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frugally-deep
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MIT License | MIT License |
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hackā for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.
A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.
Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[3], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[4], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[4] probably contributed to it a bit.
My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't to side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy; no one can take that away from you.
[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...
[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront
[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode
[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c
[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
frugally-deep
- Frugally-deep: Header-only library for using Keras (TensorFlow) models in C++
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
The interview for my current job first went mediocre, but by talking about frugally-deep (a side project of mine) I was able to excite my (now) employer. :-)
https://github.com/Dobiasd/frugally-deep
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Way to convert keras based model to C++.
Did you work through the FAQ here: https://github.com/Dobiasd/frugally-deep/blob/master/FAQ.md
- Handwritten digit recognition using CircuitPython, Raspberry Pi Pico, OV7670 and 120x160 TFT LCD. r/circuitpython - Handwritten digit recognition using CircuitPython, Raspberry Pi Pico, OV7670 and 120x160 TFT LCD.
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