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D_B_Koopa

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D_B_Koopa··on Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview
Google relies on writing syntactically correct code in a google doc with no autocomplete/auto indenting during their interviews. The cognitive load of this plus having to answer very difficult obscure algorithmic questions was too foreign from my normal workflow and too heavy of a cognitive load for me to be able to answer the question accurately in the time given. I hope they don't build production code this way.
D_B_Koopa··on Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy
No but you can trick your body into creating more Hypocretin/Orexin by taking Opiates https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aao4953#:~:....
D_B_Koopa··on Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
for it to be legitimate you need to use ColdFusion and then do a half assed port to .net.
D_B_Koopa··on Front End Interview Handbook
it's more that obsolete concepts like var, AMD and Common.js are focused on.

These techniques are obsolete & lead to fragile code especially when blended with newer concepts like native js imports, let and const.

D_B_Koopa··on Front End Interview Handbook
This is already quite dated. Most of the content is geared towards the state of JS in 2013-2015.
D_B_Koopa··on Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
I think the go authors have had a reasonable balance of this when adding new features. Generics are quite useful.
D_B_Koopa··on Atlas of Surveillance
the UX of this isn't great.
D_B_Koopa··on GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
This is generally done to protect battery cell health. Much like SSD memory one cell in the battery failing will ruin an otherwise fine battery.
D_B_Koopa··on GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
This is a very common strategy of camera hardware manufacturers Nikon and Cannon had similar firmware crippling.
D_B_Koopa··on A chat room inside the browser console
type "send("message","color in hex"(optional))
D_B_Koopa··on Nodes – JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking
Any plans to have it generate GLSL?