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null | Tijdreiziger | null | That's ~~horrifying~~ amazing. | null | 0 | 1492465127 | False | 0 | dge62bs | t3_65x029 | null | null | t3_65x029 | null | 1494151092 | 205 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ucbmckee | null | I think being inspired is a critical part of being successful and happy. A job doesn't have to cure cancer to be inspiring. I worked in adtech for a number of years, which doesn't usually win many awards for inspiring engineers, but the scale of the challenge was amazing - handling a billion requests a day with a 95th ... | null | 0 | 1492465161 | 1492466317 | 0 | dge63c6 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdsof1 | null | 1494151106 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | raphier | null | They are not so different. in one we look for reasonable end, in another we try to find reasonable validation. However, we tend to gravitate towards rational thinking no matter how superficial the subject. | null | 0 | 1492465303 | False | 0 | dge67gp | t3_657n42 | null | null | t1_dgckwxt | null | 1494151162 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pm_plz_im_lonely | null | [Insert joke about Minecraft inside Minecraft] | null | 0 | 1492465314 | False | 0 | dge67t2 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge60dp | null | 1494151166 | 66 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492465433 | False | 0 | dge6ba5 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgd7p5i | null | 1494151212 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | landandsea | null | The Turing-completeness of PowerPoint is a plot point in Charles Stross's amusing and excellent Lovecraft-meets-Fleming novel The Jennifer Morgue: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001O2NEI8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 | null | 0 | 1492465435 | False | 0 | dge6bca | t3_65x029 | null | null | t3_65x029 | null | 1494151213 | 86 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | UsingYourWifi | null | > Its one of these misleading tests in that its a simple problem so most developers just take the easy route without really thinking about what we are asking for.
Are you actually asking for it? Or are you rejecting them because they weren't able to read your mind to determine that you want an over-engineered solut... | null | 0 | 1492465460 | False | 0 | dge6c38 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdw0qr | null | 1494151224 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zephraph | null | That's fair. It's just one consideration among many. I didn't mean for this tread to blow up how it has, haha. | null | 0 | 1492465466 | False | 0 | dge6c8c | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge5otf | null | 1494151225 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TryUsingScience | null | Those questions are part of why I'm not a dev anymore. I looked at all the jobs I could be interviewing for and realized I didn't want any of them because I didn't care about the problems they were solving. Now I have a day job that I also don't care about, but takes half as much of my time as being a dev did, so I can... | null | 0 | 1492465497 | False | 0 | dge6d66 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge63c6 | null | 1494151238 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jnordwick | null | > Marker superinterface indicating that a bean is eligible to be notified by the Spring container of a particular framework object through a callback-style method.
Got it. | null | 0 | 1492465527 | False | 0 | dge6e1q | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgd7p5i | null | 1494151250 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | morphemass | null | > If it is something "incredibly trivial" I don't think expecting them to make it more complicated than it has to be is a good idea.
The idea is to test if a candidate can follow instructions and display an understanding of OOP. The problem itself should take 5-10 minutes to solve. We say take a couple of hours. No... | null | 0 | 1492465696 | False | 0 | dge6iyt | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdxt07 | null | 1494151316 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | necroforest | null | The inner platform effect rears its head yet again. | null | 0 | 1492465721 | False | 0 | dge6joh | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge67t2 | null | 1494151325 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kace91 | null | ...oh.
Turns out that git is from 2005. I was in highschool back then, so git has been there all my professional life and since I knew that Linus was behind it I sort of assumed that it was old as fuck too.
How did you guys do things before git?
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null | zimprop | null | I love Charles Stross!
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null | ucbmckee | null | Different strokes for different folks. What you're describing are largely problems with [mature](http://smartideastore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Technology-adoption-curve-with-chasm.jpg) products in mature companies. This is the point where innovation is not generally the driving factor for success. Personally, I ... | null | 0 | 1492465825 | False | 0 | dge6mms | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgduher | null | 1494151364 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CODESIGN2 | null | > If you spend all this time to shave off half a second of runtime
What? Has nothing to do with speed and in-fact will negatively impact speed if it's a library call vs in the monolith. The difference is that your coders don't have to touch the library unless they know what they are doing...
I'm sure drinking was ... | null | 0 | 1492465858 | False | 0 | dge6nk9 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dge5l6n | null | 1494151377 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | squishles | null | If you're feeling down on the overall pragmatic functional importance of what you're working on, there's plenty of that shit around DC. The let down is it's the same shit with a much worse technical infrastructure and shittier pay.
