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Guess I'll be one of the few to speak up and admit, I just don't get it. I'm sure I'll be downvoted for it by a dozen people smarter than me who resent my ignor

Guess I'll be one of the few to speak up and admit, I just don't get it. I'm sure I'll be downvoted for it by a dozen people smarter than me who resent my ignorance. The prose seems to resemble something dark and beautiful and meaningful. But if it's meaningful it's lost on me, for the most part. And dark and beautiful and meaningless is honestly a bit torturous. Like trying to stare at a Pollock and understand something. And the bytecode just couldn't be more boring to me. Why is bytecode for this mundane algorithm interesting? Someone could do us second class citizens (who I have no doubt are orders of magnitude more numerous than those who privileged few who get it) a favor by producing us with a line-by-line analysis. But I guess that would ruin the feeling of privilege.

Aeolun 7y ago
I don’t get anything about the code either, but the stuff around it is funny. I think it’s a bit funnier since I only understand half of it, which is exactly how the interviewer is supposed to be feeling.
EliRivers 7y ago
Put down your pre-emptive feelings of defensiveness. FFS, there's no shame in not understanding something. There is shame to be had in throwing around accusations of privilege at people who understand something you don't. People won't downvote you for not understanding. Some people will applaud you for saying you don't understand, up until the point they realise you're not seeking help in understanding, that you're not trying to improve your own knowledge and wisdom; that instead, you're trying to make yourself feel better by ascribing yourself some moral high-ground for not being one of those "privileged" people who understand something you don't. They might downvote you for being a passive-aggressive child about it.
- solipsism 7y ago
  Some people will applaud you for saying you don't understand I've been around enough to know how wrong that is. Do you actually believe this? Honest questions asking for explanation are almost guaranteed to result in a negative vote sum. instead, you're trying to make yourself feel better by ascribing yourself some moral high-ground for not being one of those "privileged" people who understand something you don't. Make myself feel better for what? Maybe I needed to include the /s tags...
  - EliRivers 7y ago
    Honest questions asking for explanation are almost guaranteed to result in a negative vote sum. Boo hoo hoo. Oh no, lost some internet points. Anyone whose opinion is worth a damn will applaud you asking honest questions; especially here, on defensive poser central. Make myself feel better for what? Maybe I needed to include the /s tags... You've gone for the "I wasn't being serious" defense, pretending you didn't mean it. However, your post wasn't remotely sarcastic and contained far too much detail and defensiveness, with a tone taking itself very seriously. You're convincing nobody. What exactly do you now claim you were being sarcastic about? "The prose seems to resemble something dark and beautiful and meaningful"; that's sarcasm, is it? So you're saying it IS something dark and beautiful and meaningful? "And the bytecode just couldn't be more boring to me." Right, so you were saying the bytecode was some of the most interesting code you've ever read? If your post was sarcasm, you're truly terrible at it and should switch to irony or satire instead. Little bit of literary term privilege there for you to sarcastically pretend to object to. FFS, this is the anonymous internet. If you can't be honest with yourself here, where will you be honest with yourself.

Aeolun 7y ago

I don’t get anything about the code either, but the stuff around it is funny. I think it’s a bit funnier since I only understand half of it, which is exactly how the interviewer is supposed to be feeling.

EliRivers 7y ago

Put down your pre-emptive feelings of defensiveness. FFS, there's no shame in not understanding something. There is shame to be had in throwing around accusations of privilege at people who understand something you don't. People won't downvote you for not understanding. Some people will applaud you for saying you don't understand, up until the point they realise you're not seeking help in understanding, that you're not trying to improve your own knowledge and wisdom; that instead, you're trying to make yourself feel better by ascribing yourself some moral high-ground for not being one of those "privileged" people who understand something you don't. They might downvote you for being a passive-aggressive child about it.

solipsism 7y ago
Some people will applaud you for saying you don't understand I've been around enough to know how wrong that is. Do you actually believe this? Honest questions asking for explanation are almost guaranteed to result in a negative vote sum. instead, you're trying to make yourself feel better by ascribing yourself some moral high-ground for not being one of those "privileged" people who understand something you don't. Make myself feel better for what? Maybe I needed to include the /s tags...
- EliRivers 7y ago
  Honest questions asking for explanation are almost guaranteed to result in a negative vote sum. Boo hoo hoo. Oh no, lost some internet points. Anyone whose opinion is worth a damn will applaud you asking honest questions; especially here, on defensive poser central. Make myself feel better for what? Maybe I needed to include the /s tags... You've gone for the "I wasn't being serious" defense, pretending you didn't mean it. However, your post wasn't remotely sarcastic and contained far too much detail and defensiveness, with a tone taking itself very seriously. You're convincing nobody. What exactly do you now claim you were being sarcastic about? "The prose seems to resemble something dark and beautiful and meaningful"; that's sarcasm, is it? So you're saying it IS something dark and beautiful and meaningful? "And the bytecode just couldn't be more boring to me." Right, so you were saying the bytecode was some of the most interesting code you've ever read? If your post was sarcasm, you're truly terrible at it and should switch to irony or satire instead. Little bit of literary term privilege there for you to sarcastically pretend to object to. FFS, this is the anonymous internet. If you can't be honest with yourself here, where will you be honest with yourself.