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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
It's also just kind of cool and fun to hack together a personal website
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
1.40
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Ask HN: What's an interesting software development niche?
21 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|25 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I gave up trying to read this after closing the 3rd popup
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I think it's an apt analogy. The Internet (and the web) was definitely good tech that is still used. Artificial Intelligence (or maybe more broadly, data science or _statistics_) is good tech that will still be used. But chatbots in al
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
How are the deer in Nara?
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
LOL, completed PhD at 20
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I've been thinking about this recently with internet comments on here, reddit, etc. There are very few topics on which I'd consider myself an expert, but whenever one comes up, the "top" comment (often something contrari
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Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
97 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|105 comments
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Ask HN: What do Engineering Managers do at your company?
14 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|6 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Nothing you mentioned here disagrees with the title or the article
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I left Microsoft a year ago because the group I worked for checked pretty much every one of the items on this list. It was wildly unproductive.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Some people here are confused. Kindness towards people doesn't preclude you from being assertive. It doesn't preclude you from being a shrewd negotiator. It doesn't preclude you from provide feedback to an employee who needs
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Yes. A person's performance on the job does not change how I treat them as a human.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
Or maybe they have to figure out how to actually make it work
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
But hey, at least Microsoft got to increase their stock price from the initial, hasty announcement, right?
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I find it can be nice to have an academic understanding of things you work with even if you don't have to develop it directly yourself.
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Ask HN: Anyone else riding out a crummy job in this market?
11 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Is it normal for companies to look for FE engineers who can design?
1 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
A bit of short-term thinking, though. Even if companies _right now_ can treat applicants like crap, they probably shouldn't. I'd rather have an applicant accept an offer because they want to, not because they have to. They'll
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
While it's not fair, what I've settled on is this: if they can't spend for in-house recruiting, they probably can't afford me. This is based on ~20 years of this consistently happening. Again, not fair, but I have limite
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
With all the hallucinating (or "bullshitting") going on, it's hard to imagine LLMs working well for query generation. But hey, we're _very_ early days for all of this.
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Ask HN: What are some knowledge gaps you commonly see for web developers?
6 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|17 comments
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
yeah, true. I didn't realize how much being on Twitter was bringing me down until a few months after I got rid of it.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I think perhaps their current usage isn't optimized yet. I'm not sold on people chatting with a model as the best UX. Maybe some abstraction on top of this interaction
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
We're running out of alternative explanations. At this point an RNG could make better business decisions on average.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
I'm beginning to suspect that Musk's takeover of Twitter was a Bad Idea.
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
This reminds me of a time I was at a company using a BI tool for dashboarding. The numbers weren't making much sense to me, so I looked at the query building tool. I couldn't tell for the life of me if a part of the query was doin
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by pcloadletter_ 2y ago
My MSFT stock is looking good.
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Ask HN: Do you subscribe to any RSS feeds or newsletters for LLMs/gen AI?
2 points by pcloadletter_ 2y ago|1 comments

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