Bar's lower than you're imagining too, only need about a BA and makes great resume fod... | null | 0 | 1492465914 | 1492466262 | 0 | dge6p6v | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdp95h | null | 1494151399 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SimonWoodburyForget | null | Do i hear a challenge to make a CPU in PowerPoint? | null | 0 | 1492466011 | False | 0 | dge6rvy | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge4e6y | null | 1494151435 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | landandsea | null | I love the Laundry Files books so much. I'll be useless for a couple days after my pre-order of The Delirium Brief finally shows up on my Kindle.
I am not Charles Stross and I am not an Amazon Bot, I swear. | null | 0 | 1492466143 | False | 0 | dge6voa | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge6lk4 | null | 1494151486 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | morphemass | null | You forget that we are talking about homework questions.
If a candidate cant take a simple problem, tease out the main areas of responsibilities and concerns, show an understanding of the difference between private and public methods, remove repetition by abstraction or composition, and then add a few tests ... well w... | null | 0 | 1492466165 | False | 0 | dge6wb3 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge0as5 | null | 1494151495 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ucbmckee | null | At some (very early) stages of a company's lifecycle, those are entirely reasonable approaches. I've seen seed funded tech teams spend weeks (or longer) building out testing frameworks, CI/CD, etc. *before they even had users*. You could argue that it's a good technical foundation, but there is a pretty deep cemetery o... | null | 0 | 1492466187 | False | 0 | dge6wxu | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdsmy3 | null | 1494151503 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | > I don't understand
That's quite telling. Different people have different cognitive abilities, you're just not as lucky as majority of population.
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null | Phobos15 | null | One of the only things that is going right under Trump. | null | 0 | 1492466448 | False | 0 | dge74li | t3_65yogc | null | null | t3_65yogc | null | 1494151605 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jms_nh | null | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE | null | 0 | 1492466510 | False | 0 | dge76gg | t3_65xbur | null | null | t3_65xbur | null | 1494151631 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lachlanhunt | null | I mainly use XXX as a temporary maker for code I need to find again easily, since it's a short string that's unlikely to occur in normal code and easy to find.
Also, I'm fairly sure the convention isn't limited to programming. I've used it in documents while editing them too, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I woul... | null | 0 | 1492466577 | 1492466770 | 0 | dge78dk | t3_65vv07 | null | null | t3_65vv07 | null | 1494151656 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mgkimsal | null | > Lots of jobs involve learning a new technology or platform.
Sure, but the post I was replying to indicated that the first 6+ months involve learning "new technologies". To the extent they're "new" to the industry, I get that, but "new to me"... I would never expect months to learn something new. At least aroun... | null | 0 | 1492466733 | False | 0 | dge7cw1 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge51m6 | null | 1494151718 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | > How did you guys do things before git?
Before git - subversion.
Before subversion - cvs. It was not really that bad, as long as you don't move files around.
Before cvs - rcs. It was horrible, but better than nothing.
Before rcs - VMS file version numbers (until some dimwit types 'PURGE' for whatever reason). | null | 0 | 1492466777 | False | 0 | dge7e50 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge6kpn | null | 1494151735 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Walletau | null | Honestly can't wait, binged through the Laundry Files while hiking through nepal in a couple weeks. Then tried Jack Reacher and almost knocked myself out from face palming so hard. | null | 0 | 1492466799 | False | 0 | dge7eqr | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge6voa | null | 1494151744 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tkannelid | null | I've found differences relevant to my job in:
* Package management
* `env`
* `ifconfig`
* `readlink`
* procfs
* binary format (for when I need to install something from precompiled binaries)
Besides which, if I want to test something out locally before installing it on a server, I want it to be as similar as possible... | null | 0 | 1492466894 | False | 0 | dge7hj2 | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdwc5p | null | 1494151781 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gangsir | null | Yep, on Firefox(Linux) it just shows two cursors. Rejected. | null | 0 | 1492466933 | False | 0 | dge7io4 | t3_65uday | null | null | t1_dgdtjeh | null | 1494151795 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | crashorbit | null | it's debatable if this is a zero sum game. It remains to be seen if an uptick in local talent will fill the expected void. One alternative is simply to outsource to remote staff. | null | 0 | 1492467002 | False | 0 | dge7kmv | t3_65yogc | null | null | t3_65yogc | null | 1494151822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Deaod | null | [Here's one guy's experience from when Sun was acquired by Oracle.](https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=1981) | null | 0 | 1492467003 | False | 0 | dge7knq | t3_65xbur | null | null | t3_65xbur | null | 1494151822 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | videomorphic | null | I certainly don't complete all my projects. I just don't get wracked with guilt over that fact. | null | 0 | 1492467103 | False | 0 | dge7ngu | t3_65uonl | null | null | t1_dgddqtv | null | 1494151860 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | knome | null | I definitely independently invented it when I was still new to programming, as a way to find things and call my attention to them. | null | 0 | 1492467107 | False | 0 | dge7nkp | t3_65vv07 | null | null | t1_dge78dk | null | 1494151861 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | videomorphic | null | It shouldn't have anything to do with your keyboard.
