wonderingyogi
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Posted by
wonderingyogi on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.
With YouTube blocking adblockers, I found myself using YT a lot less. Every time I click on a video, it gets blocked. Then I realize I didn't really care about watching the video. It felt like I caught myself before lighting the cigarette. I welcome the change and it has helped free up my mental space for other stuff.
Do you have hobbies? Maybe go travel for a year or two.
Yes. It's been draining noticeably faster after last week's update. I can no longer get a full day's use.
Posted by
wonderingyogi on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have coded for 10 years now and I feel like I peaked. I can keep on learning, but I feel there isn't really much point since I don't want to be the world's best programmer. I wanted to learn how to use a tool and I have achieved this goal. Right now, I am a tech lead for a B2B company and I quite enjoy the job because I get to interact with other teams. But as far as career goes, what are...
Posted by
wonderingyogi on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have been using LLM lately and I started to realize, I didn't care which LLM I was using. Sometimes, I used ChatGPT, and sometimes, Poe. As long as it gave a decent answer and I verified it was corrent, I didn't care. I feel like LLMs are a commodity and there isn't much of a moat. In a few years, many of them will simply be a commodity. OpenAI's lead will be vanish when open source...
Usually the team or company itself doesn't have much to do. For my B2B employer, we are always waiting for the client to get back. And this could take months or even years. B2B world can be extremely slow if you are working on big projects. It needs to go through many layers of bureaucracy for approval.
Your story sounds just like mine. With all the extra hours I have, I am now thinking of working on a side project to see if it takes off. I am also looking to switch jobs because I gain nothing out of it other than a paycheck.
When Walter Isaacson described John Sculley as a CEO, I didn't think he was this bad..
that mostly because in capitalism, the person that financially gains the most is the one that has the most equity/ power. there is no incentive to share that power with anyone even when managers have the Peter's principle.
That's one part. I think another part is that the power dynamics need to change. Managers should be servant leaders. Instead, I see so many managers abuse their power to enrich their own position.
$4 million feels like chump change. I'd imagine JP Morgan globally earns that amount in less than an hour.
I will only do take home if I feel like the company is serious. If they are sending me a take home without meeting with the hiring manager, it goes straight to the bin.
Your proposal lists reasons for why your platform should exist, but it doesn't list any reason why a user would want to use it. Who are you serving? What should they want to sign up?
For the last three weeks I have been studying. I am in my final week of studying. Then I will take a few weeks break to do nothing.
Most founders I know are unemployable because their resumes are extraordinary. I am not a successful founder, but more than a few recruiters have mentioned during phone interview that my resume is unusual. You are suppose follow the standard path of graduating, working at a company, and switching every few years. You will find a job sooner or later though.
Posted by
wonderingyogi on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.
If you have to create a charter for your team, what would you put in it? What's your perspective from (e.g. manager/ contributor) and why did you chose to put this in?
Everyone looks like a sophisticated investor during a bull market. Now it looks like the emperor has no clothes. These investors are going to have a hard time justifying their dumb money investments.
We can only control our actions, but what happens around us is outside our control. The best we can do is try to influence it, but even that is limited to those within our immediate vicinity. At some point, we must learn to let go and stop trying to control something we have limited control over. I am reminded of the Buddhism teaching that we have expectations in life and when those expectations are not being met, we suffer. Simply do your best, and accept whichever outcome.
The short answer is no. Unless, you want to become a better programmer by learning functional programming. The slow compiles times, high learning curve, and reliance on JVM makes it unsuitable for new projects. I would stick with Go. This is coming from a Scala developers that spent 7 years with the language. I don't regret it, but even I must admit, it's unsuitable for production projects. You will become a much stronger programmer though. So depends on your goal.
The board of directors is a YC fraternity. Michael Siebel is on it.
I did the same thing. Found a boring company literally 3 weeks before layoffs started. I saw it from a mile away. So far my job has been stable, but incredibly boring. I could be earning a lot more elsewhere, but given the market, I won't be switching unless there's good reason. WLB is the best I ever had.
Is there a reason why it was low on the list? What qualifiers did you placed more on? Could you explain more about the thought process?
Title inflation is a thing even with ladders. I know of some non-tech industries where there are 15 levels to climb and at level 7 you were considered a director already.
My work is just handling tech debt from a project that has been passed through many hands. The code is horribly, but the work is easy. I can't believe I get paid just to sit around and debug. I am overqualified for my role, but my work life balance is amazing.
This is something I have been thinking a lot about. I still don't have a definite answer. For me, I joined a company to learn about the B2B space because I had a idea that catered to that market. Through this experience, I was able to cross out a lot of wrong assumptions I had about the space. I still don't know if my revised idea works, but it definitely helped me from pursuing the wrong one.
Please don't follow the author's advice. There is nothing more annoying than a junior thinking they can do a senior's role just by acting the same way. Seniority comes from experience building multiple systems, not from jumping into meetings and giving opinions.
I don't want to be too harsh because I am guilty of the same thing. The author is fearing shipping because he doesn't have customers. He is scared of failure. If he validated and found customers beforehand, he would be excited.
> For such a "technical" and "smart" cohort, I find it absolutely insane that so many on HN are so overly critical
It is exactly because we are more technical that we see things through the hype. We like to understand how things work rather than just look at the surface.
I find the people at work that are most mind blown at AI / LLM are those with the least technical knowledge (including junior developers). My senior data scientist was the first one to point out the flaws of AI / LLM and take a critical look at the technology. She actually took the time to research on this topic and create a presentation to educate others. The rest though, just parrot how great it is, with little critical thought.
I am not saying AI/ LLM is not useful, but you should also be mindful of its downsides.
> I truly question if it's some form of denial.
People that don't agree with you must be in denial?
Posted by
wonderingyogi on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.
How did you figure which channel/ approach/ strategy to acquire customers? I find landing pages and hanging out in communities too random to be consistent. I also find them generic and unhelpful. Does anyone have any guidance how they figured out the best way for their product or service? I am more interested in the thought process involved than the actual approach.
Thank you. I listed about 10 things I want to accomplish and somethings I thought were higher up on the list, turns out weren't. It gave me pause to realize what I really wanted to accomplished in my life.