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null | SingingLemon | null | On a similar note, there was a puzzle game linked here a few month ago which taught race conditions. A snippet of code was shown and you had to figure out what part had a race condition. Does anyone remember the site? | null | 0 | 1492395310 | False | 0 | dgcyj2h | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t3_65oh83 | null | 1494130094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | okmkz | null | No, that's different | null | 0 | 1492395318 | False | 0 | dgcyj9k | t3_65n65i | null | null | t1_dgctakc | null | 1494130096 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Die-Nacht | null | The shed must be blue! | null | 0 | 1492395318 | False | 0 | dgcyja9 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwjhb | null | 1494130096 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coderman9 | null | Semi relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/793/ | null | 0 | 1492395362 | False | 0 | dgcykfi | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwjhb | null | 1494130112 | 184 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redditpentester | null | How would you even know unless you check for yourself? | null | 0 | 1492395471 | False | 0 | dgcynbz | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcyfzr | null | 1494130152 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | You discounted [this guys](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65njzp/500_data_structures_and_algorithms_interview/dgc1rf9/) reply and ignored his point. Just above. You're the one speaking with apparent disregard for experience.
Also "When I worked in a Big N company". The pay is good and it made you feel '... | null | 0 | 1492395474 | False | 0 | dgcyne9 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgc73pj | null | 1494130153 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | call_me_arosa | null | Ok, I'm sold | null | 0 | 1492395501 | False | 0 | dgcyo2h | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcy88u | null | 1494130161 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | port53 | null | Someone (not OP here) must have been impressed with his past history and the skills he brings, and may even have hired him to shake things up in a way OP (and his coworkers) won't like.
Sometimes it's just good to shake things up. | null | 0 | 1492395529 | False | 0 | dgcyori | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcy8es | null | 1494130170 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | No need to bash web developers. If they didn't do their job, you wouldn't have even been able to post your snarky comment. Reddit is a website^[citation ^needed] and it had to be made with the help of web developers. | null | 1 | 1492395581 | False | 0 | dgcyq35 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgctnul | null | 1494130189 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BeyondTheModel | null | I know you have a really nice shed, but why don't you rebuild it for the modularity of a barn? | null | 0 | 1492395634 | False | 0 | dgcyrgs | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcyja9 | null | 1494130208 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | myringotomy | null | I'll leave with this.
Grow up. This is a place for adults. Grow a thicker skin and stop being offended by every slight thing.
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null | smackson | null | In the case of my Dad, it could also be "I understand all the details pretty well but I have a preference so I'll just stick 'just' in front of my suggestion, to make it sound like the better one." | null | 0 | 1492395701 | False | 0 | dgcyt7l | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwjhb | null | 1494130231 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | angryrancor | null | Rofl. You obviously hate me at this point, so this convo is over.
I think your experience of "adversarial and stressful" is just your own experience. Mine is not that.
You're actually also quite wrong about my work history; the high number of jobs is **because I turned to my successful consulting business multiple t... | null | 0 | 1492395779 | False | 0 | dgcyv90 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcx64l | null | 1494130258 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ragsoflight | null | It's worth pointing out that the combine is a notoriously bad predictor of how a prospect will perform in the NFL. It's not a stretch to posit the same thing about technical interviews that stress rote memorization and minutia. | null | 0 | 1492395796 | False | 0 | dgcyvp1 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcjory | null | 1494130264 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | apachechief | null | Yeah I just don't get it because I don't know what syntax you're using and why you're even mentioning this...?
This is what you replied to:
> *The fuel idea is pretty cool. It reminds me of some of the tricks used for proving things about non-total languages in Coq.*
Just seems like we're going off into space... | null | 0 | 1492395822 | False | 0 | dgcywe6 | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcxxur | null | 1494130273 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | myringotomy | null | Wait, you expect on /r/programming? | null | 0 | 1492395829 | False | 0 | dgcywk0 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcx03h | null | 1494130276 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | It really could be part of it. Breeding competition and fear of job security benefits companies in other sectors, why not in coding? | null | 0 | 1492395878 | False | 0 | dgcyxtc | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcn6ob | null | 1494130293 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xymor | null | I'm curious how small can a JVM process be?
Compared to go, you can build a service that fetches a record in a database and renders a json with 5-8mb of ram. How much can the JVM scale down?
