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by shoo 4mo ago
I conducted a few hundred software engineering interviews while working for a non-tech corp. Aside from technical problem solving & programming interviews we'd also ask a few behavioural questions -- including asking about times wh
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by shoo 5mo ago
Doubt it. No linux-native application would be designed to use a Windows API.
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by shoo 5mo ago
> I am a fan of the HARD FAIL. It reads as if the change was made to some library code that was depended upon by someone else's program that would "yay, done", which was in turn depended on by some workflow. It's prob
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by shoo 5mo ago
creating isolated staging & prod environments -- good idea allowing an AI agent to get hold of creds that let it execute destructive changes against production -- not a great idea allowing prod database changes from the machine where th
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by shoo 6mo ago
Are the patient emails real patients or could they be test accounts?
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by shoo 6mo ago
Hindenburg Research is great. They also did the Nikola expose (that bunch of shysters who claimed to have electric truck technology where their truck couldn't even move under its own power so they filmed it rolling down a gentle slope)
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by shoo 6mo ago
Josh Haberman has a good 2013 blog post discussing LL & LR parsers, theory vs practice, context-free grammars & Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs): https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/09/ll-and-lr-in-contex
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by shoo 7mo ago
it could be better than a nudge -- if you could get a mandatory `go fix` call into internal teams' CI pipelines that either fixes in place (perhaps risky) or fails the build if code isn't already identical to fixed code.
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by shoo 7mo ago
Great example, illustrating go1.26.1 go fix source inline transformation breaking program semantics. Raise it as a bug against go fix?
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by shoo 7mo ago
If I follow, this isn't a compile time inline directive, it's a `go fix` time source transformation of client code calling the annotated function. Per the post, it sounds like this is most effective in closed-ecosystem internal mo
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by shoo 7mo ago
you can get pretty far without programming at all, using spreadsheet templates
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by shoo 7mo ago
it's a classic. 2001 Spiel des Jahres Winner. see https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne
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by shoo 7mo ago
there's also a bunch of dedicated constraint programming solvers / high level modelling languages for these kinds of constraint-y combinatorial optimisation problems e.g. https://www.minizinc.org/ offers a high l
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by shoo 8mo ago
prior ask HN thread from early feb 2026: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867190
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by shoo 8mo ago
> low air density environment. At normal air density near the surface of the Earth that ion thruster could only get a toddler up to ~10 km/h agreed. this also provides an explanation for the otherwise surprising fact that prey anima
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by shoo 8mo ago
middling code, delivered within a tolerable time frame, budget, without taking excessive risk, is good enough for many real-world commercial software projects. homogeneous middling code, written by humans or extruded by machines, is arguabl
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by shoo 8mo ago
in contrast, a toddler equipped with an ion thruster & a modest quantity of xeon propellant could achieve enough delta-v to attain cheetah-escape velocity, provided the initial trajectory during the first 31 hours of the mission was thr
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by shoo 8mo ago
or jump off, and instead grab onto the (well-deserved) sqlite-test-suite hype train.
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by shoo 8mo ago
> Brass Birmingham [...] there are often only 1-2 legal moves to play and figuring out what they are is quite a challenge for people playing the first time. Also, some of those legal moves will set up a board state that the player taking
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by shoo 8mo ago
+1 to pavel_lishin's Splendor suggestion. There's also Splendour: Duel [1] which is a more complex version of the game designed for 2 players. Another quick, low-complexity game that is easy to teach & pretty good fun is Cent
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by shoo 8mo ago
standard algorithms for single-source/single-dest pathfinding scale log-linearly in the size of the graph, so compared to other combinatorial optimisation problems, optimal pathfinding is incredibly easy for computers to do & scale
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by shoo 8mo ago
what a great talk with many little highlights: code archaeology of a codebase passed between many teams & companies with the full revision history being lost somewhere along the way, detective work figuring out there had been an accide
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by shoo 8mo ago
The underlying argument this article seems to be making is that an appropriate algorithm for any given application isn't always the one with the most efficient asymptotic performance for sufficiently large n -- for a given application
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by shoo 8mo ago
see also: "How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding" (2019, non-technical, for a general audience) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VAL7Epn3o
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by shoo 8mo ago
paid time off
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by shoo 8mo ago
In Australia, full-time employees get 20 days of paid leave + paid public holidays (11 - 13 days, depending on the state).
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by shoo 8mo ago
thank you for posting a text version. to make the topic even more legible to prospective link clickers: > How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Pre-PhD and Post-PhD (& How to Give a Bad Talk)
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by shoo 8mo ago
Good on you for attempting to reproduce the results & writing it up, and reporting the issue to the authors. > It turns out that the classification method used in their code looked at the test label as part of the decision method and
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by shoo 8mo ago
> thought processes went "I'm a full stack engineer" > ... > "I'm evaluating classes in professional writing" Let that one run, let's see where it ends. maybe "I no longer build software; I
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by shoo 8mo ago
I've never worked on anything subject to medical regulation, but regarding open source tools, common open source licenses such as the MIT License [1], BSD License [2], GPL 2 & 3 [3] [4] all include "no warranty" / &q

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