If your locale is set to language X, you should see language X in the URL bar. | null | 0 | 1492467141 | False | 0 | dge7oip | t3_65cf1u | null | null | t1_dgddo5p | null | 1494151874 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | Terms like this are actually great. Imagine if more open source software started including terms that barred you from suing anyone over any patent.
It could cripple the patent system and cut down on meaningless lawsuits. | null | 0 | 1492467144 | False | 0 | dge7ols | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t1_dgddiwq | null | 1494151875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doodle77 | null | * {
cursor: auto !important;
}
as a user stylesheet | null | 0 | 1492467145 | False | 0 | dge7omb | t3_65uday | null | null | t1_dgdg6d1 | null | 1494151876 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | videomorphic | null | I don't really agree that it fixes anything. | null | 0 | 1492467179 | False | 0 | dge7pjr | t3_65cf1u | null | null | t1_dgddiui | null | 1494151888 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | notverycreative1 | null | But even if the company is found innocent of wrongdoing, they still had to spend time and resources defending themselves. It's easier to not open the door to potential discrimination suits in the first place. | null | 0 | 1492467189 | False | 0 | dge7pup | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdtekv | null | 1494151892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | videomorphic | null | >Because this article is about a shortage in talented engineers. Perhaps this is regional, but I'd argue in the US the majority of degrees are in CS; I've never really heard of a degree in software engineering, though there are CS+eng degrees.
Then those people are pretty silly for doing the wrong degree, aren't th... | null | 0 | 1492467254 | False | 0 | dge7ron | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgddxq0 | null | 1494151916 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wdjm | null | I just wish it weren't because things are looking to get so bad that no one *wants* to come. | null | 0 | 1492467301 | False | 0 | dge7t39 | t3_65yogc | null | null | t1_dge74li | null | 1494151936 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | landandsea | null | Nepal! An excellent place to binge on Lovecraftian horror. The Plateau of Leng is surely somewhere in the region. Also, nearby Tibet was once ruled by what we now know as a Deep One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyatri_Tsenpo
Jack Reacher. Too funny. | null | 0 | 1492467303 | False | 0 | dge7t59 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge7eqr | null | 1494151936 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | morphemass | null | As said, we say we expect them to take about two hours to complete the test; the core problem takes less than 10 minutes to solve and we ask them to provide an OOP based solution. Theres no tricks, no mind reading involved; we give the candidate enough information to know the basics of what we are looking for and plent... | null | 0 | 1492467347 | False | 0 | dge7ucf | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge6c38 | null | 1494151952 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | alexiawashere | null | He used the wrong "your" at the 4:37 mark. | null | 0 | 1492467352 | False | 0 | dge7ui1 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t3_65x029 | null | 1494151954 | 67 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | videomorphic | null | There's a button in the URL bar that puts Firefox into 'Reader' mode, so you don't have to make this comment on every article. | null | 0 | 1492467354 | False | 0 | dge7uk6 | t3_65xbur | null | null | t1_dge004x | null | 1494151955 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JohnFrum | null | I bet he noticed that the first time he watched it after it was publicly posted. | null | 0 | 1492467465 | False | 0 | dge7xqn | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge7ui1 | null | 1494151997 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | grauenwolf | null | Same problem, different proposed solution. | null | 0 | 1492467518 | False | 0 | dge7z86 | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dge0x5z | null | 1494152017 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | grauenwolf | null | Yea, that would be really nice. Instead they mess around with manually applied CSS. | null | 0 | 1492467573 | False | 0 | dge80t8 | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dge2hcv | null | 1494152038 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | warped-coder | null | There are no strings in C on a language level. Zero terminated strings are indeed a mess, and nobody in their right mind uses them. Either way, just like you can have zero terminated strings in any language so you can have length prefix strings in C. Bad choice that was made decades ago.
