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zrules commented on Increasing your practice surface area indiehackers.com/post/lif... · Posted by u/ChanningAllen

mikestorrent · 5 months ago

I hope this is a parody post and not actually the real exhultations of an actual founder.

zrules · 5 months ago

For post-product-market-fit hires or scale-up engineering teams, the interview process could skip LeetCode and instead test how well candidates can identify and debug issues introduced by LLMs. Less binary trees, more LLM bug-hunting

zrules commented on How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video] kernel-recipes.org/en/202... · Posted by u/pabs3

julienchastang · a year ago

Somewhat off topic, but CERN has a fantastic science museum attached to it that I had the privilege of visiting last summer. There is of course Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT workstation, but also so much more. It is also the only science museum I've visited that addresses topics in cyberinfrastructure such as serving out massive amounts of data. (I personally get interested when I see old StorageTek tapes lol.) The more traditional science displays are also great. Check it out if you are ever in the Geneva area. It is an easy bus ride to get out there.

zrules · a year ago

Don’t forget to visit the gift shop too. They don’t have an online store so it’s the only place to get CERN ‘gears’. You can easily overspend there for gifts your friends and family will appreciate (if they know and like about CERN and its missions).

zrules commented on Ask HN: Kotlin SpringBoot vs. Python Django for Min Viable Product · Posted by u/slroger

zrules · a year ago

DoorDash has an article on migrating from python to kotlin for their services [0]. This might be of interest to you. Do note this migration was done at a certain stage of this company journey.

[0] https://careers.doordash.com/blog/migrating-from-python-to-k...

zrules commented on Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals cnbc.com/2024/06/11/norwa... · Posted by u/belter

KingOfCoders · 2 years ago

"The thing about Norway is that it’s a cold, barren, remote place where very few people want to live."

We walked 700km through Norway in the summer, from Oslo to Trondheim (the South were most people live). The country was sunny and warm, it seldom rained, people were exceptionally friendly, and it had the best wild strawberries and raspberries I ever ate. The Dovrefjell was the only very cold place. We'll might move there in the future.

zrules · 2 years ago

I find the best arrangement is spending a month or at least two weeks in Norway during the summer. I prefer to stay around Stryn. You can do some what I consider good drive outings in every direction. Because the day is longer it’s perfect for going into rabbit holes, hacking something together to explore new tech and just plan out what’s next. The scenery and the very friendly folks helps too. Only tough thing right now is it’s hard to find things to do for kids. I have not found a summer camp for non-Norwegian speaking kids. This definitely limits how much hacking is done.

zrules commented on The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules (2023) nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/fanf2

_hl_ · 2 years ago

There is still an unfathomably huge landscape of problems where C++ is the more mature, “right” choice over rust for new projects. Just from my (extremely limited and narrow) personal experience:

- scientific/numerical computing (super mature)

- domain-specific high performance computing (C++ is for better or worse extremely flexible)

- weird CUDA use cases (feels very native in C++)

- game dev as you mention

- probably much much more

C++ to me feels more like a meta-language where you go off to build your own kind of high performance DSL. Rust is much more rigid, which is probably a good thing for many “standard” use cases. But I’m sure there will always be a very very long tail of these niche projects where the flexibility comes in handy.

zrules · 2 years ago

Opencv while not niche is also one of them. It’s definitely preventing me from going full in on rust. Probably for a while.

This Reddit comment captures my reasons pretty well: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1arys3z/comment/kqoak...

zrules commented on How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain eidel.io/how-to-found-a-c... · Posted by u/olieidel

nicbou · 2 years ago

I document German bureaucracy for a living,[0] and everything is like that. Every life event - immigrating, getting a job, getting married, having a child, buying a car - is mired in slow, paper-based bureaucracy. It is a constant, significant impediment to life in the country.

Just last week, I was telling people that the best way to get married in Germany is to get married in Denmark.

I cannot overstate how terrible German bureaucracy is, and how defeating it is to deal with it. A lot of people give up and leave the country over it.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com

zrules · 2 years ago

From all the comments in this thread it seems like everyone is in agreement Denmark has less bureaucracy. Is it also a better place to set up a company? Do more companies get acquired from Denmark than Germany?

zrules commented on Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired twitter.com/Carnage4Life/... · Posted by u/crhulls

memset · 2 years ago

I am actively looking to hire - either freelance or full-time - an engineer to write open source golang code for my YC startup.

However, I literally cannot afford FAANG salaries at my stage. It would literally bring my runway from n to n/5 years. And many candidates are asking for 400k+ salaries. I’d love to hire someone who knows what they’re doing but I’m just not able to find people who are both qualified and interested in the work. (If this is you then message me!)

I had one person today - with lots of FAANG experience who’d recently gone freelance - tell me that they weren’t willing to work with me to write code but they were willing to do advising for $450/hr. We just weren’t on the same page.

I don’t know what’s going on, and I hurt for people who are looking for work. I’m launching more slowly than I’d like because I am not able to find a partner to build things with who is willing to work for less than what they made after 10 years at Google.

zrules · 2 years ago

I think there are people that simply cannot afford to go lower than 400k if you’re looking in the Bay Area. Or it’d take a relatively big hit in lifestyle. Mortgages are really expensive, kids in school or day care, payment to the new Rivian, etc. Just offering perspective of the other side for the forum.

zrules commented on Orbital's Hartnoll brothers look back theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/obiefernandez

hyggetrold · 2 years ago

For anyone not familiar with Orbital, if you listen to only one song, make it "Halcyon+On+On" - a timeless classic.

zrules · 2 years ago

This song is also used in the intro to the film Hackers. To me, it set the tone for the film. In middle school, I’d run and watch the film in the morning and learn to program in the afternoon to late at night. It was such a magical song and allowed me discover similar music from the era.