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by ventana 2mo ago
The interviewer probably learned the trick with two pointers and wanted to see you implement it, for no real reason. This question, just like it's well-known sibling question "check if the linked list has a loop", has absolut
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by ventana 2mo ago
> Everyone said "Google doesn't ask brainteasers or leetcode-challenges any more" Google, just like all other FAANG companies, uses a lot of Leetcode-style questions and there's no tendency for this to change so far.
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by ventana 2mo ago
That might just be my world in which the acronym DFS has a single well defined meaning; but of course the interview question never says "implement DFS", it will be a kind-of-real-life coding exercise that can be solved by a graph
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by ventana 2mo ago
> Once upon a time, I wanted to resize about forty screenshots. The first few search results either wanted an account before they would touch a file, or did three of them and then asked me to register for the rest. > Resizing or conve
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by ventana 2mo ago
2015 was one year after Satya Nadella became a CEO, and Microsoft looked pretty OK to me back then. Much better than a few years before that.
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by ventana 2mo ago
Just don't ask brain teasers when you conduct an interview; I believe they give no valid signal at all, and I also believe Microsoft does not ask them anymore. The coding questions that require an "aha!" moment are very simil
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by ventana 2mo ago
It's not allowed where I work; the commits are signed by a human.
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by ventana 2mo ago
I write a lot of code just for myself, with no one else ever using it. An expense tracker. An analytics system for my mobile game. A Telegram bot that helps automate some things. A digital clock made on ESP32. A notification service that ca
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by ventana 2mo ago
> The M1 Air is still, years later, a genuinely workable machine for K-12. I’ve seen districts get five, six, seven years out of those things, and they’re still fast enough for the browser-based, Google Docs, testing-portal workload that
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by ventana 2mo ago
Even in pre-AI world, there were no testers around me for the past many years, and those people who actually tested the final product before the release (their titles were probably something like "release engineer", not "Test
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by ventana 2mo ago
In my forty something years of life so far, a quarter is a little more than 10 years. I lived the first quarter + ε in one place during my childhood, then moved to a different city for the college and lived there for another quarter + ε, an
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by ventana 2mo ago
If only I could come to them and give them some sort of thing just once in exchange for this specific article, then sure. But when I need to give them some sort of thing and subscribe to giving them even more such things for the years to co
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by ventana 2mo ago
Fun fact: I cannot easily override the NYT paywall for this article; archive.ph did not work for me this time. Maybe NYT did something to it, they apparently require JavaScript to be enabled; not sure if it's a new thing. But anyway: w
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by ventana 2mo ago
Just nitpicking on the "quarter of my life" point: being in my forties, I spent 3 of the 4 quarters of my life (so far) in 3 very different places in the world. The 4th quarter is a rounding error of those three. I don't thin
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by ventana 2mo ago
The problem of AI writing, to me, is its emptiness, not the fact that it's not written by a human. Seeing standard slop words or phrases triggers the "do not read this" reaction, but the reason of not wanting to read is that
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by ventana 3mo ago
Asking those HN users whose work requires them to read through many resumes: is the influx of AI slopped resumes a big enough problem already for humans reading them, or no one actually reads them manually so humans don't really care?
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by ventana 3mo ago
The article rightfully asks: > Why do we spend our time deciphering walls of dense, speculative, AI-generated text copied and pasted by our colleagues and management? Why do we tolerate these time-sucks? To which there is a simple answer
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by ventana 3mo ago
A fun quote from the article, discussing a basic Fibonacci recursive implementation: > Each call branches into two more calls, so the total number of calls grows as O(2ⁿ). Well, no, not really. If anyone bothers counting how many recursi
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by ventana 3mo ago
Not only CLAUDE.md, but also .cursor/rules/use-bun-instead-of-node-vite-npm-pnpm.mdc (which is a symlink to CLAUDE.md); so it just looks like they try to let agents know that it's a bun project and not a Node.js project. Seem
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by ventana 3mo ago
It's a fun idea to use a permutation of a card deck, or the first few cards of it, to visualize or identify a key or a blob, or maybe a git commit. Instead of "the commit a57de147", say "the commit 7-of-spades, jack-of-d
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by ventana 3mo ago
Too much for sure, and often ignores instructions to not leave obvious comments.
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by ventana 3mo ago
Not a Windows user or developer so might be outdated, but I'm somewhat surprised by the chosen stack (Node.js / Electron / React) for a clipboard manager that is Windows only and is not supposed to be portable. What do people
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by ventana 3mo ago
The TL;DR of the fragment at around 6:57 in the video, for those who don't want to watch, is that Boris recommends to delete all the customizations, CLAUDE.md, skills, and other stuff you had for older models, and try using the new mod
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by ventana 3mo ago
TL;DR for those interested in the results of my testing: the service helps you rewrite the CV focusing on measurable achievements; it's pretty much like having a very stubborn friend helping you edit the CV and always asked the same qu
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by ventana 3mo ago
I published some of my slop projects on GitHub, and I just added a human written note in the very beginning of README.md that explains what the project is about in a normal human language, acknowledged that the code is 100% LLM written, and
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by ventana 3mo ago
I self-host the backend and the database, so I can have a web interface and file expenses from my laptop, not only from my phone.
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by ventana 3mo ago
As much as I want to support development of useful tools, I cannot see why I would use anyone else's expense tracker and pay for it, when making my own, which does everything I need the way I need it, is so easy now. Speaking of expens
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by ventana 3mo ago
Nice! For those who haven't looked at the code: no LLM slop in the output, just pure regexes that extract the flag descriptions from either a man page, or from `--help` output. I can imagine this being helpful for people starting their
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by ventana 3mo ago
I signed up for a beta just for fun. But in general, in my own 20+ years of industry experience, there was never a case where my resume was evaluated by a recruiter without having someone refer me. If I have a referral, they will still ask
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by ventana 3mo ago
I could not resist checking, and indeed, the domain ikkoopbelgisch.be is registered with the Belgian registrar Telenet BV, and the website is hosted in Belgium. So, good job on that! At the same time, Google Analytics is surely not Belgian

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