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Amazing work. I'm interested in the choice of WASM - presumably any target that can run DOOM could've been used? Of which there are innumerable choices I assume. Was it for symbolic reasons or genuinely the most useful target?
WASM is the easiest target because you don't have to emulate an entire computer.
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/49552#issuecomm...
Insane achievement nonetheless!
Nothing will ever top this for typescript types. This is the pinnacle. An entire virtual machine and system memory with garbage collector in types. Turing Completeness is one level, but being able to run Doom is the real test of whether a programming environment is complete and robust. Absolutely stunning to see TypeScript's type system get there.
Well we haven't implemented a web browser capable of running javascript in the typescript type system yet. Quick, someone tell this author it's not possible.
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
Why do you think person capable of making doom run in such an environment is incapable of basic tree operations?
It's less the tree operations themselves and more that this candidate just didn't know the shibboleth, so they shouldn't be allowed in. Cue the vague feeling of disgust on the interviewer's part that the interviewee didn't know something "so simple" in a tense environment with lopsided power dynamics.
I wish tsc didn't take eternity to run though.
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He's also one of the principal organizers of SquiggleConf, a conference focused on devtools that takes place in Boston: https://2024.squiggleconf.com/about What I'm saying is, if he still happens to be looking for a job, any employer reading this should be falling over themselves to recruit this man.
There is more to hiring than technical competence. I'm not seeing any red flags in his videos, but just saying, ability to work in a team is not obvious from such posts.
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By now there is more than one story how some open source developer wasn't hired because their skills with the project they created was not sufficient for the job.
I do think shipping a product that has real users (and everything it entails, like writing the docs) is 100x more important than having leetcode and common interview tactics fresh on your mind. Without context, I suppose I can see the Homebrew guy's case possibly signaling a sort of hubris since it was just a fizzbuzzy-level question. In his defense, I would find it ridiculous if we just had a technical convo about h…
And the harder computational challenges you’d likely learn as you need it. In which case, simply knowing what a binary tree is means you’ll know it’s available to you, even if you can’t invert one from the top of your head.
And even then, start going for staff or principal and your leadership, communication and architecture skills should be more of a focus than algorithmic puzzle solving.
This shouldn’t be possible.. Typescript devs have lost their collective minds and I’m totally here for it. Edit : TS not front end
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
Companies optimize hiring for avoiding false positives (bad hire) over false negatives (bad rejection), especially in this job market.
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Doom is Turing complete ( https://calabi-yau.space/blog/doom.html ), so it's just a matter of building the appropriate map.
That's not really relevant. Turing complete languages are used to build Doom and Pong, but one is more impressive than the other.