tlextrait

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by tlextrait 4y ago
Please let me know what startup that is so I avoid it at all costs.
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by tlextrait 4y ago
Sounds like they care more about process. Process-centric companies tend to not do well in the long run.
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by tlextrait 4y ago
Everyone is bad at everything they haven't tried to do. You can be good at anything. I can't ride a bicycle but if I wanted, I could be good. Just gotta go and do it. Unfortunately doing things is work. Solving abstract problems i
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by tlextrait 4y ago
I had a 3 and 2 year old when I prepared for interviews and I did alright enough to get a job at a FAANG (and it's not Amazon). I took about 2 months and blocked some time every single day. I still managed to cook meals for 4 and put t
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by tlextrait 4y ago
Not quite but almost: Leetcode doesn't evaluate programming proficiency but ability to solve complex and abstract problems using programming. Doing so doesn't require being good at programming but being good at solving problems, a
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by tlextrait 8y ago
Wrote it in C++ too a while back (5 years ago ) https://github.com/tlextrait/2048
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by tlextrait 9y ago
Airline pilots are professionals, car drivers are just trying to get somewhere... paying attention isn't their full-time job. Also building autopilot software for a near empty 3-dimensional space is much easier than for complex roads o
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by tlextrait 10y ago
It's not because we achieve more with less code that we write less code. Instead we want more. Doing speech recognition would have been unthinkable with punch cards... plenty of things are still unthinkable today, but maybe not tomorro
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by tlextrait 11y ago
Get married maybe
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by tlextrait 13y ago
I think your inability to find a developer position has nothing to do with your ability to develop. I recruit for my company and the most important is how you sell yourself. Every company looks for a very specific profile that fits. If you
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by tlextrait 14y ago
That service already exists, look it up on Google.
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by tlextrait 14y ago
I agree, most of the ideas listed either already exist in some shape, or have no market at all. One issue is not just identifying problems one has, but identifying problems a large group of people have AND that they're willing to pay money