Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
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Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
Me: would you like to see a random access invertible shuffle iterator which visits the items in a low discrepancy sequence to improve results in stochastic algorithms?
Interviewer: uhhh?
Me: how bout a point set that is hyper uniform over both space, and separately, time?
Whenever I have to interview again that is how it's going to go down, and will probably result in rejection š
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Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
Me: would you like to see a random access invertible shuffle iterator which visits the items in a low discrepancy sequence to improve results in stochastic algorithms?
Interviewer: uhhh?
Me: how bout a point set that is hyper uniform over both space, and separately, time?
Whenever I have to interview again that is how it's going to go down, and will probably result in rejection š
@demofox I feel like anyone asking you to reverse a string has either a) not read your resume or b) has a completely broken hiring culture. Either way probably quickest to say a pleasant good bye then and there.
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Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
Me: would you like to see a random access invertible shuffle iterator which visits the items in a low discrepancy sequence to improve results in stochastic algorithms?
Interviewer: uhhh?
Me: how bout a point set that is hyper uniform over both space, and separately, time?
Whenever I have to interview again that is how it's going to go down, and will probably result in rejection š
@demofox Oh, that's easy. Just perform a complex valued DFT of the byte values twice in a row. It's O(n log n) so it's even *relatively* efficient.
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Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
Me: would you like to see a random access invertible shuffle iterator which visits the items in a low discrepancy sequence to improve results in stochastic algorithms?
Interviewer: uhhh?
Me: how bout a point set that is hyper uniform over both space, and separately, time?
Whenever I have to interview again that is how it's going to go down, and will probably result in rejection š
@demofox INTERVIEWER: Can you reverse a string?
ME, pulling a string from my pocket: Of course.
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@demofox INTERVIEWER: Can you reverse a string?
ME, pulling a string from my pocket: Of course.
@shanecelis lol I laughed in real life
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Interviewer: can you reverse a string?
Me: would you like to see a random access invertible shuffle iterator which visits the items in a low discrepancy sequence to improve results in stochastic algorithms?
Interviewer: uhhh?
Me: how bout a point set that is hyper uniform over both space, and separately, time?
Whenever I have to interview again that is how it's going to go down, and will probably result in rejection š
@demofox a long long time ago last time I was unemployed and job hunting I had an interview with apple and they asked me to reverse a linked list. so I said I'd use whatever library function is available. interviewer said no, pretend there isn't one. then I gave them a naive O(N) solution and then the interviewer said it was no good because it used recursion and thus too much stack memory and what if the device didn't have enough memory?!
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@demofox a long long time ago last time I was unemployed and job hunting I had an interview with apple and they asked me to reverse a linked list. so I said I'd use whatever library function is available. interviewer said no, pretend there isn't one. then I gave them a naive O(N) solution and then the interviewer said it was no good because it used recursion and thus too much stack memory and what if the device didn't have enough memory?!
@demofox tbh it was good to have bombed that one because it helped me realize I should brush up on my c++ before applying for any of the jobs I actually wanted
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@demofox tbh it was good to have bombed that one because it helped me realize I should brush up on my c++ before applying for any of the jobs I actually wanted
@demofox anyways on the reversing a linked list challenge, I want to say that I asked them what the requirements would be eg context of its use and the interviewer was like :) no just come up with something impress us :) :) but I might be misremembering as that was ~10 years ago.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@Gina literally me at the end of the day: "they want this am/pm in a dynamic hours if operation data value to be lower instead of upper case."
I've been at this for 10 years and these are still the things people write tickets for
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Si arriverĆ alla santa alleanza IA proposta da Mozilla?
@aitech - Secondo me, no, il che significherĆ la morte di Mozilla Foundation
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Working in gov, there are moments where I feel like I'm achieving something.
And then there's the rest of the year.
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Furundulla 306 ā cose disd.ice-voliā¦
@anarchia
ā¦che non si dovrebbero manco pensare! di Benigno Moi Assodato che le vignette non vanno spiegateā¦ ma sono un sasso buttato come spunto di riflessione, per ogni vignetta almeno un link (forse) Casa Trumpound Il trumpismo di casa nostra, Andrea...Vedi l'articolo
https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/furundulla-306-cose-disd-ice-voli/
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@swelljoe i guess iāll have to try opus for myself. i mean hell, my employerās paying for it. but i have serious doubts
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@exchgr regretfully, I have to acknowledge the "if" is very likely. I was dragged into using AI by my employer (I like having health insurance), but it is remarkable how far agentic AI has come in the past year or so. The current frontier models can build a tremendous range of software, with only a small amount of expert guidance. And, the more expert the guidance, the more advanced software the models can deal with.
I was a dedicated AI skeptic, until I tried agentic coding with Claude Opus.
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these are enormous contingencies, aka big ifs! no guarantees! highly unlikely!
https://www.businessinsider.com/software-ate-world-now-ai-eating-software-saas-anthropic-2026-2
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i feel like weāre now in the ftx vs binance era of the ai collapse
