tictac-toe

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by tictac-toe 5y ago
> It feels like a mixture of the good parts of Scala, Kotlin, and Rust. Indeed, I think at the moment it's hands down the best language available for general application programming. The problem is the lack of libraries on non-apple
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
You can use a dynamically sized thread pool. E.g. remove a thread with a certain probability once it's idle for more than X seconds.
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
All data is relational. If you think some data model is not relational then you haven't thought about the problem space enough :p The only valid reasons to choose non-relational databases are scalability and performance.
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
You could go into freelancing. For normal developer gigs in Germany you'll usually get 70-80€/hour. Contracts are often for 6 months and will get extended in 6 months steps. Depending on how much you work you can make 150k+. Still
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An open letter to my friends with fuck you money(defmacro.substack.com)
29 points by tictac-toe 6y ago|9 comments
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-interview-engineers
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
> Then, give them a problem. The one I gave for years is to write a program that plays every possible tic-tac-toe game, and then prints the number of valid games. There must be people he interviewed, they should be able to answer your
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by tictac-toe 6y ago
Ok, took me 20 minutes, and I forgot to count the draws–I only counted the games when there is a winner. But I think his math doesn't work out. The solution is only about ~100 lines. If typing speed was the bottleneck, it would only ta