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hirihit640

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  • reason enough to fail the interview

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  • You actually get them all the time, because the programmer is more deeply knowledgeable about the features they wrote and can identify gaps better.

    Boss: "Can we move the widget to the left side of the page?"

    Programmer: "Sure but that means when the sidebar opens it will obscure the widget, making it hard to see both at the same time. Do we want that?"

    Boss: "Hmm I didn't consider that. Let me ask the UX team what they think."

  • What automations have you made to make your life more efficient and simple?

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  • Automation means that the code is the documentation...usually

  • reason enough to fail the interview

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  • The point is that in a real software engineering process, specs and requirements are rarely defined precisely from the start, and the programmer should be able to identify the gaps and clarify them. A generic answer doesn't help as much as a clarifying question.

    A common but amateur mistake is to just make assumptions about how something should work and then forge ahead. As a programmer in a company, you are building things for somebody else (your boss, your client), so you need to ask them first.

  • QubesOS workstation + homeserver, and DANE for TLS without 3rd party company

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  • I already considered that, and for an untrusted website I already don't trust the content or the scripts. So it doesn't matter if it was modified or not, it's still untrusted.

    Facts can be verified with sources you do trust (which should be using HTTPS). Logic can be used to verify others.

  • QubesOS workstation + homeserver, and DANE for TLS without 3rd party company

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  • IMO when reading random articles on the internet you already have to worry about untrusted scripts. I just use NoScript, and if the website requires Javascript I move on

  • The dystopian peasant food isn't bugs or corpse starch, its plastic bottles

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  • I once saw a comment saying that a bacteria that consumes plastic could be apocalyptic if it got out of the lab and spread everywhere

  • The dystopian peasant food isn't bugs or corpse starch, its plastic bottles

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  • steamed hams you say?

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  • Opaque elections are a sign for information supression, but not the only sign.

    However if I wanted North Korea to be considered democratic, I would first ask that voting be implemented such that voters can't be identified and punished for voting against a candidate (source)

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  • So the goal posts have shifted again. Let me remind you again, the root of this thread was about whether North Korea was authoritarian. Now you're talking about China vs US! I never mentioned China this whole time and was waiting to see when you would bring it up. Amazing.

    You seem to be very proud of your knowledge about China and want to show it off, even when it has no relevancy. I hope that works out for you.

  • Am I learning, or am I just prompting?

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  • Well I can also tell you that from years of trying to go straight to documentation: you rarely learn anything. Often the docs are written badly and missing usage examples, so it's unclear how certain options work. Often the tool you're having trouble with is one you only use once a month so by the next time you use it you've forgotten everything you learned.

    Speaking from my experience, in most cases it's just not worth it. In the few cases where it's something you use every day, then sure invest some time in the docs.

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  • If there is no reasonable way for a citizen (as in, somebody not currently part of the government) in the DPRK to influence the laws, then that is what makes it authoritarian. It's about governance not capital.

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  • Hmm, so your point was that you were in fact being counterproductive? If so I totally agree

  • Am I learning, or am I just prompting?

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  • After years of using SO, then years of going to docs first, I've started going back to SO. It just tends to be faster. You can find a question that is 90% similar to yours, rather than piece together scattered bits of information across pages and pages of docs.

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  • This sounds like a great way to erase the definitions of all words. Most times when we use words, we understand that rarely anything is absolute. For example, we call western nations capitalist even though they all have some degree of socialism. Just because there aren't clearly defined lines, doesn't mean that all words lose meaning.

    The fact that some nations have opaque elections, is actually a strong sign that they are authoritarian. Because suppression of information is authoritarian.

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  • Didn't Jack Ma complain on social media and then get taken away by the government?

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  • Nobody is trying to imply a black and white view of the world, but that doesn't mean words don't have meaning. Just because North Korea has a semblance of elections doesn't make it democratic, just like the US isn't socialist even though it has welfare programs. And if you jumped into every discussion about US late stage capitalism with a "actually capitalism and socialism are not mutually exclusive", I would consider that just as counterproductive.

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  • Still saying nothing I see.

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  • Authoritarian simply indicates how much power the government has. There's not a perfectly precise boundary, but you'd have to be crazy to say North Korea has the same degree as France. This sort of "all sides" argument is reductive and problematic.

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  • I'm just calling out what I consider bad justification under the guise of "nuance". Earlier in the thread, a user was claiming that North Korea was a sort of democracy. Now the goal posts have shifted to "yes it's authoritarian but here's why". If this were the argument from the start, this would be less of an issue. But what's problematic is this silent goal post shifting that I constantly see in these sorts of discussions.