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Nope. This is a polemic against people who don't know Haskell. Previous iterations were the same except Clojure/Lisp. Aphyr/Kyle is a genius, and one of my fa

by menssen 10y ago

Nope. This is a polemic against people who don't know Haskell. Previous iterations were the same except Clojure/Lisp. Aphyr/Kyle is a genius, and one of my favorite people on the internet. But this series is the WRONG way to attack the code interview, which deserves to be attacked, BUT. Some of us face real challenges about how to find common ground with interviewees. Because you know you're smarter than those questions is not a reason to discount them. I will sacrifice ALL my HN points to say this is bullshit. Bullshit written in decent prose, but still bullshit.

mrkgnao 10y ago
I doubt Aphyr/Kyle is one of those people who would know how to simultaneously rotate five binary trees using only one pointer off the top of his head (or whatever). The point of this series isn't that it's an attack on people who aren't comfortable with Haskell type magic (or the extremes of Lisp or JVM classloader-fu): whatever made you think that? Now if you mean that making fun of the coding interview itself is wrong because there exist people who either interview people for a living or people who are job-hunting right now, and this makes light of their troubles, well, that's different. I disagree, but it's still more sensible than "lol you dont know Haskal, nub".
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imh 10y ago
I really didn't read this as an attack or polemic on code interviews. It's just a fun parody. Like how the TV show Silicon Valley some times pokes fun at actual Silicon Valley, but isn't an attack on it.
- GreaterFool 10y ago
  It is not only a fun parody; it also lightheartedly demonstrates a useful type-level programming technique. It is not obvious how to use functional dependencies to write code like that and before type families came along it was the only option. The problem is a toy problem but the technique is serious

by menssen 10y ago

mrkgnao 10y ago

I doubt Aphyr/Kyle is one of those people who would know how to simultaneously rotate five binary trees using only one pointer off the top of his head (or whatever). The point of this series isn't that it's an attack on people who aren't comfortable with Haskell type magic (or the extremes of Lisp or JVM classloader-fu): whatever made you think that? Now if you mean that making fun of the coding interview itself is wrong because there exist people who either interview people for a living or people who are job-hunting right now, and this makes light of their troubles, well, that's different. I disagree, but it's still more sensible than "lol you dont know Haskal, nub".

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imh 10y ago

I really didn't read this as an attack or polemic on code interviews. It's just a fun parody. Like how the TV show Silicon Valley some times pokes fun at actual Silicon Valley, but isn't an attack on it.

GreaterFool 10y ago
It is not only a fun parody; it also lightheartedly demonstrates a useful type-level programming technique. It is not obvious how to use functional dependencies to write code like that and before type families came along it was the only option. The problem is a toy problem but the technique is serious