Re:Unifying the Technical Interview
by UncleOxidant on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:10PM
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What did I just read? Not that I read all of it, I made it to the 1921 paragraph and slowly clicked the back arrow.
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Re:Unifying the Technical Interview
by brian_cloutier on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:03PM
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This one is pretty technical, it might be easier to start with some of the older ones: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
He takes what should be a simple problem and solves it with the entirely the wrong tools. There's some comedy, the tools are comically wrong and overpowered for the task at hand. There's also the sheer thrill of seeing such tools used at all, we don't generally write this kind of stuff at work.
Not to mention the fantasy mythology stuff.
Re:Unifying the Technical Interview
by UncleOxidant on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:49PM
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Yeah, not all of us are into the fantasy mythology stuff.
Then… don't read it? You are perfectly within your rights to start reading a thing, go "this is not for me", and stop reading it, without announcing this fact.
Re:Unifying the Technical Interview
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:32AM
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You know how some sorts of programming are described as black magic? It’s like taking that literally and writing a silly short story.