Getting the ^D - Hackdot

Re:Getting the ^D by jeffrallen on Monday April 10, 2023 @04:30AM (#35510293)

See also the evil interview question, "how does a keyboard type characters into an Emacs buffer?"

You could spend 8 hours describing it from power, to USB descriptors, to debouncing, to keymapping, to matrix scanning, to ptys, to editor string management algorithms to Lisp. And passing by this article as well!

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Re:Getting the ^D by codethief on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:02AM (#35510448)

Do you have a link? I can't find anything under that title.

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Re:Getting the ^D by jeffrallen on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:13AM (#35510494)

Nah it's just an interesting interview question if you are looking for a generalist. There's also "what happens when you type into the address bar of your browser and hit return?" Can cover DNS, wifi, BGP, servers, DOM layout, TLS, etc.

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Re:Getting the ^D by jwilk on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:23AM (#35510798)

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

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