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null | asmodeanreborn | null | > Otherwise, the best bet is gradual replacement (which is the approach taken by quite a few "port $foo to Rust" projects). Rewrite bits and pieces in the new language and connect them to existing bits in the old language. Eventually, you'll have a total conversion; it'll take longer (and add more dependencies to th... | null | 0 | 1492396076 | False | 0 | dgcz2yp | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxalg | null | 1494130361 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rdnetto | null | * OOP - C#, Java, C++
* FP - Haskell, Lisp
* imperative - C, Python
* declarative - SQL, Prolog
But all this really demonstrates is that paradigms are an extremely course method for grouping languages, especially when most modern languages are multi-paradigm.
A more useful approach would be considering the conceptual... | null | 0 | 1492396119 | False | 0 | dgcz42m | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcsgeo | null | 1494130377 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jlash0 | null | I think my resume was fairly solid. I work on my own side projects and had about 2 years of work experience from paid internships, I had gone with my school to programming competitions (got 3rd place at one and I figured it showed that I was passionate), also I had entered programming contests (a few weekend hackathons... | null | 0 | 1492396136 | False | 0 | dgcz4i9 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcr6b8 | null | 1494130381 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | c_topherl | null | A lot of the top tech companies go with the attitude that they'd rather accidentally not hire someone who's good enough, than accidentally hire someone who isn't. | null | 0 | 1492396146 | False | 0 | dgcz4rj | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcg7h9 | null | 1494130386 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sunzoo | null | I expect you to be able to talk logically and coherently about how you are attempting to solve a trivial problem. | null | 0 | 1492396236 | False | 0 | dgcz715 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcoei6 | null | 1494130415 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | > Manually converting code from one format to another is the most boring, draining and soul-crushing work you can imagine.
It's not that bad. I've converted many programs from one language to another. For example, in the 1980s I converted the FutureNet DASH schematic editor from 16 bit x86 assembler to C (so it cou... | null | 0 | 1492396266 | False | 0 | dgcz7t4 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494130426 | 72 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Might-be-crazy | null | > I think the real contention here is when people suggest businesses have some moral imperative to do the less profitable thing in order to adhere to their version of "fairness".
Precisely. People don't always seem to understand that banks, corporations, really most/all institutions seek to operate objectively (i.... | null | 0 | 1492396292 | False | 0 | dgcz8gu | t3_65d47v | null | null | t1_dgao5dn | null | 1494130435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | Sorry, I was being unclear. I do not know what actual purpose this website serves. It appears to be just a bit of fun at best? I would not advise anyone to seriously use this to pass interviews.
I did have a click through a few and they seemed mostly fine, if quite incomplete. | null | 0 | 1492396304 | False | 0 | dgcz8re | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcynbz | null | 1494130440 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TSPhoenix | null | Yep, and if this isn't true that is when you start considering a rewrite.
I constantly see that early 2000s article about how bad rewrites are but people never address sometimes code is written by people who don't really know how to code, which is becoming more and more common these days. | null | 0 | 1492396339 | False | 0 | dgcz9mv | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpe6l | null | 1494130451 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492396407 | False | 0 | dgczbe5 | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgasfp7 | null | 1494130474 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | heartles | null | Of course they did. And don't call them Shirley. | null | 0 | 1492396514 | False | 0 | dgcze64 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgcppb9 | null | 1494130512 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DarkLordAzrael | null | Qt solves a problem in a way that is easy to use and works well. There really isn't a better toolkit for cross-platform development. What exactly is archaic about Qt? | null | 0 | 1492396531 | False | 0 | dgczelu | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbxcn0 | null | 1494130517 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | elCheirinho | null | I know it's really mainstream and some people here hate it but code academy is what I always recommend to friends just trying to start off more casually.
It's not necessarily puzzles, but they have you finish off lines of codes to achieve certain objectives, getting more and more complex as you go. | null | 0 | 1492396544 | False | 0 | dgczey3 | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t3_65oh83 | null | 1494130522 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lionhart280 | null | I disagree.
When you have hundreds of applications, you have room to pick.
Someone who is clean and organized at one thing will probably be clean and organized in many other aspects to their life.
