Maybe a little off topic, but I'm curious -- why are all of the Actually Portable programs always named with ".com" at the end? Does this have any special purpose?
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Interesting, since the majority of tech interviews (from what I’ve gathered) rely on artificial tests that require memorization.
I’m not disagreeing, I also think real world experience is infinitely more valuable. But it seems like certs could actually be an indicator that a candidate would perform quite well in LC style interviews.
> After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor.
Huh? I think if it takes you >20 years to do basic stuff like that, you need to revisit your approach to learning new things. If I play chess for 20 years and still don't know how to move the pieces, it's not the game's fault, it's mine.
...said (hopefully) no one. Why is "Google being shady" news anymore? No amount of education on the topic ever seems to change anyone's mind, unless they were already on the fence. People who love Google will continue to love Google, even if they need your firstborn for personalized advertising purposes.
That being said, I'd pay good money to never have to see another person submit another "bug" report where they remove all contents from the bug template I created and just write "why doesn't X do Y. plz fix" followed by an "any updates?" comment <24 hours later.
I wouldn't say the whole thing has necessarily led to burnout, since I still enjoy working on the project, but it has led to me never logging into GitHub and turning off all notifications.
Bold.
I almost feel dirty for reading these, like I'm reading someone's diary without their permission.
Just because we've hit a point where enough people in the country want a platform to share their Nancy Pelosi torture fetish erotica doesn't mean there needs to be a platform to do so. I don't see why anyone should care about who is "hungry" for that.
> Today, Ninja Cookie is not a free software and is not open-source. However, become a free and open-source software is a goal and we are working to achieve it. We hope that this will happen very soon.
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> In order to fund the development of Ninja Cookie, we will soon be offering a premium version.
Also, the author of the article seems to think the extension uses a blacklist content filter rather than "removing cookie banners by rejecting cookies" since they were still noticing cookie banners on some sites.
As a side note - at least on desktop, I think this is solved well enough by just using the element zapper in uBlock Origin. It only takes a couple seconds with a keyboard shortcut.
Wouldn't it have been better to just taste the meat patty without such strong flavors to mask any weirdness? If I was eating the first lab-grown chicken burger, I think I'd want to try it as plain as possible first (i.e. bun and maybe not much else).
Either way I'm happy about the progress. Maybe lab grown meat will stand a better chance of eliminating factory farming than plant based meats.
> Amazingly, more than half the candidates couldn’t write this function in any language
I don't think this is true. Or, they were interviewing candidates fresh out of college who never really paid attention in any classes. Or, the problem was presented to the candidate in an overly complicated fashion (which is weirdly common in technical interviews) and the interviewee was confused, although that seems unlikely.
I think it's easy to get wrapped up in this mindset of "oh we need super complex algorithm whiteboarding because candidates nowadays don't know how to code!" when you hear stories like this, and it's just not true -- at least in my experience of interviewing candidates. Maybe I've just been lucky.
I do wonder how much of this is due to the lack of emphasis on a poster's "credentials" though. Reddit seems to be the last online platform where anyone can contribute to a discussion without being judged for how "popular" someone is.