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null | Fylwind | null | And now you have two problems. | null | 0 | 1492390293 | False | 0 | dgcus34 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcny1n | null | 1494128283 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oxysoft | null | Small typo: "Mutli-syntax" instead of "Multi-syntax" | null | 0 | 1492390298 | False | 0 | dgcus8l | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t3_65pxc0 | null | 1494128285 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | falconfetus8 | null | Of course he is. Everyone knows COBOL is the best answer to every problem. | null | 0 | 1492390310 | False | 0 | dgcusjp | t3_65advv | null | null | t1_dgalztb | null | 1494128289 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | addmoreice | null | Software often only needs to solve 90% of the problem, the other 10% is almost never needed, and when it is, manual efforts can compensate for that last portion.
A debugger which can detect if source code will halt or not is impossible in principle as well as fact, but a tool which can catch 90% of halting issues *can... | null | 0 | 1492390361 | False | 0 | dgcutwo | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcuewa | null | 1494128308 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lorddimwit | null | Hah. Nope, I don't know you, but awesome. | null | 0 | 1492390364 | False | 0 | dgcutzo | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcuppi | null | 1494128309 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TexasJefferson | null | > You've essentially described AWT, which Swing took over from precisely because it was near impossible to get consistent behavior out of the native components.
And also how lots of real, commercially successful, and well-liked software works. | null | 0 | 1492390595 | False | 0 | dgcv07f | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgct7hu | null | 1494128391 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oxysoft | null | Straight off the bat, there's an absolutely massive lag when switching between notes, and it's on a ssd...
edit: Why would you put such a slow entrance to the glow animation when you hover over the editor buttons? A rule of thumb to follow not only in game development but also in software UX and design is that feedbac... | null | 0 | 1492390600 | 1492390968 | 0 | dgcv0c5 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t3_65pxc0 | null | 1494128393 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fedekun | null | So they are trying to rewriting by "changing the syntax"? That's not how it works. Of course if you just do that the result will be the same mess.
You have to take advantage of the language and use it's conventions. Most of the time that implies a full rewrite. The only thing you maybe could copy are the tests (if the... | null | 0 | 1492390601 | False | 0 | dgcv0ds | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494128394 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | d_wilson123 | null | Or he got rejected from all these tech places because he doesn't instinctively know Sets contain no dupes and he was brute forcing problems where better data structures exist. I ask a relatively easy almost what I consider FizzBuzzy question to warm candidates up and it is optimally solved using a Set but the vast maj... | null | 0 | 1492390613 | False | 0 | dgcv0qo | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcttcy | null | 1494128398 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | You can avoid it entirely by avoiding virtual functions. I guess for the very few places where they're really needed you could write you're own vtable. | null | 0 | 1492390628 | False | 0 | dgcv14d | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcpbcu | null | 1494128403 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | queenkid1 | null | You're saying I'm moving the goal posts, when you're the one only referring to one paper I was never even discussing. I'm discussing the article above, which connects two related concepts on totally different scales. I don't see how you can compare "a few pixels" to literally every single pixel. They aren't taking pict... | null | 0 | 1492390683 | False | 0 | dgcv2mq | t3_65n65i | null | null | t1_dgcrl20 | null | 1494128424 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | d_wilson123 | null | That Max Howell tweet is brought up constantly on this board and I always wonder if he got rejected because he's an asshole no one wanted to work with. The tweet comes off as extremely holier than thou because he wrote Homebrew and I wonder if he came off the same way to the people interviewing him. | null | 0 | 1492390710 | False | 0 | dgcv3ch | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcg7h9 | null | 1494128433 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | softwareguy74 | null | In my 20 Years as a programmer and having had a handful of different jobs, I've never been asked once about data structures. Although my jobs have been more internal LOB stuff as opposed to consumer facing stuff so that may be why. | null | 0 | 1492390715 | False | 0 | dgcv3hq | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbtuf5 | null | 1494128435 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hobbified | null | But is it *wiggity* wack? Our viewers want to know. | null | 0 | 1492390732 | False | 0 | dgcv3xw | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t3_65r5mq | null | 1494128441 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | geodel | null | The interesting thing about Slack is that assholes at that company have raised 500 million dollars to make turd of a flagship product [1].
1. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity | null | 0 | 1492390950 | False | 0 | dgcva14 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t3_65rme3 | null | 1494128522 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492391035 | False | 0 | dgcvcao | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcv14d | null | 1494128552 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dethb0y | null | It never fails to amaze me the tools programmers invent to *avoid doing actual programming at all costs*. Fancy documentation? Jesus, what's next, inline videos in the middle of code? | null | 0 | 1492391037 | False | 0 | dgcvcd0 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t3_65pxc0 | null | 1494128553 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | Its only sane if you want to clean up the whole tree all at once every time. I often preferred to keep the controls and indicators bound to the system into which they integrated. It seems strange that by default, their lifetime was determined by where they were placed in the layout instead of the lifetimes of the syste... | null | 0 | 1492391056 | False | 0 | dgcvcvl | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgch0tx | null | 1494128560 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492391077 | False | 0 | dgcvdgt | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbezay | null | 1494128567 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pelicans2 | null | It's called blocking the UI. You see; on the browser, JavaScript is a single threaded runtime. Which means everything that you do in JavaScript has to share time with the rendering of the webpage. If you do a loop from 1 to 2 billion and press a button that shows a messagebox. You can spam the button and nothing will h... | null | 0 | 1492391125 | 1492391477 | 0 | dgcves5 | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgbxz70 | null | 1494128585 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oxysoft | null | Lol, what the fuck is it even doing? | null | 0 | 1492391135 | False | 0 | dgcvf30 | t3_65ms6v | null | null | t1_dgbumrr | null | 1494128589 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | geodel | null | Because first X has to be rewritten in Rust. | null | 0 | 1492391136 | False | 0 | dgcvf4d | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494128590 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thedufer | null | The fact that their sample was so biased is a big problem. The thing that it really shows is that competition programming correlates more closely with being good at Google interviews than with job performance. Which doesn't seem that surprising, honestly. | null | 0 | 1492391331 | False | 0 | dgcvkkm | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbvgmw | null | 1494128662 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ObservationalHumor | null | Yeah and it's still in development which doesn't do a whole of a lot of good for anyone writing code today. It's nice that we've finally reached the point where the need for a portable bytecode and common format has been agreed upon, but it should have happened way before 2015. | null | 0 | 1492391382 | False | 0 | dgcvm0j | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgcqfdi | null | 1494128681 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | a_marklar | null | Very cool, I've been working on something similar (using the AST approach you mention) but not nearly as far along. I'm guessing the gifs you show are using the character level model? | null | 0 | 1492391568 | False | 0 | dgcvr1p | t3_65mwew | null | null | t3_65mwew | null | 1494128749 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | daerogami | null | I think you just reiterated his drawback. | null | 0 | 1492391581 | False | 0 | dgcvrfc | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcf72p | null | 1494128754 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | YM_Industries | null | I think querying someone else's AI would require more than a few thousand attempts, because they almost certainly won't give you the raw percentage data of the results. This means you can't tell if you're getting closer or not, it becomes completely brute force. | null | 0 | 1492391670 | False | 0 | dgcvtx8 | t3_65n65i | null | null | t1_dgcc52k | null | 1494128787 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | Using a system package manager to build software precludes reproducible builds. Much has already been written about this so I won't repeat it.
Google around for "CMake broken compatibility". This is a well known criticism.
Python isn't written in a slow language either, yet it's very slow. Not sure what your point is... | null | 0 | 1492391843 | False | 0 | dgcvyts | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgcbly4 | null | 1494128853 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | z3t0 | null | Thanks. Really what i would like to do is start a dialogue so we can talk about these things. For example you were aware of the poor state of implementation of web standards, this is something I had no idea of. | null | 0 | 1492391870 | False | 0 | dgcvzms | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dgcujok | null | 1494128863 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pelicans2 | null | I agree; users should not be getting data they didn't ask for. This increases load on the server for no reason, and floods user's memory with garbage. It can be solved by making the webpage forget the old information, but this would mean scrolling up would request more information from the server, causing even more str... | null | 0 | 1492391918 | False | 0 | dgcw11w | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgc955v | null | 1494128887 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | Couldn't you chop the Perl code into logical blocks (e.g. functions), and then translate whatever you can? You could probably do >90% of the code this way with minimal effort. | null | 0 | 1492391964 | False | 0 | dgcw2em | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcu6j8 | null | 1494128904 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TyirLoL | null | My favorite site by far | null | 0 | 1492391986 | False | 0 | dgcw30f | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t1_dgcq3u9 | null | 1494128912 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _cowabunga | null | Meh. Who cares. | null | 0 | 1492392022 | False | 0 | dgcw41t | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgcurrl | null | 1494128927 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | Business loves supply and demand, until they're on the demand side. | null | 0 | 1492392082 | False | 0 | dgcw5u5 | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgcs6ho | null | 1494128951 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | caramia3141 | null | I would go for a completely different workflow:
1. write unit tests for complete test coverage (which is a different sort of boring to what the author complained of). Not going to work for some of the older languages that arent really unit testable, of course :(
2. write or find a language converter
3. Fixing bugs cau... | null | 0 | 1492392083 | False | 0 | dgcw5un | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494128951 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Veedrac | null | It's a quip, but there's a reason it's popular: correlation does not imply causation.
