holden_nelson

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by holden_nelson 9d ago
A number of years ago I had a period of my life where I decided to shut my laptop for a while. I was working as a line cook and trying to find time and energy to code study so I could land a role in software (no degree). I was really strugg
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by holden_nelson 28d ago
I'm not a lawyer so no comment on the actual legality, but it feels like the issue in your example is more akin to negligence than it is ill intent. That an LLM can misrepresent / hallucinate things is foundational to the technolo
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by holden_nelson 2mo ago
I've wondered this myself. I stuck with iTerm2 for a really long time but recently switched to Ghostty. Ghostty definitely seems to renders faster (I say "seems to" because I didn't benchmark or anything). I don't a
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by holden_nelson 2mo ago
> it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, lol ok so I wasn’t deeply offended by the dingo reference for what it’s worth, but this attempt to distance yourself from it is weird. Both this post and Sei
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by holden_nelson 2mo ago
> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.
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Memory Safety Is a Matter of Life and Death(joshlf.com)
2 points by holden_nelson 3mo ago|0 comments
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Eh, I don’t know. We’re talking about high school math proficiency here. The upper 80% of students should be capable of passing that, in my estimation. Regardless of differences in capability among that 80% (which I acknowledge!)
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but, because I don’t know what they know. “I don’t really know much about that, go ask _____” is the desired response in that situation
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
HelloInterview has helped me I think. Especially with system design
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Full story and analysis of the crash: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-cr...
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
did someone actually ask you that?
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Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
12 points by holden_nelson 4mo ago|32 comments
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Author here. I just started blogging this year. Been really interesting to see a post get some traction and read everyone's responses. Thank you all for reading. I left out a detail that might be relevant? Maybe not? I couldn't de
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Yeah, you're probably right. Sorry. Writing and sharing it is vulnerable, and it's always drove me crazy to see people treat those who choose to do that uncharitably. I try to check them when I can (on other people's posts).
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Thanks! Good luck as you work your way towards Scrum Master ;)
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Yeah I have similar thoughts. I think you have to just consider the situation holistically. Senior with two years experience? Ok, this person is obviously skilled, and has the ability to create value and have impact, and has seriously impre
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Important to who? As an engineer, I just want to get an idea of where this person is at in their learning journey and what their personality is like, do they have certain intangibles, etc. The recruiter who screens the person before they ev
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Agreed, juniors get a bad rap. Something that complicates the problem is that not all juniors are the same. Some juniors really just need to be shown the ropes and learn a few things and they can start contributing at mid-level. And then af
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
I think there are pragmatic reasons to care that extend beyond vanity. If I want Staff-level pay, responsibilities, and organizational influence I need to make it to Senior first. Perhaps it's a bad signal if an engineer cares _only_ a
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Oh man. That means I'm _so_ obsessed with my new title that I've gone meta and found a sneaky, disingenuous way to brag about it on HN. Thanks for pointing that out. I must have a serious personality disorder. I should probably se
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Thanks for the charitable read. Yeah, it's not like the part of my personality I'm lamenting has just gone away ;) I did have a hard time writing this post because I'm not under the delusion that what I achieved is truly gran
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
I agree, it feels like roles help the most by getting you through the recruiter and in front of a hiring manager. Which is unfortunate.
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing. Really impressive journey, congrats and nicely done. I touched on it a little bit in my post but yeah I can not overstate the role of luck, both "internal luck" (do I have a good manager) and "external luc
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by holden_nelson 4mo ago
Ha! It's funny I didn't notice that juxtaposition when I was writing it. Understandable take. One counterpoint I would offer (with no proof, so take it or leave it) is that what I mostly see is engineers get passed up for promos t
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I caught the car(undecidability.net)
55 points by holden_nelson 4mo ago|59 comments
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by holden_nelson 6mo ago
Hope that person with the chest pain went to the doctor
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by holden_nelson 6mo ago
this is the only use case I'm super bullish on. And for this it is revolutionary. Agreed.
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by holden_nelson 6mo ago
I feel like the author is either embellishing the examples of frivolous communication they give or they work with some absolute headcases. On my team we all trust each other to be fairly direct. On the flip side, “softening” a remark can si
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Engineering, Fast and Slow(undecidability.net)
2 points by holden_nelson 6mo ago|0 comments
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by holden_nelson 6mo ago
I also found it really unintuitive what needs to be made mutable. And still do to some degree. When I first had learned that rust had this concept of “opt-in” mutability, I thought that it must then be an accepted pattern that we make as li

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