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It's bizarre to me how many people are missing this.
Very much this. I am too tired right now to engage with other responders, but thank you for articulating precisely the point I want to make.
Your comment comes off as "hire a person because you get along with them, don't worry if they can't write a function that accomplishes a simple task".
No. He is simply saying the current interview only focuses on LC above all else. And should focus on soft skills as well among other things. You took his argument and flipped it 180 and went to the other extreme end. It's false dichotomy.
This summer is going to be brutal for non-revenue generating startups (which is most of them). Assuming their last raise was last summer, they usually only have 18 months of runway before they run out of money. I don't think any of them can raise and even if they can, their valuation will take a significant hit.
People outside the finance industry really buy it too. I think it's because in most companies, VPs are above director. Only in finance, is it below.
I think the bubble is bursting with big tech employees that think they have tenure once they reach a certain level. Big tech isn't some anomaly where layoffs don't happen. It's just that their growth has been uninterrupted for a decade.
So this is a newsfeed? I think Hacker News has been doing a good job without AI. You simply need a community. I am not sure turning Facebook's news feed feature into a product is really that innovative. How many reputable news sources are there to supply their feed?
I think employees treat startups more and more like a jumping pad to get to their ultimate goal of work for Fang. There's no point staying at startups when working at a big tech will yield more money in the long term. I don't blame them though. Look at how startups are run nowadays, all the potential upside has been sucked dry by VCs.
They should have IPO'd when they had the chance.
I just checked the trade-in value for 16inch M1 Pro 10 core CPU 16 core GPU with 32GB on the Apple website. It's only worth $700USD. I would have thought they would pay more for a 1 year old laptop. I am not looking to upgrade, but am quite surprised by how low the trade-in value is.
I think this is the document the article is referring to?
The internet isn't young anymore. There are millions of people using Bing right now. There also wasn't any thought when people incorporated the like button in social media. Look how it turned out for its users. Search engines are a mature product with enough users. Microsoft isn't some startup and it has capital to do this.
Has there been any studies on how incorporating ChatGPT into a search engine will affect the search results and in turn millions of people that use it? I would like to read it.
Sounds like Microsoft is trying to leap frog ahead of Google, but I worry more about the consequences of ChatGPT. Not much thought has been put into whether incorporating it in Bing will be good or bad for users.
Not necessary. The google search function still works fine, its just the content becomes worst. If the content is generated from ChatGPT, I don't see how it will cut out the middle-person. I believe a more likely scenario is people appending site:reddit.com for all of their search. It will be domain specific.
ChatGPT will flood the internet with articles like how SEO was used to hack search. It might not replace search engine, but search results will becomes even more irrelevant.
High cost of living city. A million doesn’t go as far as it used to (inflation). Think about how much real estate has increased in the last 10 years. That’s the biggest expense for anyone.
90k to 900k is the difference between living as lower class to upper middle class at Silicon Valley.
I just watch this yesterday about post quantum cryptography.
Too many people have been burnt by this before. All the reward goes to the boss and not the employees. I used to work 70+ hours and I didn't even get a thank you. I will only work those hours nowadays if I am working for myself. If not, there is no chance I will do it. It's not nice to know you are being used for someone else's personal gain.
Happy New Year! I hope 2023 will be a better year than 2022.
I personally think everyone including 90s kids are just burnt out by social media. It’s too much. The only ones that seem to still engage are teenagers because they are evergreen. That’s probably why Facebook tries to target teenagers.
There are many more bad managers than good manager. I would say it’s the biggest risk of finding a new job.
I stopped using Reddit when I realized I was substituting my boredom with junk content. Even blocked it on my /etc/host for awhile.
Been using KeePassXC for the last five years.
syncing was too much of a hassle so I gave up fairly quickly.
Why can't you use Dropbox or Google Drive to sync? Seems fairly easy.
That is, to one without a hammer, nothing looks like a nail.
They irony of this is that for one with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. Donald Knuth.
Knowing when to apply something is just as important as know where
Conversely if you love algorithms and are sufficiently good at them then you can spend your entire career with that and never ever talk to non-technical people.
I think there are two types of programmers. Ones that are like you that like algorithms for algorithms sake. And the other that like to solve real world problems. I got into software development because I want to solve problems for people. And not all of us likes algo. We prefer to learn stuff that we do use day to day because that has direct impact. For example, I just spent two months understanding functional programming. I use it in my code almost everyday, but it would be worthless in an interview where you are judge by your algo understanding. It’s frustrating when you realize how this standard is forced on every technical role, on companies that don’t even need algo experts because they are too small.
OP needs to accept responsibility for his choices. Blaming it on other people for his choices doesn’t seem right.
People have a been trying to do this for CRUD apps for years. Now they want to use AI to do the same thing. Somehow, I am not convinced developing an AI to do this is as simple as it sounds.
If anyone from the Freeform MacOS team is reading this, please let me zoom in and out with Apple Key + Mouse scroll. Also have Apple Key + Mouse pointer to move across the canvas. Using the trackpad is not intuitive. It isn’t an iPad.