Hacker News: lmarcos

New comment by lmarcos in "How to write a cold email (2020)"

lmarcos — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:37:10 +0000

Would opening them in the browser be "more" secure than opening then in a regular PDF viewer program?

New comment by lmarcos in "We are investigating reports of degraded performance"

lmarcos — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:11:29 +0000

In the context of companies: if you don't have your own cache of github,npm, etc., you're doing it wrong.

New comment by lmarcos in "Ask HN: If client side scanning on devices becomes mandatory, what would you do?"

lmarcos — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:33:55 +0000

Doesn't your bank require a mobile app to do "2FA"?

If not, what would you do? Change bank?

New comment by lmarcos in "Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead"

lmarcos — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:29:34 +0000

Agree. Interviews taken into account side projects are biased towards:

- people who have free time to work on side projects (usually young people have more free time than people with families)

- people who don't mind sharing their code with others

- people who work on interesting side projects. If your side project is boring, that will probably bore your interviewers -> no offer

- people who work on side projects on regular basis. If I get to work on one side project every year, well, chances are I may have forgotten the hell I did on that project (depending when the interview takes place). If I work on side projects constantly, I have no trouble picking up a fresh one to talk about

New comment by lmarcos in "Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead"

lmarcos — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:21:53 +0000

As someone not familiarized with background checks, why is it weird to do bg checks after handing the offer?

If the employer does the bg check before handing the offer, that means the candidate hasn't resigned yet from their current job. So wouldn't the bg check expose the candidate? (E.g., my boss would know I'm thinking about leaving)

New comment by lmarcos in "The MP3mobile (1998)"

lmarcos — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:46:11 +0000

I'm the only one still listening mp3s? I have a sandisk mp3 player (size similar to the classic ipod shuffle) and I use yandex to get the mp3s. And I transferred all my old CDs to mp3 format as well.

I don't use my smartphone to listen to music because it's too big/heavy (running with it is so uncomfortable).

New comment by lmarcos in "Ask HN: Should I climb the software engineering Ladder or build a side hustle?"

lmarcos — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:39:24 +0000

Why not both? Keep getting money from employer X, and experiment with your ideas until one works out.

New comment by lmarcos in "iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation"

lmarcos — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:20:25 +0000

Why only the french market then? Shouldn't they withdraw from all EU markets?

New comment by lmarcos in "Ask HN: Is your company continuing their WFH policies?"

lmarcos — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:14:20 +0000

They tried that, but they couldn't because:

- my contract says the place of work is city X

- they don't have an office in city X

- they cannot unilaterally change the contract (Europe)

They asked me if I would be willing to relocate to a city in which they have an office. I declined. I'm still working from home. The company is big, so they don't care much about isolated cases like mine.

New comment by lmarcos in "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"

lmarcos — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 08:46:11 +0000

For Spanish speakers who know English, reading Don Quixote in English is probably easier (and more pleasant). The Spanish one is full of words that even though a native speaker can understand (with footnotes sometimes), it's just not as pleasant as reading modern Spanish.

New comment by lmarcos in "Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems"

lmarcos — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:41:50 +0000

Same. I always work on any given (hard enough) problem twice or three times. The first time I come up with some kind of prototype that may work or not, but it gives me foundation to work on the second prototype. The second one tells me how a final working and performant solution could look like, so I discard it and start from scratch. At the end I come up with the best possible solution I can provide. Sometimes it takes fewer steps, sometimes more. And more often than not I let some time pass between attempts (maybe I go for a walk in between or I let a full day pass to work on something else).

At interviews they stop me at my first attempt.

New comment by lmarcos in "Tell HN: The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book"

lmarcos — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:35:41 +0000

The dragon book is a theoretical book. It's like any other (good) OS book out there: good source of information to know the foundations. After reading it, go out and read something more practical (which you probably won't have issues learning it since you now know the foundations)

New comment by lmarcos in "A guidance language for controlling LLMs"

lmarcos — Tue, 16 May 2023 19:14:17 +0000

We can use ChatGPT for that.

New comment by lmarcos in "Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office"

lmarcos — Mon, 15 May 2023 07:20:19 +0000

The problem, I think, is what kind of employees may leave. If it's the best of the cream, then the company is in trouble. And frankly, the best employees can allow themselves to say "I want to work from home. You don't allow? Then goodbye".

New comment by lmarcos in "The web’s most important decision"

lmarcos — Mon, 01 May 2023 11:46:36 +0000

AI should follow the same principle. It has the potential to become as widespread as the web... And yet here we are paying a fee per N tokens to use GPT.

New comment by lmarcos in "Ask HN: How do I prevent my users from uploading copyrighted material?"

lmarcos — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:27:30 +0000

Just hire hundreds of people to manually check the uploads. Easy. Sometimes, some things cannot be automated.

New comment by lmarcos in "GitHub Copilot emits GPL code"

lmarcos — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:43:26 +0000

Is not ok, but Microsoft couldn't care less (because they are not going to get fined).

New comment by lmarcos in "Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit"

lmarcos — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:38:04 +0000

Narrow perspective. What about all the other non-tech jobs?

New comment by lmarcos in "Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit"

lmarcos — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:33:41 +0000

Even though I know OP lives in US: in Europe you get written down the notice period on your contract. If you decide to quit or if your company decides to fire you, both parties have to honor the notice period (usually between 1-3 months).

New comment by lmarcos in "Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit"

lmarcos — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:27:23 +0000

If you get fired in Switzerland, your employer gives you a notice period of 3 months as well. Which is nice because it's plenty of time to find another job.