artiscode · HackerTrans

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I find AI interviews dehumanizing and treat them same way as homework assignments in the introductory email - a massive red flag. If you value me as a human being, make up the time to meet me tet a tet. I will not work for AI, but for a human company if I pass all interview rounds, right? I've had a recruiter add me on linkedin, send me an email and then ask me to do an AI interview. None of that makes any sense.

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Location: Riga, Latvia, the EU

Time zone: UTC+2/3

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (fastapi, django, drf, flask), Postgres/MySQL, Linux, Docker, OpenAI APIs, DSPy, elasticsearch, GraphQL, React, tailwind/shadcn

I'm a generalist hacker and builder with 20+ years of experience. I excel in making MVPs work, and using simple technology to solve complex business problems. I'm not a DevOps engineer, but I can comfortably set up a Linux box from scratch, or use any cloud provider. Frontend work doesn't scare me, and I love obsessing over UI/UX, or tasteful animations.

I'm interested in both B2B contract work and full-time employment. EU legal entity for billing.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artis-avotins-a97915192/

Email: [email protected]

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The military loves FPGAs. They can do what ASICs can, but without involving extra people.

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2 lata temudiscuss

A remote KVM, i.e TinyPilot will help avoid dealing with lack of trust in local staff. Additionally connection to the KVM can be done over LTE/Cellular if you don't trust the local connection too.

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2 lata temudiscuss

So what is this about?

I suggest you try this if you're new to ocaml or interesting in trying out OCaml.

I have grown accustomed to things just working. Run a copy-pasted command from a website "just works" level. Opam is what sent me into half-day of reading about OCaml ecosystem and how things work.

The developer preview successfully abstracts a lot of things into a command you run, refresh your shell environment, and have a working dune project. Just works, like I expect.

TL;DR Wanna try OCaml because it's Rust of functional programming? Check this out.

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2 lata temudiscuss

I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.

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2 lata temudiscuss

The significant lump sump is often expressed in months of salary per years worked, which is not that much, compared to how much a house costs.

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2 lata temudiscuss

My thoughts exactly. I'm done with the rat race. It's not a fair game where the rules change as you go along. I'm downsizing and getting rid of lifestyle inflation. I'd rather be free and remote with less pay.

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3 lata temudiscuss

Is it really malicious though? 10 gigs of zeros doesn’t seem that malicious to me. Microcontrollers often have a few megabytes of RAM if not less, does that make a few megabyte photo malicious?

Edit: spelling. I’m old school and used to typing on my computer. It’s getting repaired and all I’ve got is my phone. /rant

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3 lata temudiscuss

Helaas pindakaas, the other way around. I lived in unbeknownst Almere and commuted to Amsterdam and back.

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3 lata temudiscuss

Our office was in Amsterdam Oost and I lived in Almere Filmwijk. An hour and a half is the average door-to-door time. Sometimes odds played in my favour and I could get home in 1h10min. The commute started by taking the bus or cycling from Filmwijk to Alemere Centrum, which took roughly the same amount of time. Then I would take IC or Sprinter to Amsterdam Muiderpoort, take another bus or walk, which, again, took relatively the same amount of time. It was impossible to rent anything in Amsterdam itself with an academia salary of 45k, a non-working wife and two children. I mostly took the bike on days when the weather allowed, but my bike was in Almere. I purchased a cheap(stolen) bike in Amsterdam for 75 euros, but it got stolen the same day I left it at the station.

TL;DR Yes, you can live right next to the office if the funds allow it. My budget for rent was 1200 euros per month, which makes renting within the ring almost impossible.

edit: spelling

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3 lata temudiscuss

No. I got homesick after a year and a half and moved back. I've been working remotely ever since with no commute, which I find awesome!

