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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I think the post title should be called “Production is hard” (as the author talks about later on). Pick up any technology out there: from Python, to C++, to K8s, to Linux… Do the analogous “Hello world” using such technologies and run the p
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
The real problem is not that OpenAI is not open (they’re a business after all). The real problem is that we are idolizing it as if it were the next computing revolution like Linux was in the past. If we keep doing that, we’ll end up in a fu
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
The software mentioned above (Linux and others like GCC) started and remained free. I think it’s crucial to keep the foundations of the software industry as open as possible.
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Tell HN: GPT-4 is not like Linux
5 points by tkiolp4 4y ago|5 comments
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Couldn’t you just have prompted: > okinawa street on a rainy night. Impressionism style
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I think that’s a simplistic view. Sure thing AI will make a bunch of problems disappear… but do you really think that with all the power of AI, we are going to keep publishing react apps? Golang web servers? Rest APIs? No. We’ll be publishi
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In the US*
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Why do you think companies should be delivering features fast? What matters is quality.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Now you know why Twitter had +7K employees.
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I don’t understand these new saas that rely on GPT. It surely is my lack of understanding, but since the interface to GPT is mainly text: why any company would pay for N different GPT saas (e.g., one for searching for code, another for sear
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Well, it’s not that such platforms are always needed, though. For instance you may rely on confluence so that managers can write and share documents… well, why not let them write and share documents via github/gitlab (assuming your com
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
There’s a difference between your career and your job. My career is all about CS/programming. I love it, I spend countless hours on it on my free time because I like it. But if I’m trading my skills in exchange for money, then money ru
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Since around Facebook became a thing, I think we (most of the developers of the world) have been wasting our time and effort in what I would call useless fancy toys: Twitter, Facebook, vine, instagram, tiktok, thousands of saas, millions of
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Weird. Being stuck for days with a bug is not that bad: - you learn a lot of stuff otherwise you wouldn’t have learned - you have material to talk about in your daily standups - your colleagues recognize your effort and once you fix it you
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I would take the pay cut and use the working hours to get prepared for future tech interviews. In any case, I guess you don’t want to work for them anymore.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I don’t think only cloud is the problem (if any). What I see in every company I join is a huge list of saas they depend on: - lokalise - newrelic/datadog - opsgenie - gitlab/github - slack - atlassian suite - google/microsoft
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
For me HN is dying because of the increasing amount of negative/depressing news we have in the front page year after year. I know that covid happened, and the war, and recession, and what not… but I do not come to HN for that. I come f
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
While what you said rings true, one thing you are forgetting is that demand for people who work in tech is only going up. This is worldwide.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
No. They are not open source or a non profit. Why should I give them my money (time/knowledge) for free?
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
What exactly “creating the software themselves” means? Does it mean to write binary code? To write assembler? To write software in C? To write software in Golang? To write software in prompts? If any the demo just showed me the next high le
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
> what else is there for software engineer to do? We’ll do more. If right now it takes a team of seven (3 backend, 2 frontend, plus EM plus PM) 3 months to come up with an MVP that does X, well, with AI tools, the company is not gonna fi
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I think it will be exactly the opposite. Better tech always increases customer demands, so we’ll need more engineers (not necessarily to write code 100% of the time, though). What we probably will need less is middle management and the whol
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I think you are in a position to be the “king behind the curtains”: your product managers and architects depend on you to get their job done. Take advantage of that (in a good sense) and: ask for salary raises, and get more time off (which
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Ask HN: Difficult to Improve Life
1 points by tkiolp4 4y ago|5 comments
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I’m jealous. I don’t drink nor have social media accounts (besides HN).
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Talking about emulation/VMs, I have recently played with multipass (from canonical) to run ubuntu VMs on my Apple M1. It works like a charm! In the past I have tried VMware and Vagrant, and while they somehow work, I’m always running i
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
The difference is that Systems programmers believe they are better (i.e., more skilled) than Applications programmers. Just like infrastructure engineers think they are better than backend engineers think they are better than fronted engine
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On-site is incompatible with remote companies.
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And time. Don’t forget about time. Not everyone has the luxury of 24h/day.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
If I were you, I would apply for positions like the following ones in non-faang companies: - Director of engineering - VP of engineering - Principal engineer You have 15 years of experience and Microsoft in your CV. That’s all what it takes

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