NumberCruncher

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by NumberCruncher 9mo ago
This article could have been a sentence: a senior engineer does engineering and does the work of the PO/PM too.
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by NumberCruncher 9mo ago
I am freelancing on the side and charge 100€ by the hour. Spending roughly 100€ per month on AI subscriptions has a higher ROI for me personally than spending time on reading this article and this thread. Sometimes we forget that time is mo
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by NumberCruncher 9mo ago
My favourite saying is: "dumb people get old too".
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
Whatever the Chief People Officer of any company has to "say" is plain PR and as such can't be taken seriously...
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
Really sharp reasoning. This can be reversed to define an extra ordinary manager: don't care about your head count and just be a fucking grown up who's emotional state does not depend on his team's performance. IMHO this resu
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
> Don't you think they can easily monetize their 800 million [...] users? I am pretty sure they will be able to monetize it. But there is a big difference between "generating revenue" and "generating profit". It&
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
They have <a really expensive> infrastructure that serves 800 million monthly active <but non-paying> users. Even worse, they train their model(s) on the interactions of those non-paying customers, what makes the model(s) less u
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
I am happy to read this here. I manage a team of 3 and code half-time. We are heavy on XP, because I introduced it. At the beginning it felt strange for the team but in between the enjoy the empowerment it comes with.
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
> Honestly I think lesson 7 is nobody's normal. There are only two types of ppl: "the wrong kind of crazy" and "the right kind of crazy". Why would I want to connect with the wrong type of crazy? Ok, I don't
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
I wish I would not have a standard post for topics like this: Every time a surveillance system and violation of privacy rights is advertised in the EU as a solution against child abuse and trafficking I ask myself how such a system could ha
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
It would have been interesting to see how an Elasticsearch like system performs on this task.
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by NumberCruncher 10mo ago
Marketers ship code, salespeople answer technical questions without backup... ...and you dentist cuts you hair and your hairdresser pulls your teeth. Because everything is a trade what can and should be learned, except if it's related
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
Is this not the guy who is on the payroll of Anthropic? Not because he is wrong, but because there is so much marketing going on in this space nowadays.
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
Why not fighting fire with fire and using AI to: Version A: find 100 LOC which can be reduced to 50 LOC without changing the functionality. Then ask the author to go through the PR making sure it's not bloated. Repeat. Version B: find
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
They laid off the original staff. Bending Spoons has own teams taking care of the acquired companies. I read about it here a while ago. I am pretty sure the re-design was done by one of those teams. It's pretty close to the new design
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
Modern problems sometimes require old-fashioned solutions.
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
> They bought Komoot, laid off 80% of the staff, but they still did a major redesign This sounds like "doing a major redesign" would be something positive. I'm a paying customer since ages and use the app on daily basis. T
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
> Am I the only one who feels like this is obviated by Docker? This whole discussion has the same vibes like digital photography 15 years ago. Back then some people spent more time on discussing the tech spec their cameras than takin pho
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
On the first glance this seems to be a very bad idea. But re-readig this: > Get answers about any cell in seconds: Navigate complex models instantly. Ask Claude about specific formulas, entire worksheets, or calculation flows across tabs
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
Once my boss told me: “You can’t force people to do something they don’t want to do.” And this guy just don’t want to work well with you. Period. I learned one approach that sometimes works: Figure out what they want and give them what they
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
This is XP ( http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ ) applied to a one-man-army. I wish this would be common knowledge.
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
I think we have to agree that we disagree. What works for you doesn't have to work for me and vice-versa.
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
> Often I find myself cursing at the LLM for not understanding what I mean... Me too. But in all these cases, sooner or later, I realized I made a mistake not giving enough context and not building up the discussion carefully enough. And
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
I don’t really understand why there’s so much hate for LLMs here, especially when it comes to using them for coding. In my experience, the people who regularly complain about these tools often seem more interested in proving how clever they
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by NumberCruncher 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414905
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by NumberCruncher 1y ago
Making an industrial fortune is relative. It might just mean that jumping on the AI hype helps you preserve your fortune or position in the industry, while everyone else who misses the hype goes out of business. I remember back in 2004, my
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by NumberCruncher 3y ago
Location: Munich, Germany Remote: Yes (EU citizen) Willing to relocate: Only if you have enduro MTB trails nearby (DACH) Seeking: Full time or long-term freelance contract (availability: 3 days per week) Technologies: Data Science, Machine
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by NumberCruncher 3y ago
What a surprise to see “The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin” being mentioned on HN. I read some Soviet SF as a kid, unfortunately this is the only one I can recall by title.
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
>> The former knows enough about the state of the art in their area of the field Considering something to be "state of the art" is highly subjective, therefore nothing else than an opinion.
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
> it's about manipulating you into wanting things you know about, more you just described the ad retargeting industry, like Criteo

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