hobonumber1
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Comment · 1 year ago
this is awesome, thanks for the permissible license. I'll definitely try this out in my app.
Comment · 2 years ago
RIP
Comment · 3 years ago
This looks great! I have been wishing for a headless CRUD framework for React. i have to dive deeper into this, but it looks promising.
Comment · 3 years ago
I feel like they are using open source as a marketing and growth channel. Even if you self-host it, there's no way to self-host the API. You have to pay to use it. So you're just self-hosting the UI. They can change the API at any time or kick you off it. Also the AGPL is a very restrictive license.
Comment · 4 years ago
It is just you. Those jobs that you deem "pointless" make the economy work. To find great jobs:
1. Be clear about what "great" means to you. What do you value?
2. Research the company to determine if what you value is the same as what they value. Every company goes after profit. This is a good thing. Profit = you're providing value to someone. If you don't believe that, work for a non-profit. That's cool too.
3. Realize that everything meaningful was built by teams. No one can build something that stands the test of time by themselves. When you zoom in, things may seem pointless, but when you zoom out to look at the timeframe of decades, you'll see meaningful change derived from many of today's companies.
Comment · 5 years ago
Is that the voice control in the MBUX, or in older Mercedes?
Comment · 6 years ago
JIRA offers an almost limitless amount of customization to fit any workflow. I think the custom attributes/fields/reporting part of it adds a lot of complexity.
Comment · 6 years ago
You can use server-rendered React. You get the benefit of having components without the cost of downloading React on the frontend (unless you have something interactive). This is what NextJS does.
Comment · 6 years ago
Your best bet is to invest that money in a Total Market ETF like Vanguard's VTI.
https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VTI
It should net you 5-6% a year compounded over the long-run.
Comment · 6 years ago
Mostly by writing a blog posts and driving SEO traffic. But this takes a long time and may not succeed unless your blog posts are discoverable. You solve this problem by writing guests on other people's blogs (usually blogs that are in your product's niche).
Comment · 7 years ago
I went from a Software Engineer to an Engineering Manager about 1.5 years ago. Here are some of the things I've learned:
- Engineering and Management are very different. When writing code, there's an obvious end goal. There is no such end goal in Management. Your job is to remove obstacles to allow other people to do their best work.
- Get used to interruptions. your job will be interruption-driven. When coding, you want as much heads-down time as possible. In Management, you will be interrupted as problems come up and people look to you for solutions. And these problems dont always have obvious solutions as they are people problems.
- You will code less. Get used to giving up the "interesting" parts of the codebase to engineers. Your role now is not to code, but to provide the right environment to allow other people to be happy and productive.
- Learn how to give feedback. Different people on your team will take your feedback in different ways. You may have to be direct with some people, and more delicate with others. You have to learn how these people react to different types of feedback and deliver news appropriately.
- Understand who on your team is a "superstar" (a person wants to work on latest code, wants to move up the corporate ladder, may only be on your team for a year), and who on your team is a rockstar (the "rock" of your team, someone who doesn't want to move up because they are perfectly happy doing what they are doing). One is not better than the other. People switch between one and the other in different stages of their lives. You have to treat them appropriately in terms of projects, feedback, expectations.
One of the books that helped me a lot was Radical Candor https://www.radicalcandor.com/
Comment · 7 years ago
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I'm an Engineering Manager at SoundHound. We've raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a while back:
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If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.