janoc

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by janoc 2y ago
And who actually makes that much? Or are you counting also VC money into that "profit"?
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by janoc 2y ago
And pretty much most of them just resell OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Meta's APIs and model access, with something repackaged on top. And none is remotely profitable.
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by janoc 2y ago
And which use case will that make sense then for? Esp. when they aren't even sure whether they will commit to offering this long term? Who would be insane enough to build a product on top of something that may not be there tomorrow? Th
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by janoc 2y ago
Just going to put this here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
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by janoc 2y ago
Costs money (travel) and time (company's) plus a lot of this is outsourced to agencies to do the screening. Yes, it is disgusting. Sadly also very common.
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by janoc 2y ago
Except that 99% of engineers aren't being hired by Google nor being paid on comparable levels. So why is Google relevant to this in any way?
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by janoc 2y ago
This zinger I have to remember for the next time someone tries this whiteboard BS on me!
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by janoc 2y ago
>Interview coding questions aren't like the day-to-day job, because of the nature of an interview. You have missed his point. If the interview questions are such that AI can solve them, they are the wrong questions being asked, by d
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by janoc 2y ago
I miss one option from the list of non-solutions the author presents there - ditch the idiotic whiteboard/"coding exercise" interview style. Voila, the AI (non)problem solved! This sort of comp-sci style exam with quizzes and
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by janoc 2y ago
It is not about "being taught". But if you are the only technical person around, who is going to show you what a good or bad practice *in your specific field* is? That you won't find on Stack Overflow or by asking ChatGPT. Be
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by janoc 2y ago
If you want to grow you will need to change jobs. Small companies are not a good fit for a fresh grad with little to no experience. In a small company you are by necessity a jack of all trades because there are only so few of you. If you ar
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by janoc 2y ago
Good luck with that when you are not at the stage of your career yet to have enough experience to judge what is good practice - and what is hype, BS and liable to cause problems for your project. Having a good mentor or two is pretty essent
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by janoc 2y ago
And venture capital.
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by janoc 2y ago
I.e. long story short - are you saying that this tech is a solution looking for a problem? Makes sense.
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by janoc 2y ago
The mistake in that article is the assumption that these companies collecting those gigantic VC funding rounds are looking to stay ahead of the pack and be there even 10 years down the road. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the
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by janoc 2y ago
Well, yes. Replace the various music and book publishing mills with LLMs for even more low quality drivel filling the marketplaces because now even the already low barrier of having to actually pay someone to produce it will be removed. Tha
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by janoc 2y ago
Emacs
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by janoc 2y ago
Emacs.
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by janoc 2y ago
>ii) If you are talented and sought after, trust me you won't be ghosted. That assumes your talent actually gets through the automated HR filter after the recruiter has handed your over and collected their commission ...
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by janoc 2y ago
Standard procedure? Maybe. Common? Definitely. Normal? Absolutely not. It signals loud and wide that your time is not worth even a reply from the recruiter/HR and you are being treated as a disposable piece of crap. You can imagine how
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by janoc 2y ago
It is good that you are rooting for the poor industry because they are "being screwed". Sad that you didn't consider the content creators, people who's faces, voices, writings, art, personal information, etc. are being u
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by janoc 2y ago
Web scraping through a proxy to hide your own address is a shady business, by definition. So the "doesn't harm other people" bit is an oxymoron, IMO.
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by janoc 2y ago
There was also an actively exploited XSS vulnerability on Github in the recent days. Doesn't mean that this guy was not a malicious actor, only that one shouldn't be so quick to cast stones without evidence.
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by janoc 2y ago
It is next to impossible to detect despite being so crude. Unless there is an explicit suspicion, nobody is going to systematically check all your citations and papers. There are simply too many of these things to do that systematically, fo
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by janoc 2y ago
The problem is that tests do not ensure that high quality students are admitted. Tests measure only that you are good at answering tests under heavy stress and at cramming for them. The whole teaching/learning to test thing - you don&
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by janoc 2y ago
Throwing away years of your education (I guess you have some kind of degree) after only 1 year on the first job ... Hmm. Makes one wonder about your maturity and a few other things ... Don't get me wrong, there there is nothing wrong w
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by janoc 2y ago
But think the amount of ads (err "sponsored results") you got to see and click on! This is by design.
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by janoc 3y ago
You are forgetting that merely the fact that your product is open source doesn't mean you won't go bankrupt because you are going to compete with HP, Brother, Samsung, Lexmark, etc. 99.9% of people don't care that your gizmo
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by janoc 3y ago
I wonder how is that pertinent to the argument I am making? Or calling out click-bait and hype now requires filed patents and other "inventor" credentials? FYI, I have 20+ years research and commercial experience developing virtua
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by janoc 3y ago
You are right, of course. I had Meliès in mind, not sure why I wrote Lumiere brothers.

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