Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me

Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by 3pt14159 on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:36PM (#30474526)

You can't be serious. I save someone a million dollars a year knowing how to properly index and query DynamoDB, not about what <doctype HTML> means or whatever. Or when preflight requests in CORS are too expensive to be worth the overhead vs alternatives. Or the advantages and disadvantages of a REST API following jsonapi.org vs GraphQL.

Nobody cares about text-size-adjust and other such nonsense. It doesn't materially change anything.

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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by onion2k on Saturday February 26, 2022 @12:41AM (#30475443)

I save someone a million dollars a year knowing how to properly index and query DynamoDB, not about what <doctype HTML> means or whatever.

If someone said that to me in an interview my next question would be "Why did you apply for a senior frontend dev role then?"

Nobody cares about text-size-adjust and other such nonsense.

Senuor frontend devs do care about that, because it affects the display quality, accessibility, and readability of a web app on a mobile device. If you get text size wrong on a site like Amazon or Twitter you could push tens of thousands of people to stop engaging with the site. Imagine if the "Buy Now" text on a button overflowed because the font was too big so it read "Buy no" instead. That would have an impact on revenue.

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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by lenkite on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:42AM (#30475868)

I think this is just one of the many questions. No body is expecting the interviewer to spend hours quizzing you on twitters HTML. But a 5 to 10min discussion on HTML tags and their applicability seems right for a web-developer interview. If nothing else, it shows that the candidate knows tags other than `div`, `span`, `form` and `style`.

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