gregrata

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by gregrata 2mo ago
Yeah. Did the author actually go to these stores? I grew up in the 80's and 90's, went often, and did not have any of these experiences. Generally didn't have any conversations beyond checking out (and arguing about rewind f
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by gregrata 3mo ago
Odd - when I'm at a cafe, I'm almost always asked if "whole milk" is ok. It work, we have fat free, 2%, and creamer...
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by gregrata 4mo ago
"hired an architect 18 months ago who used AI to architect everything" Huh? 18 months ago? I've been using it that long - it wasn't able to do that back then....
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by gregrata 7mo ago
Awesome post - really insightful!
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by gregrata 1y ago
Wow. Yeah. That's unreadable - my frustration and annoyance levels got high fast, had to close the page before I went for the power button on my machine :)
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by gregrata 1y ago
(and yeah, I don't love the term "Vibe" - but it's kinda established at this point, so I'm just going with it...)
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by gregrata 1y ago
Been working to write books for a while now using LLMs. Wasn't very good until recently- the newer models with the larger context windows are pretty good at it, and Cline is amazing (and not just for coding!)
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Vibe Authoring: Writing a Full Book with Cline (Cline and Claude 3.7 Sonnet)(youtube.com)
2 points by gregrata 1y ago|3 comments
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by gregrata 5y ago
As many have said, don't treat them as side projects. They were apps or products you were working on - if they were at all "real" (e.g., had users or customers) than it was a startup you were trying to get off the ground (a
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by gregrata 6y ago
Uhhhh.... holy crap, sorry... but what is the author smoking? I started out with PC's in the early 80's. They were HARD to use (granted, as a pre-teen, I fell in love right away - but I was already a nerd). They were not intuiti
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by gregrata 6y ago
I'm sorry - but - HUH? > re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use. Because of course if CASH re-enters the steam of commerce is somehow different?
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by gregrata 6y ago
Great over all story. Not sure what the McDonalds part has to do with it - a huge number of kids start there. I did - and in the next 40 years I've been Chief Architect of a startup, found my own startup (with a install base over 12 m
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by gregrata 6y ago
shrug before I used my phone for music, I used my iPod. Before that, my Walkman. Personal music at the gym is not new or anything specific to phones
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by gregrata 6y ago
On another side of this - I've seen places where employees were essentially locked in - unable to leave, because they couldn't sell any stock, and exercising cost too much, or, more likely, would be a taxable event (and again, the
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by gregrata 6y ago
I wrote a book on this last year, out of my frustration with dev interviews https://www.amazon.com/Whiteboard-better-hire-best-developer... I've interviewed and hired a lot of people over the years, and have been inter
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by gregrata 7y ago
This is what I created over the years, and what I found gave the company the best results (great, happy teams that worked together very well, creating great software) Is this something that you'd do? Have you tried something like this
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I wrote a book on hiring engineers – would appreciate feedback from HN(amazon.com)
1 points by gregrata 7y ago|1 comments
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by gregrata 7y ago
I wrote a book on this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJ6N8P1 (the book will be free tomorrow - would love for you to give me some feedback...) Lighter-weight then this paper - just my experience in using different kind
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by gregrata 7y ago
Cliff notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
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by gregrata 8y ago
The key words you probably need to look at are "multi-petabyte". Not saying they shouldn't be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts 1 Petabyte (and they have multiple) S3 - $30,000 a month,
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by gregrata 8y ago
> WORKING with someone (for a long time) 100% tells you what it's like working with someone Not sure how that's not clear...
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by gregrata 8y ago
Correct. Best way to know what someone is going to be like to work with, and how good they are, is to work with them. Interview is that helpful
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by gregrata 8y ago
And yeah, I have strong opinions on this - I've been on both sides of the table for a long time, and don't think the average interview is a good indicator of how they'll do in the job. I wrote a book about this :) https:&#x2
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by gregrata 8y ago
> because someone knows someone and has worked with them for a long time only And this is the #1 thing that gets a near auto-hire from me. I'm not saying don't interview them, but most interviews don't really tell you wha
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by gregrata 8y ago
What in the world are you basin that on?
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by gregrata 8y ago
As stated: > If it takes a lot of money to create what your customers want I assume that covers what you are talking about...
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by gregrata 8y ago
So it would be nice if they contrasted this again other generations - "About 66% of people between the ages of 21 and 32 have absolutely nothing saved for retirement". So? My impression is other generations at this age also hadn&#
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by gregrata 8y ago
So I've been frustrated by this type of interview for years (on both sides, but the last 10 years on the hiring side). I don't think it's great finding people that are good at writing software (as it's a LOT more than a
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by gregrata 8y ago
(and yeah, I get this already happens if, for example, I visit the state. Just seems to be different in this case)
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by gregrata 8y ago
Isn't this at some level taxation without representation? If I don't like how some other state is taxing, I can't alter that behaviour by voting. At least in my current state I might have a chance to do so.

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