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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Maybe these studies are particularly hard
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Ask HN: Is there a good place to get recommended privacy settings for apps?
1 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
So I am at a big tech company right now so I did the riddle thing at one point, but I'm out of the game so to speak and don't have the time for it anymore.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
>As far as having two kids goes---yeah, that's exactly the point of leet coding tests. If you don't have the time or energy to waste on mastering pointless exercises, you won't have time and energy to work 60-80 hour weeks
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Ask HN: Anyone just say "no" to leetcode interviews at this point?
47 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|50 comments
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Ask HN: What software engineering skills will be marketable in 5-10 years?
2 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|1 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Where do you typically deploy your Laravel projects? Forge?
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Ask HN: What's your go-to tech stack (or services/products) for side projects?
3 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|12 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
>Soon, you won't be able to take a screenshot using Microsoft Edge for Business for your company says no. huh
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Ask HN: Is fulfilling but lower-paying work worth it?
4 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|17 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
My experience in big tech is that the product managers, engineers, and designers behind these things do actually care, but what they care about is "making impact" so they can get promoted. Right now, generative AI features == &quo
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I'm sure there are great applications for LLMs, really. But can we stop just putting minimal wrappers around ChatGPT and trying to cram it into everything?
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
It's the only social network I'm really on right now. And AT protocol is pretty neat. I'm glad it's around and will keep using it until something else better comes along.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Good warning for the future... but what about the past? Any thoughts on retroactively looking at behavior for existing OS projects? Seems like an impossible amount of work.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Two out of how many though? Yeeeesh
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Don't worry, soon enough their AI will harvest your site for training content and then downrank your site when it has what it needs
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Ask HN: Why has WordPress been so resilient?
3 points by pcloadletter_ 3y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Have there been any positives to cookie consent requirements?
5 points by pcloadletter_ 3y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Why no browser-based E2E encryption?
1 points by pcloadletter_ 3y ago|5 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
It is cutesy to use the word "bullshit" but it seems too colloquial to glean any real information from. What do they mean by "bullshitting?" Any sort of misleading? Pretending you know something when you don't? I gu
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
Got it too. Strikes me as extremely disingenuous. I feel like they shouldn't even be allowed to represent this as a decision they made out of the goodness of their hearts. Makes me hate them even more, which is pretty amazing because I
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
I did not realize half the payload was the data itself!
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
This is a pretty funny idea. Love seeing this kind of creativity.
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
The "zippy" client stuff comes at a cost: my browser has to download ~150kb of javascript to make this website work. Not as bloated as many sites but more JS than is truly needed for this sort of thing. Likely framework bloat. Edi
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
>So reducing this would be a multi-year project of a sizeable team Maybe, or just a knowledgable person to dig in for a bit and solve it. On one of my teams when I was back at Microsoft was working on a similarly huge codebase with build
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
And we have cloud caching for the "build from scratch" case so even that can be pretty quick. This all just takes a little time investment.
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
This sounds like my exact experience at another big tech company
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
They seem to be trying to jam AI into a bunch of things now. As an aside, I work on a product that should be considered feature complete, but PMs keep dreaming up features so they can get promoted. I wish we could just take some time to cle
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
You can do this on daedalOS https://dustinbrett.com/ edit: and obviously you can play Doom on it
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by pcloadletter_ 3y ago
Ha, I am not criticizing your work at all. It's nothing short of jaw-dropping.

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