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On another tangential note: you’re insufferable. If you’re like this in the real world, I can’t imagine you’ve got many people wanting to hold a conversation for very long.
I’m really unsure what you want this community to answer beyond that. There’s nothing we can investigate for you.
*Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1sljeh6/my_isp...
They were going to disconnect it either way, and the 15-year-old was the one that answered the door.
I believe the answers on reddit said about the same, why drag this out further?
And call the cops if the tech was trespassing.
You really need to calm down and act more professional.
All the same, looks like y’all are having fun working on it, and maybe some unforeseen usecase will bubble up.
If you don’t mind me asking, are you a senior level engineer?
While there a solution is clever, it’s not terribly maintainable and likely didn’t fit the bill.
Beyond that, things like soft skills matter for senior roles. The author can write, there’s no denying that, but we don’t know how well they can explain the why of their solution. It’s very likely the interviewers wanted more traditional functions that were unit-testable.
Other taps, like homebrew-ffmpeg, offer a ton of options.