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.
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.
My experience with good interview questions is that there will be a "correct" answer, which is to say the answer the interviewer had in mind when they designed it, a couple "ok" answers, which is to say answers that do the job without being woefully wrong (perhaps a trie vs a hashtable, or something which amortizes well by keeping high-frequency operations cheap), and then a bunch of answers wandering side roads and not getting there. The worst as an interviewer was someone who embarked on a path you had not seen before, which was not obviously wrong - but also not obviously correct. If you've seen a particular wrong approach before, you can generally guide them back on track by pointing out an issue in the results, but if you have no idea what they are doing, it's hard to keep far enough ahead to find issues! And it is also hard to evaluate things. You can go back to your desk later and verify whether their approach had merit or was totally off base, but you can't ask follow-up questions at that point.
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
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.
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)
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
@@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)
@@adssib04Rather 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
Heres me, looking at a netflix engineer with crippling dyslexia read an article for me and enjoying it. Im a simple man
Flashbacks to elementary school when everyone has to read a page out loud and you want to scream because Robbie keeps messing up.
"Agree politely and delete nothing. Never apologize for who you are" - Such a powerful phrase
To be fair, writing raw bytecode is basically arcane magic at this point.
why?
not impressed, he forgot the compression incantation
You have to summon a wizard to kill the demon process
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.
im conviced that this is how tom had his interview
This is one of Tom's many offsprings around the world, continuing his legacy
Jay Diesel...Jay Diesel everywhere...
I only understood not to read the hacker news
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.
I was a CS major, program in Java, and dabble in Clojure, and I have no idea what I just witnessed...
This was just so beautiful. The marten loopback in the end was the perfect cherry on top
When is Prime going to accept his nature and enable the OpenDyslexic font?
comic sans, cmon
I think it is incredible that a man with dyslexia has a career as a professional article reader
"Cracking the code interview"
"Acing the code interview"
And now, the latest and greatest:
"Hexing the code interview"
I think primes brain reads like unordered UDP packets
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.
TTD on the whiteboard! LOL! That killed me.
This is the story of how Tim met Tom, The Genius.
The nordic aesthetic kinda fits too well with computer science lol
1:54 "cons" is not a constructor, its an operation in Lisp like languages to prepend an element to a list.
YES! I was waiting for him to cover one of these
This article is felt like a disco elysium conversation
Yeah, JVM bytecode is cool, but I would have preferred it to be implemented on top of JDSL…
bloodninja: Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
There's so much satire and sarcasm going on, I'm having trouble unraveling the true intent of "never read hacker news".
arcane technomancy is the best kind of software dev
My experience with good interview questions is that there will be a "correct" answer, which is to say the answer the interviewer had in mind when they designed it, a couple "ok" answers, which is to say answers that do the job without being woefully wrong (perhaps a trie vs a hashtable, or something which amortizes well by keeping high-frequency operations cheap), and then a bunch of answers wandering side roads and not getting there. The worst as an interviewer was someone who embarked on a path you had not seen before, which was not obviously wrong - but also not obviously correct. If you've seen a particular wrong approach before, you can generally guide them back on track by pointing out an issue in the results, but if you have no idea what they are doing, it's hard to keep far enough ahead to find issues!
And it is also hard to evaluate things. You can go back to your desk later and verify whether their approach had merit or was totally off base, but you can't ask follow-up questions at that point.
Love the thumbnail blurb, nailed it
It was kind of funny how you mis highlighted the text when giving the "hit t-ball" analogy lol
Hell, it's about time.
The prose reminds me a James Mickens blog post from his time at Microsoft.
the runes call forth to us all, but few dare hear them
Oh, Burnt Rennoldz of the mighty stash... This is ingenious... or maybe it is gensanity..
you gotta do sequel "typing the technical interview" too
CHROOT!
CHROOT
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
WAIT, so do you actually ask about the company when given the option or not? I would go for "yes"?
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???”
06:45 we all laughed indeed
oh, you have to do Typing the technical interview next!
You do a good impression of Steve Carell in Despicable Me, not sure if you were even aware. 🤣
This guy needs to interview with the CHROOT people!!! His tribe is looking for him!!!
Thank you Flip, you da real MVP.
this is something new
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.
This was funny as fuck
advent of code with clojure now!
I am surprised that somebody is able to write JVM bytecode by hand
6:35 Thanks FLIP! Seeing prime get all confused make me fells smarter than him.
CHROOT, the only thing I got out of this...
No hacker news, gotcha.
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
Anyways, what was your name again?
LET THE BRO COOK!!
big fan
Ty Flip!
Did not understand a single thing on that article
not convinced that Flip is even real
I actually just wanted some entertainment while eating. What was this
I believe you got exactly what you wanted lol
you eat right at your desk, no down time, that's how Asian do it
Oh the Epic !
You can always just say perceptive!
Cafe bebe
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)
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
@@alexanderkirilov7820Agreed. Look at bare metal. Understand architecture, do Linux, try OSS
@@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)
@@adssib04Rather 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
CHROOT CHROOT CHROOT CHROOT
chroot!
finally
Ok
You know... normally your complete inability to read sentences doesn't bother me but this one was painful.
Lol
5th one to comment!!
The name is The-I-did-turn-off-alerts-but-forgot-to-say-the-outro-agen.