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I personally enjoy this writing style a great deal. I believe it's likely inspired by the very popular series by Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr)[1] [1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...
> “Og én,” you recite, sing-song, “Til javanissen!”
Nice jokes and great hacks aside however, unless you're interviewing for a compiler engineer position, That is absolutely overkill for this type of question to the point of unreadability. One can argue that the 'question' is too generic for this systems/compiler developer position. I would just ask you about basic LLVM internals instead. To those 'serious' interviewers with 10x developer syndrome looking at this as a…
Nice jokes and great hacks aside however, unless you're interviewing for a compiler engineer position, That is absolutely overkill for this type of question to the point of unreadability. One can argue that the 'question' is too generic for this systems/compiler developer position. I would just ask you about basic LLVM internals instead. To those 'serious' interviewers with 10x developer syndrome looking at this as a…
I think that’s obvious no? It clearly says at the end that he didn’t get the (imaginary) job.
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I think that’s obvious no? It clearly says at the end that he didn’t get the (imaginary) job.
That's why I said it was a nice joke and a good hack in the first place. Unfortunately, there are those few who still 'take it literally'.
Nice jokes and great hacks aside however, unless you're interviewing for a compiler engineer position, That is absolutely overkill for this type of question to the point of unreadability. One can argue that the 'question' is too generic for this systems/compiler developer position. I would just ask you about basic LLVM internals instead. To those 'serious' interviewers with 10x developer syndrome looking at this as a…
That's the joke. :~)
if Upton Sinclair was a SWE who also wrote short stories I like to think many of them would read a lot like this. Beautiful. Bravo. More please, I enjoyed this too much
This whole blog post should just be added as an appendix to the Rustonomicon , in order to provide official documentation for the RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 flag.