Still my point isn't that C is... | null | 0 | 1492467579 | False | 0 | dge80zb | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dge0c6n | null | 1494152040 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrkite77 | null | Plenty of people called them apps. I remember using BBSs where pirated software was categorized as "appz" and "gamez".
You can search Usenet for proof.
Here's a post from 1992, "quite a while ago there was the call for a killer app that would convice people
that installing OS/2 is good for them."
https://groups.goog... | null | 0 | 1492467692 | 1492468820 | 0 | dge843x | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dge5kat | null | 1494152081 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Eirenarch | null | Really? I didn't follow the original too close but can't see significant differences. What was the main thing that was changed? | null | 0 | 1492467741 | False | 0 | dge85ho | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dge7z86 | null | 1494152100 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Veggie | null | [It's been done.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwHBaSySHmo) | null | 0 | 1492467842 | False | 0 | dge88ca | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge67t2 | null | 1494152138 | 126 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ZRM2 | null | There's been a bit of miscommunication. Rust stores a *pointer* to the vtable, not the vtable itself, alongside the pointer to the object. The vector in your example is only twice as big in rust. | null | 0 | 1492467859 | False | 0 | dge88t3 | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgdkuo7 | null | 1494152144 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zenitram | null | The double standard is shocking to me. (It shouldn't be, I know, everyone is a humanitarian until its a problem for themselves.)
On the one hand, many people in SF don't support pursuing even illegal immigrants here in the States and kicking them out, meanwhile, the H-1B program is looked to as the raping of an indust... | null | 0 | 1492467922 | 1492469369 | 0 | dge8am8 | t3_65yogc | null | null | t3_65yogc | null | 1494152170 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Veggie | null | Making logic circuits is a different problem than making a Turing machine, so yes, I'd be really interested in seeing that. | null | 0 | 1492467925 | False | 0 | dge8apf | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge6rvy | null | 1494152171 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BANNED_FIVE_TIMES | null | It's a collection of reddit's best comedians | null | 0 | 1492467941 | False | 0 | dge8b5r | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdztwu | null | 1494152177 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mattosaur | null | Possibly. But what's the harm in a few false negatives when I've got a stack of resumes to go through? It doesn't matter if the process skips a few good hires as long as the eventual hire is good enough. | null | 0 | 1492467969 | False | 0 | dge8bxb | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdzyky | null | 1494152187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bomblol | null | Sad that you're being downvoted, you are clearly correct. I think your detractors don't understand the subtle distinction that is necessary here. | null | 0 | 1492467986 | False | 0 | dge8ceh | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dgdtb80 | null | 1494152193 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ShitOnRickard5 | null | The Reacher books are admittedly ludicrous, but for me at least they do make a good occasional "junk food" book. | null | 0 | 1492467993 | False | 0 | dge8cly | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge7eqr | null | 1494152195 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Spider_pig448 | null | C# is the best thing to happen to Java in some time. | null | 0 | 1492468034 | False | 0 | dge8ds9 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdebou | null | 1494152212 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Spider_pig448 | null | Yeah I don't really agree with OP on that, but getting to rebuild something and take advantage of all the mistakes I made in creating it sounds amazing to me. | null | 0 | 1492468133 | False | 0 | dge8ghs | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz7t4 | null | 1494152247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Wolfsdale | null | When you move away from protected memory, for instance by writing a kernel module, you also don't really have dynamic allocation - it's more "assignment" as you could access the memory anyways. Does that mean the *kernel* of your computer is not Turing complete, but the Python programs you run on it are? The definition... | null | 0 | 1492468245 | False | 0 | dge8jlj | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge2yfe | null | 1494152288 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | strictlyrude27 | null | >
I do not understand why something so axiomatic is such a bone of contention, if I went on [/r/math](https://www.reddit.com/r/math) and tried claiming my program which implements the first-order theory of naturals modulo n had disproved Gödel, I would be laughed out of the place. This is the exact parallel.
is the... | null | 0 | 1492468251 | False | 0 | dge8jry | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge2p9l | null | 1494152290 | 49 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Walletau | null | PS If you have any book recommendations of a similar nature, do let me know:
Trying Terry Pratchett's: Guards, Guards! but not sticking with me
John Scalzi - Red Shirts was good
Three Body Problem for a more sombre tone. | null | 0 | 1492468282 | False | 0 | dge8km6 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge7t59 | null | 1494152302 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stovenn | null | in the same way that "cancer is the most common cause of death" = popular?
