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by bcyn 4mo ago
Agreed. Reading the rest of these comments are makes me feel crazy / like I’m missing something. It doesn’t sound like the interviewer was making the candidate divulge traumatic information - but rather assessing how they deal with adv
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by bcyn 7mo ago
Very cool! Could you support sorting of some kind? Would love to at least view most recent first.
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by bcyn 7mo ago
This is really awesome! Dream home project for me as well, but can't justify the cost of large e-ink displays so far (was shocked at the nearly ~$2k sticker price of that Boox Mira Pro!)
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by bcyn 7mo ago
Which models perform anywhere close to Opus 4.5? In my experience none of the local models are even in the same ballpark.
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by bcyn 1y ago
I don't think the point about 401k stagnation is true. At most fee structures and optionality of funds change. How did that cost you 500k exactly?
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by bcyn 1y ago
Why? How do you draw the line between people who deserve to be "surveilled" (if you can even call it that in this case...) vs. people who don't? You are entitled to your opinion of course but it just seems extremely arbitrary
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by bcyn 1y ago
Great read, thanks! Could you dive a little deeper into example 2 & pre-registration? Conceptually I understand how the probability of false positives increases with the number of variants. But how does a simple act such as "pre-re
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by bcyn 1y ago
There's no confusion about the type of edge. Just pointing out that if you are selling an edge rather than trading it yourself, you're either grifting or naive.
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by bcyn 1y ago
This doesn't make as much sense as you think it does. If you could predictably trade a flip from bearish to bullish (for example, of course there are other trend-based signals), you would not share that signal because others would over
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by bcyn 1y ago
It read to me as a (very) small discount for choosing to be billed annually vs. monthly.
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by bcyn 1y ago
You're correct about valuation, but the parent post was meant to address "how much liquid dollars should you expect to receive vs. 409a." You are likely to receive less in most cases (read: unless there are wildly successful
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by bcyn 1y ago
Definitely agree with you that it's a problem that will be hard to generalize a solution for, and that the eventual solution is likely not embeddings (at least not alone).
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by bcyn 1y ago
Very interested to see what the next steps are to evolve the "retrieval" model - I strongly believe that this is where we'll see the next stepwise improvement in coding models. Just thinking about how a human engineer approac
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by bcyn 1y ago
Many SaaS products are tools. I'm sure when tractors were first invented, people felt that they didn't "control" it compared to directly holding shovels and manually doing the same work. Not to say that LLMs are at the s
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by bcyn 1y ago
> LLMs are a codification of internet and written content Only true for pre-trained foundational models without any domain-specific augmentations. A good AI tool in this space would be fine-tuned or have other mechanisms that overshadow
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by bcyn 1y ago
This reaction is primarily an emotional one. Why is a human rejecting a claim better than an AI rejecting a claim? Presumably the AI will one day -- if not today -- be more accurate in following decisioning logic than humans, who will conti
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by bcyn 2y ago
Great article, really hits a little too close to home. Definitely gives me the little extra boost in the form of a reminder that acting is always better than not acting.
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by bcyn 4y ago
Could you share some specific tactics/metrics you've defined to measure things like roadmap churn or unexpected feature demands? This problem definitely resonates with me, and I have some very primitive ideas of tracking (i.e. tag
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by bcyn 4y ago
Why do you believe that? If the goal were to measure your individual programming skills in a vacuum, then your recommendation makes sense. However, software engineering in a larger organization has a different goal -- it's team sport o
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by bcyn 4y ago
Look for a setting named "Preserve logs" to prevent the default behavior of clearing console/network log.
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by bcyn 5y ago
Cool, you dislike Facebook, but does that add value to the discussion about this project?
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by bcyn 5y ago
How so? Classes are extremely verbose IMO, which is the last thing I'd want in a white board interview.
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by bcyn 5y ago
It’s hard to judge out of context. IMO None meaning “disable limiting” should be a docstring/comment at the method level, describing what its return values mean, not inline next to this code.
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by bcyn 5y ago
I think you should be using `replace` more judiciously. IMO its primary use is redirecting from some kind of invalid state/URL, i.e. when the user does not want to ever go back. For all valid states/URLs, users expect that the bro
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by bcyn 5y ago
in a word, liability.
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by bcyn 5y ago
in a word, liability
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by bcyn 6y ago
This analogy falls apart because time spent to write != value to the reader. An expert can take 5 minutes to write something that is far more valuable than an amateur can write in years. I'd also argue that it's much easier and co
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by bcyn 6y ago
I think you're agreeing with my point? Those areas are hubs for hiring too, for the same reason? Albeit not to the same degree as the Bay Area.
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by bcyn 6y ago
Would that image or media related incentive exist without the huge amount of tech work in the Bay Area? My point is that the pull of the Bay Area is cyclical - supply of tech workers fuels the SV image which fuels more supply of tech worker
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by bcyn 6y ago
Of course, it's not so cut and dry. It's sort of cyclical IMO: - There are already a ton of existing technology companies in the Bay Area, and also a ton of employees. - Students from schools around the country who are interested

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