Mc91

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by Mc91 2mo ago
Tired of recruiters asking me if I had a BSCS, I went back to college after years working in IT. Had a conversation with the other seniors in a CS 300 class one day, I would say a few of them were in the top half of the class. Was talking
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by Mc91 3mo ago
My work status hasn't changed since 2022 when I got all those recruit attempts. I log in at least once a week, thumbs up people's accomplishments and sometimes reply "Congratulations", same as I always did. Other people
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by Mc91 3mo ago
I am a programmer in the US. Linkedin mails to me from recruiters - 2026 - one (recruiter did not name the company, hybrid six month contract in another city) 2025 - none 2024 - none 2023 - four (none after March) 2022 - twenty-seven (inclu
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by Mc91 4mo ago
I remember Gnucleus and followed the release of Gnutella and used to read the old Gnutella Developer Forum on Yahoo where the major Gnutella clones hashed out the next steps for the network. I agree - competition from BitTorrent lowered Gnu
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by Mc91 1y ago
You are looking at this from your perspective, which is either pass or fail. From their perspective, they might be interviewing, say, six people. As you say, they've already weeded out people from their resumes before they even get to
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by Mc91 1y ago
I program at a non-tech Fortune 100 company. Our team is on a pilot program to try out AI-assisted programming at the company, and Cursor with OpenAI models are mostly what we are using. I have it integrated into my standard IDE workflow
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by Mc91 1y ago
I got a gig from who's hiring a few years ago. I also interviewed at some other places which were not a fit. Some places never got back to me. It has been a mix.
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by Mc91 1y ago
I went to a state school (cheap) and took one class a semester - usually at night, sometimes on a weekend. So I'd work until 5, then take a class from say 7 to 830 every Tuesday and Thursday. In 2009 the economy sank and I was laid of
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by Mc91 1y ago
One thing I do is go to Leetcode, see the optimal big O time and space solutions, then give the LLM the Leetcode medium/hard problem, and limit it to the optimal big O time/space solution and suggest the method (bidirectional BFS)
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by Mc91 2y ago
I have been working in IT for over 30 years. What is happening is not new. Late 1999 was a very go-go time, early 2022 was a very go-go time. Alternatively, things were dead in 1991, in 2001, in 2009. Things were briefly dead in some wa
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by Mc91 2y ago
> Sometimes that means making dumb business decisions like sacrificing an evening to a company that doesn't care, but IMO that sort of thing is worth it now and then. I sacrifice an evening - but not to my company, but to studying L
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by Mc91 2y ago
We say grind out Leetcode, because if someone can't do a Leetcode medium (or hard) like finding a cycle in a linked list in a few minutes, it diminishes their chances of getting into FAANG. It might be the bare minimum nowadays, but i
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by Mc91 2y ago
> it’s much more realistic to start a business that is going to convince enough people to pay you enough to support yourself. I only have to convince one place - Google Ads. Plus bring in the "eyeballs" with my free app, but I
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by Mc91 2y ago
Corollary: This role can also be filled by someone of Asian heritage who was raised in the US, and who speaks English very well, as well as some Asian language proficiently.
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by Mc91 2y ago
I live in an apartment building and was given a fob that opens my apartment garage door and doors in the building. The fob takes specific lithium coin batteries and lately has been acting worse, I practically have to replace the batteries
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by Mc91 2y ago
I've been using ChatGPT (paid) and Perplexity (unpaid) to help with different coding stuff. I've found it very helpful in some situations. There are some instructions I give it almost every time - "don't use Kotlin non-
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by Mc91 2y ago
I worked in IT for a number of years without a degree, then went back to school. I had a discussion with some CS major seniors around 2011, who tended to be the more promising half of the class - I started talking about software version co
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by Mc91 2y ago
Something along these lines. Something with Javascript underneath. Probably React front-end. Someone else had the right idea at looking at Linkedin and seeing what people are hiring for, but it would be difficult to become an FTE at a lar
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by Mc91 2y ago
I program an Android app for a Fortune 100 company. Last commit where someone edited a Java file was last week. Most of the new code from the past few years has been in Kotlin though.
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by Mc91 2y ago
Most shops are doing (theoretically) agile, and specifically scrum. Where I work we are theoretically doing scrum, but it is the worst of all worlds. Tickets (I mean - stories) are very vaguely specified. While we get almost no specs for
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by Mc91 2y ago
LLMs have been getting better - they were all pretty poor for my programming purposes a year or so ago, recently Perplexity (even the non-Pro version) and GPT4 have been helpful, and 4o is even better. I have been posting Leetcode hard pro
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by Mc91 2y ago
> Offering a part-time role is a sign that they don’t actually have enough money to be in the software industry, rather than an indication that they have less than 40 hours a week of work to outsource. Kind of. I work full time for a bi
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by Mc91 2y ago
I default to Linux when I can. I have a System76 laptop (running Ubuntu, not PopOS). My current company gives us a MBP or Windows laptop, my team gets MBPs, Linux is not an option. My preference if asked would have been Linux then MBP the
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by Mc91 2y ago
I have been told by people working in $200k+/$300k+ SWE jobs to look up at the answers and just be able to regurgitate something along the lines of the Grind 75 answers as a first step. As a next step - even within these 75 questions,
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by Mc91 2y ago
> It's very much not your legacy typewriter keyboard, even though the order of the letters is the same. That random order of letters from 1878 still appearing on my screen is the definition of legacy.
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by Mc91 2y ago
It is good at unminifying and "minifying" as well. I have been doing the Leetcode thing recently, and even became a subscriber to Leetcode. What I have been doing is I go through the Grind 75 list (Blind 75 successor list), look f
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by Mc91 2y ago
> Nvidia has to keep maintaining this huge footprint of software, keep it going themselves, supporting a vast legacy, while everyone else gets to innovate forward, with much better access to the hardware. When I hit an input box on my ph
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by Mc91 2y ago
My list would be similar to this. Also Perplexity. Black Forest Labs. Maybe Stability AI. I don't even have any work experience in ML as an SWE but would like to work in such companies. I study it and play with it a little bit on m
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by Mc91 2y ago
There are time periods when layoffs happen a lot. From spring 2000 to late 2001 there were many layoffs. From 2008 to 2010 there were a lot of layoffs. In early 2020 there were layoffs in the economy, not too many in tech. From late 2022 to
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by Mc91 2y ago
I make good salary right now, someone sending me $20 or $100 doesn't really mean anything. I used to make money off someone else's open source project. I offered him a couple hundred dollars and he said he didn't need it. Fo

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