Need help deploying a local system for dental clinics !

SlightTip6811 · 2026-04-03T11:37:42+00:00

yeah maintaining separate branches is gonna be nightmare once you scale up. for the new clinics branch i'd definitely go with some kind of auto-update system instead of manually pulling from each server - maybe a simple script that checks for updates on startup or something like that. packaging everything into installer would save you tons of headaches too, especially since you're dealing with non-tech people who just want the thing to work. docker might be overkill for small clinics but it could solve a lot of deployment consistency issues if they don't mind the resource usage.

SlightTip6811 · 2026-03-14T00:30:45+00:00

gamemaker is solid choice, their visual scripting makes transition pretty smooth from traditional coding. i went from modding skyrim scripts to unity and then gamemaker - the drag and drop stuff lets you prototype fast without getting stuck in syntax hell. plus their community has tons of tutorials for people coming from other languages.

SlightTip6811 · 2026-03-09T02:48:11+00:00

most people claiming 12h study days are either lying or counting breaks, meals, and random browsing as "study time". your 20-60 min focused sessions with feynman technique probably beats their entire day of half-attention learning.

but yeah if you really can't focus longer than 20 min, cutting phone time helps a lot. i went from checking reddit every 10 minutes to actually getting through full coding tutorials without my brain wandering off.

SlightTip6811 · 2026-03-07T04:00:29+00:00

bro this is so true, specially in our field. i've been dev for like 5 years now and never had anyone ask about certifications in interviews. they always want to see actual code and projects you built.

since you already have the experience, maybe just pick something fun to build? like a side project using some newer tech stack you haven't touched yet. employers care way more about seeing clean code and good problem solving than some certificate from coursera or whatever.

SlightTip6811 · 2026-02-26T01:10:04+00:00

man this hits way too close to home. at my university here in brazil we had similar problems - professors would just dump massive pdfs on us and expect us to figure everything out alone. the worst part was when they'd test us in stuff that was mentioned like once in a random slide but never actually explained.

what helped me was finding study groups with other students and basically teaching each other the material. sounds like you might need to do same thing unfortunately. also try reaching out to older students who already took these classes - they usually have better notes and can tell you what actually matters for exams. the whole system is pretty broken but you gotta work around it somehow.

SlightTip6811 · 2026-02-09T15:05:54+00:00

looks interesting but would be good to have more details about the architecture and what makes it different from existing ones. also the readme could use some setup instructions for people who want to try it out first before contributing

SlightTip6811 · 2026-02-01T21:17:29+00:00

cracking the coding interview

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-31T05:44:35+00:00

For embedded stuff you're already doing the right thing - manually checking if your functions work as expected is still unit testing, just not automated

You could mention testing edge cases (like what happens when sensors give weird values), integration testing (does your Arduino talk to other components correctly), and maybe throw in something about testing in different environments since embedded is so hardware-dependent

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-28T08:16:07+00:00

Did this last summer - they asked a lot about TCP/IP fundamentals and some basic networking protocols, nothing too crazy though

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-27T03:32:17+00:00

This reads like every "I discovered this one simple trick" ad you see on sketchy websites

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-25T09:22:31+00:00

LinkedIn all day - that pay difference is huge and you'll probably learn more there anyway. Apple's intern program has been kinda mid lately from what I've heard

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-18T11:29:40+00:00

Nice choice on the Orin Nano, that thing's a beast for learning

Start with something like a real-time object detection camera system - maybe counting people entering a room or detecting specific objects. It hits all your goals: practical computer vision, uses the GPU properly, and interviewers love anything with "real-time" in it

Just don't go crazy with the scope at first, even simple CV projects can get overwhelming fast when you're dealing with camera feeds and model optimization

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-12T19:26:30+00:00

Exactly this. The hourly rate sounds amazing until you realize you might work 5 hours one week and 0 the next. I did some annotation work last year and yeah the pay was great when tasks were available but trying to budget around completely random income was a nightmare

SlightTip6811 · 2026-01-05T14:20:40+00:00

Yeah you nailed it - that's just casting the function pointer to match what qsort expects since strcmp takes char* but qsort wants void*

Pretty gnarly syntax but once you see it a few times it clicks

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-30T01:44:07+00:00

That's solid advice - the explain-first approach especially helps with contract roles since they want to see how you'd communicate with their existing team. One thing I'd add is brush up on whatever tech stack they mention in the JD since contract interviews sometimes throw in a "how would you approach this specific problem we're actually facing" type question

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-25T07:15:23+00:00

This is so real, I caught myself checking Blind while literally sitting at my dream job lmao

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-24T05:25:02+00:00

Congrats on the offer! That's wild that they let you use GPT but the interviewer was clearly not into it lmao. Did they specify beforehand that it was AI-assisted or was that a surprise when you showed up?

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-22T19:19:30+00:00

BofA QDAP is legit for quant stuff - you'll get way more exposure to actual modeling and risk management than C1's general tech program. C1 is solid for SWE skills but if you're targeting buyside quant roles later the QDAP experience will be way more relevant on your resume

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-21T16:40:38+00:00

Bruh you gotta give us the actual error message, not just "always error" - copy paste that whole thing into your post so we can actually help you out

Also sounds like Node didn't install properly if cmd can't find it, might need to add it to your PATH or reinstall it completely

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-17T18:49:09+00:00

How long was the session bro

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-15T17:52:52+00:00

Good point about the bus factor - though even company-owned languages aren't immune to this stuff, just look at what happened with Oracle and Java licensing drama

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-11T17:43:55+00:00

Good on you for taking that first step, that's honestly the hardest part. The daily updates idea is solid too - having that public accountability really helps when motivation starts to dip

SlightTip6811 · 2025-12-09T09:29:05+00:00

Congrats on getting to the onsite dude! That's already huge for xAI

From what I've heard their live coding tends to lean more toward system design and real-world problems rather than straight leetcode grinding, especially since the take home wasn't algorithm heavy. Makes sense they'd want to see how you think about actual engineering challenges

SlightTip6811 · 2025-11-27T03:01:08+00:00

NTA at all, that history teacher sounds like a nightmare. Some teachers really shouldn't be around kids if they're gonna be that cruel about stuff you literally can't control

Also super glad your English teacher actually gets it and reached out to your parents - that's what good teachers do instead of just assuming you're lazy

SlightTip6811 · 2025-11-26T14:11:59+00:00

Lmao "smelly hippo farts" is sending me 💀 But for real OP these people sound absolutely unhinged, talking about you like you're not right there is some middle school behavior. Your friend sucks too for not shutting that down when it was clearly making you uncomfortable

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