pythonb3sss

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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
Still in India. And I will not learn a single new thing if I go back to university, unless it's a good one, and I'll have to compete with more than 1 million students to get into one of those and there are maybe 15-30k vacancies p
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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
Still in India. The layoffs and the recent batch of fresh graduates have really made it impossible to get a job as companies can basically take their pick. Immediate joiners, low salary expectations, work experience from FAANG like companie
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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
I don't want to lie to get a job. And companies do verify. Maybe not small startups, but everyone else does. And those small startups will start verifying when they grow.
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Ask HN: I can't find a job. What do I do?
28 points by pythonb3sss 3y ago|78 comments
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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
> huge machine that looked pretty much like a guillotine My local binding shop actually still operates one of those.
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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
The problem was that he was terrible at problem solving. He failed at simple logical problems like flattening a nested json array, cleaning data before running operations on it, etc. And probing further on his memorized answers, he couldn&#
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by pythonb3sss 3y ago
I dislike cheating. I've taken ~50 interviews and in 90% of them cheated: a) I could hear their keyboard clacking when they googled the answer b) they'd stall with "umm" and "ooo" while their friend googles the
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by pythonb3sss 4y ago
Although I'm not sure, this [1] could be the reason. TLDR: A chinese hacker group took the official exe, added a malicious dll in it and distributed it to NGOs and government institutions, most likely through a clone website or phishin
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by pythonb3sss 4y ago
I wouldn't say I'm addicted to them, but when I find myself bored, I open a meme site (which shall remain unnamed) and just look at mildly popular memes. Doesn't matter what they're about. I just like the occasional laug
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by pythonb3sss 4y ago
Since Mullvad doesn't have any servers in India, they should be unaffected, right? I confirmed it with their support, they said it will not affect their users.
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
I am going to speculate here, so if I'm wrong please point it out. Here, the number of steps directly affect the time. In the first approach, the ".get()" method first analyses the type of "some_dict" and then uses
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
Well, I don't enjoy the "happy path" programming. Admittedly, this implementation to improve speed feels a bit hacky. I only did it because it had a measurable impact on the computational performance of my program. In my ot
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
Wow! Prior to reading this, I was not aware of "Zero Cost" exception handling. While I am only a Python developer, I always assumed that in any programming language, exception handling, regardless of whether an exception is raised
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
Hi. I realize you're not looking for answers, but I would like to give my 2 cents. Now, this is just my opinion and I welcome constructive criticism. > are these people even real? Do they live somewhere I'm just unfamiliar with
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
I can handle interviews easily. Even non-technical ones. More often than not, I am able to come up with a rough architecture for the program while my boss is still describing it and adjust it as he adds more and more constraints or conditio
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by pythonb3sss 5y ago
I'm in India. In my experience with the companies, they don't even shortlist candidates that don't have a bachelor's degree (atleast that's what I've been told since I was 10)
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Ask HN: I Need Some Career Advice (Please Help)
8 points by pythonb3sss 5y ago|10 comments