One benign explanation, for example, could be that being good at programming competitions is positively, causally correlated generally, but that it is overweighted in hiring decisions. | null | 0 | 1492392086 | False | 0 | dgcw5y3 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgc0tm3 | null | 1494128952 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WishCow | null | How would you improve/implement an automated test suite for our platform? | null | 0 | 1492392119 | False | 0 | dgcw6wb | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcfpco | null | 1494128965 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bipedaljellyfish | null | And then you realize translator alone is not enough, you need a VM and recreate standard libraries. | null | 0 | 1492392166 | False | 0 | dgcw897 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcny1n | null | 1494128983 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | The other big problem is the aweful interface, I don't have much faith in Slashdot to create a better one. | null | 0 | 1492392220 | False | 0 | dgcw9uq | t3_65lqtc | null | null | t1_dgc09jp | null | 1494129004 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | I still think it should be possible to seamlessly translate one dynamically-typed language to another. The quality of the output won't necessarily be the absolute best, but if you're excluding architectural reworks then that's going to be an issue regardless.
Besides, you don't need to automate 100% of the conversion ... | null | 0 | 1492392239 | False | 0 | dgcwact | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494129010 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | EnaiSiaion | null | > I could only do this for a maximum of a few hours per day and then I had to stop because all I could see was a flurry of dollar signs, semicolons and curly braces.
<3 | null | 0 | 1492392288 | False | 0 | dgcwbqp | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494129029 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pm_plz_im_lonely | null | You're meant to continue the chain. | null | 0 | 1492392297 | False | 0 | dgcwc0m | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcueg0 | null | 1494129033 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | answerguru | null | Because C and C++ are really the only options for serious embedded programming. | null | 0 | 1492392383 | False | 0 | dgcwefj | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494129065 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pakoito | null | Optimizing for pragmatism and variety: C, Haskell, Clojure, C#, Prolog, Javascript. | null | 0 | 1492392400 | False | 0 | dgcwew9 | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcsgeo | null | 1494129071 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tunabee | null | Interesting, but it seems the key reason they weren't good on the job was that they were used to working quickly and getting the solutions to work. No need to worry about maintainability or elegance.
I've bookmarked a bunch of programming quizzes and katas to help me exercise that part of my brain in the hope that it ... | null | 0 | 1492392445 | False | 0 | dgcwg41 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbvgmw | null | 1494129088 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Of course, Communism predates Marx and not all Communists are Marxists. If you had ever read the Conquest of Bread, however, you would know that Kropotkin is explicitly a Communist. | null | 0 | 1492392466 | False | 0 | dgcwgp3 | t3_650dih | null | null | t1_dgctabr | null | 1494129096 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | joshu | null | Seriously, "why don't you just" almost always means "I haven't understood your problem but I am going to give you advice anyway" | null | 0 | 1492392564 | False | 0 | dgcwjhb | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcir7y | null | 1494129133 | 320 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pelicans2 | null | most webpages on the web are dynamically filled with JavaScript from data received using AJAX. Without this, only webpages using HTML/XML/CSS with forms for server requests/responses.
It's perfectly viable but you'd be missing vast majority of content on the web.
Basically it comes down to two reasons:
(1) servers ... | null | 0 | 1492392652 | False | 0 | dgcwlxa | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgbsvzq | null | 1494129164 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Midnightblues | null | All kidding aside this looks very nice. Reads very nicely, very little magic. Similar to Go's `net/http` package, which I love. | null | 0 | 1492392670 | False | 0 | dgcwme5 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494129171 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | c4seyj0nes | null | I believe that's the step 3 he talks about in the article.
