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Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?
  • In hindsight that should have been enough, but at the time I didn't want to discard a possibly good candidate because of that (reasoning that maybe he had some reason for it). Being subject to SQL injections also is not the end of the world, everyone makes mistakes. Not realizing it even after me pointing the line could also be overlooked as "we need to train this person". But insisting that there isn't even after the interviewer tells you there is, means you don't want to learn, and at that point I can't help you.

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?
  • As an interviewee it's nothing much, but when they asked me to sort a list, I find that question to be completely pointless, I will never implement a sort IRL, and most people who get it right are because they have it memorized.

    As an interviewer, a person who sent their take home as a .doc file inside a zipped folder. I didn't understood why they sent it that way, but got the code to compile, and found very serious issues. When confronting the person they claim there were no issues, which happens so I pointed out at a specific line, and still nothing, I asked them if they knew what an SQL injection was and his answer was "yes, and you're wrong, there's no SQL injection happening there", so I sent him a link for him to click that would call that endpoint on his local instance, and dropped the entire database for the take-home assignment. No need to tell you he wasn't hired.

  • What is favorite character that insists they are evil, but clearly aren't?
  • Character that insist is evil but clearly isn't: Crowley from Supernatural.

    But I think that character that is actually evil but still charming is more interesting, and for that I bring forward Baal from Stargate.

  • Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
  • It's not about nationality. Here are the facts:

    1. LF is USA based (headquarters in California), as such they're subject to USA law
    2. USA imposed sanctions on companies that are directly involved in supplying Russia with weapons.
    3. To have business, including receiving help, from those companies would open LF to legal repercussions in the country where they're based.
    4. Baikal Electronic JSC is on the sanctioned list.
    5. Serge Sermin public GitHub profile listed Baikal as their employer

    Therefore to not remove Serge from the maintainers would open LF to legal repercussions.

    You might not agree with what was done, I certainly don't, but I understand it.

  • Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"
  • The code is there, yes, but it's skipped entirely, so the binary size stays the same, but it's faster because it skips parts. The big brain on the person that wrote that must also tell him that skipping a scene on a movie means the movie takes the same time because it's the entirety of the movie plus the skipping of the scene.

  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
  • So? What's your point? All of those are open specifications.

    Next you'll tell me that Linux is not open source because Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, X32, X64 architectures, server and home versions. Not even counting the various distros derived from any of them nor the different kernel versions.

  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
  • USB is absolutely not a standardized connector,

    USB is absolutely standardized, I even sent you the 2.0 spec, you can get the spec for the other versions on the same website.

    otherwise it would only be one type of connector, not the dozen or so they've made over the decades.

    Different versions/connectors have different specs, all of them open, otherwise different manufacturers wouldn't be able to create devices that use it.

    There's nothing universal about it.

    That's ridiculous, first of all the name relates to the fact that it can be used for any data transfer as long as it's serial. Secondly the sheer amount of different devices from different manufacturers that can be plugged via USB should give you a hint of just how universal and open the standard is.

    And if it was open source, then why doesn't VirtualBox release the source code for their USB extension package?

    The standard is open, implementations of it are not, it's like OpenGL or Vulkan.

  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
  • The protocol of communication of computer parts is open source? Since when?

    Since forever, which protocol do you think it's not? For a few examples here's PCI and DDR5

    What the fuck is USB? And why is that proprietary?

    USB is a standardized connector, with again an open source protocol. Here's the specification in case you're interested https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-20-specification

    Regardless, AMD vs nVidia might work together, but not optimally these days.

    I would need a source for that, I've had AMD +Nvidia up until very recently and it worked as expected.

  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
  • Used to be where NVidia GPUs could run in an AMD motherboard. I happen to own older things on both ends of that compatible spectrum.

    I don't know what you mean by that. The protocol for communication of computer parts is open source. Desktop computers are a great example of interchangeable parts. An Nvidia GPU that can't run in an AMD motherboard is either not from the same era (so an equivalent AMD GPU wouldn't work either) or a different form factor (e.g. trying to plug a laptop GPU on a Desktop)

  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
  • He's not talking about punch card programming, that's way more advanced and requires a Turing machine, what he's talking about is computers as the term was using before what you would think as a computer existed.

    The example in the video is for the computer on a cannon in a battleship. If there wasn't a computer you would need to adjust the angle and height of the cannon, but that's not something a human can know, what humans can know is angle to the ship and the distance to it, so instead you put two inputs where a human inputs that and you translate that into angle/height. Now those two would be very straightforward, essentially you just rename the height crank to distance. But this computer is a lot more complex, because wind, speed, etc can affect the shoot, so you have cranks for all of that, and internally they combine into a final output of angle/height to the cannon.

  • Workers of lemmy, what was the reason that customer got banned ?
  • Because the charismatic ones you are less likely to notice. Also most people who work for Evil Corp know their company is evil, so if a polite charismatic person is taking advantage of the system you're less likely to go dig out what they're doing.

    For example if in OPs story the guy had been polite and charming, he would have never gone into his account to check what was up, because it would be just a nice customer being nice. What's to tell you that there weren't other dozen like that that flew right under OPs nose, just because they never awoke suspicion.