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status page is also down

oops will fix. never using names of numbers of zeroes ever again. that stuff sucks, i will express everything in scientific notation

oh beautiful i can just edit the title

There's a lot in here, but the title may be better as "How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay"

I did weekend classes in elementary school which were two hours, during which our teacher would not let us go to the bathroom. Parents eventually complained and so in exchange for being able to go pee, we were no longer permitted water during the two hours.

Describing truffle implementations as alternatives to Java implementations is not quite correct. They are always alternatives for the reference implementations (CRuby, Cpython). They're also not really about integration with Java Bytecode

Also Truffle will let you run C extensions unlike regular jvm implementations due to the polyglot nature of Graal and Sulong

yay this is great! <3

nice compilation!

is anyone else bothered that they have to scroll below the fold after clicking "learn more" to get to the content?

Recurse Center has a pretty nice model where they give you a part of a program (small) to bring ahead of time (or you can pick any program you've written) and the interview is going through the code and adding a feature or two.

That kind of interview mitigates the amount of trivia and preparation-gaming while also ensuring that the applicant can solve problems as a team and is a competent programmer. It is cheatable in that one can memorize implementations of some features, though it seems somewhat difficult and not more cheatable than just memorizing a bunch of CS trivia.