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by stevepotter 1y ago
Agree, although this is often an undeveloped skill in newer folks. There are many other things I like to discuss in an interview: past mistakes, things they are especially proud of, times they trimmed scope to meet a deadline, working with
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Great question. I'm okay with someone who doesn't have public code, although they will have to work a little harder to verify their skills match their story. You have some public repos. That's plenty. Even some gists will
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by stevepotter 1y ago
When I interview a candidate, I focus primarily on what they've done. Ideally they'd have a body of work online that I can view beforehand. Then I go through a high level system design and have a collaborative conversation. Las
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by stevepotter 1y ago
This comment should be at the top
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Someone else pointed out the reason for the datatype. A more subtle problem is the use of double negatives. Boolean APIs like "disable" will throw off users of your API.
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Try this: https://github.com/luca-medeiros/lang-segment-anything
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by stevepotter 1y ago
I do a variety of things, including iOS and web. Like you mentioned, LLM results between the two are very different. I can't trust LLM output to even compile, much less work. Just last night, it told me to use an API called `CMVideo
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by stevepotter 1y ago
I love ClickOnce and am amazed that it never got that popular. Installs and updates are seamless. I wrote an inventory management program for my father's hazardous waste company. Used .net mvc as the backend, WPF as the frontend. WP
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by stevepotter 2y ago
redefinesurgery.com - I'm steve @, would be happy to talk to your brother
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by stevepotter 2y ago
I'm working on a system that uses affordable hardware (iPhones) to make orthopedic surgery easier and more precise. Among other things, we have to track the position in space of surgical tools like drills. Models like this can play a
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by stevepotter 2y ago
Wow I just got done integrating NextAuth. I will totally switch to this if you can support my mobile API. My nextjs app has some API routes used by my native iOS app. It was a bit of a hassle with NextAuth and I was surprised at the lack
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by stevepotter 2y ago
I'm working on a device that records surgery and uses AI models to analyze the procedure for things like surgical technique, efficiency, instrument usage, blood loss, etc. We're starting with using it for medical education becaus
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by stevepotter 3y ago
Named parameters and nothing new and I like them. To this day I don’t understand why swift/objc have two names. I get that one is external, one internal so changing external breaks APIs. So is the only advantage that you can rename
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by stevepotter 3y ago
I did obj-c on a popular consumer app about 10 years ago. Recently had to make an app. I used async/await and SwiftUI heavily. Used observableobject and actors as well. It’s very nice, much like a React/typescript app. UIs us
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by stevepotter 3y ago
Long time software engineer, just coming off 4 years of Kotlin into Go. Love-hate describes it for me. It's just not as much fun and feels sterile. I get the whole "just write the damn code" argument, but unfortunately for
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by stevepotter 5y ago
I was in your situation a few years ago and took a job. I've saved more in the past couple years than all my other time combined. I will be financially independent by the time I'm 50, at which time I can do pretty much whatever
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by stevepotter 5y ago
they give you a signing bonus, paid out over time, to make up for the difference in total comp in the first two years
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by stevepotter 6y ago
I work at AWS now and can second that. Nobody is happy when things break, but COEs are looked a positively and are circulated constantly to prevent repeats.
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by stevepotter 7y ago
Where I live, we have a deer problem but houses are too close to hunt. I drive to my folk's place about an hour away to do it. Some towns hire professionals to take some out, but it's expensive. The meat does go to feeding the
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by stevepotter 7y ago
I bow hunt deer in New Jersey. Hunting is sacred to me and I do it for the meat. It's great to see this shared here. CWD can be contained. Most hunters are aware of it and are doing their part to fight CWD. If you don't hunt,
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by stevepotter 8y ago
Can I have more information on the "high profile lumps this past year"? Thanks!
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by stevepotter 8y ago
I've used screen recording systems in both web and mobile and found them to be very valuable tools. And I've only ever used them to troubleshoot and improve the product. Never shared the data. That said, I've always been d
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by stevepotter 8y ago
Same thing for web - https://www.fullstory.com
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by stevepotter 9y ago
Tons of great stuff and I'll add what I can from 15 years as a full-timer preceded by 10 years as an amateur. I've in settings ranging from a startup I founded to a large insurance corporation. I'll just keep it to bullet p
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by stevepotter 10y ago
It sucks. Their default upgrade tool does more harm than good. Currently I start a new RN project then do a diff to see what I have to update on our actual app. Fun, right?
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by stevepotter 10y ago
Not only that, the team is resistant to enhancing the build system. Example of one of my struggles: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11711 On a side note, their build scripts are all js and node
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by stevepotter 10y ago
I've been doing iOS and Android for about 6 years. My latest project uses React Native. We just finished an app for both iOS and Android that has over 100 screens and did it in only 3 months with a small team. So I'm a good aut
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by stevepotter 10y ago
I'm an active user of Fabric and have found it rather convoluted and limited. For example, there is no way to easily get device UUIDs from Beta testers. Given they also sponsor Fastlane, I'm blown away they haven't provided
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by stevepotter 10y ago
HockeyApp is great. Owned by Microsoft, who has doubled down on mobile tools with Xamarin. For beta distriubtion, HockeyApp is a superior product. And it has an API (so you can, say, auto register iOS devices). Fabric is just more known
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by stevepotter 10y ago
Mr Wood, thanks for the great library that I use almost daily. I believe that leaving was the right thing to do. Take care of yourself, live your best life, and everything will be fine (including Moment.js).

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