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Finally! I've been using the assistants api in building an ai mock interviewer ( https://comp.lol ) but the responses were painfully slow when using the latest iterations of the gp…

I've been doing side projects for a bit, and they've been a combination of things I think are just cool and relate to hobbies I like, or solve some kind of problem I'm having, or a…

That makes more sense. I do think if you add a 9-5 to it its nearing impossible.

Were you doing your masters along side your work? In any case, this is heartening to see. The majority consensus seems to be you can either be a good dad, or pursue lofty goals, bu…

Interesting. So from what I'm understanding, in your experience it is impossible to pursue goals for starting a startup or escaping the 9-5 once you have a child (or at least in th…

George Hotz is always so interesting to watch, although I watch the youtube video after more than live

I'm not junior anymore, but something not mentioned which I've found useful is in-person networking. But for me in person networking wasn't so much of "I'll go meet people and ask …

Yeah, I agree, the scenario is totally different in an actual pressure situation, I've fumbled so many easy questions. I don't necessarily like leetcode style questions as the stan…

I've built several things! These include bots for code generation that you can tag onto issues, q&a on text etc. The thing I'm working on now is AI mock interviewing. It's basicall…

I haven't read Nation but I till now Guards! Guards! Guards! has been my favorite. Its been a while since I read Discworld, will have to pick up nation

Yup, I intend to finish it. I've heard The Dark Forest may be the best in the series, so looking forward to the next one. How are the Murderbot books? I've been intending to pick t…

I started SICP last year but haven't gotten anywhere close to completing, mostly because of competing priorities. Siddhartha is great book, I read it years back and it sparked my i…

I read The Phoenix Project a while back and really liked it, have been intending to pick up the The Unicorn Project for some time now. Did you think just the audiobook wasn't bette…

Always found some interesting reads like this. Looking to add to my tbr to hit my yearly goal. I just finished the three body problem, found it fantastic. I'm most of the way throu…

It is very good. The gesture recognition, the eye tracking, video quality etc are great. The immersive video demo is outstanding, the immersive env are great, the spatial videos an…

I'm building https://comp.lol . It's AI powered mock coding interviews, FAANG style. Looking for alpha testers when I release, sign up if you wanna try it out or just wanna try som…

I'm someone who hasn't used Next.js a lot, and started building some projects with it (so I don't have a very nuanced opinion). In general, I don't use the app router because I fin…

When I was an IC on a team I didn't care too much about my colleagues daily updates, but I cared about the interaction we got from being able to meet and talk. This was pre-pandemi…

Thanks! I really like Julia's blog, I hadn't seen those entries before!

I found "The Phoenix Project" a great read, although the learnings there were things I had picked up from places I had worked at. Haven't read "The Unicorn Project" yet but it's on…

Thanks for the concrete example, I can relate to this much more. It seems much harder to know, when interviewing new teams to join, whether this particular kind of skill set would …

Yes, I had the same conclusion about careful project picking and greenfield projects did seem to hold more promise than others. I've found that its kinda hard to get on prominent g…

Do you have a good way to identify and question your assumptions? You're right in that there's learned patterns that have worked well in situations which I'll keep applying moving …

Thanks for the reply, this reframing of the question is insightful. I'm definitely more in the camp of generalist backend with some political savviness, because I tend to enjoy col…