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d675

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    Comment #48856823

    taught mental math (abacus) to 3-15yr olds for 10+ yrs. A great teacher notices the gaps in the fundamentals and fixes those along with variants before piling on. ello looks great,…

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    Comment #48679505

    a single leetcode tab is taking up up to 700mb of memory...

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    Comment #48653491

    just the level of questions being asked seems to be high idk, just passed round 1 for big tech. Not feeling great about the rest. main comment was a bit tongue in cheek

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    Comment #48644586

    See, leetcode is useful. As I do this leetcode grind, I’ve been why techniques exist / how they’re used irl. Lots of interesting stuff there

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    Comment #48557005

    yeah. Was always the jr on a team full of seniors/staff. Always switching context, so many verticals and systems. True startups need only senior+ and big ones don't wanna interview…

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    Comment #48548647

    as I got into SWE 4 yrs ago, this was a big part of my job as a SRE/SDET and my next job came b/c of that SRE exp which was never used, so just became an SDET. Now am laid off, and…

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    Comment #48534219

    5yrs ago, pre LLMs, I made a very simple version of this, create good playlists from a user query. Got me my first programming (& favourite) job at a music AI company to lead QA Au…

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    Comment #48534076

    1. http://thefamilyhotline.com 80%+ done MVP, for small business use & personal use. First go at full stack development with AI. useful features around voicemail, notifications, an…

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    Comment #47560486

    I'm an early-mid career SDET/SRE. Currently building a full web app with rest AP integrations, looks great and works great. Lots of functionality, useful and being hardened all b/c…

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    Comment #47532124

    What’s the hate on Microsoft?

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    Comment #47510919

    also starting in a blue-collar field soon as an operator-ish in a facility management company. I've already lined up an awesome new SaaS in the main industry. Pest control will be …

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    Comment #47510279

    what did you try to make? how?

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    Comment #47510229

    He discusses: Instead of maintaining a catalog of tools like read_file, grep, list_dir, they just expose one run(command: str) tool and let the LLM compose Unix pipelines. It has a…

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    What's your tooling around coding agents?

    A post[1] from the Manus ex lead engineer on r/LocalLLama got me thinking about improving the tooling these agents have. Saw CC will use rip-grep if installed, but it won't install…

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    Comment #47509864

    depends on if they're selling you an AI wrapper or if they built something useful. Also, depends on who target user is. AI can be used to build deterministic software

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    Comment #47509787

    absolutely. as a early/mid level SDET/SRE, I can move so fast on prototyping full good apps now. That style of thinking is serving me well, knowing about queues, docker, basic infr…

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    Comment #47264566

    The careers page would be more usable with option to load 100 postings a click vs a handful. The dropdowns also only support 1 option. AI should be able to resolve this asap

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    Whats your strategy to stay productive post layoff?

    Hola, Got laid off again this week — number four, if we’re counting. Two as a mechanical engg in 2020, and now #2 as a SWE. I’m back on the grind with Leetcode, getting ready for a…

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    Comment #47214643

    agreed. Of the two software teams I've been on everyone has been a "senior". Some were fresh seniors, and some more staff. I've always been the most junior on the team. 2 devs on t…

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    Comment #46538044

    how has it paid off for you?

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    Comment #46438410

    great work. Lots of opportunity imo, competitive leagues, universities, etc. Too bad I don't have the experience ya'll want

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    Comment #46329699

    My initial idea was to go B2B, a simple camera device per court that flashes red on out of bounds shot. Let's businesses provide a quality of life upgrade. looked more into swing v…

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    Comment #46255739

    Just had this idea the other day playing some pickleball too. Would do the business a little differently though

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