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by thedracle 5y ago
> This is bullshit. Let me explain why. Hi, Jason here, CTO of CoScreen, and author of this article. Thanks for your candid opinion Richard. > The reality is that the Leetcode style coding interview, as we know it today... I'd lo
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by thedracle 5y ago
I know who the owner is, he isn't fake and reached out to me personally, but I didn't feel comfortable doxing him without his explicit permission. I don't necessarily agree or subscribe to all of these points, just found it i
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by thedracle 5y ago
Someone called this to my attention in terms of making engineering interviews more fair, and there are some overlapping points, particularly with not biasing your interviews based on tooling: https://faircoding.com/interview
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by thedracle 5y ago
Jason (article writer) here on my normal ycombinator account. > but the exact problem scenario this hire had should have been caught. I think if people weren't taking courses specifically training for engineering interviews, and com
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by thedracle 5y ago
Jason, CTO of CoScreen here on my normal account. So, this is about coding interviews for hiring developers, and it's more about the goal of hiring a good engineer. Obviously evaluating them dynamically will be more heuristic, and less
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by thedracle 5y ago
It's been there for a while: https://web.archive.org/web/20170815000000*/reddit.com/etc/p...
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by thedracle 5y ago
Okay... They knew of Smalltalk, and many of the design patterns were around smalltalk features. And as you pointed out one of the authors had a strong background in smalltalk, and they chose Smalltalk for examples presented in the book. In
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by thedracle 5y ago
What's your point exactly? Did they have smalltalk in mind or not?
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by thedracle 5y ago
At least in languages with similar native performance as Rust (C/C++), in my personal experience, serialization has often been difficult and manual, and most libraries have fallen short of my expectations, or had serious performance, s
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by thedracle 5y ago
The extendibility of it is impressive, as well as the list of formats supported by the community. The ability to output JSON for debugging next to tight-concise binary formats, is really appealing. I've dealt with a number of C++ based
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by thedracle 5y ago
Let me begin with saying I'm happy the design pattern fetishism of the 90's is long dead. But that I think the pendulum has swung the other direction a bit too far to say the promise of OOP and design patterns is somehow a failed
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by thedracle 5y ago
Python is four years older than Java, and both have been extended a great deal since their inception. The original Design Patterns book was written with Smalltalk in mind, which was dynamically duck typed, and had functional features (code
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by thedracle 5y ago
The original debacle was splitting off their non enterprise users to Fedora. It set me on the path of experimenting with Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu. Redhat has some excellent engineers, and I have made heavy use in the past of eCos in parti
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by thedracle 5y ago
I definitely agree with the general mantra that C++ is special, and bullheadedness about doing things differently. But I do also know from experience that walking the line of evolving language features in a compiler taking into consideratio
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by thedracle 5y ago
> I think most people aren’t comfortable building a strung together shell environment So please don't take my comment here as a critique on Warp. I was responding to the sentiment "I like my terminal as it is and I don't f
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by thedracle 5y ago
I agree, I am definitely happy with my terminal experience in general, and there is an equivalent for most of the features using a combination of TMux/ZShell/vi mode, etc etc... It actually feels like I'm living less of my li
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by thedracle 5y ago
I'm amazed at how often it does better than hexrays decompiler wise. It's pretty spectacular. Radare2 has a plugin for using ghidra's decompiler too https://github.com/radareorg/r2ghidra So you can get a
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by thedracle 5y ago
I'm excited by the Kernel maintainer's openness to include Rust, especially for driver work. But I think it's a long-road ahead until it is generally adopted. My team in the past (which developed security device drivers), end
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by thedracle 5y ago
Walter's point is by even C's own standards, the behavior of automatically having an array be treated as a pointer when it is passed to a function is unexpected and a mistake. Given he authored the D programming language, he is ab
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by thedracle 5y ago
Personally I think it is questionable if the US Government would have put a dollar into space or semiconductors had there been no Soviet Union. The Soviets were willing to put large amounts of effort towards scientific advancements and expl
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by thedracle 5y ago
I bought a 2019 Core-i9, top of the line, and plugging a non 16:9 resolution screen into it out of clamshell mode causes the GPU to consume 18W, and basically cause the system to unsustainably heat-up until it starts throttling itself. htt
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by thedracle 5y ago
What Apple has proven with M1 and Rosetta is you can actually quite elegantly support legacy x86 programs, while leaving little on the table, and make use of all of the advantages of ARM/RISC based architectures. I'm interested if
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by thedracle 5y ago
That's pretty awesome. I moved out of embedded development many years ago, but it's always been my true love as an engineer.
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by thedracle 5y ago
I mean, the futex2 proposal has been around for over a year. A lot of the history and discussion can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/27/1208 I personally feel like the kernel maintainers have
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by thedracle 5y ago
I think the biggest problem with C++ is the lack of explicit safety requiring you understand the internal mechanisms of how everything works in order to make use of almost anything, combined with extremely high levels of abstraction. The hi
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by thedracle 6y ago
I have used this for years, and I have it mapped to copy into the clipboard on the various OSes I use it on. I especially like the vim like keybindings for visually selecting text blocks (although some things don't quite work the same)
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by thedracle 6y ago
This is the situation my Dad is in. He owns the trailer, but the park jacks up the rent. So he's caught behind not being able to afford the cost to move his trailer, and the steadily increasing rent which is slowly driving him further
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by thedracle 6y ago
We use a custom native compositor on both of the current supported operating systems.
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by thedracle 6y ago
I realize your skepticism to my original answer, but I am 100% earnest about our intentions regarding Linux. It isn't a secondary concern for us, and we know how important it is for engineers. Most of the developers on our team are avi
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by thedracle 6y ago
"Thanks for taking the time to answer my bad question sincerely!" No problem! It's actually a great conversation starter. "With CoScreen, would "hey, can we check the logs real quick?" become as simple as the o

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