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[@octavio2895]

Heres me, looking at a netflix engineer with crippling dyslexia read an article for me and enjoying it. Im a simple man

[@booshong]

Flashbacks to elementary school when everyone has to read a page out loud and you want to scream because Robbie keeps messing up.

[@ghun131]

"Agree politely and delete nothing. Never apologize for who you are" - Such a powerful phrase

[@Stasisdrone4827]

To be fair, writing raw bytecode is basically arcane magic at this point.

[@flflflflflfl]

why?

[@realmimak]

not impressed, he forgot the compression incantation

[@Radianx001]

You have to summon a wizard to kill the demon process

[@embretroas3924]

The part about the "javanisse" is a parody of a norwegian folklore called "husnissen"(house elf), an elf that lives in every house, and helps santa claus on christmas eve. To keep him happy you must leave a bowl of "risengrynsgrøt" (rice porridge, a norwegian christmas dinner appetizer tradition) out for him to eat, or else he will destroy the house. "Og en" means "and one" in norwegian.

[@siveroo7493]

im conviced that this is how tom had his interview

[@rewrose2838]

This is one of Tom's many offsprings around the world, continuing his legacy

[@apollolux]

Jay Diesel...Jay Diesel everywhere...

[@daltonyon]

I only understood not to read the hacker news

[@Exilum]

I can't believe it felt more of a fever dream than me being drunk and writing the quintessential primeagen article yesterday. It was incredible.

[@JChen7]

I was a CS major, program in Java, and dabble in Clojure, and I have no idea what I just witnessed...

[@KnightMirkoYo]

This was just so beautiful. The marten loopback in the end was the perfect cherry on top

[@MatthewPherigo]

When is Prime going to accept his nature and enable the OpenDyslexic font?

[@cornoc]

comic sans, cmon

[@meowcitten]

I think it is incredible that a man with dyslexia has a career as a professional article reader

[@flalspspsl6858]

EVERY time they asked me if anything they could tell me about the company i've said no and every time i got the job... sometimes a question is just a question.

[@TehKarmalizer]

Because if you say yes, you show you did no homework on the company. It’s a trap card.

[@CottidaeSEA]

​@@TehKarmalizer In some cases, yes. In other cases, no. If you ask to learn about a very specific thing, that instead shows you know about the company and you're interested in it. Just asking for general information is a bad move though.

[@elimgarak3597]

"Cracking the code interview" "Acing the code interview" And now, the latest and greatest: "Hexing the code interview"

[@MattThomson]

I think primes brain reads like unordered UDP packets

[@apollolux]

I'm a native English speaker from New York City, took Italian in college, French in high school, and Spanish in middle school. I once went to Montreal before college and had a difficult time trying to ask for a map and directions with my broken high school French while trying to fight off my brain's tendencies to try to recall broken middle school Spanish since I was the only one of my group of three friends who knew _any_ French at all (2011, pre-Google Translate app). I'm more impressed if the code in this story _worked_ than the fact that dude did it seamlessly since whenever I program I also fight off the urge to switch between JS, C++, and PHP regularly regardless of what the language I'm actually using for the project is.

[@jimboxx7]

TTD on the whiteboard! LOL! That killed me.

[@danielsmith5626]

The nordic aesthetic kinda fits too well with computer science lol

[@lightningx10]

YES! I was waiting for him to cover one of these

[@vtduch]

This is the story of how Tim met Tom, The Genius.

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

Love the thumbnail blurb, nailed it

[@jimboxx7]

Hell, it's about time.

[@BiHMaverick]

Thank you Flip, you da real MVP.

[@galen__]

bloodninja: Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[@uzbekistanplaystaion4BIOScrek]

arcane technomancy is the best kind of software dev

[@robmorgan1214]

Oh, Burnt Rennoldz of the mighty stash... This is ingenious... or maybe it is gensanity..

[@LtdJorge]

Yeah, JVM bytecode is cool, but I would have preferred it to be implemented on top of JDSL…

[@booshong]

There's so much satire and sarcasm going on, I'm having trouble unraveling the true intent of "never read hacker news".

[@MonkeyKong21]

the runes call forth to us all, but few dare hear them

[@bcmspeed6917]

It was kind of funny how you mis highlighted the text when giving the "hit t-ball" analogy lol

[@michaelb4727]

The prose reminds me a James Mickens blog post from his time at Microsoft.

[@amr3162]

you gotta do sequel "typing the technical interview" too

[@bozhidaratanasov7800]

WAIT, so do you actually ask about the company when given the option or not? I would go for "yes"?

