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by romanhn 3y ago
These aren't "algorithms" in the traditional sense of that word. They are complex, convoluted systems with hundreds of moving parts/services owned by dozens to hundreds of teams. There's no one individual who has a
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by romanhn 3y ago
Yeah, this is definitely a much better formulation and one I've used in more recent interviews.
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by romanhn 3y ago
You're right of course. However, interviewing is a game of limited information and I consider all signal I get from the company (after all, they're doing the same with me). I think a few things had to be broken in order for an emp
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by romanhn 3y ago
Years ago I was interviewing for a software engineering role. At the end of one of the interviews I asked how they liked working there. And the interviewer caught me off-guard with "it kind of sucks". She went on to explain that t
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by romanhn 3y ago
Google search does it already: https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search . Worked decently enough the few times I tried it.
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by romanhn 3y ago
I got tired of tracking the status of my job applications in spreadsheets and emails, and built Rolepad ( https://rolepad.com ) to help with that. The goal is to help applicants focus on their job process and not expand mental ene
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by romanhn 3y ago
Are investors majority shareholders? If the founder owns the majority of the company, I don't see how he could be removed. Are you all prepared to possibly lose your jobs over this?
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by romanhn 3y ago
That depends on where you draw your moral lines, doesn't it? :) I do think this example just underscores the grayness and ambiguity of our human existence. I bet even some of the lying and moral corner-cutting experienced by OP would h
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by romanhn 3y ago
A few thoughts. 1. The lack of response is already an early form of feedback. Perhaps this isn't a pressing problem folks are looking for help with? 2. The thread you linked to is not very compelling in my opinion. There's no sol
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by romanhn 3y ago
"Early adopters" is not some sort of a cohesive group that you can find in one place. I can't imagine such a platform being particularly useful either. Grab three random YC companies, say in education, AI MLOps, and agricultu
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by romanhn 3y ago
Probably depends on your ethics/politics. Ben Cohen is a prominent supporter of stopping U.S. military support for Ukraine.
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'm building an online tool to help folks applying for jobs manage their applications, interview stages, communications, etc. It's pretty common nowadays to apply for many positions, so the goal is to reduce some of the mental ove
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The Problem with Time and Timezones(youtube.com)
1 points by romanhn 3y ago|1 comments
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by romanhn 3y ago
As an engineering type lacking in design skills, I feel you. For my own side project, I paid for the TailwindUI library, which contains all sorts of premade components for web apps, stores, and marketing pages. It was a godsend, really help
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by romanhn 3y ago
Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson is a classic.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is fantastic. Great balance of breadth and depth, theoretical and practical.
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by romanhn 3y ago
The scene in question: https://youtu.be/msX4oAXpvUE
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by romanhn 3y ago
Not only that, but it was the first YC company to go public. That said, their performance post-IPO leaves a lot to be desired.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Having a clear value proposition and developing a unique insight is almost certainly not enough for securing funding. Doubly so in this environment (exceptions like Mistral AI exist, but I wouldn't bet on that). Build an MVP, get some
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by romanhn 3y ago
Speaking as someone with a decade as an engineer and another decade in management roles, I wholeheartedly agree with every single point here. I suggest reading The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier to better understand what the path t
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by romanhn 3y ago
I feel like I saw something a bit more refined (I recall node statuses aggregated on one cool UI), so this may have been an earlier iteration, but the beginning of the following video has some of what we're talking about: https:/
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by romanhn 3y ago
Back in 2014 or so, I saw the FoundationDB team demo the product at a developer conference. They had the database running across a bunch of machines, with a visual showing their health and data distribution. One team member would then be tu
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by romanhn 3y ago
It definitely feels slower than previous versions. The fact that the Start menu almost always takes multiple seconds to open is absolutely inexcusable. To be fair, it's likely attributable to running a bunch of heavy apps (Visual Studi
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by romanhn 3y ago
Currently using Firebase Auth, which was fairly easy to implement and is free/cheap at high user counts, so is an option for a B2C application, unlike most commercial solutions I ran across. Cons: difficult (sometimes impossible) to cu
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For companies sticking with remote work the rules for success are becoming clear(cnbc.com)
14 points by romanhn 3y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 3y ago
They were. Let's see how long my vouch holds.
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'd suggest looking again - they might have lost the rest by now if you haven't been using it. They now delete all email if you haven't logged in for a year. I found out first-hand :(
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by romanhn 3y ago
Yesterday I prompted three different chatbots (ChatGPT, Bard, Poe) with a prompt to generate lyrics on a specific topic (VC investment in Europe) in the style of the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast." They were all pretty terribl
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by romanhn 3y ago
Oh wow, I did not know about the upcoming policy to start deleting accounts with two years of inactivity. Thanks for mentioning this! So glad I got through ahead of it. How many people will not...
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by romanhn 3y ago
I can only assume arbitrary as it sure wasn't aware of a tie to my number during previous recovery attempts. I assumed there was a required phone field somewhere that I needed to provide data for.

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