted in a bigger hole / cl

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