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by sk11001 3y ago
Because it's interesting, someone did a significant thing and we don't know who they are. > What good would it do for the rest of us to find out his real identity? Other people's curiosity isn't about you or some pote
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by sk11001 3y ago
It's absolutely baffling that you're presenting "knowing how to deploy your software" as a differentiating skill. It should be the bare minimum to be employable.
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by sk11001 3y ago
The overall state of the software job market is quite poor so don't expect things to be much better if you switch to mobile. In fact you should expect it to be more difficult to find a job in mobile development because your experience
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by sk11001 3y ago
> No multi-line lambdas, which forces you to move snippets away from their usage and come up with a name for them This is a good thing. > Modifying arithmetic operators (*=, +=, ++, --, etc...) ++ and -- aren't a thing in Python.
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by sk11001 3y ago
def concatenate[T: (str, bytes)](first: T, second: T) -> T: return first + second This isn't valid Python. items = [1, 2, 3] items *=0 bowl = ['water'] drink ,= bowl a, *_ = (1,2,3
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by sk11001 3y ago
If the premise is that knowledge work is disappearing, I don’t see why law or medicine would be safe.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Is it? I much prefer the ChatGPT UI over the Gemini one which mangles any code you input. OpenAI need to add text search over your chat history - your chat history becomes hard to manage very quickly.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Big disagree that it's minor - the polars API is completely different from pandas.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Not a good example - polars is new and has changed so much in the past couple of years that GPT-4 often gives outdated code for it.
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by sk11001 3y ago
CS50 on youtube is great - well taught, covers a lot of ground, no prerequisites, doesn't coddle its audience.
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by sk11001 3y ago
LLMs are too knowledgeable and helpful to qualify for the job.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Paying people directly to have children seems like a horrible policy because it will have disproportionate effect on people who are less likely to be good and responsible parents.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Still, closed/locked-down/restricted/censored systems/products/platforms existing don't prevent open and free systems/products/platforms from existing.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Google’s poorly-thought-out half-baked 1-day-old product isn’t the internet.
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by sk11001 3y ago
What does Easy Apply have to do with timing or quality?
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by sk11001 3y ago
The edited HN title is a command, not the original title of the article.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> be with your loved ones, pursue your passions, travel the world, or really set any goal you want for the remaining decades of your life They are pursuing their passions and setting any goal they want. I don't get why so many peo
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by sk11001 3y ago
> When did software design / engineering change so much? We need to do more complex things, and if you want to do these things efficiently without reinventing things from scratch, you need to rely on different tooling and work on va
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by sk11001 3y ago
No, it's way too rigid to iterate quickly and work interactively. And it's not a "is the language there yet" - it's not supposed to be there at all, it targets completely different use cases.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> People that haven't been into management typically have a very naive idea about how much power managers have. A CEO isn't just a manager though, at director level and above you get to have a say about what gets worked on and
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by sk11001 3y ago
> I’m entering unemployed with about 6-12 months of living expenses in the bank depending how deep into savings I dug. If the goal is to finish a bootcamp and land your first developer job in that timeframe, yes, it's a horrible ide
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by sk11001 3y ago
The water needs to boil, so you can only do so much about the temperature. If anything, it's not fiddly enough to give you the control to make better coffee like an aeropress or a pour-over can.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> Call them Synthetic user tests, call them 'pingers,' call them what you will Can you tell us what you mean more specifically? Is this something like a Kubernetes readiness probe which you can every few seconds, or something m
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by sk11001 3y ago
Coverage is necessary but not sufficient, your tests also need to be good and test the right things. What's your proposed alternative - that we don't even try because our tests aren't guaranteed to be perfect?
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by sk11001 3y ago
It's a job like any other. And it's not outside of SWE, it's part of it; this is a bit like asking how someone moved from SWE to being a backend developer.
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by sk11001 3y ago
"Hmm Meticulous have been looking for a #3 founding engineer for 18 months, they're sooo dynamic"
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by sk11001 3y ago
ML attention is nothing like human attention. I think it’s madness to attempt to map concepts from one field we barely understand to another field we also barely understand just because they use overlapping language.
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by sk11001 3y ago
> First i think a obvious counter example of memoization can be used outside of dynamic programing This isn't relevant, the quesion is whether there are dynamic programming solutions which do not involve memoization.
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by sk11001 3y ago
Your browser can do this already.
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by sk11001 3y ago
This is a problem of your expectations. Things don't need to be perfect to qualify as AI.

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