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Re:Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews on Saturday April 05, 2025 @08:46AM (#43593038)
I recently hired two engineers that were good at clearing the interview rounds using AI -- I knew because I encouraged them to use AI.

But when it came to large complex codebase or problems that required critical thinking everything fell apart.

Re:Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:53AM (#43139404)
Any links to read what people in EU are saying?
Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:22AM (#42664014)
If you open the link that you shared you may realise that the API is so unsupported that you can't build any production application on top of it.

I was not denying that not every app needs to be native -- I was replying to a comment asking for what is not supported.

Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:11AM (#42558260)
Contacts API; Not all sensors are supported
Re:Ask HN: How to help open sources improve their UX? on Friday August 23, 2024 @10:42AM (#41329446)
This is a fair point. I would hate spamming any maintainer. Most of these contributions will happen after the students have completed their curriculum and done 1-2 concept designs. [Apologies if I did not make it clear that I am just trying to replace the redesign projects -- not the new concept design]

At the same time, if I fork any repo of my choice -- I don't think we'll necessary work on the most important aspects. Reducing the chances of the design getting incorporated or the students getting any objective feedback to improve things.

Ask HN: How to help open sources improve their UX?

Posted by aman-pro on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have some students I am teaching design. I want them to work on some real-world projects and not redesign interfaces without having a feedback loop telling how they did. I can't give them access to my client work.Is there a way to find out open source projects that want someone to help with their User Experience?

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Re:Ask HN: Over the shoulder Code-Review in remote settings on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:11AM (#33285726)
Over the shoulder is often the developer explaining their decisions in the code, instead of the reviewer trying to reverse-engineer it, independently. It's just faster and has less resistance -- not necessarily better.

Problem with remote live reviews is that in a remote environment, it's harder to tell if someone is free or they are doing their own deep work.

Either the developer has to wait for the review to be done asynchronously before the merge... or ping someone to review their code through a screenshare and take away their attention.

Ask HN: Over the shoulder Code-Review in remote settings

Posted by aman-pro on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am trying to set up some good code review practices in my team. I have some positional power, so I can experiment a little with not-so-much resistance.We already have lints, type-checking and some specs in place. But no manual reviews, yet.While we were in-office we could do simple over the shoulder code reviews and exchange valuable feedback fast without any official process.Since now my...

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Re:Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:09AM (#23320629)
In Hasura your still need a 3rd party service such as Firebase or 0Auth for Authentication. Also, it depends on Serverless functions for doing any business logic.

Ask HN: Good books on scalability

Posted by aman-pro on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there any good book that talks about scalable web application? By scalability I mean not just scaling in terms of infrastructure but also design.We want to build something similar to JIRA that will allow it's users to make things as configurable as possible. Also, it's important to allow 3rd party developers to develop things on top of our platform.I'm looking for some books or resources...

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Re:Ask HN: Node framework with best testing support on Sunday December 17, 2017 @02:49AM (#15944718)
Sails looks like a great framework otherwise. What is the reason for its bad reputation?

Ask HN: Node framework with best testing support

Posted by aman-pro on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am working on Sails JS for a large project and trying to write unit tests in it.I am not too happy with the support for unit testing in Sails. It takes a good 7-10 seconds before it starts running the test cases, there is no out-of-the-box support for fixtures as well.Are there any frameworks that can handle test cases in a more efficient way?

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Ask HN: What activity should I spend most time on?

Posted by aman-pro on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a software engineer turned freelancer, and I started a company some time back with a friend.I am good at making stuff and my other co-founder is good at design & research.We have a couple of clients right now that are helping us pay our bills and take care of a couple of employees (excluding us).Obviously, for increasing the revenues we should focus on increasing the sales and...

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Re:Show HN: A tiny Chrome Extension to search through “Who is Hiring?” on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:35AM (#14898365)
This is cool! Please share. :)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:58AM (#14023829)
ElpisDesign | Member of Technical Staff | New Delhi, India | http://elpisdesign.com

http://elpisdesign.com/jobs-engineering-software-developer/

We are a passionate group of engineers, design researchers and artists deeply focused on “Why of Everything”. We help our clients achieve more with our design and execution expertise. For us, design is way beyond aesthetics. Design is how stuff works. Starting from how it looks to how it feels, we care for the details.We have developed from successful landing pages to full fledged enterprise grade applications. Have you looked at some of our work already?

Your job will be to work with our engineering team and get shit done. We love JavaScript and Python, although we occasionally work on PHP as well. You will get the exposure right from managing servers to writing your own application servers to creating progressive web apps and mobile apps. If you’re also interested in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, we have some really challenging work for you.

Re:Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies? on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:13PM (#13908315)
What was your app?
Re:Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:14AM (#13884701)
Hey Karam and Shubhendu, congratulations for the launch. I have a few questions:

1. What is the setup cost? 2. What are your expansion plans, specially in remote areas of India? Will the model still be profitable?

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