Had the interview and it went pretty well, but did not get the job. This is a start-up. They have most of the backend done and are looking for someone to take over the front-end React and design and do it ASAP and that’s not really me. They expect to be hiring like 50 people relatively soon and I think I’ll be considered. The interview did go well. It’s not like a place I’d be dying to work at, doing something I really want to be doing anyway - though not something I think I’d hate and would refuse to do.
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What are your skillz? What do you do for work? (like languages, technologies, whatever - I know something in software)
Damn, I had to log into my 15" MBP today to get a book Apple wouldn’t let me download to my desktop and I was really surprised how tiny the screen felt after using a 17" System76 laptop for a while. I didn’t expect that it would seem so tiny so fast…
I know this isn’t a programming question, but still seems like the best place to ask this.
I’ve got a completely wiped computer that by all accounts looks more powerful than the computer I’m currently using. What it the best way to go about restoring it? Windows 10 by USB drive?
An empty hard drive, no OS? Something like this should get you Windows 10 on it: Install Windows from a Flash Drive | Microsoft Learn
But something like this would get you linux, in case you wanted to try on this or the machine you’re replacing:Live Disk Creation - System76 Support
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Thanks
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Hello my friends. This might not be the right place, but I couldn’t think where else to post. I was using italki (online platform to hire language teachers for lessons via Skype) and came across this guy’s profile and noticed the star before his name in the title. I’m assuming he’s not a premium teacher or anything of the sort b/c I’ve never seen it before and I think it’s just some type of text character. Does anyone here know how he was able to add that in his text? My girlfriend is starting to teach Spanish on italki as well and I was thinking maybe she could add it to her name to stand out, as it’s been a bit difficult to attract new students when you’re just starting up.
Here you can see the star in question:
Thanks! I think that’s all I needed.
Yes, it’s just a part of his name text.
I’ve got a small gig to create an iOS app prototype. It needs to be able to manipulate and save photos and videos and talk to an API back end for some info and download some small bits of content. It’s only 3 screens for now and it sounds like they don’t want to bother with user signup for the POC.
Questions:
- Should I just go with react native since I’m pretty familiar with react?
- Or maybe just go straight old-school objective C since it’s only 3 screens for now?
- I assume you can still do that with xcode and the process hasn’t changed dramatically since I last did iOS apps over 10 years ago?
I’m not super concerned with making less work when this goes from POC to MVP as that will only happen if they can get some investors to sign on, and we all know how much of a long shot that is.
Since it is in effect a prototype I’d suggest doing it in whatever you’re most comfortable with. If it takes off there will be resources to do it “right” for whatever that means…
Yeah for sure. I’ve never done react native but I’m ok with react. Maybe that makes the most sense then.
I was going to suggest learning Swift for it, but I couldn’t find a ::troll:: emoji… 
Anyone have any idea what would be a good approach to lay a sound file over a video (or over a photo to create a new video of a photo with sound) within an iOS app? I assume there’s some kind of 3rd party package out there I can find.
Follow up: Anyone have heavy-duty mobile app experience - particularly media manipulation and the UI for it and want a side gig?
They want to do something kind of like a tik tok or Animoto (but much much simpler at first). But playing around with it I’ve realized this aint 2008 anymore and I need an app expert.
If anyone is super experienced in these kinds of mobile apps (media manipulation, slick UI) and wants a side gig with me involved on a limited basis as a PM/product person/dev, or I’ll just hand you over to them if you want to go that route - let me know.
Otherwise I’ll probably just tell them I can’t do the job. I could probably muddle through a really rough POC. But I don’t see how that’s really going to impress potential investors any more than just a powerpoint with storyboards. Nothing needs to be proven, it’s just hard.
lol I just got fucked in a brand new way to me. I’m working on moving some state (JSON object) from in memory normal old JSON to redis so that its not all tied to a single nodejs core. One of the things on this object is an instance of a class that somebody else made/PRed that is done in the good old OO way of inheritance etc.
Welll to get things into and out of redis I need to stringify and parse it. Guess what happens to those inherited methods?
Lol inheritance. GTFO w/that shit in JS.
Sounds like they are just gonna burn/lose money one way or another.
Imagining a “God is my copilot” T-shirt that says “Object is my prototype”
Inheritance is poison.
Composition is enlightenment.
Unless I’ve missed it, I don’t think I’ve seen a lot of people post about the machine learning domain in here, but likely some of you are interested anyway. Today, a startup I’ve cofounded is launching the beta version of a machine learning lifecycle / MLOPS platform: cloud.cubonacci.com
It’s free and suitable for personal / light-commercial use. It’s explicitly in beta, so there still be some technical of usability issues. We are looking for product feedback from a broad range of users, so if anyone is interested in using it and willing to provide feedback, it would be very welcome!
For getting up to speed, here is a getting started guide: docs.cubonacci.com/getting-started
Technical setup: the backend is typescript for the user interface, and kubernetes for managing the ML workloads, as that workload is extremely dynamic by its nature. The frontend is made with React.
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