"Converting code to idiomatic target language" | null | 0 | 1492392729 | False | 0 | dgcwo0q | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcv0ds | null | 1494129193 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | woztzy | null | *Complexity* isn't what allows you to write code in wildly different styles. Odersky didn't just say that it's simple, he compared the sizes of the grammars of different languages. (Maybe ["orthogonally-designed"](https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/4eezmd/academese_to_english_a_practical_tour_of_scalas/d235jxz/?co... | null | 0 | 1492392742 | 1492393132 | 0 | dgcwod3 | t3_64ui55 | null | null | t1_dgc3bdh | null | 1494129197 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | IrrevrentHoneyBadger | null | ****************
Code Log - 2017, 240th day.
The code below is only temporary. We had to put a hack in place to meet the production release code-cutoff. Next iteration we will go back and refactor.
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Code Log - 2017, 241st day
What have we done?
It appears all test cases were not covered. The hack... | null | 0 | 1492392786 | False | 0 | dgcwpka | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcvcd0 | null | 1494129214 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Derpscientist | null | The question sounds complicated but it is actually trivial. Just swap the references between left and right and recurse until you've hit the leaf nodes. Don't like recursion, do the same thing with a stack and a while loop. | null | 0 | 1492392877 | False | 0 | dgcws0c | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcv3ch | null | 1494129247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hero_of_ages | null | Lightweight? You're joking, right? | null | 0 | 1492392941 | False | 0 | dgcwtq7 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcauj4 | null | 1494129270 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SimonGray | null | You can usually find books that are meant for experienced programmers. I find that is even the case with new languages that have few books out. | null | 0 | 1492392973 | False | 0 | dgcwul5 | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcpiof | null | 1494129281 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dethb0y | null | haha indeed! | null | 0 | 1492393027 | False | 0 | dgcww27 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcwpka | null | 1494129301 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sensirgo | null | > then and only then do I pull out my magic math skills to shave off run times.
That's the problem, you call them magic and tricks and that's because when you need to use them you'll invent your own instead of using a very known one. If you'd use a known one it wouldn't be magic it would be something you can add a ... | null | 0 | 1492393100 | False | 0 | dgcwy0g | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcpqvp | null | 1494129327 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zaoldyeck | null | I'm also curious how you got this from my comment. Though it does kinda remind me of this time I was watching some gear outside of a homeless shelter for a couple days. I got into this conversation with a person smoking crack who took way too long to realize I wasn't fucking with them about a bald eagle flying directl... | null | 0 | 1492393143 | False | 0 | dgcwz5c | t3_65d47v | null | null | t1_dgcu3cg | null | 1494129342 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SimonGray | null | Did you even open the article? They address this right in the beginning. | null | 0 | 1492393179 | False | 0 | dgcx03h | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgctgxg | null | 1494129354 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | okmkz | null | > Electron
lol | null | 0 | 1492393234 | False | 0 | dgcx1iw | t3_65ms6v | null | null | t1_dgcvf30 | null | 1494129374 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | yogthos | null | Different languages encourage different patterns, and some languages are a lot more focused than others.
The point is that the language has many features and quirks. It combines FP and OO paradigms, and you will see a lot of code using patterns you're not familiar with in the wild. That's the reality of using a large ... | null | 0 | 1492393529 | False | 0 | dgcx9d0 | t3_64ui55 | null | null | t1_dgcwod3 | null | 1494129479 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | northrupthebandgeek | null | That's really better off as step one. It's much easier to start with clean/idiomatic code and make it messy than it is to start with messy/unidiomatic code and make it clean.
Otherwise, the best bet is gradual replacement (which is the approach taken by quite a few "port $foo to Rust" projects). Rewrite bits and pie... | null | 0 | 1492393577 | False | 0 | dgcxalg | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwo0q | null | 1494129497 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thedancingpanda | null | This is one of the reasons microarchitecture has become popular, in my opinion. The idea being, let's not aim to recreate this whole thing that is old and decrepit. Let's just replace the part that is annoying us right now with a tiny AWS script. It's way smaller impact and moves us forward.
And then you repeat. And k... | null | 0 | 1492393617 | False | 0 | dgcxbkw | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494129510 | 137 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zxeff | null | You could, but that isn't likely to help much. Perl is a pretty complex language and writing code to translate it would be far more troublesome than doing so manually, which is laborous but not difficult.
