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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Totally. $19K sounds crazy. Even if you have that money, what it’s like one or two months of salary there in SV for a well paid engineer. You could go to Germany, Spain, France, and get a decent colonoscopy at a decent private clinic for wh
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
No remote work?
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Do you really think that if no Terminator-related concept would be present in the LLM training set, the LLM would expose Terminator-like behavior? It’s like asking a human to think in an unthinkable concept. Try.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
But the LLM is going to do what its prompt (system prompt + user prompts) says. A human being can reject a task (even if that means losing their life). LLMs cannot do other thing than following the combination of prompts that they are given
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I think this is the key difference between current LLMs and humans: an LLM will act based on the given prompt, while a human being may have “principles” that cannot betray even if they are being pointed with gun to their heads. I think the
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I don’t know why but for a moment I thought this was about switching jobs among two strangers. Say, I advertise “Senior Software engineer at company X, team Y, salary Z, wishes to switch to a similar position and compensation in another com
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I don’t. If it’s a truly groundbreaking knowledge, I’ll remember. But most of what I learn comes from books, technical documentation and the like, so there’s no need to store my understanding of such sources (I do keep a copy of such source
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Cool. I like using the cli for almost ever, but somehow for books, I gravitate more towards something with a GUI. I use Zotero nowadays; seems enough for now.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Such a “simple” solution. Wonder why doing a PhD in the majority of european countries is equal to a poor monthly income. Just pay them more. I guess countries don’t like long term solutions.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I don’t know. I have never referred anyone, but then in my 10+ years of experience in the software industry I have never found extremely talented or extremely untalented software engineers. Most of them, including myself, were between a 4 a
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
80% of the time, the queries the ORM produces are just fine. For the rest 20% left, I code them myself (I think senior engineers now how to distinguish these two scenarios). Now, what I don’t want to code myself is the transformation betwee
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Why does the author need a “remote ssh” plugin in their VSCode? I usually develop inside a VM as well, with my IDE running in the host… but what I do is to mount a shared directory for the code between the host and the VM. Works pretty fas
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I don’t think it’s up to the developers only to decide. If we are working in a sprint, if all my manager cares about is “shipping impact”, then I’m not going to spend time on things that won’t benefit me in my performance review. I’ll take
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
> It's good to work at companies where productivity is tied to personal performance, even if measuring productivty is far from perfect. Not in my opinion. These kind of companies ask you to give 100% of yourself every single day. Th
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Programming is so different than software engineering, to the point some people (like me) love the former but little by little are starting to hate the latter. Learning for the sake of learning, being able to be picky about what to learn, f
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Ask HN: Is This Burnout?
1 points by tkiolp4 2y ago|2 comments
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
In my experience, even if the company has a platform team, they still expect senior/staff software engineers to know about platform/infra topics and work on them. It’s strange because those very same companies don’t expect platfor
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Interesting. I used to work mainly with european developers (dutch, french, germans, russians, spaniards, polish, etc.) and I always could speak my mind, and others would do so. No BS, no avoiding direct confrontation. But more recently I h
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Would be interesting to know how the app is deployed. I see there are some k8s yaml files: does the deployment happen manually (e.g., run kubectl commands inside the cluster)? Is there some sort of pipeline perhaps? (I don’t see any in the
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I find books like SICP interesting and not very useful. I love reading them because I like this stuff, but I don’t get to apply their teachings in real world software. It’s a problem because naturally I want to spend my time reading these k
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Same here. Daily stand ups (no matter if they last 5 min. or 20) have not being useful for me any single time. They are used by managers to force us to show what we have been doing the day before. No more, no less. If I ever get stuck with
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Would be perfect is somehow it could work without S3. Would be awesome if the internet could just work in p2p mode out of the box, just some JS and HTML and you have 2 computers talking to each other collaborating on a doc without the need
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Many companies I have worked for operate like this. Engineers get to work on shiny new features, they get released, everyone is happy. Months later tons of bugs accumulate. The original authors are already part of another team (because “bre
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
This. Even Burger joints have shifts so that they are operational 24/7.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Around 7 years. I don’t update software that often either (I’m usually 2 versions or so behind, always)
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Companies don’t need software artisans. They need replaceable people who can do the job until they run out of investor’s money.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
> VP of marketing? Nope, professional money extractor. VP of engineering? Nope, professional money extractor too. Wasn’t this obvious? I’ve been in the software industry for long enough to distinguish people who do actual work from those
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I run dozens of linux VMs on my Mac without a sweat. I run docker if needed in such VMs. Nowadays there’s no disadvantage in using Macs (silicon ones) I would say.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Only if I can work 100% remotely.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
And? You put in your cv you know Java, and solved. I mean, if you have experience with a few mainstream languages, it should be no problem to handle yet another one. I have done this several times. Yes, I lie in my cv, but that doesn’t mean

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