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How on earth is the ebook more expensive than the physical copy!

This!

All my experience in trying to hire developers has been wading through an endless stream of people who were just useless.

Me: I want to represent a 2d grid, what data structure should we use? Them: A string?

This was someone applying for senior engineer. Others I've had filled their CV with SQL related acronyms. But couldn't explain what a foreign key was and then stubbornly insisted that at their current corp they would never ever use foreign keys in their SQL database!

I've had senior engineer when asked how to check if we had a 2d array with an item at x,y tell me if anything is on the same column or row, they couldn't do it, couldn't even verbalise how to approach it.

"Web Developers" who didn't know the difference between GET and POST. Web Developers that have never heard of PUT or what it would be used for.

This awesome! I actually had no idea I could ssh into my Remarkable and do neat stuff like this!

Why do it? It's so impractical!

Because you can and it's fun is always a perfectly valid answer here!

The Uncharted games are weird like this. They get lauded for their storyline, yet Drake is out their killing hordes of guys for what ? Some treasure ?

Yeah I was in a bar one night and was peckish, so tried to buy a packet of crisps. They said minimum spend on card was £5, so I said just charge me the £5 it's fine.

Card got blocked as they thought it was fraud. Annoying! And not something inebriated me wanted to deal with at 2am.

Ok. Maybe they protected me from myself, but still!

This is why at my current place we are not supposed to do any dev without an SME on the call. We do the development and share the screen and get immediate feedback as we are working in real time! It's great.

This is great :)

Man, I've been bouldering now at my gym for maybe 18 months and I can count on one hand the number of times I've spoken to someone.

A lot of people on their own have earbuds in too,and clearly don't want to be spoken to.

I had one time where I asked someone for some help, he then went and did the route and shrugged and said it's easy in a really condescending manner.

Was this a thing?

I never knew this!!

Man, pre big-internet was so hard to find information on games. I remember for the original tomb raider a friend needed a guide, so I wrote and printed out them a guide for the full game, since I played it pretty obsessively.

The name sounded like Cock.

I love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison. That gets quite depressing sometimes.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

Ignorance was bliss.

I love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HHLT2_a1tI

An example of me solving an Advent of Code with clojure and repl. You can see i never interact with the repl directly, I just send code to it via my editor and get results inline.

Man, I probably say no to like 40% of the requests I get as a dev. Often we will come up with a better way of doing things by just spending 15-30 mins talking to the business about the actual problem they are having.

Some are just flat out refused as they are just too stupid and will cripple the system in some way.

The point isnt to give a simple answer, even if it's a correct answer. The point is show how much you know and how smart you are.

The question is framed to you as a way for you to show you know x, y and z and talk about x, y and z.

Even if a valid solution is just do a, that's great. But the interviewer has no idea if you actually know about x ,y and z do they ?

As someone who would like to get a new PC (but a desktop) for coding, and is considering a mac, why would you never buy a mac for coding ?

I'm currently running Ubuntu on this ancient thing (which I love actually), but I absolutely don't want Windows.

Looks a bit like excalidraw. It's not, but it's pretty similar in look.

https://excalidraw.com/

I've seen it in person once with a former coworker, everything created anxiety, everything was problematic, she spent her entire time looking for a reason to be offended (especially tenuously on behalf of someone else). It was exhausting trying to work with her. She took so much time off too, at very short notice, as she just couldn't cope with working that day.

Or maybe it's finished ?

Fire them?

I just want an adblocker and tree style vertical tabs, where the tab bar minimises when the mouse isn't over it.

That's literally my entire use case for using firefox.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpn...

Until governments try to ban VPNs...

Probably.

I did find it quite tough for a lot of years to treat myself, as I would try to save as much as I can to have a safety net. But even now with a safety net in the bank, I still have in the back of my head if I purchase something that is x mortgage payments, and I could save that instead to have in the bank in case I lose my job.

1/3 to mortgage is crazy to me.

My mortgage is around 6% of my gross, and just under 10% of my net and I feel that's high / stressful to me. I want to get it paid off ASAP.

How is it not?

I'm currently 1 of 3 injections into getting a rabies vaccine and it's basically like every other vaccine I've had. A simple, painless, injection in the arm.

I got it the same time as my first shot of the Hep B vaccine too.

The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen any correlation between someones hobbies outside of work and what tech stack they use at work.

I'd maybe buy it to get access to games I want to play on Steam that I can't get on PS5 to play on the sofa in my living room.

It's a small box, it can sit next to the tele without looking awful, and if I just need to get a controller, that's fine too.

It wasn't snarky at all. You are being overly defensive for no reason.

I've never been asked to "grind" leetcode, I've never been asked a leetcode style question at any interview I've had (and I'm in my mid 40s). I've never had any feeling of needing to do leetcode, and as far as I know neither have my friends.

The reason I asked if it was mainly a US thing was because I assume (maybe wrongly) that the majority of HN users are in the US, and this leetcode thing pops up a lot.

Man, I've probably spent a combined 2 hours over my entire life on leetcode... And that was mostly just curiosity.

Is this a uniquely US thing ?