Not to mention it only deals with the syntatic translation, bugs would still be introduced and the generated cod... | null | 0 | 1492393642 | 1492393900 | 0 | dgcxc85 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcw2em | null | 1494129518 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | -NVLL- | null | Everything outside pure maths has a certain level of uncertainty. | null | 0 | 1492393680 | False | 0 | dgcxd6r | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcutwo | null | 1494129532 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Eckish | null | I see. | null | 0 | 1492393688 | False | 0 | dgcxde7 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwc0m | null | 1494129534 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | littlemetal | null | Not sure what DPE is, but if this is DPE style then... ugh. Its hard to recommend someone go read this, or share it widely.
* Intro blurbs are oddly stilted, and hard to read. This is when I know the issue already.
* Examples are broken up with too much text. could use inline comments
* Over-deep hierarchy makes ... | null | 0 | 1492393702 | False | 0 | dgcxdqq | t3_65m420 | null | null | t1_dgbx952 | null | 1494129539 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | c4seyj0nes | null | I would also take that approach. But it looks like goal of the authors project is to port as quickly as possible. | null | 0 | 1492393711 | False | 0 | dgcxdy4 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxalg | null | 1494129542 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | findar | null | It doesn't, but you can get past having a great resume by having the right keywords in a LinkedIn profile or having internal referrals. | null | 0 | 1492393727 | False | 0 | dgcxedp | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgct2ni | null | 1494129547 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Psyladine | null | > I never understood the need to trick people in interviews or ask trivia, that's not what they will be doing after they get hired.
It's to appear powerful and in control because you don't understand enough of the position's requirements or capacity for human empathy to read if they'd be a good fit for the organiza... | null | 0 | 1492393746 | False | 0 | dgcxevv | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcd3er | null | 1494129554 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Xanza | null | Nothing. Was completely idle as far as I could see. Disk usage was nominal at only ~5kb/s and Network usage was at 0kbps. | null | 0 | 1492393796 | False | 0 | dgcxg7w | t3_65ms6v | null | null | t1_dgcvf30 | null | 1494129572 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | northrupthebandgeek | null | It depends on the situation. Ruby is probably fine for something like turn-based strategy, especially if the number of concurrent users per server is kept low.
For anything realtime or with lots of concurrent users, the big shops tend to lean toward C++, Java, or Erlang. C# is probably okay here, too, and might make... | null | 0 | 1492393822 | False | 0 | dgcxgw7 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgct7xb | null | 1494129581 | 57 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | Expanding on that:
In a non-strict language, typing general recursion is easy: `('a -> 'a) -> 'a`, the type of the [Y combinator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed_point_combinators_in_lambda_calculus).
Now, let's say you want to restrict to [primitive recursion](https://en.wikipedia.or... | null | 0 | 1492393848 | 1492394605 | 0 | dgcxhkb | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcrd9y | null | 1494129589 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Psyladine | null | Protip for businesses: to really know if your so-called whiz programmers know their salt, call them for an unscheduled impromptu meeting, give them a marker and a whiteboard and 5 minutes to solve an arbitrary technical problem hinged on a flourish technique, or they will be terminated immediately.
The results may sur... | null | 0 | 1492393882 | False | 0 | dgcxiek | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcnz65 | null | 1494129601 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdpi | null | Java takes dynamic linking to a whole other level, with classes being loaded as needed, typically from .class files. I'm not familiar with how .NET assemblies work, so I can't comment on those, but here's my attempt at explaining Jigsaw modules.
There's a few problems with this: One is that it's really hard to figure ... | null | 0 | 1492393963 | False | 0 | dgcxkhs | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgcrdp7 | null | 1494129629 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CobraCabana | null | Or he lied.
It's just a little too perfect. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook all passed on him.
Only for him to excel in his current position. | null | 0 | 1492393974 | False | 0 | dgcxkrr | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcxedp | null | 1494129633 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | >If you understood it back then there is no reason you can't review it and understand it again.
That is exactly everyone's point. I certainly have the useful parts of the knowledge in my brain to derive or lookup or apply. I just don't have the more esoteric bits stored to on-the-spot implement on a whiteboard. Rev... | null | 0 | 1492394001 | False | 0 | dgcxlh4 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcbwyv | null | 1494129642 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | elCheirinho | null | Really cool, kafka is pretty new to me and I'm always interested in learning more about it. | null | 0 | 1492394011 | False | 0 | dgcxlqf | t3_65op47 | null | null | t3_65op47 | null | 1494129646 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | apachechief | null | ...what...? | null | 0 | 1492394164 | False | 0 | dgcxpn6 | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcxhkb | null | 1494129699 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | northrupthebandgeek | null | Only `perl` can parse Perl :) | null | 0 | 1492394168 | False | 0 | dgcxpqc | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpx1l | null | 1494129700 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tom_Cian | null | > What I'd mostly be looking at is:
>
> - How legible their writing is
Seriously?
