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Ask HN: How do you deploy code with breaking database changes?
1 points by qd011 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How to break into finance without prior exp. or a prestigious degree?
1 points by qd011 3y ago|3 comments
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by qd011 3y ago
Good news is that a year in consulting isn't long enough to look like a detriment. Bad news is that the job market is crap right now. > Is anyone aware of any firms that do formal-methods-like activities Don't limit yourself to
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by qd011 3y ago
It's not as big of a leap from using Google or Stackoverflow as it might seem on the surface.
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by qd011 3y ago
> Today I got technical feedback on an assessment (making a gRPC server in Rust) Did you interview at Helsing? Pretty sure that their test was something like this.
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by qd011 3y ago
I don't understand why Python gets shit for being a slow language when it's slow but no credit for being fast when it's fast just because "it's not really Python". If I write Python and my code is fast, to me t
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by qd011 3y ago
psql is good but how do you manage long multi line queries and saved collections of queries to reuse? or connections to multiple databases?
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by qd011 3y ago
It's not a good UI, at least not on Mac. It's kind of clunky, confusing and slow. I don't know if there are many better free alternatives though.
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by qd011 3y ago
Diet of coca-cola, sweets and dry humor.
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by qd011 3y ago
Why do you? I don’t understand your logic.
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by qd011 3y ago
5. Be part of a new team.
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by qd011 3y ago
Your ethics are leading you to believe this. For other people it doesn’t make sense at all that a computer program should have rights. It makes even less sense to people who know what a computer program is.
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by qd011 3y ago
> At some point, they will get some basic rights I don't know how to express how deeply stupid this sounds while still being polite and constructive.
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by qd011 3y ago
I genuinely think that this whole argument is a waste of time. What matters is whether the outputs are useful and the outputs don't change based on whether you call it "thought", "AGI" or "probabilistic word se
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by qd011 3y ago
Seems like a very bad reason to switch. Data engineering is different (and much worse than SWE in my opinion), and it's not like you're certain that you can avoid LC interviews if you try to switch.
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by qd011 3y ago
One of the things that has changed is typing - you can and should type check your Python code with tools like mypy or pyright. Even better if you use a strict mode for mypy which forces you to type hint everything. Also check out dataclasse
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by qd011 3y ago
You should transition to a forum that only you can read.
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by qd011 3y ago
Aaand I've had a long series of "Something went wrong" errors in the couple of hours since I wrote the comment above.
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by qd011 3y ago
For me it works but is very slow.
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Tell HN: ChatGPT with GTP-4 has been unusably slow since the latest update
20 points by qd011 3y ago|10 comments
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by qd011 3y ago
Patrick Boyle posted an interview on this topic with the author of the article just an hour ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5kngSrrsw
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by qd011 3y ago
So have job openings overall like you can see from the graph in the article. I don't see a reason to single out AI.
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by qd011 3y ago
What's your point, that I shouldn't criticise him because he has a wikipedia page? A bad article is bad regardless of what the author has achieved during his career as a whole.
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by qd011 3y ago
So what is the Oxide hiring process? > Interviews shouldn’t necessarily take one form; interviewers should feel free to take a variety of styles and approaches I guess we still don't know. > Author: Bryan Cantrill > the act of
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by qd011 3y ago
You have an edge in the job market for things you've done before. When you jump into a new language/domain, you're at a disadvantage - it's the exact opposite of having an edge. Doesn't mean that you shouldn't
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by qd011 3y ago
Because it's a good name, and names are brands, not some legal commitment to anyone's intepretation of what the company does. Apple don't sell produce, Tesla have nothing to do with the Serbian-American inventor, Amazon aren&
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by qd011 3y ago
Physical exercise is the thing that prevents cognitive decline the most.
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by qd011 3y ago
> (i.e. say building a least squares model without using sklearn, etc.) It's 2023, when I read "build models from scratch" I think about training a model from scratch and not using any pretrained models. For your definitio
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by qd011 3y ago
It tests whether you can write a simple loop with a couple of ifs - not being able to do it is definitely an indicator that you won't be able to complete more advanced programming tasks. And pretty much any other programming task is mo