Readit Newsfataliss commented on Betting on things that never change (2017) collabfund.com/blog/betti... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
> customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, “Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.”
Actually there is one thing people are starting to desire -- less choice. I think some kind of curated content for anything has a lot of potential because mostly I do not care if I get the 100% perfect thing, I care about it being 80% right and not a headache. The time investment is not really worth the trouble to find the perfect thing.
I think it's partially true and I definitely fall under the category that hates to sink hours into searching for the best YYY where YYY is a random $30 item.
But I don't necessarily want less choice, I just want something/someone I can trust. If I could just believe that the "amazon choice" was actually tested thoroughly and matched a quality standard I can get behind, then I'd happily get the "amazon choice" of most things.
fataliss commented on No Refrigerant Left Behind recoolit.com/post/no-refr... · Posted by u/exp1orer
That's the kind of projects we need to get where we need to be in terms of emissions. It won't be easy, but clever solutions where there is real $$ incentives are the ones that can actually be implemented!
fataliss commented on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/... · Posted by u/alexrustic
Musk is the entrepreneur version of "Move fast; break things" - something like "Make it happen; no matter the cost" kind of guy. Leaving a trail of burnt out/injured employees and other negative externalities is just his way of "getting shit done".
Not sure how much or how little impact he'll have in the future direction of Twitter, but if I worked there I'd be a bit concerned!
fataliss commented on Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview litebulb.io... · Posted by u/garyjlin
Here’s a radical idea: hire the top 4 candidates on a probationary period. Have them work remote and with the same requirements and blind to each other.
Then you'd only ever get candidates that can afford to have a "maybe job" for a while until they get out with no pay check. I'd definitely not work for a company with that arrangement. Unless there is some guarantee they pay you until you land your next thing (within reasonable timeframes).
fataliss commented on My worst tech interview experience jessesquires.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
I'd love if OP had more details on how they ask "great questions that give her a lot of signal about the candidate’s skills while ensuring the candidate always feels comfortable and confident". I hate passing interviews and as a result try my best to be a chill interviewer, but I yet have to find good conversational questions that get me confidence in ones' coding abilities.
Somewhat tangential topic, but ... It's interesting to me how most of the companies with real transformative potential have very little need for (dedicated) software engineers.
I think half of that is that most other engineering professions now come with some non negligible coding skill and the other half is simply that "software can solve anything" is a plain and simple lie.
I can't help but feel a little left out of innovation with "just" software skills. Am I too sorry for myself or is that a shared feeling?
fataliss commented on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) · Posted by u/capableweb
I wrote a book of fiction (in French) and I self-published it on Amazon (KDP) after some encouragement from someone here on HN; it's just been selected as one of the five finalists of the Storyteller Amazon contest. Sales are slow, though.
I'm trying to get good at EDM but am making little progress. I have watched many tutorials, studied the masters. I am good with tools, and sometimes I come up with 4- or 8-bar loops that aren't that bad, but the songs as a whole are boring. There is something about building expectations, intensity towards the "drop" that I still don't understand.
About a year ago I built a touch-less MIDI controller based on Arduino and cheap HC-SR04 sensors. It's fun to use but I don't know what to do with it. It could be a cheap alternative to a true Theremin but I think the market is too small to pursue.
I'm working on a webapp to teach sight-reading; the market is probably also small but at least there are no moving parts, prototypes, inventory, shipping, etc. There are other apps that do the same thing but I think my version may have an edge. We'll see.
What's the book's name? No wonder sales are slow, you gotta promote that shit :)
I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.
Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market and mainstream interview processes value LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi