Me (interviewing recently): Could I see an example design doc or some code before we discuss your offer? Hiring manager: We don’t do designs, just launch and iterate. And here’s some code, it’s all fully self documenting. Me: Nope nope nope.
I do do interviews too. It’s a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.
Cheating leetcode interviews with AI doesn’t seem that innovative to me, just adding dishonesty to a broken practice. Destruction is always easier than creation.
Also, as someone who frequently designs and runs SW interviews, it’s totally possible to run interviews that test actually important SW skills like OO design, error handling, and using APIs, which AIs still fail handily.
If you want to do something cool, make an AI to refactor your codebase for maintainability and security.
No no they’re not “wrong,” they’re slouched in defeat because someone stole their keyboard, mouse, and desktop, leaving them with only a 1280x760 DVI monitor.
Just waiting around for tens of minutes wherever you were supposed to meet someone, when they didn’t show on time.
Didn’t expect the snake to turn the box. Excellent loop.
Me debugging SQL syntax errors in complied dbt models.
I really enjoyed working with SQLDelight when I was briefly writing a Kotlin backend, sadly it wasn’t complete enough. (It “generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from your SQL statements.”)
Reminds me of AWS Lambda. Gateway Error 502 you say? Gotta go digging in the application logs!
Yeah, every time I find some weird annoying behavior or some missing feature in MySQL, PostgreSQL is doing it right.
That said, also ask yourself if you really need a relational database, or whether an object store or append-only / timeseries db would fit better.
“Will I have root on my dev machine” is on my list of interview questions, now.
What are your thoughts on misc scientific observations/data? Right now I’m looking for a place to post comparison IR images of cooking on gas v. induction, which is certainly not a reviewed article, not might be interesting to this community. Another example I can think of is “here is a cool exhibit I saw at xyz museum”. Do you want that kind of conversational science-oriented content?
41 adult men aged 18 to 26 (M = 20.17, s.d. = 2.16) recruited from a subject pool at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
So not representative of adults / the overall population, but still interesting.
Sexual desire was assessed as a composite score from three questions: (i) ‘Yesterday, how much did you have sexual thoughts?’ (ii) ‘Yesterday, how much did you have sexual fantasies?’ (iii) ‘Yesterday, how much sexual desire did you experience?’
First, a single item inquired about overall mate attraction efforts on each day: ‘How much effort did you put into attracting a possible romantic and/or sexual partner yesterday?’ (same 1–7 scale as above). Second, because such efforts may be highly dependent on social exposure to potential partners, we also targeted a binary measure of such exposure: ‘Yesterday, did you have a direct social interaction with anyone you found attractive as a potential romantic and/or sexual partner, but who was not your romantic or sexual partner at the time?’ (Yes/No).
Not a lot that’s quantitative. But I guess I would expect to answer those questions differently over the course of a month.
What’s worse is the ones that don’t scatter when you turn on the lights. Just sit there waiting for you to get out of their territory.
And there’s a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.
Knock knock. Who’s there? Boo! …
Ugh, yep!
Though in this case I guess there’s the benefit of engraved numbers providing accessibility.
Laughable for chess, but essentially how Steve Mould played tic tac toe using synthesized DNA.