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Comment · 1 year ago
Then they shouldn't use libraries, open source code or even existing compilers. They shouldn't search online (man pages is OK). They should use git plumbing commands and sh (not bash of zsh). They should not have potable water in there house but distill river water.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not new they had that 5 years ago at least.

Anthropic interview is nebulous. You get a coding interview. Fast paced, little time, 100% pass mark.

Then they chat to you for half an hour to gauge your ethics. Maybe I was too honest :)

I'm really bad at the "essay" subjects vsm the "hard" subjects so at that point I was dumped.

Comment · 1 year ago
I used to think creating a CHM was peak professionalism. I'm a mini Microsoft!

Actually I'd go back to CHMs for docs. A modern reader would be good tho.

Comment · 1 year ago
Man, the bugs they prevent. Vs everyone rolling their own multithreaded file reader/writer code in C. How many programmers would think to journal transactions and ship them for backup for example.

SQL or 15000 lines of C++ or Go or Rust doing whatever with files.

Comment · 1 year ago
What does the ideal look like then? Data storage encapsulation in the app? Perhaps different DB users with granular access, accessed from different non-global parts of the program. Chuck in some views later when you need performance pragmatism!
Comment · 1 year ago
Your program is also one giant type.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is slow. Like geocities.
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Comment · 1 year ago
They really mean crap not fake. If you use a nail where a screw is needed, that is crap.
Comment · 1 year ago
Performance art of many HN exchanges on non-startup/cs topics.
Comment · 1 year ago
Podiatry?
Comment · 1 year ago
Can't AWS just restructure to have a Canadian subsidiary if that happens? Maybe they have this already. Unless they ban ownership of foreign companies.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is no money for the employees in consolidation and boring tech.

Outside of the US, career driven development (CDD) might be needed to get your salary to a level you can say ... have a family. Or for some ... afford rent. Therefore my salary is dependent on me not understanding development Zen!

Then with an army of CDDs there is a tide that is hard to swim against.

Making it worse is how we interview people and any heroics you did at the last job are worth 0c but ability to talk about GraphQL and advanced TS and AWS are worth, dunno, $20k.

Comment · 1 year ago
Genuine question!
Comment · 1 year ago

    docker run -d -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama

    docker exec -it ollama ollama run llama3.2:1b
Have a chat at the CLI

Then try bigger models if that is too fast for you :)

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