formulathree

16 ms·

61.
by formulathree 3y ago
I think so. It wasn't like this before. Another thing that's getting popular is asking questions "related" to the job. It's also kind of stupid in my opinion because of the way they pick the question. Usually they&#
62.
by formulathree 3y ago
>As ridiculous as it may sound, don’t take it personally. Yeah thanks for the tip. I'm not taking it personally. But I still do consider this practice rude and inappropriate. It's just the rudeness is not directed at me persona
63.
by formulathree 3y ago
Good tip. I think I'm never going to do a take home assignment again.
64.
by formulathree 3y ago
> I would email the recruiter back asking for feedback on the project. The worst they can say is no, and at best you get some insight into their reasoning. Good tip. They already said in the rejection letter no feedback will be given. &g
65.
by formulathree 3y ago
>IMO when a "super senior / staff engineer" chooses to write code, they should write WORKING CODE and verify that that's true. You can spin the code up with "docker-compose up --build" You and everyone else
66.
by formulathree 3y ago
Huge thanks for the feedback! >- requirements.txt is the standard for specifying deps, right? poetry is a new thing. I just tried it for this project it replaces requirements.txt with pyproject.toml >- making a README explaining the p
67.
by formulathree 3y ago
Well hold on. With 4 failures in a row. It COULD be me. It's not always true that it's always them. (but I get your point and it's valid.) That's why I posted my code. Was wondering if there's something fundamentall
68.
by formulathree 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. Yeah I know this. Just wondering though with 4 failures in a row, I think there is a good chance something is wrong with my code so I wanted to make sure with this post. I've been doing the grind for years, but this
69.
by formulathree 3y ago
>Impressive for only 4h of work and good caveats list in the documentation. Thanks! They requested me to spend only 4 hours on it. > I can't see the restriction on number of path segments in the code ("/api/ follow
70.
by formulathree 3y ago
Could be, but with 4 in a row? I'm inclined to think something is wrong with my code, that's why I put an example up. People are biased, and I'm biased as well, so I hope other people can see past it and see what's wrong
71.
by formulathree 3y ago
Nah, no contacts in this company, or the ones I applied to. I'm not exactly the most successful socially saavy engineer with a bunch of industry connections. I'm more just a lone wolf programmer. I like to think I'm really go
72.
Ask HN: I have 10 yrs of Exp. Failed 4 takehome projects. What am I doing wrong?
25 points by formulathree 3y ago|85 comments
73.
by formulathree 3y ago
>Okay, how exactly? What practical problems can I solve with it? Can anyone demonstrate Poly being used somehow for a 1000-table database migration more elegantly than could be achieved using other methods? Is there an O(n^2) or O(exp(n)
74.
by formulathree 3y ago
First: the AI isn't that accurate yet. It gets shit wrong. It's almost there but not yet. Maybe in 24 months... but a lot of people think we hit a wall. Second: implementation is harder then design. If AI can do implementation it
75.
by formulathree 3y ago
Hey. I'm fucking American and I worked defense and you're completely right. The US is deploying an entire chain of military forces around china. Literally. From Japan all the way through taiwan to the Philippines we are boxing chi
76.
by formulathree 3y ago
It's the opposite for javascript. Too much money is thrown at creating more and more nonsense. Pick your poison: too little money at dealing with nonsense, or too much money on simple shit such that you spend all your time creating mor
77.
by formulathree 3y ago
Ironically Liquification is just a deterrent. Yeah all that brain power is deployed to create technology that is barely used ever. It's just there to scare other people away. That's the current state of technology right now. On on
78.
by formulathree 3y ago
Intelligence won't matter here. Software design doesn't have a formal theory that defines optimal design and there isn't any empirical evidence either. We know the shortest distance between two points because we have a formal
79.
by formulathree 3y ago
Yeah, most people nowadays spend their time and energy on making serving html websites more and more complex. Complex missile systems? That's nothing compared to my vm running kube, running docker, running nextjs react emulating x86 an
80.
by formulathree 3y ago
Most of them can't be coerced like this. Typescript is one of the few that can be.
81.
by formulathree 3y ago
Which means you can't to general computation with it. You're just reiterating his point.
82.
by formulathree 3y ago
It is no surprise. They can be coerced to prove your program correct, negating the need to do unit tests. But this is only true for certain languages. Overall most type systems are not Turing complete and therefore not suited for general co
83.
by formulathree 3y ago
Functional programming does this. Probably not Haskell level ninja types or passing functions around like dependency injection, but the idea of separating state and io away from pure logic does indeed remove complexity. Ironically the separ
84.
by formulathree 3y ago
Go is sane? I just started using it and the parsing libraries all standardize tags and reflection. Not exactly sane. Go is one of the most clunkiest awkward languages I've ever worked with. The only benefit is that it's somewhat e