[@koodeau]

this is something new

[@slr150]

1:54 "cons" is not a constructor, its an operation in Lisp like languages to prepend an element to a list.

[@Kopraaaa]

06:45 we all laughed indeed

[@karan_hiremath]

Lettin bro cook on the interview 😅 Next thing you know you got 5 mins left and you’re askin “so…. Do you wanna write some pseudo code at least???”

[@improvisedchaos8904]

This was funny as fuck

[@rogergalindo7318]

oh, you have to do Typing the technical interview next!

[@fuzzy-02]

Hey, we're in the wrong directory. *Minor directory teleportation!* It failed, I think our directory is in another continent. You take out a folded, slightly moldy parchment scroll and start chanting. *Greater Inter-Direcrory Teleportation!* The two of you disappear from the entire C drive continent in a flash

[@pif5023]

This guy needs to interview with the CHROOT people!!! His tribe is looking for him!!!

[@kollpotato]

big fan

[@czintrpt5585]

advent of code with clojure now!

[@elzabethtatcher9570]

No hacker news, gotcha.

[@jarrednicholls]

You do a good impression of Steve Carell in Despicable Me, not sure if you were even aware. 🤣

Ty Flip!

[@stacknewbie3815]

CHROOT, the only thing I got out of this...

[@lollertoaster]

As a women, I very much needed that. I always felt weird comparing myself to a wizard hermit when I hack whatever I'm hacking. I'm becoming a witch brewing potions from raw bytes from now on.

[@TheLummen.]

Oh the Epic !

[@zainirfan8503]

Cafe bebe

[@Mel-mu8ox]

This is why I dont think programmers are sane.... But they sure are fun to be around if you like talking about the 'Best' way to write code XD

[@lukehightower4198]

You can always just say perceptive!

[@alexandrecolautoneto7374]

6:35 Thanks FLIP! Seeing prime get all confused make me fells smarter than him.

[@roberteklund533]

LET THE BRO COOK!!

[@flalspspsl6858]

ahh java. turning your 100 lines into 1000

[@thirteennn]

finally

[@user-dc3vx8pj3x]

CHROOT!

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

CHROOT

[@vishaldas9312]

Anyways, what was your name again?

[@thebrightestsun4685]

I am surprised that somebody is able to write JVM bytecode by hand

[@azmo_]

I actually just wanted some entertainment while eating. What was this

[@Reydriel]

I believe you got exactly what you wanted lol

[@virgiliostefanin8263]

chroot!

[@sillysquirrel9979]

CHROOT CHROOT CHROOT CHROOT

[@lucasteo5015]

you eat right at your desk, no down time, that's how Asian do it

[@izd4]

not convinced that Flip is even real

[@Phongryu]

Did not understand a single thing on that article

[@vikingthedude]

Ok

[@adibakkari7313]

Hello Prime, I have a question . I am a software engineer student who is in his second year now, I am trying to find an intership but it seems like i am not getting any interviews yet , which is frustrating, so I know very well HTML/CSS , JS , PHP , C , Python , Java What next should i learn ? (maybe focusing more on backend)

[@alexanderkirilov7820]

Stop learning stuff (btw I bet you that as a second year student, with no job offers, you definitely don’t know all those languages “very well”.) Just build stuff (I know, it might not be the answer you are hoping for and you might not see how that is relevant to your goals of internship, but I think you’ll surprise yourself if you actually try building something or any complexity and quality) In any case best of luck in these challenging times

[@manaspatil3996]

​@@alexanderkirilov7820Agreed. Look at bare metal. Understand architecture, do Linux, try OSS

[@adibakkari7313]

@@alexanderkirilov7820 thanks mate, the thing is I actually do have some projects and also I have firends who got interships just by having the school projects in their CV But anyways, I find it diffuclt to find an idea to a project . Do you have something to say abt this ? (I also know NodeJS)

[@silentobserver9095]

​@@adibakkari7313Rather than learning 10 languages at a surface level, I would go deep into a language and build some real-world projects, contribute to open source and refine my knowledge further by reading how other people code similar projects in a production environment. That's what I did atleast

[@iamthoys]

Lol

[@mehulnatu4262]

5th one to comment!!

[@ARKSYN]

You know... normally your complete inability to read sentences doesn't bother me but this one was painful.

[@To1ne]

The name is The-I-did-turn-off-alerts-but-forgot-to-say-the-outro-agen.