fdlaks

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by fdlaks 7mo ago
How did you get into this field to begin with? Would definitely be interested in switching into a field like this
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by fdlaks 1y ago
Any recommendations for companies?
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by fdlaks 1y ago
Can't wait for the day when I can have my gaming PC be on a Linux based OS, thats really the only reason I have it at all
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by fdlaks 1y ago
Same thing happened to me at Zipline, they give you a basic problem to solve in a take home assignment and then ask you to do something you’re “proud of” or to really show off your skills for the rest of it. Never heard back after submittin
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by fdlaks 2y ago
I would firstly make sure you are recovering from your condition during your medical leave my friend. My strongest advice to you would be to not burn the candle at both ends during this time, and to rest and relax without worrying about wha
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by fdlaks 2y ago
A lot of times the actual business emerges from something that started out as an idea that wasn't working. If you are still enjoying working on things in this space and it seems like this idea is running out of steam, pivot to somethin
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Sure as long as you realize you are really betting big, if you’re lucky and after dilution you own 0.1% of the company, posthog needs to sell to someone for a billion dollars for you to make one million. And that’s one million before tax, b
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Sure but the burden is on the company to understand what skills they need to hire for well enough to hire for the role, not on the candidate to just prepare for everything and roll the dice in a 9 hour interview This is where interviews can
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Does Google not offer RSU’s to employees outside of the US? You won’t ever get rich off of salary alone, salary and RSU’s of a growing publicly traded company is a different story though. As you alluded to, it’s very rare for even founders
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by fdlaks 2y ago
No I didn’t bother to read their documentation after seeing their website was apparently made on Myspace. As someone who has gone through the roughly 9 hour interview process in the past, was it the docs and open source product that made yo
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by fdlaks 2y ago
If I’m going to sit through 9 hours of interviews to maybe get an offer, then yes absolutely. I’m not going to work my rear end off for 4 years to get 0.5% of potentially nothing and go through your dog and pony show of an interview cycle
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Ya I have yet to meet anyone who is passionate about analytics plumbing surprisingly, I’m glad posthog has found the 4 people in the world who truly are. What this really translates to is the founders saying “we think posthog is our golden
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by fdlaks 2y ago
I personally think there are more efficient ways to get a high signal to noise ratio on if you are going to be a good hire or not without having the candidate invest almost 9 hours into an interview process, but that’s just me
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Ah ok my mistake, so that’s 8 hours including the review and discussion portion for the super day, then let’s say 45 minutes for the technical interview so 8 hours and 45 minutes of time spent interviewing at a minimum.
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Wow. 900 applications down to 10 "SuperDay" participants down to 4 hires. All to work at.... posthog. What a depressing statistic. This felt like a humble brag to help make their point about hiring good talent and how many people
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by fdlaks 2y ago
No disrespect, it's important to have people paying attention to these things or they would just never get fixed, but that's my take away from once being excited about going potentially going into this field to seeing what the day
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by fdlaks 2y ago
I wouldn't pivot to security completely, it honestly seems like that field has been boiled down to moving data from automated security jobs into Jira and chasing down engineers to fix dependabot issues. As a developer you should of cou
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Looks awesome, congrats on your success 200k sales is a huge achievement! What factors led you to seeking out a publisher, was it mostly getting art for the game or did the publisher bring more to the table that made you decide it was worth
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Don't start with web development if your kid is just interested in learning more about how computers work or writing some code. As others have said there are a lot of beginner friendly tools that teach fundamentals better. Different st
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Ask HN: Long term successful growth teams
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Unfortunately I used to think this was the main purpose of the interview as well, but have been proven wrong time and time again. The only thing that matters in most places is getting to the optimal solution quickly. It doesn't matter
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by fdlaks 2y ago
How did you get into game programming, if you don't mind me asking? I've always thought it would be such an interesting career but have heard horror stories about what the industry is like now...
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by fdlaks 2y ago
They used to give out a calendar every year filled with pictures of their executives (mainly CEO) living a lavish lifestyle. Posing with Ferrari's, ribbon cutting ceremonies, stepping onto the company private jet, etc... You could alwa
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Stop diverting the question, tell me where my assumption is wrong of needing to make 2 API calls to an LLM provider to do this or prove me wrong. If you're going to be firmly on the AI fanboy bandwagon you will need to eventually face
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by fdlaks 2y ago
What is it that you think is so complex about this?
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by fdlaks 2y ago
Cool! How long does it take to make something like this? I'm curious because it seems like you could do it with two calls to a third party LLM provider: one to prompt it to take the persons profile and generate a script for a podcast b
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by fdlaks 2y ago
To stand out in this AI overhyped market, you will need to prove that you've done something more than connect the Github API to the ChatGPT API...
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by fdlaks 2y ago
It seems like I took the inverse path that you did, I went to school for EE and then transitioned into doing fullstack engineering. I don't want to discourage you from learning more about EE because it is fascinating and rewarding, but
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by fdlaks 2y ago
> The thing that people strangely still seem to not get is that these systems will continue to improve rapidly Where is the plateau though? What we have so far is definitely impressive and useful in some cases, but I can't help but
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by fdlaks 2y ago
I'm building a camera with zoom / pan / tilt that uses the Raspberry Pi high quality camera and a small telephoto lens I got off of Amazon. The enclosure for the camera is all 3D printed and made in fusion 360, and I even 3D

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