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Re:Show HN: Drivr – VR with real vehicles [video] on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:03PM (#40394961)
Very cool. Can this be calibrated to an existing track? I wonder in case of spin outs how would someone get back on track. Either way very cool demo
Just came out of this. I can totally see where you are coming from. When I started 3 years back I had same concerns and doubts. But took the leap of faith. You have to trust your skillsets and have some confidence. You have worked for 10 years so you do have good amount of experience. In my experience it was much easier for me to get interviews lined up. And honestly in terms of career progression I am farther ahead than I imagined. One thing that I would improve though is have some idea before jumping off the wagon. Need not have product or funding secured (better if you can) but some direction. Also would highly advise looking for someone to work with unless you are going indie route. It can get lonely and is a roller coaster of emotions daily.
One of the biggest problems with dev environments is maintenance just like documentation. As a dev, when I am working on my local environment, if something breaks, I usually end up finding some hack to fix it and move on with my feature/assigned task. Most devs leave it to the "new guy" who is onboarding. I also think having templates as code might be a way to alleviate that issue to certain extent.

SWE Group Interview Practice

We are group of folks who are practicing for SWE interviews. We get together live on zoom call on M,T,T,F at 7:30 PM PST and work on problems together. We would love to have more folks sign up. If you are interested, please sign up belowhttp://codewith.group/

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Live Interview Practice

If you are preparing for SWE interviews, few of us are practicing interviews few days a week (an hour each day). If you are interested join us.https://www.teamcambia.com/

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Show HN: Group Interview Program (Repost)

Reposting to see if we can get any feedback/interest. We have started a small group interview program. We provide with daily problems to solve and reading list, daily checkins with details on solution to problems and space/time complexity - this helps with accountability, live weekly sessions with folks from industry and are always available via IM to answer questions or remind for...

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Show HN: Group Interview Program

Me and my friend have started a small group interview program. We provide with daily problems to solve and reading list, daily checkins with details on solution to problems and space/time complexity - this helps with accountability, live weekly sessions with folks from industry and are always available via IM to answer questions or remind for checkins.The reason for starting this group was...

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Re:SWE Interview Preparation Group on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:38AM (#27663275)
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I do agree comparing to those options it does sound expensive. However there is live interaction involved with weekly live sessions, IMs, daily schedules, discussion around your solution and time complexity estimations, report on your progress in terms of problems solved, time committed vs spent.

You are welcome to join and if you feel it is expensive compared to value provided, we offer refund at any point. No questions asked.

SWE Interview Preparation Group

We have been running multiple groups for SWE interview preparation. We have been getting very good response. We are starting one more group on July 19th. The group will continue for 4 weeks (ends August 15th). During this 4 weeks, we create private slack channel(s), provide participants with problems to solve on daily basis, provide with video/reading links they can read on daily basis and...

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Re:Show HN: Discover new tools, libraries, frameworks on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:58AM (#16966273)
Hi all, Due to abundance and growing number of tools, libraries and frameworks I find it hard to discover new technology. Hence I have started a blog where I try to add a new tools every working day. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
A business model that might work for enterprises (assuming they find the tool useful)
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:29PM (#14037396)
With xamarin or visas? ;)
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:27PM (#14037378)
I am working on an app to organize the passport information. Like visas associated with it, expiration, date of leaving/entering a country. Idea is to make it easy to get certain information of your passport when you need it without having the passport handy. For now targeted towards immigrants in USA. Using xamarin to build the app. Plan is to finish development by April end.
Re:Ask HN: Underemployed and anxious. What would you do? on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:57PM (#13886612)
Most of the junior roles,in tech companies, are filled with new grads or rather resumes from colleges. I would suggest going to career fairs and conferences/meetups. Many recruiters scout here for junior positions. Also, do not be disappointed with rejection. You just need one acceptance :). There are many companies out there. Apply like a bit. Good luck.
Re:Massdrop is the worst spammer since the 90ies on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:58PM (#11755991)
that is why I have different email address for newsletters. Let them spam.
The idea seems pretty good. I signed up for it. However, the auto adding to the list sounds a little scary. Even with linkedin and security of it, I get too many inMails from Hiring folks. So did not enroll into that.

Can you not use your the same intelligence to recommend me jobs rather than me inputting search queries? Or maybe I do not have a profile that matches the jobs postings.