slyzmud

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by slyzmud 3mo ago
> The issue comes when you have 432 functionalities and have to add the 433 without interfering with the others. Or when you cant afford slightly wrong. Or when each functionality adds complexity at a higher rate than an engineer and ove
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by slyzmud 3mo ago
I agree with you, 99% of the people work just to pay bills, but that doesn't make the other part false. I'm a software engineer and love thinking about problems methodically. Every time I hear a someone saying that programmers are
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by slyzmud 3mo ago
I don't think that's a good analysis. If the LLM is wrong and gives you a wrong medical diagnosis you end up hurting your health. If an LLM gives you a wrong debugging answer you've just lost 5 minutes. Software engineering i
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by slyzmud 3mo ago
I did it and he "fixed" it with AI, making him even more convinced of it. I'm pretty sure something else must have broken but didn't see it immediately. I guess eventually it will fall from its own weight but I'm su
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by slyzmud 3mo ago
I've working on a small side project with a non technical friend for a couple months. It's really small but we are selling it to some clients. The other day my friend discovered lovable and vibe coded an entire app and he started
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by slyzmud 4mo ago
> They'd prefer to believe that there's something special about their craft that means something produced by AI isn't good enough. I know I can code and get better results than most people can with an LLM but I've cam
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by slyzmud 7mo ago
I know you are joking but I'm sure that there is at least one director or VP inside GitHub pushing a new salvation project that must use AI to solve all the problems, when actually the most likely reason is engineers are drawing in tec
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by slyzmud 7mo ago
> And a thinkpad running Linux is just not doing it for me. I want my power efficient mac hardware. Are you talking about the battery? I bought a T16 AMD a month ago with the 86Wh battery and it lasts between 8 and 12 hour depending on t
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by slyzmud 11mo ago
The two groups are very different but I notice another pattern: you have people who like coding and understanding details of what their are doing, are curious, what to learn about the why and think about edge cases; and there's another
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by slyzmud 11mo ago
Sadly the times where people joined software engineering for passion are way behind. People nowadays join just for the money or because it has lot of jobs available. It is very easy to notice at work who actually likes building software and
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by slyzmud 1y ago
The actual report mentioned in the link https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Bus...
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MIT says AI isn't replacing you it's just wasting your boss's money(interviewquery.com)
48 points by slyzmud 1y ago|22 comments
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by slyzmud 1y ago
> It's the same reason you don't need to run a double blind study on whether seat belts work Actually, seat belts are a weird example. After they were invented, there were more car crashes since people trusted they were protec
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by slyzmud 1y ago
Actually my bank already requires me to use the phone app for any operation on the website. When I want to login from my laptop I need to use my phone with their app to approve the login, same for almost any operation. Ah, and it can only b
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by slyzmud 1y ago
I don't know for freebsd but at least for Linux I started using the zig toolchain and it's wonderful. https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every...
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by slyzmud 1y ago
The worst offender to me is Google Maps. I'm a native Spanish speaker but set my phone to English because I hate app translations. The problem is when I want to read reviews it automatically translates them from Spanish (my native lang
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by slyzmud 4y ago
Could you share what metrics they optimistize or monitor? Or how do they improve their algorithms? I don't know how much you can tell but I always wanted to hear it from someone who has worked with them
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by slyzmud 4y ago
Friendly tip: if timezones are an issue, try hiring in south America. We have the advantage of sharing 4 working hours with Europe and California. Also with similar salaries you will get more qualified candidates. You might be surprised wit
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by slyzmud 4y ago
> I can trust my bank + the government to keep my money safe. That's not true everywhere. I live in Argentina and people prefer to have dollars in cash in their houses rather than leaving them in a bank. A few years ago, in 2001, t
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Have you tried Youtube premium? We always say companies should move out of the ad revenue model and start charging for the services instead of pushing more ads. For me, paying Youtube premium has been a great decision.
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Hey that sucks. Where do you live?
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Most of the interesting positions I find hire only in the US but it's because they are for bigger companies (more than 500 employees). I will have to target smaller ones.
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by slyzmud 5y ago
I'm still super curious. It's a well known company that is doing super well. I had the interview with some really smart people with amazing resumes. The low ball explanation makes sense. Maybe they were just testing me. I live in
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by slyzmud 5y ago
I'm definitely not going to take this offer below my current salary. No way. I might take it if there is a small difference with the other offer I have but I doubt they stretch so much.
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Being a distributed company I did some research and found what their salaries are. They tend to pay around 120k~160k. I guess they are trying to offer me much less because of where I live. I never thought they would made such a low offer. A
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Honestly, it was a surprise to me when the recruiter told me the number in the meeting. My first thought was "this is a joke", so it was a little hard being calm. I think they saw an average of salaries in Glassdoor. The problem i
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by slyzmud 5y ago
Would you mind sharing which ones I could apply?
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by slyzmud 5y ago
I live in Argentina. Making 90k is a lot, not many companies pay more. I'm probably the best paid among my friends in software engineering. Even though some things are cheap here, close to 60% go to taxes. Don't make me think much
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by slyzmud 5y ago
That's a great strategy. I'm having the negotiation with the recruiter and I've just talked with the hiring manager for the behavioral interview, it went really well. I hope he might want me enough in the team to do something
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Ask HN: How to negotiate salary with a remote distributed company?
37 points by slyzmud 5y ago|39 comments

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