nicodjimenez

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by nicodjimenez 3mo ago
I actually just built an ATS for my company Mathpix. But it never occurred to me to use resumes. Basically we have a set of company values and a specific open ended questionnaire to gauge the fit: https://mathpix.com/careers
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by nicodjimenez 4mo ago
tokenmaxxing is silly, but if a developer or manager NEVER uses AI then I do think that's cause for concern as it shows a genuine lack of curiosity... perhaps tokenflooring makes more sense than tokenmaxxing
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by nicodjimenez 7mo ago
Part of what makes Hendrix's live performances so great is how completely unreproducible they are. Even Jimi himself could never recreate that one note sustain when he begins the solo on Machine Gun. To re-create it, you'd have to
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by nicodjimenez 8mo ago
great article and many great points here
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by nicodjimenez 8mo ago
What I dislike about Claude code and vibe coding in general is that I haven’t seen Claude code users learn a whole lot about how to do their jobs better. A terminal pane is just too small to be a good place to learn. With vibe coding you ju
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by nicodjimenez 9mo ago
My main take on microservices at this point is that you only want microservices to isolate failure modes and for independent scaling. Most IO bound logic can live in a single monolith.
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by nicodjimenez 9mo ago
This seems completely wrong. In an RPC call you have a trivial loop, for example. It would make more sense to say that the event tree should not have any cycles, but anyway this seems like a silly point to make.
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by nicodjimenez 10mo ago
Microservices in Golang are definitely related to classes due to the ergonomic aspects of a language. It takes a lot of discipline in Golang not to end up with huge flat functions. Golang services are easier to reason about when they are sm
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by nicodjimenez 10mo ago
The solution to bad abstractions it not to make it very difficult to create abstractions at all. For systems code I think it's fine but for application code you probably want some abstractions or else it's very hard to scale a cod
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by nicodjimenez 10mo ago
Golang to me is a great runtime and very poor language. I could maybe get used to the C pointer-like syntax and to half of my code checking if err != nil, but the lack of classes is a step too far. The Golang idiomatic approach is to have a
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by nicodjimenez 10mo ago
Note that Mathpix Snip can quickly convert such screen shots to markdown code via keyboard shortcut. Disclaimer: I’m the founder.
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by nicodjimenez 11mo ago
There are only two political systems at the end of the day: authoritarianism (everyone knows who is in charge) and oligarchy. Populism, in a liberal democracy, is basically authoritarianism-lite representing the interests of a particular fa
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by nicodjimenez 1y ago
What kind of codebases do you work on if you don't mind me asking? I've found a huge boost from using AI to deal with APIs (databases, k8s, aws, ...) but less so on large codebases that needed conceptual improvements. But at worst
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by nicodjimenez 1y ago
The most important piece ever written about startups, probably. Applicable to doing anything new. For startups, the devil's in the details though. The goal is to scale but you get there by doing things that don't scale successivel
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by nicodjimenez 1y ago
For accurate and easy PDF to Markdown / LaTeX / JSON check out: https://github.com/mathpix/mpxpy Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Reducto does cool stuff on post processing (and other input formats), but som
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by nicodjimenez 1y ago
I tend to agree with this. These days I usually use LLMs to learn about something new or to help me generate client code for common APIs (especially boto3 these days). I tried Windsurf to help me make basic changes to my docker compose file
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by nicodjimenez 1y ago
Check out mathpix.com. We handle complex tables, complex math, diagrams, rotated tables, and much more, extremely accurately. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words. What are some of the annoying issues?
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
You can get bounding boxes from our pdf api at Mathpix.com Disclaimer, I’m the founder
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Check out mathpix.com we have a hybrid approach towards OCR that features accurate layout understanding (with accurate bounding boxes) plus accurate OCR outputs. Disclaimer: I'm the founder and CEO.
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Shameless request for help: if anybody has experience with seq2seq on TPU, and you want to do a cool project to deploy a world class Pytorch image parsing model to TPU (and do this quickly), please contact me immediately for a well paid and
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Agreed, something simpler than Nomad as well hopefully.
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
https://mathpix.com/careers
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Not in baseball. I recently watched some Mets games and it’s just incredible how commonly you use a left handed hitter go up against a left handed pitcher.
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Have you checked out Mathpix? It's another option. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
I bet that Reed Hastings has a sub organization at Netflix that is run in founder mode, even if most of the organization is run in manager mode. Whether orgs are run in manager mode or founder mode depends on whether there is a founder leve
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by nicodjimenez 2y ago
Exciting to see more work in this area. See https://www.plasticlist.org/ for a recent SV based project to measure microplastic contamination across popular food and drink items.
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by nicodjimenez 3y ago
You’re right :) got to love HN, I broke the code and got downvoted! I like a community that has teeth
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by nicodjimenez 3y ago
Mathpix is going to lower price a lot for larger scale pdf processing, stay tuned!
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by nicodjimenez 3y ago
Second page is even worse. Ends in repeated \cdots and doesn’t finish parsing page. Also it read number 73 as 3 I guess because the previous section number was 2.

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