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3 lata temudiscuss

Happy New Year everyone! HN will always remain in my heart and mind. 5 years ago I moved to Amsterdam to work on a super interesting R&D project that taught me a lot about GPS, coordinate systems, algorithms, and sadly the importance of having a short commute. I spent an hour and a half to get in either direction. That was demotivating and made me depressed and tired. HN was how I passed time, first on the train, then on the bus, reading curated articles and through thoughtful comments. I couldn't have managed without you all. Once again, I wish you all a Happy New Year and luck in all your endeavours!

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3 lata temudiscuss

Interesting read, albeit the comments seem to suggest it's clickbait and a thought exercise, rather than a PoC or working solution. I was thinking more about an MCU that supplements the LM1881, not replaces it.

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3 lata temudiscuss

Can someone smart in EE explain why the author wants to avoid using a microcontroller? Cost per unit isn't an issue for this type of project, it makes things easier, allows to employ more advanced logic like sensing the monitor type to decide what monitor ID to send to the computer, you can have LED's and so on. It already requires 5V power for the chip, what would be the downside apart from added complexity?

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3 lata temudiscuss

> Be careful not to discover a career before you’ve discovered yourself

I feel it's possible to re-discover yourself more than once throughout your life. Right after finishing high school I thought that writing code is the real me. Now more than a decade has passed and I'm trying to find myself again. Our jobs define us, but we're in charge of how far we're willing to take it. There are engineers who are genuinely passionate about writing code and will happily do so outside of working hours, for free, with no intent for recognition or clout. And then there's me and the rest of average Joe's - sure our job has defined us, but it hasn't consumed us. Be careful about your career choices consuming you.

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3 lata temudiscuss

It's just aa convoluted. I work for Workday. Having to re-enter your data each and every time is part of the enterprise tenant isolation model. There is no information sharing between tenants, especially PII. The UX suffers because of data privacy.

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4 lata temudiscuss

Your story is close to home. I was part of a team that integrated our newly-acquired startup with a massive, complex and needlessly distributed enterprise system that burned me out.

Being forced to do things that absolutely did not make sense(CS wise) was what I found to be most exhausting. Having no other way than writing shitty code or copying functionality into our app led me to an eventual burnout. My whole career felt pointless as I was unable to apply any of my skills and expertise that I learned over all these years, because everything was designed in a complex way. Getting a single property into an internal API is not a trivial task and requires coordination from different teams as there are a plethora of processes in place. However I helped to build a monstrous integration layer and everything wrong with it is partly my doing. Hindsight is 20/20 and I now see there really was no other, better way to do it, which feels nice in a schadenfreude kind of way.

I sympathise with your point about not understanding what is expected of an average engineer nowadays. Should you take initiative and help manage things, are you allowed to simply write code and what should you expect from others were amongst my pain points. I certainly did not feel rewarded for going the extra mile, but somehow felt obliged because of my "senior" title.

I took therapy, worked on side projects and I'm now trying out a manager role. My responsibilities are pretty much the same, but I don't have to write code anymore. It feels empowering to close my laptop after my last Zoom meeting and not think about bugs, code, CI or merging tomorrow morning because it's release day tomorrow.

But hey, grass is always greener on the other side! I think taking therapy was one of my life's best decisions after being put through the ringer. Perhaps it will help you as well!

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5 lat temudiscuss

Video games. I work on a company issued MBP and my own daily driver is an M1 MBP. My PC runs Windows mainly because of video games. Yes, I know about Steam's efforts and Proton, but Proton lacks DXR. I paid top dollar for a gaming video card and I want to see those rays traced! On a serious note once Linux allows me to play AAA titles with the same level of fidelity as I can on Windows, I am switching over to Ubuntu.

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My team won a hackathon even though I had worked there for 3 weeks prior to the event. Why? We fixed all kinds of obscure and low priority bugs. I felt severe impostor syndrome afterwards, thinking I did not deserve it and that I contributed very little to success. But then I reflected back on the whole event and there was so much fun! Drones flying at 60mph, people talking about their hobbies, everyone comparing their smart watch reading the next morning, trying to quantize hangover. It was a three day event where I spent around 10 hours hacking away at a computer during the first day, some 5 hours during the second day and merely an hour during the last day.