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iansinnott
·8 months ago·discuss
Based on my recent job search: Don't focus on grinding leetcode, it's not worth your time unless you're applying to Meta/Google/MSFT etc.

- give yourself a concrete algorithm practice goal, such as "get through Blind 75" (it's a list of 75 questions you can find online).

- practice using data structures and also implementing whatever your language doesn't provide

For context, I just spent most of the last two months doing a job search in the Bay Area. Did final round interviews at several companies ranging in size from a few people to a few thousand.

I encountered exactly 1 (one!) direct leetcode problem during my interviews.
iansinnott
·10 months ago·discuss
Hopefully this will not affect other browser that are downstream of Chromium.
iansinnott
·10 months ago·discuss
Likely depends on whether or not its opt-in. If Gemini only gets page content when you ask it to then that's fine.

Of course, it should also be possible to completely disable Gemini so as to avoid accidentally sending it private browsing content.
iansinnott
·10 months ago·discuss
Indeed! also as a test runner/lib if you're not doing browser automation. bun definitely has benefits even if not used as a runtime.
iansinnott
·10 months ago·discuss
The author's wishlist for an Obsidian homepage could be done with a custom plugin. That's the beauty of Obsidian, you don't have to wait, you can extend the software yourself.

The LLMs are quite good at writing one-off Obsidian plugins, in my experience.
iansinnott
·10 months ago·discuss
The English/Mandarin section was VERY impressive. The accents of both the woman speaking English and the man speaking Chinese were spot on. Both sound very convincingly like they are speaking a second language, which anyone here can hear from the Chinese woman speaking English voice. I'd like to add that the foreigner speaking Chinese was also spot on.
iansinnott
·last year·discuss
Have been using Instant for a few side projects recently and it has been a phenomenal experience. 10/10, would build with it again. I suspect this is also at least partially true of client-server sync engines in general.