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null | bro_can_u_even_carve | null | We're not talking about most webpages, we're talking about this specific one. And it works perfectly fine with JS fully disabled. | null | 0 | 1492394383 | False | 0 | dgcxv6x | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgcwlxa | null | 1494129774 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | I'll zoom out a bit. This is the kind of stuff you concern yourself with when you're designing a new programming language.
So let's say that you're designing a new programming language. Most languages have a keyword for recursion (F#, OCaml), or they just let you do recursion whenever, wherever (Java, C, ...).
But yo... | null | 0 | 1492394486 | 1492395856 | 0 | dgcxxur | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcxpn6 | null | 1494129810 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Kadmium | null | "How much for the Jazzmaster?"
"Two cartons of cigarettes." | null | 0 | 1492394531 | False | 0 | dgcxz1n | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgcceba | null | 1494129825 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sicp4lyfe | null | why you acting like we didnt have the same low effort joke idea. smh | null | 0 | 1492394536 | False | 0 | dgcxz7j | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgclfr4 | null | 1494129827 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | auriscope | null | Isn't every problem that you know the answer to trivial? | null | 0 | 1492394672 | False | 0 | dgcy2nm | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcws0c | null | 1494129874 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redwall_hp | null | You need to buy yourself a dictionary if you think the criticisms of Electron are "irrational." | null | 1 | 1492394699 | False | 0 | dgcy3dr | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcjnuh | null | 1494129883 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | geodel | null | > Spring team introduced a concept called Functional Web Framework
Huh, I thought in Java world folks like only Dysfunctional Web Frameworks. | null | 1 | 1492394759 | False | 0 | dgcy4xc | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494129904 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | --amadeus | null | Let's say we don't have the time to train new skills and we have to make this software. What are some alternatives? | null | 0 | 1492394818 | False | 0 | dgcy6fh | t3_65o8gy | null | null | t1_dgclapy | null | 1494129924 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | That doesn't sound so odd. If one allowed an interview there is no reason the others wouldn't. Something about how he presented himself pre-interview ticked all the boxes, but in interview he faltered by being consistent.
Lots of people fail these interviews but later attempts pass them. I am aware of this acutely bec... | null | 0 | 1492394830 | False | 0 | dgcy6qb | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcxkrr | null | 1494129928 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | davidk01 | null | Ya I did. Even the author is kinda incredulous about the title. That's always a good sign. | null | 0 | 1492394884 | False | 0 | dgcy84e | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcx03h | null | 1494129948 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | machinationofclay | null | JOIN US!!!
We have cookies | null | 0 | 1492394889 | False | 0 | dgcy88u | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcstce | null | 1494129949 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | argues_too_much | null | > out new employee(a vet of the industry but nothing that impressive in longevity) is with our lead trying to push a c# rewrite of our massive server because it's faster(he doesn't know Ruby...) .
Why was he hired? | null | 0 | 1492394895 | False | 0 | dgcy8es | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcq9ly | null | 1494129951 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | Well, are we taking it seriously? What actual purpose does it serve? | null | 0 | 1492395188 | False | 0 | dgcyfzr | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcrwat | null | 1494130053 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Psyladine | null | > What competitive programmers struggle with is working on boring, ~~unchallenging~~ problems.
| null | 0 | 1492395235 | False | 0 | dgcyh67 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbx1i2 | null | 1494130069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 71abf29 | null | Ok, I assumed this was just the usual "oh noes BDSM is icky" but teaching your kids that males in the house are to be pleasured by females is actually objectionable. If you are going to have kids around that sort of thing you need to make it clear that it is something the mother chose for herself, that many women *woul... | null | 0 | 1492395280 | False | 0 | dgcyiaf | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgawmg6 | null | 1494130083 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CobraCabana | null | You mean the resume?... Yes. I covered that in comment #1.
I'm not sure why you're so adamant on defending this highly suspicious story. Frankly, I don't care. All you're doing is wildly speculating on various scenarios that would make this so.
Well, except for the one scenario that I suggested, that he had a... | null | 0 | 1492395290 | False | 0 | dgcyik7 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcy6qb | null | 1494130087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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