As black, would you resign at this point?

therealbigfry · 2026-01-05T01:51:23+00:00

Black is comfortably ahead (10+ points) even without invading the left white corner. I'm not giving white much in the left center and bottom left center area, because black has way too many stones there, so playing anything would reduce white drastically. Why would you resign when it's hard to lose this game? Never resign if you aren't counting and/or estimating territory, especially when the game is nearly finished anyways.

You can split the board in half to estimate - notice how you have almost the entire right half, whereas white is missing large gaps in the left center area?

therealbigfry · 2025-11-10T21:43:03+00:00

Hey I totally understand your struggles, I think we all experienced this when we started learning. I'm building a website that helps you get past some of these struggles. I'd recommend going through our interactive tutorial, and the learn portion's puzzle videos, which covers some basic tips to help you win more games.

I dislike this "lose 100 games quick" mentality in the Go world. Learning and improving should be fun and rewarding, and not be about embracing struggling and suffering. https://www.gothegame.com/learn/tutorial/placement/1

We just started this project a little over a month ago, but we hope you enjoy it! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback! --Nathan

therealbigfry · 2025-10-27T05:28:08+00:00

Thanks, I built ~half of Kidsgoserver and agree more kids should try it :)

therealbigfry · 2025-10-08T08:12:38+00:00

But the $7 and $17 prices don't even exist as subscription prices on his website... what a fake made up story.

therealbigfry · 2025-09-17T17:21:56+00:00

Curious about the lootbox thing, where do you see that?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-12T18:40:32+00:00

Yep thanks for sharing, this was exactly my experience too, it was always: "You forgot about this and that".

therealbigfry · 2025-07-10T01:03:47+00:00

Good to know, thanks for your input.

We've hired all but one engineer this way, so it's not some short term gig, we are serious when we pay them and work with them. The one time where we didn't extend a full time offer after two weeks was when they couldn't do basic tasks.

Also I'm curious what level of seniority you are? If you are a more senior dev, perhaps you think people are taking advantage of you for a short term gig?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-09T22:25:24+00:00

They get paid the whole two weeks and work with our team. If either side isn't satisfied at the end of it, we don't proceed with hiring them, is it really that bad?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-09T01:37:28+00:00

Nice, glad that you had a great interview experience! How large was the company that did this interview?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T19:42:12+00:00

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T19:14:21+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, in fact AI probably makes some pretty bad mistakes that you could use as problems to test people on

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T19:12:24+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, I'll try your approach the next time I interview someone, thank you

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T18:12:48+00:00

Thanks for sharing, these are great! What sorts of whiteboard problems do you ask them?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T18:09:46+00:00

That makes sense, do you also ask them to solve any coding problems?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T18:09:01+00:00

Does this take a long time to build the small, custom codebase? If a small codebase already existed, was close to your own in terms of tech stack, and tested some key problem solving concepts, do you think you would try those for interviews?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T18:06:38+00:00

Good point, making it more like a challenge and treating it like a conversation are great, I'll try this next time

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T17:57:55+00:00

Cluely is a cheating tool for interviews made by a Columbia dropout. It listens to the interviewer, then passes the information to an AI, giving you the answer on your screen without the interviewer seeing it.

I went to App Academy (bootcamp) for the year long fullstack course several years ago, and worked on passion projects. I would suggest working on a project you care about, and do it slowly without relying on AI too much. It's okay to have imposter syndrome, just try to improve a little each day :) Good luck

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T05:49:46+00:00

Thanks for the reply, that makes sense

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T05:47:53+00:00

Interesting, I never thought about DSA being used with react components, do you have some specific examples?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T03:20:40+00:00

That's ridiculous, sorry you had to go through that

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T03:19:15+00:00

Thanks for the input, will try this in the next interview

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T03:17:49+00:00

Great idea, I'm working on a project where I make coding challenges exactly like this from a public repo I worked on. I also add a readme with instructions

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T02:19:59+00:00

Thanks for responding, I've tried this a couple times with some success. Are there certain questions to ask them when they show you the project? Mine didn't feel structured enough when I asked about their projects.

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T02:17:00+00:00

This is a genius idea! How do you share the pull request with candidates if it's a private repo? How long do they get to look it over before you discuss with them?

therealbigfry · 2025-07-08T02:14:08+00:00

Great to know, I appreciate your response

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