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Have you tried using an ~~XML~~ PDF parser instead? /s

and tried to find which sentence without spaces matches your sentence

I don't agree with this.

>The person who used common user-space unix/linux tools didn't already have his mind locked into "writing a program to accomplish the interviewer's objectives"

It's partly your fail as a interviewer that candidate has to guess what you expect from him.

What if instead of using bash s/he had used popular GUI tool like Excel(let's assume that it performs the job quickly too), then would it be OK too?

I found cycling to be very easy to do consistently meanwhile being very relaxing.

Different approaches work for different people

e.g

People with family/kids would rather not do home-work tasks

Some people would prefer to be asked about heavy job-related stuff e.g frameworks, kubernetes, real-life problems

Some people would rather challenge themselves against foundational knowledge e.g because for them it may be faster to do 1-2 algo tasks or it being technology agnostic

Some people would rather try designing systems, operate at higher abstractions levels instead of typing code

...

I personally believe that I'd rather see security questions than algo/ds questions cuz poorly performing algo can always be rewritten, meanwhile leak cannot be reverted, but I'm aware that shitton of people would hate that

How to match "interview kind" to candidate? maybe ask them which they prefer, I guess?

but it assumes that you have people capable of performing this kinds of interview and you want to "enable" this person to peak

this is great!

but ff shows that underrun.wasm is 35KB, what's going on?

While I do agree, then you don't have to run Selenium tests on your PC, but let it be done by e.g ci/cd

Also depends how many pages do you want to test with Selenium - if you want to test e.g 5 pages, then it'll be fast enough I guess.

There are a few tricks/configurations that make Selenium significantly faster - https://stackoverflow.com/a/57720610

A lot of is also on how do you write your "testing infrastructure" - maybe you could reuse engine/browser instance? execute tests parallelly?

There's also alternative to Selenium by Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

AFAIK it's way more reliable than Selenium (false errors)

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Overall you can still start application inside tests with different startup, without Selenium and send http requests, so you'll have end-to-end tests done fast.

>GitHub Copilot

Github is Github

Microsoft is Microsoft

Aren't they? Github works heavily independently from MS

Holy shit I noticed that lately

and thought Windows stopped doing this

For Selenium tests I've been setting up an actual instance of application in test with different Startup (e.g sqlite instead of real database) and running at different port

This way you can test those fancy things, but I agree it's kinda "hard" to get it working for the first time

But why? generally you don't test controllers directly.

You test "service"/"handler" classes that handle those requests.

If you want to test controllers, then you write E2E tests that send HTTP requests

Here's some example of how it might look like

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/integratio...

>At least when the controllers are all classes I can unit test them.

Do what on "controllers"???

heresy

>100+ employees for 1200 customers. So every customer needs to pay at least 0.1 developers on average to break even. Doesn't look sustainable.

wasn't Discord computer-stuff related team even smaller?

would disabling wifi prevent this?

I do wonder what's the cost of relatively skilled, proficent at rhetorical gymnastics and eristics with domain knowledge individual?

> Maybe they've moved to Linux if they have finished their migration to .NET Core,

As far as I know they have been using .NET Core (or just EF Core? would be weird to go EF Core + .NET Framework, I guess?) on prod in 2018:

>This is the query pattern that caused StackOverflow.com to go offline yesterday:

https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/13524

So maybe they used some things on Linux and some things on Windows - those that couldnt be ported to .NET Core back in the days

Indeed, afaik they have been migrating long time ago

2018:

>This is the query pattern that caused StackOverflow.com to go offline yesterday:

https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/13524

but on the other hand their tech stack site says: C# + ASP.NET MVC

instead of ASP.NET Core, but I don't think it is proof of anything.

>A junior dev can build an alternative

Of course junior dev can do it, the same way junior dev can make Youtube

it'll work as long as there's less than 100 concurrent users on SO and less than 50 4K 20min videos on youtube

>Because they're constrained by Windows

How? didn't they migrate to .NET Core?

what do you mean by saying "everything"? just SQL Server?

privacy?

how about yellow/vaccination book that you need when travel to fancy places?

Is this $BIG_Company problem?

I feel like devs at small companies are doing everything -

coding, testing, supporting customer, deployments, troubleshooting and of course straight over ssh+winscp cuz vps/bare metal are cheaper

>The first week of February went by. I sent, probably, several hundred applications. My rough estimate is 400.

what.

400 applications?! I've heard about people on cscareerquestions sending hundreds of CVs, but this is insane!

uh, so what?

I struggle to understand acting as if those things were some incredibly important stuff just like water, internet, computers,

or something that nobody would risk losing e.g via standing to fight against its vendor

Maybe losing those will result in creating new, more open and less vendor locking alternatives

How does it relate to Linux?

Yes, I can always use First and catch Exception, which is meh.

First returning Result<T> or something like FirstOrNull would be better, because FoN would work for ref types - classes and stuff the same way (afaik) as FoD does, but it'd make error handling for value types like ints more precise

Well, on the other hand there's difference between handling errors with values like:

-1, 0, 1 and other obscure things

and using proper types like

Result<T>

Have you considered using patterns that help dealing with that?

like Railway Oriented Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yk2nuRjj8

I believe that almost every thing should return Result<T>, because almost everything can fail and compiler should scream when you do not handle those fail pathes.

That makes me believe that C#'s "FirstOrDefault" for value types sucks, because you're never sure whether the "Default" comes due to lack of value or because the found value is actually the same as default

e.g

var list = new List<int> {1,2,3};

var found = list.FirstOrDefault(x => x < 1);

found = 0 (default)

meanwhile 0 may be valid value! so we aren't sure whether it is error or an actual value

and we have to perform e.g casts to `int?` or stuff to detect that.

using Result<T> gives very precise information

>With modern tools, it’s easy to torture a data set to produce some sort of interesting-sounding result, even if it’s not really valid. And that’s before we get as far as outright fraud.

Sounds like a quote from "Statistics done wrong" which is full of examples like that

Happen very often in SQL codes :(

I think if you'd want to use other button than caps, then sometimes you may be not sure whether you're on or off

Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps