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Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by fc417fc802 »

josephg wrote: post #174
hombre_fatal wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. It depends on the job! At a small product company, absolutely. Shipping useful features to customers is what you're hired to do. Hardcore CS knowledge is less useful than understanding how to talk to customers and shipping.…

If it's a failure to demonstrate a basic skill that are relevant to the job, then yes, that's entitled. However what was described is much closer to irrelevant trivia. I don't think it's entitled to resent such things being the deciding factor.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by zelon88 »

SXX wrote: post #134
soulofmischief wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are allowed to not work when they please, and you should avoid any employer who perceives self-indulgence and self-sufficiency as a red flag.

Unfortunately I feel like recruiters at larger companies are squinting at CVs and think like: "Open source? Entrepreneur? Eh, oh. Smell of despair and discarded pizza boxes.". Of course unless your passion project is very successful one, but majority of them are not.

While I agree with the sentiment you are delivering, I think successful is probably the wrong word here.

I worked on a repo for several years with many tens of thousands of lines of code and attempted to promote it heavily with little success. At some point I chopped out about 2,500 lines of code from that repo and packaged just one feature as a standalone product.

Years later the child repo has thousands of users and the parent has barely any. While I consider both projects to be successful by definition, if I'm going to briefly showcase one over the other I'll showcase the smaller project that received more engagement. Because the engagement metrics do indeed matter. It lends credence and legitimacy to a project.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by 38 »

notfed wrote: post #179

> "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days" [to run doom in TypeScript types] This is some serious dedication for what at first blush may sound to many to be a completely unserious, or even useless, achievement. But I say to those people: a DOOM proof is just as worthy of praise as any other academic mathematical proof, and has the advantage of being verifiable by laymen. Congrats on this amazing achievemen…

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Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by flanbiscuit »

"But I'm not one of those fancy 10x developers. Instead of a master of craftsmanship, I'm more a master of close-enough-manship"

I definitely relate to this comment.

and he also says "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days"

I think people are looking for those unicorn 10x devs that are like Good Will Hunting for code, but forget that there are those devs that might not get things right away but never stop until they figure things out. You'll probably find a lot more of those than the unicorns

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by stevage »

Wow.

I still don't quite understand what it means to run Doom in the type system. I can sort of get how you might trick it into doing some calculations and generating some ASCII art. But how do you get tsc to access the audio system or load files etc?

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by stevage »

38 wrote: post #203
notfed wrote: post #179

> "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days" [to run doom in TypeScript types] This is some serious dedication for what at first blush may sound to many to be a completely unserious, or even useless, achievement. But I say to those people: a DOOM proof is just as worthy of praise as any other academic mathematical proof, and has the advantage of being verifiable by laymen. Congrats on this amazing achievemen…

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It's obviously for the person who did it.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by digdugdirk »

38 wrote: post #203
notfed wrote: post #179

> "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days" [to run doom in TypeScript types] This is some serious dedication for what at first blush may sound to many to be a completely unserious, or even useless, achievement. But I say to those people: a DOOM proof is just as worthy of praise as any other academic mathematical proof, and has the advantage of being verifiable by laymen. Congrats on this amazing achievemen…

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Pushing the frontier is an end unto itself. The pure excess of this endeavor is a huge feat, and I for one am happy to enjoy just witnessing it.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by tracerbulletx »

38 wrote: post #203
notfed wrote: post #179

> "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days" [to run doom in TypeScript types] This is some serious dedication for what at first blush may sound to many to be a completely unserious, or even useless, achievement. But I say to those people: a DOOM proof is just as worthy of praise as any other academic mathematical proof, and has the advantage of being verifiable by laymen. Congrats on this amazing achievemen…

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The video will probably do pretty well, giving him some personal traction for his channel or reputation. Also because hackers gonna hack.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by layoric »

josephg wrote: post #174
hombre_fatal wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. It depends on the job! At a small product company, absolutely. Shipping useful features to customers is what you're hired to do. Hardcore CS knowledge is less useful than understanding how to talk to customers and shipping.…

It would be interesting to get a perspective of how many developers are in these types of roles if you are closer to them than most? My experience definitely aligns with interviews with leet code questions being unrelated to the daily work. From this perspective, it seems that those dealing with these core projects like Go or Chrome have an outweighed impact on others. Eg, it only takes a few people solving those problems to help everyone. Where as from my perspective, loads of businesses need web apps, fairly simple backends, mobile apps etc for their very specific use case where they want to control the whole user experience.

The frustration of being asked a very specific question looking for a very specific solution under unusual time and pressure constraints I think is quite understandable. Not coming from a place of entitlement, but rather frustration that they know with high certainty that they could do well in the position, the question has nothing to do with daily work expected of them, yet its become this arbitrary pass/fail process due to people copying companies that are screening for positions working on Go or Chrome, when they just want a web app. I've been in several interviews, including on the employer side, where another technical interviewer asks these questions as a power trip. It's not helpful, and doesn't even get better candidates. Hence the frustration people are expressing.

Re: TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]

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Post by draculero »

notfed wrote: post #179

> "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days" [to run doom in TypeScript types] This is some serious dedication for what at first blush may sound to many to be a completely unserious, or even useless, achievement. But I say to those people: a DOOM proof is just as worthy of praise as any other academic mathematical proof, and has the advantage of being verifiable by laymen. Congrats on this amazing achievemen…

> year long journey of 18 hour days

I couldn't do it, even if I had the talent. I have to work to get money!

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