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by theamk 1y ago
Yep.. but there is an ultimate solution against cheating: proctored tests on school-provided computers with student-owned devices prohibited, and specialized software which limits which resources can student access. To be more realistic (be
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by theamk 1y ago
depends... I remember seeing my professor painstakingly write formulas on the blackboard - it was such a waste of time. I'd normally have the textbook open on the page with the same formulas and I'd entertain myself by trying to f
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by theamk 1y ago
It does not work that way. "No pain, no gain" - if you don't struggle doing something manually, you don't learn it. In middle school arithmetic, you are not allowed to use calculators. In high school calculus calculators
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by theamk 1y ago
Key quote (IMHO): > The fear within the auction world is that the bust’s flop could now taint casual perceptions of the overall health of the art market, when it was Sotheby’s, and the seller, who agreed to expose an object of economic i
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by theamk 1y ago
I have no objection to Vlang having "null", after all many languages have it. My problem is the outright lies on the front page. Someone who is looking into Vlang might actually believe what's written on the front page, spend
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by theamk 1y ago
the key idea of this seems to be: > if developers collectively insisted on pair programming [...] they could effectively shield themselves from individual metric tracking. Because there would be no such thing as individual programming e
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by theamk 1y ago
I think the critical thing of V, which article only mentions in passing, is it's "Fake it till you make it" philosophy. For me, this completely kills any interest I might have in the language. In particular, many people close
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by theamk 1y ago
Nice, so many gems! > You see, MinorMiner also has a maths learning platform that we sell to schools all over the world. Our platform isn’t particularly good, but we give department heads a generous revenue share and so this tends not to
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by theamk 1y ago
I think your response will select a different kind of people that Kagi wanted do. "I would tell them to write more about the UI/UX, do a mockup whatever." is effectively changing the take-home task from "write code&quot
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by theamk 1y ago
that's the power of legacy. Adobe may think they can add junk to PDF like Javascript support, or lmz's "3D PDF" link below, but since PDFs viewers have a diverse ecosystem, those features won't have a great adoption
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't think you are hearing my arguments? Imagine yourself in the hiring manager's place. Assume all you know nothing about the candidate, and all you have is this email he posted in the blog.. How would you respond to it? Keep
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by theamk 1y ago
No, my assumption is that actually reading and following the requirements would increase the chance of the interview. It's like that Van Halen brown M&M Story - something that is simple to implement, but shows that the candidate ac
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by theamk 1y ago
no, the company did not say that his solution was correct, that's just what the author thought. The company said that _the parts he wrote in the doc_ would not negatively affect his scoring. But his doc did not contain many parts that
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by theamk 1y ago
Well, you are a hiring manager, and you get an email filled with irrelevant decisions (i.e. the parts which do not affect scoring much), and the only part relevant to assignment text [0] is: > The UI will be kept simple, showing paginati
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by theamk 1y ago
a wrong kind of backend though.. The position is "Email Backend Engineer" and the backend OP built was "web backend" (OP outsourced the actual "email backend", that is the thing that stores and sends/recei
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by theamk 1y ago
yes? I am not sure how this contradicts to what I said? You can absolutely have terminal-inspired web apps, see http://www.coboloncogs.org/
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by theamk 1y ago
If you read the assignment, you can see that the majority of tasks is about UI and user-facing features ("Should have basic email viewing + sending functionality", "Does not have to handle rich text messages, just plaintext&q
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by theamk 1y ago
have you ever seen http://www.coboloncogs.org/ ? Or https://term.m4tt72.com/ ? Nothing "at odds" here.. You can absolutely have fixed-size font, character grid based layout, and keyboard-based nav
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't see much disagreement in the comments here? However there seems to be some people who only read the blogpost and did not actually follow the link to the original assignment [0].. you can tell their response by the lack of menti
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by theamk 1y ago
I think what has happened is the author has no idea what "email backend" was, so he just decided to ignore that part and build the only backend he knew, web-app backend. And those terms are pretty different. The "email backen
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by theamk 1y ago
OP's proposal was only describing irrelevant stuff (the backend technologies) and was completely silent on on stuff that mattered (demonstrating how actual RFC822 email works, mutt-inspired UI). It was therefore accepted without commen
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by theamk 1y ago
The 2nd line of assignment, "The project is to build a minimal, terminal-inspired email client". I agree that "inspiration" can be subjective, but in this particular case the solution was so much off that it'd be ha
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by theamk 1y ago
Very curious: how do you deal with AI answers for those? While writing my questions (and testing in my teammates), I found that "can be completed in 30 minutes by a skilled programmer" very often means "can be completed almos
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by theamk 1y ago
Depends on a place. I've worked in places with very strong product management, where every single detail must be approved by a PM. I've also worked in places where engineer has a lot of autonomy - "John from FOO dept is spend
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by theamk 1y ago
Supervisors/manages don't usually do coding interviews though, especially in bigger orgs. There is usually a separate interview stage with some sort of manager, and those usually have no coding.
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by theamk 1y ago
Were there? The question clearly said, "build a minimal, terminal-inspired email client" and "take inspiration from existing terminal email tools like aerc, mutt". Candidate completely ignored that part and built a tool
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by theamk 1y ago
> For a DVI file to be printed or even properly previewed, the fonts it references must be already installed. If you want alternatives, I'd choose DjVu. But it's too late now, everyone is converged on PDFs, and the alternatives
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by theamk 1y ago
Should have added "looks good on screen and on paper", "stores text compactly" and "multiple pages supported" :) And yes, that's a pretty easy set of hurdles. I wish we'd standardized on DjVu instead.
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by theamk 1y ago
Could one do a "terminal inspired, mutt-like email client" that completely satisfies OP's proposal (web-based, TEMPL, pocketbase, pulumi, etc...)? Sure, it would be possible. None of those are _required_ for the submission bu
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by theamk 1y ago
You can totally do terminal-inspired web app - http://www.coboloncogs.org/ is an extreme example, but for this assignment, even fixed-width font and compact layout would likely be enough. Of course the OP in this post did n

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