Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS

Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by rodamaral on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:16AM (#30192003)

When a recruiter asks you to connect to a db with css, you leave immediately to never return.

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by TameAntelope on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:55AM (#30194931)

I think I'm going to ask this question in every technical interview from now on, as a way of seeing how people deal with dumb shit.

Would love to know ahead of time if someone's just going to flee when I say something stupid. :)

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by oldsecondhand on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:18AM (#30193510)

Or write a strong AI with regular expressions that solves the problem for you.

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mindcrime on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:38AM (#30193781)

I feel like there's a variation of jwz's famous quote waiting to be coined:

"Sometimes, when a programmer confronts a problem, ze thinks 'I know, I'll use strong AI', now ze __________."

* has 2 problems?

* has 3 problems?

* has infinite problems?

* has a death wish?

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by bryanrasmussen on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:07AM (#30194184)

but the quote was already wrapped in the parent posters idea, since they were writing Strong AI with regular expressions!

If you have two problems when using regular expressions and you have X problems with Strong AI how will the combination of your problems be calculated?

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mindcrime on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:15AM (#30194290)

If you have two problems when using regular expressions and you have X problems with Strong AI how will the combination of your problems be calculated?

Well... using a Strong AI, of course!

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mechanical_bear on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:24AM (#30194420)

Is this supposed to be an approximation of a foreign accent or something?

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mindcrime on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:35AM (#30194590)

I assume you mean the "ze" part? If so, no, that's one of a series of new pronouns that were coined specifically to be gender neutral.

https://www.mypronouns.org/ze-hir

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mechanical_bear on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:14PM (#30195231)

Ah yes, that was the part throwing me.

Seems unnecessary when the original quote was already gender neutral with the use of they, an actual pronoun already in common use?

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Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS by mindcrime on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:55PM (#30195954)

I wasn't looking at the original quote when I wrote what I wrote above, FWIW. And I wanted to avoid the instinctive inclination to write "he", so I went with "ze" because using "they" for singular case always feels forced and awkward to me. But yes, that would have been fine as well. It was a choice I made at a moment in time, not something that I spent a lot of time analyzing and debating. :-)

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