When I see someone struggle with something basic like trying to draw a model diagram I expect other aspects of their wor... | null | 0 | 1492396600 | False | 0 | dgczgbm | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcrpsk | null | 1494130540 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jlash0 | null | Sorry, I don't remember the exact question but I think it was finding the duplicates between 2 sets or something along those lines. | null | 0 | 1492396655 | False | 0 | dgczhp1 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcp8pv | null | 1494130558 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jlash0 | null | Sorry, I don't remember the exact question but I think it was finding the duplicates between 2 sets or something along those lines. | null | 0 | 1492396662 | False | 0 | dgczhul | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcqoby | null | 1494130560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Derpscientist | null | This one should actually be easy if you don't know the answer. | null | 0 | 1492396667 | False | 0 | dgczhyz | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcy2nm | null | 1494130562 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | I'm not trying to piss you off, man. I just casually read the comment chain and on the face of it it seems fine. His story is internally consistent.
I've been talking to people recently who passed these interviews and their stories match up with his except they kept on trying the application process. People choke on t... | null | 0 | 1492396700 | False | 0 | dgczir6 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcyik7 | null | 1494130572 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Paradox | null | ruby to c#?
Seems like going from a nice little japanese compact to a F350. Im sorry for you :( | null | 1 | 1492396702 | False | 0 | dgczitm | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcq9ly | null | 1494130574 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Lepidostrix | null | Useless sociologists? You mean the people who fucking study this shit, right? Who do you think is qualified to inform our beliefs if not them?
Seriously, answer me. Where do you go to inform yourself? Do you pull your beliefs straight out of your ass?
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null | Paradox | null | Could just be starting games, storing scores and match data, and handling leaderboards. A lot of games in the 360 era worked like that, where the central server just handled matching, scores, accounts, and such. | null | 0 | 1492396765 | False | 0 | dgczkdz | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxgw7 | null | 1494130594 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gooeyblob | null | Nicely explained! This is likely pretty accurate if refreshing immediately brings up your results. | null | 0 | 1492396831 | False | 0 | dgczm15 | t3_656z8t | null | null | t1_dga41oi | null | 1494130617 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lionhart280 | null | No, basic logic is not what I'm talking about, don't make assumptions.
I'm talking about tricks that might be specific to the language, and doing tricks with bitwise operations and low level operations.
Basically, generally speaking these fancy pieces of code sure do shave down on run times, but they also tend to obf... | null | 0 | 1492396840 | False | 0 | dgczm9b | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcwy0g | null | 1494130620 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lampshadish2 | null | I like this. [Oblique Strategies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies) for programmers. | null | 0 | 1492396868 | False | 0 | dgczn0a | t3_65pdx1 | null | null | t3_65pdx1 | null | 1494130629 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mjd5139 | null | Those zealots gave up way too much damage by moving towards the dragoons and then backing away without actually doing any damage. | null | 0 | 1492396895 | False | 0 | dgcznpy | t3_65pgh7 | null | null | t3_65pgh7 | null | 1494130638 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MdxBhmt | null | > (I've got professional experience in an ML lab, does that make me an authority? I don't think so),
I would say it does, this is greater experience on the field than most of the already select audience. This doesn't mean you are right by default and that the reader has to discard his critical rationale. | null | 0 | 1492396901 | False | 0 | dgcznvs | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgb04bi | null | 1494130641 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bro_can_u_even_carve | null | ... so, the intersection of the sets, then?
That's not really what I'd call a difficult question. | null | 0 | 1492396941 | False | 0 | dgczozg | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgczhul | null | 1494130656 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | anarcap | null | People are doint it with rust. It is a thing now. | null | 1 | 1492397051 | False | 0 | dgczrxk | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494130696 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | voidref | null | Yeah that part makes no sense if the author is trying to slim it down. Just drop a webview into a window and call it a day.
Here's an example I did for Inbox: https://github.com/voidref/Inbox-SSB
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null | CobraCabana | null | And my story of him having a great resume is the one that seems unreasonable?
