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Had the classic 'what happens when you type a URL in the address bar of a browser' last week. I don't think any recent grad could compete with the things I even
by sofaofthedamned 9y ago
Had the classic 'what happens when you type a URL in the address bar of a browser' last week. I don't think any recent grad could compete with the things I even half remember on that one. It used to annoy me as a superfluous question, but realised it's a good way of showing you know what's actually going on in the machine, your understanding of middleware, GPUs, caches, networking etc etc.
- fao_ 9y agoThe easy answer to that is: I have it configured to search through a list of my history, otherwise nothing happens. You have to press enter for it to search for it :_)
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoNot really. You can still go on about how there is a keydown/keyup event, DNS lookups, safe-browsing lookups (Google, Firefox), cache hits or not, GPU redraws, etc etc. It's a question for asking how much you know about which bits are flipped when anything happens. You can literally pick any bit of the pipeline and riff about it. Assuming that is you know about them.
- fao_ 9y agoI know, I was deliberately giving a sarcastic answer to show that the example should be better worded.
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoAh, gotya!