One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I’m so glad Lemmy has this too.

This is too good

There are a fair few examples in the book itself. https://qntm.org/clean

If you’re moving away from text formats, might as well use a proper serialisation tool like protobuf…

“They were always green”. I wish

https://youtu.be/22vbhTi1ieI?si=pS1mcII10zdelEan

I think you meant “literally”. Laterally is a complacently different word

Sure, programming is hard if you’ve never worked with programming language features before… Modulus isn’t some obscure esoteric operator, it’s literally CS 101

Haha good try. Hope your interview goes well

Which shouldn’t be surprising. The company I was interviewing at only feed me the top ~1% of CVs to interview… Of course half of them were stuffed with bullshit

This is on the easier end of the scale to be sure, but as someone who’s interviewed candidates with similar questions, it eliminates a surprising number of people…

My theory is that modern coding bootcamps stuff their students full of buzzwords instead of letting them learn the basics

“Introductions and a bit of smalltalk” - I would shit myself if an interviewer started asking about smalltalk… /s

Yes, thank fuck for that. Material design fatigue is real

So you’re the guy who organises the computer literacy programmes in schools?

The comma and ampersand are plain English, not one big command

USB flash drive

But it would hit a different place every time… Most developers wouldn’t even consider checking for this, and the chance of getting a repro in a debugger is slim to none

Holy shit

When OP inevitably has issues, I guess we’ll have to blame it on the boogie

On reread, you’re totally right. Went right over my head