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Many of us are literally being forced to use it at work by people who haven't written a line of code in years (VPs, directors, etc) and decided to play around with it during a weekend and blew their minds.
Readit Newsdiehunde commented on Shall I implement it? No gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton
I started reading the second edition of Designing data-intensive applications. I believe only the digital edition is out right now.
diehunde commented on FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices cnbc.com/2024/12/17/ftc-b... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
If you're talking about sales taxes, they can't until you input your shipping address. Because they depend on where you live.
Nobody's trying to fool you by not including sales taxes. There's just no way to show them in advance, unless you want to start typing your address and zip code into every shopping website before you even browse.
Right, but even when they do have your zipcode (because you added beforehand for checking stock for example) they don't update the prices. It would be nice to have the option
diehunde commented on Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings? · Posted by u/azeusCC
I’ve been considering an LLM API, and it definitely sounds promising. My main concern is the cost—I'm processing around 300 job offers per day and plan to scale up further. Do you have any go-to APIs you’d recommend that balance performance and pricing?
A while ago I built a prototype app to extract songs and artists from Reddit posts with thousands of comments. I used the Anthropic API, and it was pretty easy to set up and wasn't very expensive. I think you can get a pretty good estimation of how much it would cost beforehand or after a few test runs.
diehunde commented on Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings? · Posted by u/azeusCC
Have you considered using an LLM model API? You could just send it the posting text and come with a good prompt to extract the most likely required skills.
diehunde commented on I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews nelson.cloud/i-am-so-sick... · Posted by u/nelsonfigueroa
Okay, do do quizzes, but let people google goddamn stuff because that's just how software engineers operate. Don't make it an exam. Don't mimic the worst thing about the education systems. Both in the school and in the university, these goddamn exams were the worst because they tested memory first and everyone else second, and I'm such a kind of person that I could never remember things on command. It was a real struggle. I can't be the only one.
I've never been through the "regular" IT hiring process myself, but I've interviewed several candidates for an Android developer position. I liked asking questions and looking at how the person thinks. I didn't expect exact correct answers for every question, I just wanted to see whether they have a fundamental understanding of Android. After that, they had to build a small app at home (not my initiative) to show their skills.
What are you going to google though? For most of these LC questions you only need to know how to use arrays, maps and loops. If I'm interviewing you and you tell me you need to google how to append something to an array or check if the element is in a map then I'll think you just haven't written enough code yet.
There are better questions where I do think google should be allowed but they aren't LC-style. Some examples are building APIs or operating on files
diehunde commented on Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included · Posted by u/thih9
Currently working for me with ProtonVPN