Yeah but it's somewhat hard to determine how difficult a challenge it actually was to produce that piece of code from the outside. It may be a signal of competence, or it may be one of those things that seems really impressive but they actually just followed a youtube tutorial that explained most of it step by step. (Which is a fine solution if you found that for a particular problem you had to solve, but it's not a reliable signal they'll be able to solve arbitrary things in the future - not everything has been explained by someone else, especially when trying to tackle very novel problems.)
The point is that code challenges are a pretty hard to fake test and the loss of some types of people is worth it for the employer (like me, who sucks at them).
To be honest if I was an employer I probably would do leet code or similar. The logic would be that yes, many engineers are shy or nervous around people. But losing those is worth it since hiring someone bad that you have to fire (that wastes some months of productive time at the company) and then re-hire someone else is definitely worth that risk. Having made something impressive on github is somewhat fakeable since you can get a lot of help from the internet or even copy large chunks (that you may understand but didn't have to invent) from stack overflow. Someone who can do leet code at least have some hard-to-fake ability to reason and work under pressure.
That said, I still don't like doing leet code interviews and I'm pretty bad at them, but that's the logic that imagine goes on in an employers mind (hence why "they're missing out on some types of candidates" logic likely won't sway anyone reading these comments I suspect).
There's usually gifted programs in poor schools as well. This isn't a private vs public education thing. It's more about keeping bright students stimulated and not bored to tears and have their potential stunted.
Wow, that comic really makes me question how much of todays complaning about work and life struggles has been a multi decade persistent thing - not just hardships facing this particular generation. (As someone who was 5 in 1996 and didn't see this first hand.)
Engineers automating themselves. This is why we should be kinda scared of software innovation stagnating. If we don't work on innovation we don't really have a purpose and a job.
I'm gonna get downvoted but this is the same perspective I've taken as well. I can only have paralyzing anxiety for so many years before I just have to stop caring and get on with my life.
I think this self awareness to disable notifications if they abuse it mostly only occurs for engineering types or other people with a lot of self control. It remains a powerful engagement trick because it hooks into the brains of people with less mental stability, like people with adhd etc (which for all the mental health awareness tech platforms tries to align themselves with would appear to have the opposite effect).
My rule is: Disable notifications immediately regardless, if I find myself wishing I had gotten a ping instead of opening the app to check, I turn it on (which never happens, it's off for everything).
In this case they're probably recordings, but you could imagine that they'd be procedurally generated in which case not necessarily. A call to `Math.random()` is a finite length 'file' but won't repeat.
I can't imagine most romanians are happy with their land being so cheap overall (and their economy not doing great) so I doubt most people living there would object to the local land prices going up (that's a good thing).
When did google get a TLD? Incredible. Can anyone register that or is it exclusive to the company? (Never heard of a TLD that only one company is allowed to register.)
Well the investment landscape in general is kinda drying up (innovation is getting harder) and AI is one of the few areas that could or is bearing fruit so that's a big part of it too (even hardware and software is kinda stagnating). If investment is going to go anywhere AI is still one of the few places in the world that could have 100x returns (despite many frauds, yes).
I am definitely going to bet against the "AI winter is returning" idea by investing huge amounts of my time into understanding these algorithms. History doesn't have to repeat, sometimes that's the foolish prediction (the apple newton was made fun of by the simpsons but when the ipad came out the timing was perfect). I don't like overinflating OpenAIs already enormous ego but these are incredible images.
They're a private company and it's a shitty thing to do. No one is saying regulation should necessarily step in, but we don't have to like it and we shouldn't not complain and not talk about it just because of that.
They probably did, but even if they didn't it may have come from the terrabytes of data they scraped from the internet. OpenAI doesn't care. They claim that it's derivative enough to go under fair use. And whether it is or isn't, I guess their calculation is that the risk is worth taking to be the first to develop these algorithms, which is a huge head start if the courts decide that it does count as fair use.
Makes me wonder if there's an opportunity to make games for the mac. You can make decent things with a month turnaround if you're proficient and there's a lot of mac users. If they're this desperate it might be a lower hanging fruit than a lot of other SaaS type ideas that you could try to tackle for a side hustle.
This reminds me of the horrible state of mac gaming back in the day when almost no games existed for mac. (Minecraft was one of the only decent games I remember being able to play, due to being built on opengl.) Things aren't perfect on that front yet but it's certanily improved a lot. I wonder if them forcing people to use metal for graphics could bring this wall up again to make the bar too high for developers to port it.
First of all I wish you all the best and want to be clear that I'm not trying to be mean spirited. By engagement I mean something like likes per tweet to followers ratio, and I'm seeing around 5-10 likes per tweet on your account with about 2700 followers. This sounds really mean but you asked so that's my definition. Hope you have a great future startup career.
It's funny how tools like these are supposed to increase engagement but if you look at the feeds of the twitter accounts quoted at the bottom of the page they all get really awful engagement.
It's definitely worth considering that these tools can have a counter productive effect though. It can be really off-putting to a lot of people to get a near instant DM right after following someone which seems pretty obviously automated. That could have been a real customer who now unfollowed or muted you when a non automated human interaction approach may have had a higher chance of conversion to a sale. So the decision to automate isn't always so clearly beneficial.
I would feel so awful if I thought I was interacting with a normal human and they didn't tell me they were categorizing my DMs to them in organized groups like 'web dev beginners' and automating their responses to me.
Yeah that's a part of twitter I don't interact with. It's so cringy and obvious when people spew marketing advice like this and then turn around and act like your friend. As if their ulterior motive can't be deduced from what they advice others to do. I try spending my time with kinder more normal people instead.