Whatever. Have a nice day. | null | 0 | 1492397187 | False | 0 | dgczvln | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgczir6 | null | 1494130745 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sultry_somnambulist | null | >battling with regexes is fun
who are you, the robot devil? | null | 0 | 1492397332 | False | 0 | dgczzj0 | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t1_dgcu5rp | null | 1494130800 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kankyo | null | Soduku? Really? | null | 0 | 1492397335 | False | 0 | dgczzln | t3_65knzb | null | null | t1_dgb7yo9 | null | 1494130801 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kankyo | null | Citation needed. | null | 0 | 1492397363 | False | 0 | dgd00ba | t3_65knzb | null | null | t1_dgb6zpi | null | 1494130811 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CobraCabana | null | Where do you think you went wrong in the interviews? | null | 0 | 1492397437 | False | 0 | dgd0275 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcz4i9 | null | 1494130836 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thosethings2 | null | > I believe these interviews are supposed to gauge a person's ability to think out loud
Who the hell writes code out loud??? | null | 0 | 1492397473 | False | 0 | dgd0323 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcajc1 | null | 1494130848 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | joequin | null | Vertx feels much more like a micro framework. It's the nice part of JavaScript/express with java's better performance, multithreading, better libraries, and static typing. It feels light weight and *non-magical*. Spring has its place, but if you don't need transactions, then I find vertx to be much nicer for rest servi... | null | 0 | 1492397639 | 1492397824 | 0 | dgd07af | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494130905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LeCrushinator | null | Sounds good to me, none of that requires memorization, rather it involves skill. | null | 0 | 1492397646 | False | 0 | dgd07gj | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcz715 | null | 1494130907 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | wavefunctionp | null | *guilty cough*
I should work on that. :P | null | 0 | 1492397853 | False | 0 | dgd0co4 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcykfi | null | 1494130978 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jlash0 | 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.
If you're serious, this is absurd on so many levels.
1. You assume every place I interviewed and was rejected from asked questions where... | null | 0 | 1492397900 | False | 0 | dgd0dxs | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcv0qo | null | 1494130994 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lorddimwit | null | Do you make it clear that the target language/library has a set data type? If not, checking a list for duplicates is easier to explain than telling you how to implement a set (which ultimately involves checking for duplicates somehow, depending on what's being stored...) | null | 0 | 1492397909 | False | 0 | dgd0e62 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcv0qo | null | 1494130997 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | jlash0 | null | There was definitely something more than that, but it was along those lines. | null | 0 | 1492398064 | False | 0 | dgd0i5q | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgczozg | null | 1494131051 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Daniel15 | null | My previous job was at a company that used a Microsoft tech stack. SQL Server and ASP.NET with C#, along with some legacy Classic ASP with VBScript. The newer C# code was quite good, however one of their legacy web apps was pretty old and unmaintanable, and needed to be rewritten.
Someone had the wonderful idea of wr... | null | 0 | 1492398127 | False | 0 | dgd0jrn | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcq9ly | null | 1494131072 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | angryrancor | null | No, you obviously hate me because you used character attacks instead of reason.
There is no more than that answer I already gave. They should ask you to do the actual job you will be performing, if hired. It really is that simple.
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null | trrSA | null | Chill out. I just said I casually read the comment chain. I replied to you saying 'Or hes lying' and not higher up in the chain because that was the bit I was replying to. I really don't understand where the confusion came into this. | null | 0 | 1492398213 | False | 0 | dgd0lzo | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgczvln | null | 1494131102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jimmpony | null | It's more like switching from a clown car to a practical car. It's going from a hard to maintain scripting language with too much implicit "magic" everywhere in its popular frameworks to a language that's orders of magnitude more IDE-friendly (much more convenient debugging, perfect renaming and other features allowed ... | null | 0 | 1492398268 | 1492399116 | 0 | dgd0ndz | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgczitm | null | 1494131121 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aafinx | null | 1. Design a parking garage/lot where you can park cars.
2. Tell me about it. | null | 0 | 1492398316 | False | 0 | dgd0ojo | t3_65nwf5 | null | null | t1_dgc9b2g | null | 1494131136 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | srs1978 | null | First time I rewrote a Cobol green screen application, I found out that there were "exploits" galore that the users had gotten into using. We fought uphill, on a mountain, and in -70F below to actually STAY on the new platform.
