Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it sounds like a non-story to be honest.
It's a personal blog
Sure, but on HN it is a story.
The "it rejected me" in the headline should have been "it didn't notice me".
I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
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Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#132Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve
Do you feel like Claptrap did?[0].
In all seriousness, good work. Sorry about the rejection, but it reminds me of the story about the Homebrew guy getting rejected by Google[1].
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#133Being able to get hired at a company is often unrelated to being able to generate viable products. If you want to get hired don't focus on skills to build useful things. Focus on psychology and charisma.
Yeah, no. You have to pass tech interviews and generally know your shit
The tech interview still doesn’t fall into parent posters categories of “able to generate viable products” or “skills to build useful things” either.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, was he rejected by an automated system or did he go thru seven interviews, as other commenters say?
GP is talking about two different people. "Him" is the creator of Homebrew. Seven interviews at Google. "This guy" is the creator of enigo (discussed in this thread). Automatic rejection by Anthropic. (Edit: upon page reload i saw the quicker answer.)
Does 7 interviews not seem excessive? Got my current job with 1.
Silicon Valley lives in lalaland.
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#135Also I low how the IT hiring has a become a paradox:
Companies won't hire you if you don't have enough projects in your portfolio, but by the time you will have enough stars on your github projects they have already used you to their own goals and are "not interested".
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might have missed the subtle wording; _That_ guy (Howell) got several rounds of interviews, _this_ guy (OP) got rejected by an automated system.
Not the "subtle" but simply, inaccurate wording then
Not inaccurate; it's perfectly understandable to a native English speaker, the nuance is subtle, "this guy", "him/that guy", but it is clear and commonly used language.
"I just spoke to a guy about X, his opinion was different to the guy I spoke to about it last week. This guy said Y, but that guy insisted it was Z."
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#137Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve
Do you feel like Claptrap did?[0]. In all seriousness, good work. Sorry about the rejection, but it reminds me of the story about the Homebrew guy getting rejected by Google[1]. [0] https://youtu.be/hDzWw5rfefQ [1] https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
I have fond memories of playing Claptrap in Borderlands Presequel. None of my friends do though, his vaulthunter.EXE ability made few friends.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#138Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve
Hey mate, I would just like to say that I wish they at least find it in their hearts to reward you for the value you have provided to them. Knowing cut throat american corps, I'm afraid the chances are nil. Even if a good amount for you is peanuts to them. Which is why my position is GPL > MIT..
you're right about MIT vs GPL confusion. people brainwashed themselves into thinking MIT is "more open", because it's more permissive, but it lets others profit off your code without contributing back.
GPL makes them share or pay to relicense, since you own the copyright. with MIT, they don’t need to ask. MIT just benefits big corps. GPL better protects the open-source spirit, and paradoxically, the ownership of your work.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#139Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve
Do you feel like Claptrap did?[0]. In all seriousness, good work. Sorry about the rejection, but it reminds me of the story about the Homebrew guy getting rejected by Google[1]. [0] https://youtu.be/hDzWw5rfefQ [1] https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Also Microsoft and AppGet:
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lets make a new license: If you wont hire me, use my library and make over $100m in revenue a year, you must pay a commercial license to use my software equivalent to the total cost (equity grants included) of an average principal engineer or director who manages 50+ people at your company in your highest COL metro, whichever is higher. For OSS work that isn't mostly one author, make it go to the foundation for the O…
I agree with the spirit of this comment, but I worry about the implementation. See the comment of Manly read in this section. Once the threat of payment approaches, you can just switch to a free fork. A single person can't really win a trial against a big, well-funded company.
They can fork it, but can they find the maintainers? If it's just their own internal employees, then they definitely have less expertise in that codebase.
Might as well hire the actual expert.