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siamakfr | 3 years ago | on: Experimental project to automatically complete GitHub Issues with code from GPT4

Disclaimer: I saw a pre release demo. But this is pretty magical :)

siamakfr | 3 years ago | on: Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups

We used Spinach since early beta days and it was pretty helpful with running concise & effective morning standups.

siamakfr | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview

This was my process: built a sandbox/simplified version of the app and hosted on a separate repo. Told the candidate to either set up their laptop with the libraries installed (friction) or to come onsite an use one of out computers (not possible in remote any longer). Built a 2-3 hour onsite task plus a half-day take home extension that were features already in the production app. Did this for hiring iOS, Unity, React and Python devs and it worked pretty well for all these roles.

siamakfr | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview

At every company I've been part of the interview design process, I always insist on having practical tasks with real tools because how quickly someone can parse documentation and code context are not trivial aspects of the job. It does take a lot of time to set up sandbox projects however which a platform like this does away with. Looking forward to the day when no candidate sees Leetcode or HackerRank as part of a tech interview again.

siamakfr | 6 years ago | on: BioRender – Professional Science Figures

When academic teams collaborate on a paper or a poster, what do you think would be more useful- real-time WYSIWYG editor or "here's the file, make the changes you want and then let me know"? Github/Invision/Figma or file servers?

Having worked as a researcher, I can tell you it's the latter.

siamakfr | 7 years ago | on: Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners

I think they're referring to the marketing budget, which isn't accounted for in the development budget.

siamakfr | 7 years ago | on: Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

That's not entirely true. They try and imitate your bank's branding on the log in page and do not make any mention of Plaid. For example, when setting up Venmo, I thought I was logging into something my bank had created.

siamakfr | 7 years ago | on: Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

Is the gist of this company logging into a bank's web service using a user's credentials and scraping their account data and exposing that data via APIs to other developers?

I thought they actually integrated with the banks on the backend, but if this is all they do, I'm not comfortable using any product that snoops my bank info without any accountability.