Thankfully it really WAS the correct decision. ObjectCobol hasn't taken over the world an... | null | 0 | 1492398374 | False | 0 | dgd0q0d | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgct8jh | null | 1494131156 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | virtyx | null | How is this any better than Spring Roo or Spring Boot or the other seemingly dozens of attempts to make Spring not shitty? Even if it works, at some level you're going to have to get familiar with the Spring legacy cruft if you expect to be employable, or probably even just to do anything advanced. | null | 0 | 1492398396 | False | 0 | dgd0ql4 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494131163 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | naveedx983 | null | I'm just returning to a company where I was one of those original programmers who understood the industry very well. This is so much more fun than what I was at. It makes a world of a difference when making technical decisions. | null | 0 | 1492398521 | False | 0 | dgd0tm3 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpbr0 | null | 1494131203 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Reddit1990 | null | *makes an elaborate painting*
"Hey these acrylics are better you should repaint it." | null | 0 | 1492398678 | False | 0 | dgd0xik | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494131258 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CobraCabana | null | Holy shit dude. Just let it go. | null | 0 | 1492398714 | False | 0 | dgd0yel | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd0lzo | null | 1494131270 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vkgfx | null | People are realizing that they'd rather use a presentation stack (HTML/CSS/JS) that has had far more dev hours dedicated to making it bearable than almost all of the native alternatives. And combined with the portability you gain from operating at an abstraction layer above language or platform, it has a lot going for ... | null | 0 | 1492398729 | 1492398962 | 0 | dgd0ys2 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgclpq3 | null | 1494131274 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | That was my thoughts. I may have missed the bit at the top that said 'Here is some general learning techniques where we use *learning a language* as an example of their application'.
Very odd. | null | 0 | 1492398745 | False | 0 | dgd0z6d | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcj3o8 | null | 1494131280 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dudebomb | null | Shocked that [exercism.io](http://exercism.io/) wasn't included | null | 0 | 1492399110 | False | 0 | dgd186o | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t3_65oh83 | null | 1494131400 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jephthai | null | > who don't really know how to code, which is becoming more and more common these days.
When the metric for determining whether someone "knows how to code" is based on fads, often the people who rewrite it actually know *less* than the people they accuse of doing it wrong the first time. | null | 0 | 1492399305 | False | 0 | dgd1d6h | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz9mv | null | 1494131466 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | joequin | null | Would spring be a micro framework by that definition? | null | 0 | 1492399349 | False | 0 | dgd1ebg | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcuru7 | null | 1494131482 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | spook327 | null | The best response to that question is just to repeat it back at the asker. If *you* think it needs to be done, *you* write the fucking code. | null | 0 | 1492399457 | False | 0 | dgd1gyf | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494131517 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jlash0 | null | I think I had the right approach, I'd take a moment to gather any additional requirements and clarify on everything. I'd think things over, then once I had a good path to get started and away I went, explaining my thought process as I went. A few minute later I'd get stuck. I'd think things over again, the phone interv... | null | 0 | 1492399466 | False | 0 | dgd1h6p | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd0275 | null | 1494131520 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ace_To_Ace | null | Forget these puzzle code articles; they are a total waste of time. Programming skills? Really? With respect to what? Do you know how many languages, technologies, libraries, frameworks, and platforms exist today?
Here's some advice: choose a skillset and practice it with the tools that you would use in the profession ... | null | 0 | 1492399557 | 1492401710 | 0 | dgd1jfc | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t3_65oh83 | null | 1494131550 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irish_throwaway_1 | null | Ding, ding. Hence it being really easy to be 10x. But I think Industry7 did an effective job at illustrating the broader point. | null | 0 | 1492399575 | False | 0 | dgd1juv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynys5 | null | 1494131556 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sensirgo | null | Well...assumptions is all I can do when reading a comment and we're not talking about the same things. The algorithms I'm talking about are not basic logic and are not language specific. The most known ones you use them everyday but they are abstracted from you, like array.sort or array.sufffle but because you don't ne... | null | 0 | 1492399626 | False | 0 | dgd1l4j | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgczm9b | null | 1494131573 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | biggestnerd | null | Yeah it seems like most of these whiteboard interviews are more about memorizing solutions than actually knowing what you're doing | null | 0 | 1492399717 | False | 0 | dgd1nd9 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbu2a9 | null | 1494131603 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jnordwick | null | Spring still doesn't fit the definition. | null | 0 | 1492399751 | False | 0 | dgd1o9e | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcuru7 | null | 1494131615 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | throwawayco111 | null | Man. Java is such a joke. | null | 0 | 1492399751 | False | 0 | dgd1o9s | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgcxkhs | null | 1494131615 | -64 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492399806 | False | 0 | dgd1pn4 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd0ndz | null | 1494131634 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | joequin | null | Not nearly so well. Go can scale down so much better because it uses aggregate types and can easily store and operate on utf8 and ASCII strings. Java can't use aggregate types or store utf8 or ASCII strings without manually writing functions around byte arrays. And that's just not reasonable the vast majority of times... | null | 0 | 1492399846 | 1492471419 | 0 | dgd1qnz | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcyzk5 | null | 1494131647 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | > The original programmers actually worked in this industry and understood the problem and requirements. You don't.
