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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by chetanahuja on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:18PM (#12702839)
"And then, the world developed robust, well-maintained, open source libraries that do all of that for you. Now, in 99% of commercial software engineering, you don't actually need to know any of those details.."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we ended up with npm.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by pjlegato on Sunday October 16, 2016 @07:47PM (#12721750)
This is a false dilemma. Npm-level programming and being able to rewrite the whole operating system from scratch are not the only two options.
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