Hacker News: nagyf

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?"

nagyf — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:44:17 +0000

:) I started early

New comment by nagyf in "Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?"

nagyf — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:51:01 +0000

You can get higher salary with writing REST apis in Ruby. And fully remote

New comment by nagyf in "Show HN: Discuit – A Reddit alternative with a clean UI and a sensible vision"

nagyf — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:39:57 +0000

If these are the rules I'm pretty sure the site already lost the battle against reddit

New comment by nagyf in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

nagyf — Wed, 31 May 2023 22:58:52 +0000

I use the "Home" and the "Popular" tabs every day to discover things on reddit. I can't be alone with this

New comment by nagyf in "Ultimate Electronics (2021)"

nagyf — Tue, 16 May 2023 17:12:06 +0000

Do you have any suggestion for a good book on the math topics you mentioned, to get myself above the bar?

New comment by nagyf in "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release"

nagyf — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:24:09 +0000

I've seen some longer load times on PS5, but mostly with PS4 games. Not sure why.

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: What are we doing with all these strings?"

nagyf — Thu, 11 May 2023 02:16:38 +0000

What are you talking about?

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: What is a niche in tech that you think has a big future?"

nagyf — Sat, 06 May 2023 17:20:44 +0000

I have no idea what is vector database, I’ll look into it.

I like 1, already have some experience with it, but security is such a big field, I don’t know which direction would be the best.

Do you have any suggestion for 5? I know I am bad with people skills, but I’m kind of an introvert. How can I improve in this?

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: What is a niche in tech that you think has a big future?"

nagyf — Sat, 06 May 2023 17:16:25 +0000

Hi,

No I don’t want to be famous :D

I want high paying salary and/or to stand out during an interview. If there are 30 candidates for a position, right now there is nothing I would stand out with.

Last but not least, I want to work on interesting stuff. I’ve had enough of writing REST APIs.

I’m also thinking about starting my own business, and I feel like if I have some specialized knowledge I have better chance to succeed or to find a business opportunity.

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Advice on flipping SWE interviews upside-down?"

nagyf — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:29:20 +0000

All code I wrote during my 12 YoE is a property of a company. And obviously I don’t even have access to it.

With this type of interview you rule out a LOT of people, and only keep in the pool who either works on open source, or do great projects in their free time.

If that’s the intention, do it. But otherwise I don’t think it’s a good idea.

I think a _ WELL PAID_ take home project is much better way to interview people.

(Saying all this from the interviewee perspective)

Ask HN: What is a niche in tech that you think has a big future?

nagyf — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:08:16 +0000

I think of myself as a relatively good software engineer (based on feedback), but I never specialized in anything. So I am here with 12 YoE but I don’t stand out with anything. I know the boring Java/Javascript/Python/AWS/etc. stack, and use these to write boring REST apis or data processing pipelines.

Edit: by boring I mean: there are too many people with the same knowledge/experience.

What is something that I could start specializing in now? Something with a big future.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35833018

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New comment by nagyf in "Htmx Is the Future"

nagyf — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:26:05 +0000

Everything has to be validated on the server side simply for security reasons. Even if you do all validation on the client side, which prevents the users submitting a form with invalid data, an attacker can work around that. e.g. submitting the form with valid data, but intercepting the request and modifying the values there. Or simply just using curl with malicious/invalid data.

You still need the client side validation for UX. The regular users needs to know if they messed up someting in the form. Also it's a much better UX if it's done on the client side, without the need to send an async request for validations.

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Is Twitter Down?"

nagyf — Thu, 04 May 2023 16:44:09 +0000

I've just posted about protonmail. Seen another post about github. Must be some cloud service outage or similar?

New comment by nagyf in "Show HN: A C++ web/application framework I have been building for the last 12yrs"

nagyf — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:05:26 +0000

I had to click through way too many links to finally find some code examples. The first page that contains at least some examples is the "Controllers" page in the wiki.

I think you should improve the README and include a showcase of how your framework works.

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Are you a self employed Software Engineer? If so, what is that like?"

nagyf — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:44:35 +0000

> Finding a need and filling it was very lucrative

Any tips on how to find a project idea? What worked for you?

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

nagyf — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:16:36 +0000

This seems very similar to Notion. I am currently a Notion user, how does this compare to Notion?

What would make me switch from Notion to Outline?

New comment by nagyf in "Django 4.2 Released"

nagyf — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:44:27 +0000

Does SPA concept work well with search engines? I moved away from web development, but SPAs used to be very bad if you wanted to appear in Google search.

Btw I was looking into Django recently, they are still using the “older” paradigm you are referring to.

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

nagyf — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:41:02 +0000

+1 on this.

Seems like a good product, if they are open to remote and would hire from Canada, I would be very happy to apply

New comment by nagyf in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

nagyf — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:35:56 +0000

  Location: Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes (I only consider 100% remote)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, Java, Spring, Python, Angular, React
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferenc-nagy/
  Email: (Please reach out on LinkedIn, or DM me and I will share my email address)

Hello! I'm a Software Engineer with 11-12 years of experience (3 of that is full remote). Currently working at Amazon. I have experience in large scale distributed systems, designing, implementing, and maintaining them. I have oncall experience. I also worked at small startup sized companies before.

New comment by nagyf in "Is it time to open source SublimeText?"

nagyf — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:17:37 +0000

I dont understand this argument. Vscode is very fast after you opened it. Startup is slow but who cares? I haven’t restarted my vscode for a week now.