I'm going to risk some karma and play Devil's advocate for a minute.
The original programmers that worked in the industry that understood the problems and requirements will one day either die or ret... | null | 0 | 1492399897 | False | 0 | dgd1rwp | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpbr0 | null | 1494131663 | 117 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | turkish_gold | null | > Even C# is questionable.
AFAIK, Java is a popular language for coding video game servers, and C# is in the same realm of performance. | null | 0 | 1492399924 | False | 0 | dgd1sjr | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgct7xb | null | 1494131672 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lionhart280 | null | If I'm working on a project and someone started remaking a sort algorithm from scratch I'd assume it was a joke.
What is it with people and reinventing the wheel?
Unless your project is like, some kind of low level assembly handled deepthink program that utilizes the gpu or some shit, don't do stuff like that.
Some ... | null | 0 | 1492400126 | False | 0 | dgd1xbu | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd1l4j | null | 1494131737 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CobraCabana | null | I'm not sure if you're familiar with [toasmasters](http://www.toastmasters.org/). It's really more for public speaking, but I understand it's great for being overall more confident in public situations. It could translate well to interviews. I've see a lot of interviews go downhill because of nervousness.
I know ... | null | 0 | 1492400129 | False | 0 | dgd1xe6 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd1h6p | null | 1494131738 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ninetailedoctopus | null | Ahhh, the joys of GORILLAS.BAS and mode 13h. | null | 0 | 1492400256 | False | 0 | dgd20iv | t3_65ebrl | null | null | t1_dgaihrm | null | 1494131780 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BLAHFUK | null | These interviews are a skill, just takes some practice. I almost always start by describing the naive approach to the problem abstractly (i.e., how I'd solve it without code), and then write out the code and improve it later. It might be O(n^n), who cares.
This does a few things:
1) Shows I can actually code *somet... | null | 0 | 1492400257 | 1492400855 | 0 | dgd20k0 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgc66zv | null | 1494131780 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | I'll define a few paradigms extensionally:
0. CISC assembly: x86, x86_64
0. RISC assembly: ARM, MIPS, AVR
1. "Structured" imperative programming: C, Pascal
2. Imperative scripting: Bash, Perl
2. Enterprise OOP: Java, C#
3. Systems OOP: C++
4. Dynamic OOP: Python, Ruby
4. Prototype OOP: JavaScript
7. Untyped functional... | null | 0 | 1492400361 | 1492424696 | 0 | dgd233z | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcsgeo | null | 1494131814 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | agonnaz | null | What a horrible argument. The top-rated non-mod comment there says "The horseshoe theory is kind right in the sense that any badly realised ideology will probably have to employ similar methods" and "I'd just try and point out that it is in human nature to want to hold on to power by any means necessary, and that this... | null | 0 | 1492400459 | 1492400648 | 0 | dgd25gr | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgcsi9y | null | 1494131846 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mooglinux | null | The biggest advantage of C# IMHO is the amazing development tools. VS+ReSharper make it so much easier to write code, *and make changes to that code* than anything else out there.
If you want to change the architecture, a C# rewrite could actually be a great opportunity to fix those issues. | null | 1 | 1492400466 | False | 0 | dgd25m1 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcq9ly | null | 1494131848 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RiPont | null | > Source: I'm at the beginning stages of rewriting 10,000's of lines of FORTRAN code designed to model ionospheric propogation, originally written in 1978 into Python, because I'm going to learn a shitload in the process. More than if I did nothing.
Which is great for your learning, but shitty for delivering busine... | null | 0 | 1492400535 | False | 0 | dgd279a | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494131870 | 77 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DragonSlayerC | null | r/linuxmasterrace | null | 0 | 1492400540 | False | 0 | dgd27dq | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcl5aj | null | 1494131871 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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\#1: [My experience with Arch Linux so far...](https://i.imgur.com/rQIb4Vw.gifv) | [162 comments](https://np.reddit.com/r/linuxma... | null | 0 | 1492400548 | False | 0 | dgd27kd | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd27dq | null | 1494131874 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | --amadeus | null | Having some of the values be parameters instead of constants would make it solve the general problem for any number of spaces or whatever. | null | 0 | 1492400585 | False | 0 | dgd28fq | t3_65nwf5 | null | null | t1_dgd0ojo | null | 1494131886 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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