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I only go through job listings directly (though some listings may say email this person with your resume and I'm including that), and the response rate has always been low for me. …

It's probably alternating the comparisons. Compare [0, 1] [2, 3] [4, 5] ... in parallel and swap if necessary, compare/swap [1, 2] [3, 4] [5, 6] ... in parallel, then go back and f…

Knowing to DRY there depended on business knowledge that the original author did not have. While they were wrong in this case, I would say it was a reasonable move to not DRY based…

I feel like I've been in this situation for the past year - the place I'm working at had a large culture shift for the worse. I would change jobs, but I hate interviewing and every…

I like to think it went like this 1. Interviewer: If you're a good software engineer, you can answer basic algorithmic questions. 2. Interviewees: Practice algorithmic questions so…

Here's an older submission about using ChatGPT to de-obfuscate the more basic methods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150096 Some comments claim that it can break some of t…

Yeah around 1.5mb transferred but less of an issue with caching of course. You also won't have something nice like $$ or \[ \] and will have to put the \begin{tikzpicture} ... \end…

I use TikZJax https://tikzjax.com/ (wasm tikz). It works well, but you have to figure out the markup and dynamically styling the images are difficult; For example, to make darkmode…

You are correct that good code does not translate directly into revenue, but it affects it indirectly e.g. through ease of future development, maintenance, and fixes. If the thing …

I like to say that users includes the people working with (using) your code in the future. It changes the definition of user compared to the normal usage, but I think it's a good p…

Email obfuscation has a lot more techniques than what would be encountered in a text response, so I find the title too broad. I'd be interested to see attempts to extract emails fr…

It's very important to me because it's an instance of one of my values - keeping something borrowed in the same or a better condition. For example, we're "borrowing" the earth/envi…

Arguably it's less direct due to the superlatives and exclamations. For example: > Christ. That's literally the remap_file_pages() system call definition. No way in hell does "ON_B…

Agreed, they have a pretty nice setup for a "big" company. I've been contributing code to Mozilla for the last few years despite not working there and I got started on https://code…

Will you follow up with stats and analysis on response rate and further steps in the application/evaluation process? I'd be interested in that.

I think this is a perfect example of why "We don't have Senior Engineers anymore". It's hard to show the thinking process to others, so the person who says an answer faster is assu…

Yep, but op also mentioned spammers that get through signup without being flagged and having to go and manually flag them. My thoughts on the loop overall are: - maybe users are fa…

I assumed that the two paragraphs were connected > Enter Akismet. This is a spam detection tool by the Wordpress people and is pretty accurate and easy to use. > Blocking spam on s…

I'm missing the part on how op determines valid users for the frustration loop. > Enter Akismet... Blocking spam on signup worked somewhat, but was easily circumventable > some spa…

A quick glance at the script (I may have missed important parts) shows that everyone costs the same so you should only need to consider the effectiveness of the type of hire; every…

> (in selected cases) The tweet presents the quote without context so I interpret it to be a sweeping statement and therefore disagree based on that. If someone could provide a tra…

Yeah, it seems like the author is storing more information than just the position but not enough to figure out all of the possible next states of the game. Another straightforward …

You would still need a STUN server, though there are many public ones out there. The main idea in removing the signaling server is to somehow transfer the session description betwe…

I'm all for alternative sources of energy (including nuclear) but I feel like generating and storing nuclear waste for future generations parallels how coal/oil/gas/etc. ruined the…