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New comment by hnisoss in "Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)"

hnisoss — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:13:33 +0000

As much as I loved matrix I still can't bend the spoon or be my own boss.

New comment by hnisoss in "Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)"

hnisoss — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:19:08 +0000

you sound like a very empathetic person. But hear me out - at end of the day, it's all just business. I was let go on Thursday, 1 hour before end of shift, in a 60 seconds zoom call. Got told that core team is working hands on in the office, has high velocity, and me being remote is slowing them down. I strongly suspect it was also about the fact that this week they had me work on a project I haven't touched yet, and I got no support to set the dev env properly even. So I was developing blind, while also working overtime to push changes to backend I joined to work on. My wife just lost a kid, this was first job I had in 8 months, just started on new year. We are in small debt. I worked from 6 in the afternoon to 5 in the morning (timezone difference) to output a lot, so they keep me and raise my rate. Company raised 16mm but they're still startup, yknow. So when push comes to shove you get let go without them asking about any of that, or concern themself with it. CEO almost bitterly thanked me for working with them and notified me my contact is over and that's it, hung up and left to work on their launch. Team didn't even notice I m gone. I still went to coworking space today to send CVs because I didn't have heart to tell wife we are cooked again. But look, it happened before, I chose to do this job. I'll deal with the fallout, find new one. It is O.K., I'm not entitled to anyone's pitty. Like I said, that is the risk of business. As manager you cannot set rules of the company. And even if you could, sometimes you still need to make hard decisions. You're not a rock in the stream they can latch on, you are another man floating downstream. Don't lose sleep.

New comment by hnisoss in "Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU"

hnisoss — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:29:57 +0000

QWQ 32B q4 OR deepseek-r1-qwen-32b for reasoning, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B q4 (pair with QWQ 32B) for coding

The Monospace Web Pandoc (SSG)

hnisoss — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://frainfreeze.github.io/the-monospace-web-pandoc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418730

Points: 4

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New comment by hnisoss in "Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?"

hnisoss — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:47:37 +0000

I'm doing my last engagement on toptal rn as well. Will quit after. The company I m working for is awesome but toptal part not so much anymore. From staff to FUD. They cut down my rate to 1/3 of what I used to charge few years back. (They still bill client 2x what I get, of course).

New comment by hnisoss in "JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort."

hnisoss — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:40:20 +0000

I think its an excellent name mr.Tim haha, I m glad it stuck. Always reminds me of effbot (rip) and others. It felt more personal and memorable than gallopsort would.

New comment by hnisoss in "USAFacts"

hnisoss — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:44:42 +0000

you re down-voted for going against the grain. for downvoters: https://danluu.com/ballmer/

New comment by hnisoss in "JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort."

hnisoss — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:11:43 +0000

its only ok if your name is Tim?

New comment by hnisoss in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:56:56 +0000

Doesn't mean you won't get hammered my friend.

New comment by hnisoss in "Introducing deep research"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:54:22 +0000

Of course. It's a child's play for SamA et al.

New comment by hnisoss in "Introducing deep research"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:53:36 +0000

So its fine for OpenAI to effectively sell your CC BY-NC content to others?

New comment by hnisoss in "Introducing deep research"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:51:35 +0000

Yea but guy paying closedai to get "insights" that basically copy-pasted content from my blog is definitely violating my blogs copyright, and in the end no coin comes to me either. What about that?

New comment by hnisoss in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:42:05 +0000

Yea but I also suck in 95% of FAANG like interviews since I'm very bad at leetcode medium/hard type of questions. It's just something that I never practiced. It's very tempting at this point to trow in my towel and just use some aid. No one cares about my intense career and the millions I helped my clients earn, all that matters (and sometimes directly affects comp rate) is how I do on the "coding task".

New comment by hnisoss in "Life is more than an engineering problem"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:04:20 +0000

Yea but following your example/analogy you have gas-gas but brain-llm. So how can we then experiment? It's a simulation at best.

New comment by hnisoss in "Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)"

hnisoss — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:56:46 +0000

sunnybeetroot explicitly said being "if your goal is being understood then x".

New comment by hnisoss in "Show HN: Codegen – OSS Python Library for Advanced Code Manipulation"

hnisoss — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:14:50 +0000

How does this compare to Codemodder? Can it be used for transpilation?

New comment by hnisoss in "Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf]"

hnisoss — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:25:04 +0000

The interaction of EM waves and their behavior is a long and complex topic to address here, however, keep in mind that the signal is sent out into void - what happens after emitting does not concern the emitter. Think of it as rain falling down, or water from the sprinkler. If you catch the droplets you ll cast a "shadow". Completely surrounding the emitter might create "Faraday" cage of sorts. However in reality in the droplet analogy, the EM waves curve around the buckets and leave the shadow. The reception of EM waves is a wave-cancellation process, but thats a deep rabbit hole..

New comment by hnisoss in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

hnisoss — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:40:17 +0000

thank you

New comment by hnisoss in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

hnisoss — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:40:08 +0000

its leetcode all the way down..

New comment by hnisoss in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

hnisoss — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:41:18 +0000

I dont need any direct help, but pointers for finding a job would be good. I'm dev with 10y of experience in swe, devops and sre, lost job 6m ago, got kid, wife almost died etc. Now I ran out of money but still no job. I'm grinding leetcode but keep getting medium/hard questions on interviews and just cant get through. Any idea where to find $35-50/h B2B remote jobs without leetcoding?