;) | null | 0 | 1492468406 | False | 0 | dge8o1p | t3_65xbur | null | null | t1_dge4vnk | null | 1494152348 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | That's only a tiny subculture thing. | null | 0 | 1492468532 | False | 0 | dge8rij | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dge843x | null | 1494152394 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | sccrstud92 | null | Your python program takes no input, and produces no output, looping forever. Isn't that equivalent to an empty while loop? | null | 0 | 1492468576 | False | 0 | dge8sov | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dgdtb80 | null | 1494152410 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | grauenwolf | null | The last one I read had three types: T, T!, and T?.
The default, T, was kinda like "Shrug, I don't know". You had to opt-in to non-null. | null | 0 | 1492468686 | False | 0 | dge8vo5 | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dge85ho | null | 1494152450 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | DaGamingB0ss | null | Yeah, writing a bootloader is very complicated due to the fact that you have to handle broken BIOSes and support various storage mediums/firmware. If you want to get into operating system development, I'd strongly recommend wiki.osdev.org and forum.osdev.org(I got started 2 years ago and learned a lot from those 2 site... | null | 0 | 1492468690 | False | 0 | dge8vt6 | t3_65wc5v | null | null | t1_dge17ca | null | 1494152451 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Walletau | null | I honestly found the writing style unbearable.
It was an author. Who was afraid. To even make a sentence. String together for more. Than 6 words.
I forced myself to read the entirety of killing floor, could hear my brain cells committing suicide as I was reading passage, that Audiophiles have it wrong as the human br... | null | 0 | 1492468756 | 1492469006 | 0 | dge8xma | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge8cly | null | 1494152476 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redditsoaddicting | null | Wouldn't be surprised if its intentional, honestly. | null | 0 | 1492468889 | False | 0 | dge919s | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge7xqn | null | 1494152524 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DisWastingMyTime | null | How does that work when their solution needs to be part of a bigger system, thats needs to be maintained and upgraded for years to come? Even trivial tasks become a nightmare in big projects a few years later if you just gave the simplest solution.
And Im not saying that oop solves this problem best, but I highly doub... | null | 0 | 1492468912 | False | 0 | dge91wr | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdxt07 | null | 1494152532 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shinazueli | null | Even your example can work though. Maybe I'm passionate about energy savings because that makes things greener. | null | 0 | 1492468930 | False | 0 | dge92e5 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge1wgk | null | 1494152539 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | Could it create the object if it has an empty constructor? | null | 0 | 1492468966 | False | 0 | dge93dj | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dgdugil | null | 1494152552 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | landandsea | null | Three Body Problem is definitely on my list.
Try out Stross's A Colder War: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
That's what got me hooked on The Laundry Files.
I really enjoyed Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom. If I can think of anything else, I'll let you know. | null | 0 | 1492468984 | False | 0 | dge93wv | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge8km6 | null | 1494152559 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Eirenarch | null | Hmmm... I thought that one evolved into the current one but maybe it was just comments and articles that I read and the original proposal was never updated. Pretty much everyone agreed that T! was absurd. | null | 0 | 1492469022 | False | 0 | dge94xv | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t1_dge8vo5 | null | 1494152574 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LongDistRider | null | Which is exactly what many companies, including Microsoft, are doing. | null | 0 | 1492469042 | False | 0 | dge95hr | t3_65yogc | null | null | t1_dge7kmv | null | 1494152581 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | morphemass | null | Sorry but its NOT a code review, its an open technical test for a job.
Its neccessary because CVs have become a pretty poor indicator of ability but its the programming equivalent of the 30 page application form that most other professions have.
If you get to the the interview and fail then by all means ask for feed... | null | 0 | 1492469077 | False | 0 | dge96hy | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdp2ci | null | 1494152594 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tkannelid | null | > Are you aware of the different types of algorithms for procedural generation?
"The" different types? That implies an exhaustive list. I know about noise-based techniques, L systems, and automata. I know about tile-based systems and simple combinatorial rules. I've seen recurrent neural networks and Markov models ... | null | 0 | 1492469125 | False | 0 | dge97ud | t3_65x985 | null | null | t3_65x985 | null | 1494152611 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TryUsingScience | null | That's why I said "fractionally." It's easy to be passionate about projects that are obvious big improvements in people's lives or the environment. But most projects are not any of those things.
