dnackoul

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by dnackoul 2mo ago
We use a tool called Weave (I believe YC 25?) that analyzes PRs for "expert units of work" and shows lift from AI tools. My understanding is they have their own proprietary model that assesses the difficulty of each PR. I find the
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by dnackoul 9mo ago
I've generally observed latency of 500ms to 1s with modern LLM-based voice agents making real calls. That's good enough to have real conversations. I attended VAPI Con earlier this year, and a lot of the discussion centered on how
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by dnackoul 9mo ago
During my time there (late 2000s) there was a Software Lab (6.170) that focused on programming fundamentals and culminated in a four-person, month-or-so long project. At least at the time, it was one of the more notorious courses in terms o
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by dnackoul 1y ago
I also took Professor Winston's seminar in college and have similar feelings about it. It was far and away my favorite class and the wisdom in his advice has only become more apparent over time. At its heart, it was really about how to
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by dnackoul 9y ago
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area so I'm definitely biased, but I think Pittsburgh has a higher general sports literacy (especially for football) than other places I lived. Football is huge from peewee to the NFL and high school games
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by dnackoul 9y ago
Because muscles take energy to power and fat is storage. In the non-modern world where food was scarcer it wasn't always advantageous to increase in muscle size and therefore caloric needs. Better to carry some fat around in case you d
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by dnackoul 9y ago
Usually these are people who are coming from companies with similar interview styles and are passively prepped by being an interviewer (for algos/coding) and designing web-scale systems (for system design).
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by dnackoul 9y ago
>1. No, you don't need to know everything... It takes maybe a week for a smart developer without a CS degree to learn what they need to know for interviews. I just went through a job search and I didn't find this true. I think
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by dnackoul 9y ago
>Its not good for a professional to play a game he thinks he will lose. That's interesting, any ideas where this attitude comes from? I feel like that's the opposite of a lot of other sports and games, where the ability to tak
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by dnackoul 9y ago
Thanks!
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by dnackoul 9y ago
Also, how does Spanner get around the CAP theorem and similar distributed systems results? It seems like the only tradeoff is monetary at the moment.
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by dnackoul 9y ago
I like to think about this question in three parts: scope, depth, and originality. The scope of the project is the size and ambiguity level. Ideally as you get more experience your scope grows. Whenever you're coming out of school, you
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by dnackoul 9y ago
>There needs to be parity within the matchups and across the season. I'm not sure how widely known this is, but the actual matchups, not order and dates, are completely deterministic. Teams play their division twice for six games.
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by dnackoul 9y ago
It's definitely worth it. The longer and more specific the list of requirements gets, the less likely it is that any one person meets all of them. Recruiters actually have a funny term for such a person, a Purple Squirrel. ( https:&
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by dnackoul 10y ago
>But if you don't pass because you're not a "culture fit", it means you probably came off as a difficult person to work with. And this article shows why. I don't think that's necessarily the case. A lot of
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by dnackoul 10y ago
I wish I would have seen this thread yesterday! My advice to almost everyone is to prioritize consistency and enjoyment over perfect planning. For almost all working professionals, their plans fail on consistency instead of selecting optim
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by dnackoul 10y ago
I used to watch Sports Center for highlights (now the internet makes sure I don't miss anything noteworthy) and occasionally the talk shows (which now rarely cover inside the lines topics). I think without reliable non-event programmi
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by dnackoul 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Any experience with how these hold up as they scale up?
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by dnackoul 10y ago
Does anyone have experience building mobile backends in Lambda? I was looking at an API Gateway / Lambda / Amazon RDS stack for building a central data store and was wondering what people's experience with that setup is?
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by dnackoul 10y ago
Finally, my first Hacker News comment! In addition to equipment and rules changes, training and nutritional techniques have evolved quite a bit over the last century. NFL players, for example, used to smoke cigarettes at half time. All th