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I fell in love with this piece hearing Michael Winograd play it on clarinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsQ-TbQReI

I have also been telling Gemini to "fuck off" in my gmail, but that doesn't seem to make it go away

New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

What in the world is a poetry lockfile

This is essentially the conclusion the author comes to at the end of the piece

So as long as Songtrader keeps paying artists

Fair enough, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

If I were holding savings in USDC I would be nervous right now.

Thank you for the recommendation, never would have found this and am loving it!

Uber hasn't denied any allegations, all of which have an paper trail (otherwise known as "direct evidence")

They seem to be doing just fine without the consent of the governed, given voter turnout in the US.

I prefer to look through the lens of expected value. How can you vote in a way that maximizes the chance that your preferred policy outcomes will go through? "Don't vote for anyone who has supported it in any way" is nice in theory, but there are plenty of times when a vote any other way has lower expected value.

"Criminal Aliens Sexually Assault 70,000 American Women". You're saying you don't see ANY problem with this headline? The inference is that this is a giant problem that we should be addressing right now, that it's eclipsing all other issues, when in fact it isn't in the slightest. You're being wilfully obtuse if you don't see the subtext: "Be very afraid of criminal aliens, they're coming to hurt you and rape you."

Let's not dismiss what inaccuracy here can lead to: bigotry on false pretenses, violence against innocent immigrants, and blindly supporting wars against "the wrong kind of people."

"I'm curious about this project this little repo of yours. Is there some particular reason you chose to use to use / not-use X"

This kind of question is exactly what I had in mind when I said "pushing to see how you react." I think we agree :)

[edit: Both the reactions you listed seem fine, depending on what you're looking for. But I wouldn't do this myself, anyway.]

I don't know the correct reaction, and don't do this when I'm interviewing. My point was that I could easily see a different side of this story, from the interviewer's perspective. Maybe the interviewer understood the OP's solution, and wanted them to explore a different angle.

We're lacking so much context here - what did the interviewer actually say? Was their tone gentle or aggressive? Were they flat-out ignoring the OP's answer, or acknowledging it while taking it through different use cases? We can't know, we weren't there.

I understand there are many places with poor interview practices, but I've seen enough devs come out of these types of interviews with wildly incorrect self-assessments that I no longer blindly trust these anecdotes. Unless they told you the exact reason you failed, you're speculating. And if you're an engineer that repeatedly gets turned down after these interviews at many different shops, you may not know what you don't know. Complaining about the interview process isn't a productive way to improve in those situations.

[note that my critique goes both ways: I have no way of knowing OP's skill, and their story could be completely accurate. however, I see this attitude a lot from overconfident junior devs, and that's to whom this rant applies.]

Are you sure this is what happened?

I ask because we interview lots of candidates who always jump straight to their favorite data structure. Given any algorithmic question, they'll immediately create an instance of their pet data structure (usually it's a HashMap), without specifying the types of keys or values. They can't explain why they're choosing this, and continually try to shoehorn the problem into it even when it makes no sense.

This interview doesn't sound nearly that bad to me. It sounds like you were discussing the advantages / tradeoffs for your choices, given various performance considerations. How do you know they considered you "wrong"? Maybe they were seeing how you reacted to being pushed.

the parts people are taking issue with are the ridiculous generalizations that young women aren't interested in serious relationships, etc. the parent comment's perspective comes off as judgemental and paternalistic, especially "I don't like one night stands and whatnot, and don't go to bars or clubs" okay? i have a hard time believing that no women in brazil want a stable relationship and a family.

it's also possible to go out to clubs, have one night stands, and want a stable relationship and family too!! imagine that.

yep, seemed pretty obvious to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

young women are not interested in serious relationships (instead they are interested in having fun, one-night stands, drinking, sex, etc...) because it gets in the way of having a career

im guessing you dont know any young women cause this is absurd

I'm also more interested in finding a solution. Unfortunately, I'm also human, and defensiveness isn't something I can make magically disappear.

I don't see competitiveness here. I want to see my teammates as people and empathize with them as such.

I get defensive when somebody dismisses my domain knowledge with a quick "why not just do this"? I'm not happy with myself when I react this way, but I do.

Therefore, when I'm in a position where I want to throw out a quick "can you just", I try to phrase it differently, because I know how frustrating that comment can be.

Disagree 100%. Some of the best developers I've met understand very well how to separate their work. The stereotypical hacker that works all through the night on obscure problems tend to pidgenhole themselves and lose sight of the purpose of programming. They also tend to be the ones that burn out to epic proportions. It's a very unhealthy mindset to have, and to be encouraging others to have.

Yes.

I'd add: anyone smart enough to be considered an expert in any subject will eventually find other subjects to explore. I'd argue this helps them become a better developer, more than coding in their spare time ever would.

Pete Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is IMO, the best book for understanding correct posture and how to achieve it. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chro...

this is brought up every time we have one of these discussions and is inevitably ignored by the commenter

You're not the first person to think about this.

Perfect.

you said you wanted a response and not just downvotes. i tried ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

here you go

your post doesn't add anything to the conversation

it might technically be a technicality but 10 years is long enough in startup life units that it doesn't matter

you're pointing out definitions when it was clear what the author meant and people don't like that because it's very annoying

i'll take 'u' here any day. would never mistake it for anything else

lol wow

I do lots of recruiting / hiring at my job. I use a sliding scale. If you have no CS degree: have you written applications from scratch? Is your experience diverse or have you spent 5 years repeatedly writing the same Rails app?

On the other side, if you do have a CS degree, have you written application code before? If not, I want to see that you can apply your CS fundamentals to practical business problems.

Of course there are people without a degree who are phenomenal programmers, and people with one who can't write FizzBuzz! Is anyone arguing against this? When we're screening people we need some way of gauging your skill level. A degree is one indicator, practical experience is another.

The answer to mediocre engineers is less education? Doesn't follow.