Let's stop arguing hypotheticals. What are all the projects you've been asked to work on in your career and why should an ar... | null | 0 | 1492469138 | False | 0 | dge985x | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dge92e5 | null | 1494152616 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Walletau | null | Just a heads up because I found it a bit disappointing, but 3 Body Problem is really open ended and a beginning of a series, I just didn't read any reviews that indicated that it wasn't a complete book and would have liked to know. Definitely worth a read though. Seven Eves was pretty amazing. Best recent scifi I've re... | null | 0 | 1492469171 | False | 0 | dge991b | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge93wv | null | 1494152628 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | Slack is using over half a gig, and I don't have many channels.
With no files open, Atom uses 202MB compared to Sublime Text's 94MB, and with a 10k line file open it's 410MB vs 98MB.
Having looked into it a little more, it seems like it's Electron itself that's the problem, not Chrome. Apparently the Slack web client... | null | 0 | 1492469252 | False | 0 | dge9b8y | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dge4yur | null | 1494152657 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LongDistRider | null | Wish we could get rid of the program completely. Or just make it so H-1B is not an avenue to citizenship, green card, or bringing family over. Make it a true temporary visa. One year in the US - 110 days at home. Just like these companies do to other contractors. | null | 0 | 1492469306 | False | 0 | dge9col | t3_65yogc | null | null | t3_65yogc | null | 1494152676 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zenitram | null | Funny how even the most liberal among us sound like Trump supporters when the immigrants in question are quite literally taking YOUR job. | null | 0 | 1492469678 | 1492469905 | 0 | dge9mut | t3_65yogc | null | null | t1_dge74li | null | 1494152813 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrkite77 | null | >Has anyone had a good experience working for a company that required a take-home project as part of the interview process?
I did. I was given a small chunk of data and asked to write a small cgi program to summarize and present it.
It took about 15 minutes. This was back in 1999, and I still work here 18 years ... | null | 0 | 1492469700 | False | 0 | dge9ngt | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgduchh | null | 1494152821 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobthecimmerian | null | Groovy has faded. Ceylon is late to the party, I don't think it ever grew in popularity and then faded, I think it's just getting started.
My impression is that Scala is the most popular out of Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, and Ceylon currently, but I'm not sure it will stay that way. I would bet Kotlin takes precedence. ... | null | 0 | 1492469701 | False | 0 | dge9nhz | t3_65k27m | null | null | t1_dgduhm0 | null | 1494152821 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zTashii | null | i honestly just meant as in a general type of algorithm. Can be anything as long as the output has been procedurally generated | null | 0 | 1492469702 | False | 0 | dge9nj1 | t3_65x985 | null | null | t1_dge97ud | null | 1494152822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | strongdoctor | null | >The full online infrastructure for Call of Duty
Black Ops
– the world’s current best selling game.
Uh... no; not then and not now.
Otherwise; good read! | null | 0 | 1492469719 | False | 0 | dge9nze | t3_65sgmy | null | null | t3_65sgmy | null | 1494152827 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SamadeusLux | null | > Wouldn't be surprised if its intentional, honestly.
You used the wrong "its" at the 26th character mark. | null | 0 | 1492469854 | False | 0 | dge9rp4 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge919s | null | 1494152877 | 60 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Annabellish | null | Of course it is. No python implementation is capable of using infinite memory even on a machine possessing it, while X can be arbitrarily large here.
Which is the point of the "infinite tape" - not that it be actually infinite, just that it's sufficiently large that it might as well be, which can absolutely be true h... | null | 0 | 1492469919 | False | 0 | dge9tha | t3_65x029 | null | null | t1_dge2jz9 | null | 1494152902 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | strongdoctor | null | Lmao, can't wait to hear of this language where Read-Only Memory and Disk Storage are even remotely the same. | null | 0 | 1492469941 | False | 0 | dge9u49 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdunb8 | null | 1494152910 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | confident_bruce | null | You probably find it hard to believe that I can write code for months between compiles, that compiles on the first try, and runs correctly after one or two fixes. Some people are just that frigging amazing. | null | 0 | 1492469964 | False | 0 | dge9usv | t3_65uonl | null | null | t1_dgddqtv | null | 1494152920 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | princeofpudding | null | > People who approach these interviews as "memorize the solutions" are approaching them the wrong way.
So you mean a lot of the companies who use those types of interviews? Because a lot of them actually *are* looking for the "memorize the solution" answers | null | 0 | 1492470005 | False | 0 | dge9vvb | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd8b14 | null | 1494152934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Bratmon | null | >Motivation:
> - N/A
me irl | null | 0 | 1492470021 | False | 0 | dge9wcp | t3_65x029 | null | null | t3_65x029 | null | 1494152940 | 495 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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