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by bgro 4y ago
But wait, how is this fair to the millions of software engineers that can only pass interviews by memorizing the question? Isn't that the whole point? To gatekeep people with other learning styles and fast track people who arguably che
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by bgro 4y ago
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of bad engineering traffic engineers come up with. For example, there's a street near downtown Denver that has a stop sign that has a blind 270 degree off-highway-ramp with no stop that racers f
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by bgro 4y ago
On Windows, it's amazing how confusing permissions are. Seemingly everything needs admin permission to run. If the program can't get admin permission from you, it can probably just ignore that and do stuff like install to %appdat
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by bgro 4y ago
I want to throw out there that in addition to these parameters and how you call them in different ways, the order of operations for them is also very frustrating. FFMPEG comes to mind immediately as an example. Essentially, you call ffmpeg
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by bgro 4y ago
I have been trying to google this concept of confusion for years. Finally, an article where someone has had the same thought as me about the consistency. This has been one of those things that's impossible to search for because everyth
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by bgro 4y ago
On a semi related note, there is some speculation out there that iOS 13 changed how the native iOS keyboard predicts words and has gotten much worse.
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by bgro 5y ago
You SOUND reasonable... But... Try to write a script on windows that takes in a URL with an "=" character and replace that with a "-" Try to write a 100 line script in CMD. Oops, actually it needs to be in powershell. Co
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by bgro 5y ago
In summary of my comment, if (text.contains("Final Fantasy VII") ){ $(this).upvote; }
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by bgro 5y ago
Tech interviews remind me of employers saying to forget everything you’ve learned, kiddo. Heh, we do REAL work here! If you want to work for us you better be able to complete this leetcode question! You’re not a real engineer if you can’t!
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by bgro 5y ago
when I visited NYC I got the feel for the battle for every square inch of room on every sidewalk, street, and building. Being able to like sit at a table to eat at a small place you picked up your food has got to be a huge cost in space jus
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by bgro 5y ago
It says in red at the top to not turn on your microwave. This seems to be testing if WiFi waves can get through the microwave. It’s interesting the browser can get access to this information with no prompts
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by bgro 5y ago
I still haven’t figured out how to read twitter conversations / threads and profiles. Everything always seems out of order. Referenced things are just generally missing as well. I don’t think they were deleted but I have no idea.
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by bgro 5y ago
100MB is enough to send hundreds of free internet messages such as iMessage or more traditional chat apps which avoids using limited text messages on the plan. That’s a legitimate reason to keep it enabled. If you don’t use text/call d
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by bgro 5y ago
I meant shipping activated AirTags as a “prank” or to otherwise cause chaos. People are already shipping individual activated ones to see where they end up. Or if 500 separate people saw those news stories and each did it individually for l
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by bgro 5y ago
This was a concern I had since day 0. I have been asking about things like this and been talked down to constantly as if I don't know how bluetooth works... My other concern was if these are hijacking your data plan. Maybe it's no
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by bgro 5y ago
I’ve extensively looked into this as I can’t find a good light and easy backup options that isn’t extreme overkill. I thought MHTML was NOT standardized which is why it wasn’t across all browsers yet. From what I remember, every company was
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by bgro 5y ago
I came to this realization a few months ago as well. I had been using one note to keep notes and it got glitchy between devices, causing things to not appear. I’ve had multiple random losses of data like that. Word documents and other speci
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by bgro 5y ago
I saw a news video (CNBC?) on YouTube looking into how the chip supply shortage is affecting car sales. One of the car manufacturer representatives said they have had to cut features like power windows / locks, as may be expected. Howe
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by bgro 5y ago
Developing or playing in 1 world? In school I remember finding project files students in the past had left on the servers. Mostly like digital art files. Sometimes papers or a miscopy from a flash drive or a small game. I thought that was c
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by bgro 5y ago
I agree with everything you said. My point boils down to it seems like there is ambiguity between the technical definition vs the actual practice and security requirements we've currently decided on as acceptable. Somebody who uses bas
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by bgro 5y ago
I don't really understand the confusion around these terms in terms of day-to-day actual work. Is this really a problem? This seems like a trivial question to me so much so that I would (and have) screwed up this question in an intervi
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by bgro 5y ago
I think a lot of the common memes around programmers like these is due to the wrong-think gatekeeping during the interview process that everybody is copying from FAANG. I have 5-10 years programming experience and find an unlimited amount o
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by bgro 5y ago
Imagine if they were dumped into the ocean how good of a headline that would be. "The drugs were dumped into the ocean. The ocean, weighing 4.9x10E21 pounds, according to Google, means we just stopped 4.9x10E21 (plus a few) pounds of d
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by bgro 5y ago
Amazon / Google I think will stay strong due to their infrastructure in cloud technology. Amazon has the physical delivery infrastructure as well, which doesn't have a great competitor yet. Apple is currently doing fine with their
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by bgro 5y ago
Everybody I've talks to jumps on the victim blaming high horse every time this comes up. "Well just don't get banned. What did you get banned for? What were you wearing when you got banned?" I have friends that got banne
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by bgro 5y ago
Ah, so same as the battery situation. New battery tech or revised software that works more efficiently? Great, we can make the battery smaller. That's all customers care about-- a thinner phone that can go in a bulky phone case! I don&
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by bgro 5y ago
It seems like everyone in tech does this. Someone has a mind blowing feat of engineering, but leave out the part where they cheated and arguably lied about it because "it's just some minor detail that doesn't really matter&qu
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by bgro 5y ago
Among many bad features and bad coding, I somewhat recently found out the "new" reddit on desktop has a live chat option for some reason. I put in a 4/10 effort in looking to disable it but couldn't find it. It appears i
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by bgro 5y ago
Reddit has possibly the worst mobile experience I've ever seen. I've never seen a company try to force its (awful, slow, buggy) app down people's throats harder if you try to use the mobile web version. The entire mod culture
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by bgro 5y ago
The recipe writing community is leaking into the developer community.

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