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maybenotafarton Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?

yeah I just dont get why we have to make the coding exercises algorithmic.

I care more about like, do I have to hold your hand or not? no I dont. Okay we are cool.

maybenotafarton Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?

If coding has taught me just one thing its.... keep your ego in a box.

If you need a job, do the fucking exam. if you dont, tell them to pound sand. Its as simple as the dynamic of power.

maybenotafarton Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware

I dont trust it.

maybenotafarton ConstitutionDAO

I dont get this. Is the constitution an NFT?!?!?!

owning the constitution does not need to be a financial transaction, this seems like a scam. we need less money in politics, not more.

maybenotafarton Introducing Age Verification

Put PHI into a video game? What could go wrong? its not like you can mod roblox.... oh.

Well atleast video game code is nice and secur..... oh.

maybenotafarton Version control without Git

Congrats! we have gone back to software development pre-1980

maybenotafarton Surveillance capitalism will transform the domain name system

so we will make our own DNS system with blackjack and hookers

maybenotafarton Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

idk its still almost 1.5x as expensive for a 2 by 4 at home depot

maybenotafarton How to Speak Cicada

I tried to speak cicada but I ended up just annoying the shit out of everyone and then dying after 3 days.

maybenotafarton We created a fake language to root out resume liars

Seems like a lot of time you are blaming the victim here. People put that shit on the resume because of NLP resume parsers filtering out good candidates.

This is why you come to the game with a human readable resume

maybenotafarton Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

sounds much more like budget politics against the incompetent

maybenotafarton Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

That is horse shit and we all know it. What bug takes 2k hours???? thats 250 work days. jesus christ, if I took that long to fix a bug, fire me. And yes, I'm also talking about time to test, write/fix unit tests, write/fix integration tests, releasing into production, and data conversion.

maybenotafarton Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water

according to this, your standard "tip of the iceberg" triangle everyone refers to when using that phrase is all wrong

maybenotafarton From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases

I find it interesting how it nopes really complex icebergs

maybenotafarton A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

Society has been destroyed thousands of times over and has still survived. We think of the past as glorious and fair. Reality is that this is foolish optimism fed by historical revisionism and survivorship bias.

maybenotafarton GitHub adds ability to upload videos to comments and gists

yay, code is just like facebook. This won't end badly

maybenotafarton Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?

personally, I just outright refuse to be on call. That cheap bastard needs to hire a SRE. I explicitly ask the question in interview, I let the manager know I have zero interest in doing such a thing. and when they force my hand, I go somewhere else.

maybenotafarton Can 4 Seconds of Exercise Make a Difference?

Now thats my kind of optimization

maybenotafarton How to overcome Phone Addiction

on android, you can set your phone to grayscale (night time mode). This helps with the fact that the bright colors subconsciously lure you in