I love redheads and I didn’t really understand the “ginger” hate in the US – just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like “gingers are disgusting” “hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are” … I’m like wtf is going on here, I don’t understand it?

Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it’d be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.

he’d let claude do everything and he didn’t actually care how it worked.

😱

I hired someone that recently put up PRs and when I asked what they were for, he had no idea … he hasn’t ran or tested a single one … just vibing everything.

When I saw his Terraform PRs … I was like, “show me how you run this”. I shortly found out he never had Terraform installed and didn’t know how to switch AWS profile at all. He let’s AI do everything. Also, he kept sending me AI convos and I was like, “if you send me another one without reading it first and summarizing it for me, I’m going to lose my shit”. He said, “I wanted to send you the proof” … I said, “you sent me half a page of nonsense where you didn’t respect my time enough to read yourself first”

I much prefer conversational style interviews. I also like having them tell me about shit and then getting into the weeds of what they’ve been through.

I’ve been through so many stupid quizzing type interviews. I remember one where they wanted to ask about covariance and contravariance and I roughly stated I learned about it when writing my own compiler and it’s about types and how one can follow the typing direction of typing, for let’s say parameter/return values and the other can go the other way but I forget which is which typically. The guy was like, “guess which one is which?” I said, “why? it’d just be a guess, I thought I demonstrated that I’m at least familiar with the concepts”, he said, “I can’t mark down you got this question is right unless you get the right answer” … I said, “let’s skip it then”.

Another one was where he asked me if I knew “WPF” which is a Microsoft framework to write desktop apps. I said, “it’s not on my CV, and I’ve only used it at home a few times but you can ask me questions if you’d like”, he then said with a smirk on his face, “if you want to answer the WPF portion, and you get it wrong then you look bad, but if you get it right then you look good, so what do you want to do?”, I said, “I think this is up to you as an interviewer – I’ve told you where I stand”

There was a lot of that … like based on THEIR questions – I don’t know shit … but they’re not quizzing my experience at all.

doesn’t really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string

yeah that’s basically it, I know you’re leaning into your existing knowledge (of likely C-based stuff) but your line of thinking is about right about how you’re inferring things … naming and stuff gets a bit “different” or less serious when you go into JS land sometimes.

What’s funny is if this were a real job interview question and you answered in the way that you did … the way you answered it told me more about yourself and your qualifications than just getting it exactly right

When imposter syndrome meets an actual imposter!

I refuse to believe you couldn’t infer what this is, you’re way too smart and you could definitely just guess.

Oh man, I totally forgot about that! Classic movie!

Could be used for stop him from reproducing.

Let me tell you something about LOTR and Vigga Mortensen and the kicking of a helmet …

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I seriously sometimes don’t have the “COPY” part execute sometimes … I’ve tried to do only one copy a few times and I’m like “wait, why didn’t it copy”?

lol … yeah the first three were pure action to me … I mean, unless you count putting that woman to hold the wheel to keep the gate open which then kills her a puzzle too …

But also: Why does Odin sound like he’s from New York?

lol I mean there’s no arguing that, but I fucking love that actor … but I definitely can’t counter what you said 🤣

The puzzles are like some of the worst shit in GoW to me. However, everyone says you can’t remove it because it’s SO apart of the game. I just really enjoyed their take on Nordic mythology.

You ever play God of War Ragnarok?

Dude, I didn’t realize how many of those were brands … you blew my mind.

lol I was making a bad joke about how it’s all uppercase regardless so my advice is completely useless

you do have a point though … we take name brands sometimes and put it into our regular lexicon many times I think xerox is a good example as well.

That is simple, Fleshlight is a product and would be an uppercase at the start while flashlight is lowercase at the start … simple 👀

Damn she’s fine …

He’s very popular, written several books and spoken at many events. Most notably he’s written Clean Code and the follow up I never bothered reading and he’s a die hard advocate of TDD and also one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. I met him a few times after his talks.

I generally “like” Uncle Bob or Robert C Martin insofar as he advocated for better software design and had some good ideas and all that. I personally hate TDD but when you talk to him and stuff, he’s more flexible and nuanced than he can come across. The problem is when he comes up with (or runs into) a new “philosophy” he becomes evangelical about it and it seems like he doesn’t have as much nuance. Sadly though, growing up with his fans in the software industry has been a pain because they’d hear something from him or Fowler or Beck or whoever and then try to reshape the codebase like typical Magpie Developers.

You’re telling me you wouldn’t date mechahitler if given the chance? /s

I think it was just something they loved rather than something they loved the most.

I don’t think Natasha and Clint’s one would work as well because Clint would have had to lose his wife or children or something.