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Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:30AM (#48501855)
Insanely excessive and a waste of tokens when you could have googled how to disable a scrollbar.
Re:Operation: Epic Furious on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:29PM (#48110526)
Not a fan of free speech?
Re:Show HN: Autism Simulator on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:56AM (#45448148)
Don't really understand how this is meant to work. I burned out. Am I autistic?
This is a complete nonsense. OP has invented a tricky technical test for themselves which they have spent long amounts of time thinking about.

In an interview a candidate is not in that mindset, at least I am not. Under stress and anxiety it is very difficult to fully understand things and build good cognitive structures in the mind.

It's almost impossible for me to do any serious work or problem solving in an interview situation due to anxiety and stress-my mind simple does not work the same way as it does when relaxed and in flow.
It's def not "Raw mental horsepower" it's more knowing an obscure algorithmic trick.
'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it.

The whole thing is broken.

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:43AM (#43718500)
Social media is hurting all of us on a worldwide scale.

It's a shame because there are good sides to it too.

Bond yields are king
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:24AM (#43567069)
Something I have observed also, and why I'd consider myself a sort of pragmatic centrist.
Brb just washing my hair with broccoli.
Re:AI Killed the Tech Interview. Now What? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:38PM (#43119842)
None of this makes any sense. Why should I complete a tech test interview if I have 15 years of experience at X top firm? I would have done it already anyway.

I had a ‘principal engineer’ at last place who grinded leetcode for 100 days and still failed a leetcode interview. It’s utter nonsense.

A conversation with technical questions and topics should suffice. Hire fast and fire people.

Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:15AM (#43067725)
Not a calculator engineer but this seems hideously complex?
Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:48AM (#42842339)
A job is a means to an end.
Re:I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:57AM (#42723401)
Long > short.
Re:Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:55AM (#42723383)
Seems a very elaborate way just to do some work.
Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:29AM (#41568695)
More importantly, is anyone here from Amazon quitting over this? What's your response?
Re:FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:05AM (#41106431)
This is not the way to do html with python.
Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:40AM (#40943752)
Don't base your identity on your job.
Re:Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @05:55AM (#40914220)
Confused with uv/rye
Amazing news.

#FREEDASSANGE

Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc. on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:58AM (#40736848)
How can a next word predictor have super intelligence? It's all such hyperbole.
Even then they could be replicas
Re:Windows 98 Icons on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:53AM (#39814311)
Iconic design. Have used mac since around 2012 but would happily use this Windows again.
It's amazing how they have destroyed that place. And there is nothing anyone can do about it.
I feel like finally after many years js devs are starting to see the light.
Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @09:15AM (#39288800)
This is a phrase that consistently bugs me-everyone just copying one another and repeating it.
Re:How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation (2016) on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:01AM (#39273021)
The trick is to do it politely and respectfully.
Heinous cringe.
When a nerd tries to reference Tupac.

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