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by permille42 6y ago
As an "uncontrolled lunatic" myself, they are rather obvious in the field. I'll agree that many of the things he says are reasonable. An example is his recent defense of long lines and dismissal of the insane "80 charact
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by permille42 6y ago
There are plenty of good alternatives. One is: Talk to the fucking candidate and ask them about the things they have done over the course of their career. Have them explain something you don't know about yourself and see how they do. T
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by permille42 6y ago
"Hey are you experienced with coderpad?" "No obviously I have never encountered coderpad in my 20+ years of writing software and will have a hard time using a simple online text editor." Facebook interviewers are such in
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by permille42 6y ago
Wrong. If you are a serious Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience you will easily fail their stupid interview process. Why? Because most of the people on the loop have far less experience than you. They aren't any good at meas
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by permille42 6y ago
I had the same experience. They only asked about things I haven't focused on or cared about in over 20 years. The person on the other side of the design interview also seemed very inexperienced and wasn't able to follow things tha
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by permille42 6y ago
Been there. Done that. Fuck Facebook. They focused way too much on "college mentality" skills and zero on long term knowledge or experience with developing software in the field. They also didn't ask jack shit about my past e
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by permille42 6y ago
Signal is better anyway. WhatsApp cooperates with the US government.
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by permille42 6y ago
He is one of 3 people that came to mind immediately reading this post. One of his latest creations, QuickJS, is quite remarkable. The other two I thought of are Peter Norton and Linus Torvalds. Fabrice, despite his tremendous contributions
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by permille42 6y ago
"Who is John Galt?" Mastery could most closely be viewed as a state of enlightenment. To the non-enlightened it will appear to be dismissive and lazy. There are a variety of positions one could take once reaching enlightenment: 1.
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by permille42 6y ago
This article misses the broader goal/reason to use DSLs. That reason is metaprogramming. DSLs are very powerful and extremely effective when they simplify how some specific task or sequence must be configured. When you do something rep
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by permille42 6y ago
Well I don't outright physically harm others ( such as with my fists, fights, weapons, etc ) I don't though seem to have a problem urging others to engage in dangerous behavior that could cause them physical harm. This is essentia
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by permille42 6y ago
What Amazon is doing is not fine in any way. Having seen their dev process from the inside it is an absolute nightmare. They give zero shits about the wellfare of their devs nor about their contribution to open source. The only reason they
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by permille42 6y ago
I worked there. I can assure you that they contribute very very very very little in terms of what they use. They also have very strict gatekeeping about what they allow to become open source. I've seen multiple projects get prevented f
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by permille42 6y ago
Post logic: Here is an example of a company taking their software closed sourced after previously being open. Also, AWS. AWS uses the crud out of open source. They admittedly "steal" it in that they fork it internally, applying pa
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by permille42 6y ago
To start, I'll define what I view "dark traits" to mean personally to me. They mean having an internal moral system where it is acceptable to harm others in some ways. The more harm a person is willing to do, the more we gene