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by andher 3y ago
Finally! I've been using the assistants api in building an ai mock interviewer ( https://comp.lol ) but the responses were painfully slow when using the latest iterations of the gpt-4 model. This will make things so much more
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by andher 3y ago
I've been doing side projects for a bit, and they've been a combination of things I think are just cool and relate to hobbies I like, or solve some kind of problem I'm having, or are cool things I've seen other people ta
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by andher 3y ago
That makes more sense. I do think if you add a 9-5 to it its nearing impossible.
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by andher 3y ago
Were you doing your masters along side your work? In any case, this is heartening to see. The majority consensus seems to be you can either be a good dad, or pursue lofty goals, but not both because of the time commitment required for each.
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by andher 3y ago
Interesting. So from what I'm understanding, in your experience it is impossible to pursue goals for starting a startup or escaping the 9-5 once you have a child (or at least in the first several years of having a child?), and the &#x2
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by andher 3y ago
George Hotz is always so interesting to watch, although I watch the youtube video after more than live
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by andher 3y ago
I'm not junior anymore, but something not mentioned which I've found useful is in-person networking. But for me in person networking wasn't so much of "I'll go meet people and ask for an interview", but rather
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by andher 3y ago
Yeah, I agree, the scenario is totally different in an actual pressure situation, I've fumbled so many easy questions. I don't necessarily like leetcode style questions as the standard for the industry for interviewing, but its st
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by andher 3y ago
I've built several things! These include bots for code generation that you can tag onto issues, q&a on text etc. The thing I'm working on now is AI mock interviewing. It's basically scratching my own itch, since I hate le
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by andher 3y ago
I haven't read Nation but I till now Guards! Guards! Guards! has been my favorite. Its been a while since I read Discworld, will have to pick up nation
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by andher 3y ago
Yup, I intend to finish it. I've heard The Dark Forest may be the best in the series, so looking forward to the next one. How are the Murderbot books? I've been intending to pick them up
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by andher 3y ago
I started SICP last year but haven't gotten anywhere close to completing, mostly because of competing priorities. Siddhartha is great book, I read it years back and it sparked my interest in other works of Herman Hesse.
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by andher 3y ago
I read The Phoenix Project a while back and really liked it, have been intending to pick up the The Unicorn Project for some time now. Did you think just the audiobook wasn't better or in general it wasn't as good as The Phoenix P
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Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024
40 points by andher 3y ago|92 comments
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by andher 3y ago
It is very good. The gesture recognition, the eye tracking, video quality etc are great. The immersive video demo is outstanding, the immersive env are great, the spatial videos and photos (captured from the device) look amazing, although a
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by andher 3y ago
I'm building https://comp.lol . It's AI powered mock coding interviews, FAANG style. Looking for alpha testers when I release, sign up if you wanna try it out or just wanna try some mock coding. If its slow to load, sor
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by andher 3y ago
I'm someone who hasn't used Next.js a lot, and started building some projects with it (so I don't have a very nuanced opinion). In general, I don't use the app router because I find it has little benefit as compared to t
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by andher 4y ago
When I was an IC on a team I didn't care too much about my colleagues daily updates, but I cared about the interaction we got from being able to meet and talk. This was pre-pandemic so it was nice to get together in the morning for 15
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Ask HN: What couldn't you do this year? What do you want to achieve next year?
2 points by andher 5y ago|0 comments
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by andher 5y ago
Thanks! I really like Julia's blog, I hadn't seen those entries before!
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by andher 5y ago
I found "The Phoenix Project" a great read, although the learnings there were things I had picked up from places I had worked at. Haven't read "The Unicorn Project" yet but it's on the list.
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by andher 5y ago
Thanks for the concrete example, I can relate to this much more. It seems much harder to know, when interviewing new teams to join, whether this particular kind of skill set would be useful or valued, as opposed to being an expert in some t
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by andher 5y ago
Yes, I had the same conclusion about careful project picking and greenfield projects did seem to hold more promise than others. I've found that its kinda hard to get on prominent greenfield projects as one of the founding members thoug
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by andher 5y ago
Do you have a good way to identify and question your assumptions? You're right in that there's learned patterns that have worked well in situations which I'll keep applying moving forwards, although I do try to enumerate the
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by andher 5y ago
Thanks for the reply, this reframing of the question is insightful. I'm definitely more in the camp of generalist backend with some political savviness, because I tend to enjoy collabs and getting things out more than a technical deep
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by andher 5y ago
Thanks, that's a great point and reminds me of the 'quantity trumps quality' parable[1]. I've found necessarily more of my time goes in reviewing code, reviewing design, setting up collaboration and proposing work (vs be
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Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?
77 points by andher 5y ago|36 comments
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Ask HN: What are you reading this month?
2 points by andher 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: APIs for getting books and author data
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Ask HN: APIs for getting books and author data
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