Hacker News: eclectic29

New comment by eclectic29 in "Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad"

eclectic29 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:49:13 +0000

Yes, but you expect much better from a seasoned engineer.

New comment by eclectic29 in "JSON parsers that can accept comments"

eclectic29 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:44:15 +0000

One man’s extremely horrible mistake and look how the whole industry has been suffering for decades - countless articles debating the existence or absence of comments, new formats, new parsers, new ways of adding comments, post-processing, etc. What a pity!

New comment by eclectic29 in "Chegg is on its last legs after ChatGPT sent its stock down"

eclectic29 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:30:14 +0000

I just installed AdGuard and the ads didn’t go away. What should I be uisng? I have an iPhone.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller"

eclectic29 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:43:43 +0000

If Martin Kleppmann is the author I know this stuff will be worth watching out for.

New comment by eclectic29 in "The Daily Scrum: Does It Have to Be Daily?"

eclectic29 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:39:23 +0000

I mean if it doesn't fit the team's or the project's stage, don't do them daily. Simple! I just solved it for you. Not sure why we need tons of articles on scrum to state the obvious :-). Are the engineering teams so dumb that they're following scrum to the letter? Come on!

Staff engineers exist in a system of patronage

eclectic29 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/11/is-the-staff-role-broken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41517457

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by eclectic29 in "B-Trees and Database Indexes"

eclectic29 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:05:24 +0000

Slightly off topic: Learnt a new word today 'vulgarization' which seems to have a completely different meaning from the obvious. Thanks.

New comment by eclectic29 in "TensorFlow Lite is now LiteRT"

eclectic29 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:19:30 +0000

Hahahaha, what a joke Google has become! Another half baked name change. Looks like no one really cares anymore at Google.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop"

eclectic29 — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 23:09:27 +0000

This is excellent. Thanks for sharing. It's always good to go back to the fundamentals. There's another resource that is also quite good: https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/

New comment by eclectic29 in "Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews"

eclectic29 — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:14:43 +0000

> These days, the roles I consider are in leadership so if we lack vision and a clear understanding of our value I’m usually empowered to fix that. If you’re interviewing for a more IC role, your hiring manager and teammates being unable to communicate expectations and success criteria is obviously a bigger concern.

So, the author doesn't seem to consider IC role a leadership role. I see, ok.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Why does getting a job in tech suck?"

eclectic29 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:57:10 +0000

A whole article about getting a job in tech and no mention of the abominable leetcode. Surprise! From junior to principal Leetcode is here to stay. Good luck solving 2 problems in 35 mins.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk"

eclectic29 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:10:52 +0000

Meta is less leetcode oriented? I'm shocked to read this. Meta is the poster child for leetcode style interviews. Meta requires you to solve 2 leetcode style questions in 35 mins (out of 45 mins - first 5 mins for initial pleasantries, last 5 mins for asking questions). For each question, you're required to (based on the signals they look for) ask clarifying questions, present a solution to the interviewer, get buy-in, code, verify with test cases - all this in 17.5 mins/question. Go figure! :-)

New comment by eclectic29 in "The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka"

eclectic29 — Fri, 31 May 2024 07:32:41 +0000

Even though the title has the word "translation" in it my mind ran to Apache Kafka :-).

New comment by eclectic29 in "ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can't correct it"

eclectic29 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:40:30 +0000

Glad that people are realizing the ChatGPT/AI hype that is driving all companies nuts by creating unnecessary peer pressure to integrate some kind of GenAI in their products even if it doesn’t make sense.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results"

eclectic29 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:36:32 +0000

Why are Meta quarterly results so special that they always enjoy the front page of HN?

New comment by eclectic29 in "The darker side of being a doctor (2017)"

eclectic29 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:22:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is so disheartening. The other day I was debating with my friends how a doctors life is so cool that they don’t have to go though grueling coding interviews every single time they want to change jobs, don’t have to prove themselves every single quarter, don’t have to be answerable to anyone or write performance reviews or be subjected to arbitrary rubrics. Boy, I was so wrong. Every procession has its hazards. This has been a learning for me. Although I do feel that the PCP doctors in US seem to have a simpler life. They leave office at 5 and don’t take calls in the night. Happy to be corrected though.

New comment by eclectic29 in "XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis"

eclectic29 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:58:03 +0000

Did you create a throwaway account specifically to write a snarky comment here? Looks like this practice is becoming more common.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA"

eclectic29 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:07:09 +0000

Automatic resource management thanks to RAII. To me this is the most important thing.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA"

eclectic29 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:04:34 +0000

Not yet.

New comment by eclectic29 in "Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible threads?"

eclectic29 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:16:10 +0000

Thanks!